I don’t care how they make the new gear more desirable. Make the stats way higher, give it bonuses, whatever, I don’t care… as long as the way to get there is not by downgrading people and turning off things they collected FOR THIS RAID when they enter the instance.
It’s amazing that the wow brain worms have got people saying “oh man I love when blizzard fucks up and then downgrades my character! Best solution ever!”