Okay I understand what had to be done. in the spirit of making things rare lets take the BBW/BBG/Fishbowl raids and make them harder and increase the spawn timers on them more current to live so the high end loot will be something that is more rare. that the current rate high end gear is "Very Common" gear. In fact they're so common people aren't wanting them anymore because they're all geared out with all the high end stuff. A lot of stuff is left floating in corpses. i've seen a lot of smiters/fury gear spaced in the bowl because nobody could use them. in live these were high end auction items that happened with the effort of many groups of players. It was supposed to be that if you had some of this high end gear it was to say look what i have worked hard for. Question if you apply all these suggestions would you remove all the easily obtained gear from peoples inventories? i'll finish with a quote from kyp.
Hexer is correct, they should have been rare enough (aa's) so that each time someone picks them up they are bragging rights to everyone else. They are supposed to be exceptionally rare, that's why most of them have such great buffs.