Gearscore

Well i feel like World of Warcraft has reached a new low. And no, I'm not talking about the new celestial steed, which for all the haters out there...yeah I bought one so tough noogies.

Actually, I'm talking about gearscore. I'm a little bummed that I got my first boot from a group before it even began. No wait...thats my first boot ever! I did have one, which I mentioned a couple posts ago, but it was not a boot. We tried and some figured that it was gearscore that was the contributing factor to the wipe and I swapped out. While that scenario in particular was frustrating it seems an acceptable method. Try it, find out how it goes and determine how to do it better. If it is gearscore, than at least that person learned something about the instance/raid. At what point did wow become such a numbers crunch that you were excluded just because you don't have 24/7 to play.

Here's my proposal. Blizzard has already developed some system of exclusion based on gear. For a long time I could not do Heroic HoR, and according to the dungeon finder I needed to "obtain better gear". I assume that it was based on gearscore however it was a yes/no answer, and not based on Joe Blow's idea of where I should be. Eliminate this addon, and have a list (similar to raid lock out) under the raid tab that shows what instances/raids you can and cannot "attempt". Take this control out of the hands of players that only wish to guarantee that you can do it with no thought. Make it a game again, I used to die a lot in Mario...deaths are ok people.

What are your thoughts?