Testing the Myth of the Wrath Gear Reset

While I dislike that WoW Insider got this topic posted before me, I still want to get my thoughts about the gear reset, or lack thereof, that was expected to hit in the expansion. After the massive gear reset we had in Burning Crusade, with hard fought epics being replaced quickly on launch with greens and blues, people were worried, no... terrified that we would see the same level of reset again. Players stopped raiding, 'knowing' that anything they got would be replaced within hours of getting off the boat. I wonder how foolish those players feel now, since the 'gear reset' feels more like a new level of content, much like we would get with a new raid dungeon or major content patch.

As it stands the Burning Crusade reset that we had was due to a very specific reason, the reason being that there was a deep lack of stamina and stats overall in the old world content. The stats had not kept up with the content to the degree Blizzard wanted, and they had to do a whole pile of catch up. This time the gear had been kept up well, with the accessible Kara and ZA gear almost enough to get you through to level 75 before you start replacing gear in large chunks. So, as Jamie and Adam would say, Myth: Busted. The myth of the shard inducing gear reset in Wrath is all a bunch of hogwash. The only thing that killed raiding pre Wrath was paranoia, laziness, ignorance and fear.