Too easy to obtain good gear?

[Thehollow-shattered-halls (Thehollow)]

My son actually explain this. It has to do with a few things.

1. They want to control the game out come.
2. They want to make gold in game. If gear easy to come by. The less gold they can make.
3. With top gear it makes them feel special. That they can progress further than most gamer.
4. This one i do not understand. They want a game to cater to them.

[Kozzae-doomhammer (Kozzae)]

The biggest grind so far is the Heart of Azeroth, and opening essence slots. Having catch up mechanics at this stage really isn’t a big retail killer and helps those with alts, but the HOA is actually what will hinder most.

after a few hours of playing

You can get 385 benthic even easier getting it boa, but getting all slots to 425 is not a few hours of work, it’s several days of grinding pearls.

And getting to world quest, emissary gear you don’t get a big jump right away either, as those levels are directly correlated to what your current item level is.

[Natalya-thorium-brotherhood]

It’s an e-peen / relevance thing. A lot of Anti-Retail proponents don’t like how the gear gap between casual and hardcore is currently so narrow. It makes their e-Peens shrivel and their relevance as a player fade. When the gap was much wider as in Classic, they felt like kings.

What truly astounded me though was just how many of these types of folks there are.

[Kimmiroa-cenarius (Kimmiroa)]

I mean if my friends had to leave the gsme for a few months or a few years I’d like for them to be able to play with me somehwat quickly when they come back.

If i have a 3 week business trip, I don’t want to be like “well i was gone to long, time to have a funeral for all my in game goals”

Catch up systems are good for the game. And if you are sad that gear comes easy then go play classic where you go months without seeing anything good at end game cause you are competing witb 40 other players for 3 pieces of loot.

[Azazil-kurinnaxx]

I am already. It’s ok you didn’t finish read or you would understand it’s. Well whatever

[Kaercha-rattlegore]

I’m going to do an experiment, put my money where my mouth is. I’m not going to link my latest level 120 character to my main on IO.

I have just finished leveling a melee dps (rogue) with no tank or healer offspec. I have 2 or 3 hours /played at 120, I think I’m 395 or so item level.

I’m not gonna link it to my mains account, (Resto Druid, 1700 S2, 1300 S3) at all, and I’m going to see how hard it is to work my key up to a +10. I don’t have a regular group to run with, and no one in my guild really does m+, so I’m an ideal candidate to get a data set from on the difficulty of breaking into m+ late into the season on a pure dps character.

I’ll post updates as I get them.

Update 1:
I was able to pug my way into 2 +2 groups, the first one, the server went went down before we finished, but we completed the second one just fine, so now I’ve got a key all my own.