Quote Originally Posted by Shodokan View Post
Not going to go into too much detail because of the NDA. But you remember how greens in BC were as good if not better than most END GAME raiding items from vanilla? Yeah it's much worse this time around.

So unless you are doing heroics for money or something there really is no point in gearing. Do what you think is fun but with beta seriously right around the corner (new alpha build last night) and live happening shortly after that... yeah.
I don't think that people gear up with the expansion in mind. Having a set of ilvl 251-277 gear on Day One is a nice convenience, but that's it. In any case, I figure that the largest group of players will be hitting the expac in gear that is in the ilvl 187-232 range. New gear and upgrades are part of what keeps a lot of players interested, so it's probably a good idea to obsolete the "old" gear quickly, even if it means a huge gear gap.