fstmdmslwbrn:This is my point. I am playing against players as good or better than I am, who are using better equipment. And by increasing the level required to upgrade my gear, WGT has added months to the disadvantage.
With the best will in the world you will not be getting better equipment on offer much (if at all) ever than it is lower than now. Not perfect for a player, but with what other legends are shooting in their legend tier RGs it shows lower than L91 is LONG since capable of competing v well in that.
Where no solution exists is no mans land once TL. This is why I bang on about the new tier (among other reasons for decent stats etc). A new tier gives people some perceivable light at the end of a tunnel. I would envisage it coming in around L95, and only for TLs (and the OP has way enough equipment for that).
Short of WGT having to do a little work rather some daft CC Event which they can throw up in a minute, and is lo and behold as popular as a blood tick to most and does the game no good, where is the downside?
Players would get the pro shop open early by reaching it, and so those who have that "perceived" need for the equipment get it at say L95 as a TL, and WGT get them chasing it. The multis who can't cope with TL will have / will continue to restart anyway, and it's good for the game in a very non elitist just reasonable player centric etc etc.............