Quote Originally Posted by Souca View Post
I think something that people are forgetting is that Blizzard doesn't want to see 85s running around in level 80 gear. While making that level 81 green a step up from your hardmode RS 25 might hurt now, having the next tier of level 85 raid instances doable in level 80 gear would suck even worse.
Huh? The first tier of level 80 heroics and raids was doable in level 70 epics, as countless people have already posted here. This will be the same with cataclysm. Your level 80 epics will be perfectly fine till level 85, and you might not replace some items until the 2nd level of raid content - this was definitely the case with Naxx - plenty of people were passing on items because they were barely upgrades or side-grades from their 70 epic sets. 81 greens will not be a step up from 80 epics, neither will blues. People looking at these items need to understand that they are retooling EVERYTHING - and that means that the gear you are wearing right now will be retooled and re-itemized as well.