Classic was well-known for its ability to min-maxed from Weiweismart's blog

It's more involved than declaring "they weren't aware of WOW TBC Gold what they were doing at the time." They deliberately created low-level, or end-game bis-objects, they were both terrible, in order to allow players to make rewarding and enjoyable decisions.

Classic was well-known for its ability to min-maxed through years of server knowledge as well as brilliant theorycrafters. Sims taught us that the majority of the "bis gearing choices' depended on the length of the encounters with your guild were and clear times. Think of trinketswaps, threat with. Resistance to Frost and Fire is another example. Furthermore, many of the rubbish skips and encounters that were found in Naxx were further enriched by niche items such as the major recombobulator, smokey's light or ramstein's bolt. Also, there was a nifty stopwatch as well as a gnomish-cloaking device and the reactivator for electromagnetic gigaflux.

These are truly uninformed rose-colored glasses. The items that you've mentioned have their area, no doubt. It doesn't mean you shouldn't make a deliberate design decision to have level 40 BoE gloves to be BiS.

It's not an ideal item design to put every warrior into leather to do damage in a competitive manner. It's evident that Blizzard recognized this as they did a little to change that when they launched AQ and Naxx.

Transmogs are the reason I dislike these. If everyone has a coordinating fashion statement to make, it loses charm. It's so fun to run by Tauren Druids in full mooncloth. You know it's hilarious, but it's also an excellent idea.

Standardizing the allocation of stats (partly due to improved designs for classes and a better understanding of what characters really want) has eliminated the ability in stat design to create memorable items. All the memorable things people talk about items are memorable because of factors that bypass the stat budget system: procs, on-use capabilities, the high-budget exceptions (War Glaives) and honourable mentions to weapon speed which still permits them to create certain things that are superior to others without it being budgeted.

Vanilla's vanilla class didn't want their Tier Gear because it wasn't well-itemized or didn't fit their specs (feral Druid DPS warlord, for instance,). The tbc spec lists every tier equipment is at the buy WOW Classic Burning Crusade Gold very least acceptable or is bis, so overall I think there's a lesser chance of waiting to get properly geared.