Cataclysm NDA Lifted! Beta Begins! Exclamation points abused!

[Lissa]

My initial thoughts are that the gear inflation / reset is a tad overdone.

I know that all current gear will be getting reworked in 4.0, but the ilvl jump of nearly 100 from top tier t10 to lvl85 starter epics leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Why? Are you really that attached to your current gear?

I've been saying a big reset was coming for months. It's the only way I could see where they could handle having decent quest leveling for both:

1) people in 251-277
2) people at 78 in Northrend quest greens.

From a thread elsewhere, it's said that level 78 mobs in Hyjal have about 12600 health, same as many in Icecrown. But, by level 81, quest mobs are 30K+, so yeah, gear reset.

Just too big an arc to cover any other way. Also, they want to get you in more stam gear, no matter what your class, and get you used to the new way they want to do things.

I personally don't care about putting my epics away or selling them. I'll get more later, after all. I got them to do a job, and now I'm getting items for a new job. <shrug>

Also, people doing Naxx in T6 just felt wrong to me, so I'm happy they're not going that way this time.

Some people keep gear around because it took a lot of work and it was memorable. How many Priests that have their Benediction/Anathema still have it in their vaults (guarentee it's a lot)? How many Hunters that made Rhok'delar/Lok'lelar (guarentee it's a lot)? How many folks that made Thunderfury still have it in their vault (guarentee it's a lot)?

Some gear is memorable and it is why people keep it.

Likewise, why shouldn't the top tier gear be just as usable at the start of the next expansion? Naxx (Tier 3 gear) was just as effective as the blues and purples people got in the heroic dungeons of tBC. Hyjal/BT/Sunwell gear was just as good as the blues and purples people got in heroic dungeons in WotLK. So why the huge jump going from ICC/RS gear to the blues and purples of the heroic dungeons of Cata?