Are you sick of gear resets?

Earlier this week, Massively RIFT columnist Karen Bryan expressed frustration over the seemingly inevitable MMO expansion problem: gear resets. We expect new gear along with our new content, but a complete gear reset, she argued, "renders all previous raid content irrelevant." Everything you earned before an expansion may as well never have happened because you can top that gear with a new crop of easymode quests. And the realization that a gear-grind is mostly for naught can have a ripple effect on a game as disillusioned players give up on acquiring it (or bail out of the game completely).

The Daily Grind crew has discussed gear resets in relation to raid progression before, but even games without raiding face this problem. If a game has any kind of scaling gear or levels, then the addition of new content, like an expansion, is bound to generate growing pains. So where do you stand? Are you sick of gear resets, of having to effectively start over at the dawn of every expansion? Or do you see gear resets as a good thing, as a way to bridge the gear divide between players and re-experience what you loved about the game originally?

And since you're going to tell us anyway, here's a bonus question: Which MMOs have successfully avoided this problem and how?

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Yeah in WoW it was really annoying how you got that cool gear but then poop new expansion bay bay legendary and all that. But currently mmo's are using more of the Trans Gear Look with the other gears stats thingy, Like with in Gw2 The transmutation stone (if its called that) Which makes you able to have that cool gear but still be able to Fight off enemies and not get killed due to its level 40 armour and you are level 80 :p.

But WoW did get an update with making it able to do so and Star wars the old republic did do Sort like that as well.

The main thing is that its good to give the option to just have that gear shining all the time, whenever you level or go you will still have that nice gear you really like which is a quite good feature in a MMO. Which Devs seems to really notice more