His point is that a lot (day i say almost ALL) of the gear in classic that we as raiding guilds are wearing don't last past level 55 in kunark. I can think of a few instances where this isn't the case, but his point, and a valid one for anyone that can actually remember this far back, is the rather large discrepancy between classic loot and kunark loot. The stats on loot from Kunark=>Velious was just a fraction of the drastic difference between classic => kunark.
For instance, on my shaman I can only think of 1 single piece of gear that will last me through kunark (nevermind velious). But, hypothetically, if this was kunark I can think of perhaps 7 or 8 that can last me all the way through velious.
Kunark wasn't famous for its resist gear, thus I can understand camping planar sets and the super-awesome resist shoulders. CoF // RBB are great, but Seb cloak and RBG are more than sufficient and a hell of a lot easier to get. Mana/HP gear in classic would make sense if we were still raiding with 15-20 people, but, let's be honest, numbers will only drop that low if we're AFK-sitting on something. The first time that EQ brought about tiered gear was during late-stage kunark raiding, and I don't mean trak and the other wussy dragons (maybe epic lockdowns). It then continued all the way through velious, which is where the top guilds really left everyone else behind.
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