People aren’t going to grind for a few ilvls. They will either unsub or do other things until the next gear catchup. I never farmed for that storm gear because it was a time waster and I won’t farm for any other grindy system they put into place for world content players.
Gear grinds do not work well for people who really don’t care about gear and I would guess that is the majority of players just doing world content.
don’t then. I have no plan to. I don’t need gear and I am not wasting my time grinding when I can just wait for the catchups in a few months time. If the new area is too hard to do without gear I just won’t do it. All I am playing for is professions now anyway and most of that content is in the original portion of the expansion. I haven’t seen anything special in the new area regarding that.