Guild Wars 2

It’s been two months and it’s obvious we, players, have split into two groups.
One wants more gear, even gear grinding if necessary, but gear that helps them feel their character is growing. Gear that gives them something to work for besides changing how you look.
The other group wants gear to not be the decisive factor in combat. They don’t mind only cosmetic gear changes and don’t need such detailed character development. They don’t want gear grind and gear>skill.
What about the system where you get the top gear set if you choose so? Or you can work for it if you choose so?
sPVP gives you the gear set you then use for playing. Why not something similar in PVE as well?
All those that don’t mind gear grind and gear disparity would work on getting gear via grind, quests, dungeons or some other way.
All those that don’t like that can choose to get entire set for free and continue playing with new set without having to do something they don’t like. They would even have an option to change the looks of this new gear to be the same as it was before they opted for gear change (they don’t look any different with new gear if they don’t want to). Or they can choose to use the same gear they already have, but to change the stats on their current gear to be the same as stats on this new and better gear.

The amount of stat changes on this new gear would thus become meaningless to non-gear grinders, number of different gear set levels would become meaningless to them as well and both parties would be able to play the way they want.

I know there is more to be said about gear and leveling, but I think it would not be such a huge amount of work for them to do, since they already have the system to award you with full set of gear for free. I think it could work.

What do you think?