Guild Wars 2

what it does:
-) you have a lot more progression without losing the no-grind-for-max-loot idea.
-) at lv.80 you are happy about a yellow lv.29 helmet drop
-) no more “again only vendor trash”… in 99% of looting

the idea:
Imagine you are in a lv.30 zone. You are lv.80. Your gear doesn’t scale back to lv.30 though you keep the look of your gear. Instead you (automatically) equip the best gear you had when you were lv.30. The system remembers that stuff.

So if you found a green lv.29 helmet when you were a lowie-character and the next thing you found would have been a blue lv.31 helmet, you would be equipped with the lv.29 helmet. (you still have the looks of your lv.80 helmet of course)

or a better solution: you unlock stats (stat patterns) and can choose those when scaling back.

example:
you found those helmets
lv.1 blue – 5tough
lv.2 blue – 4pow
lv.4 blue – 7crit
lv.6 blue – 8tough

now you are lv.80 and go to a lv.5 zone
-) the system automatically equips you with the lv.4 blue – 7crit
-) you can change the stats between 5tough, 4pow and 7crit. The lv.6 item is only available in higher than lv.5 zones.
-) you keep the looks of your lv.80 helmet.

The big advantage:
you have a lot more progression. Everytime you go back to low level zones you can actually use those low level drops and you may be happy about a yellow lv.29 helmet drop instead of having another vendor-trash item for selling.

What do you think?

A lot of the time I have a few piece of gear 5-10 lvls under my lvl. I try to keep up piece by piece, so if I was wearing under powered gear and I had to go back to that bc they went back to a zone for lvl 30s I would like that. If u went back to a starting zone u would have basic gear and be weaker rather then have ur exotics and be stronger. I think most people like to feel a little bit stronger when they go back to a zone. They already put a system in place that in case u do go back to a low lvl zone you will get drops ur own lvl. So an 80 going back to a lvl 5 zone would get lvl 80 drops, not lvl 4-5 drops.

yeah but those 80 drops you get are still white, blue or sometimes green. Vendor trash. Furthermore you only have the chance to get lv.80 gear, most of the time it’s zone-related though