I feel your pain. My team was 59,58,58,58,56 so since I had a 56 I couldn't go to outland, I ended up just doing the really quick kill quests in winterspring, aoe farming in EPL, a few quests in silithus and aoe farming the worms/spiders there and then my 56 was 58. I too ran around in SM gear lol. I only got to outland 2 nights ago and picked up quest reward pants/tops for my mages and noticed that I was replacing lvl 35 gear >.< - my team had also been running around with Hypnotic Blades from SM. My Pally at 60 is STILL using the Sword of Omen from the SM quest chain, I haven't been able to find a decent replacement in 25 levels lol.