For a long time I would have agreed with you. But then somebody on the forum said something and I changed my mind. I do not know who it was, so if you recognize yourself in this drop me a line or something so I can credit you, but it went like this: "You guys all come from a FPS background so you have no idea what it is like to play an MMO like WoW, where you constantly grind for gear that gets outdated with the next update." (Paraphrased) Yes, it made sense. Newer raid weapons are supposed to outclass older raid weapons. The very system the game is creating depends on it. You can not upgrade the legendary weapons from VoG because you need to have some weapons that get outdated. You are not meant to have all weapons at the same damage lvl forever. It makes sense. You want to feel that by doing the new content you will get better items than by just doing what came out 6 months ago or so. So, I get where you are coming from, and I can understand your frustration, but doing it the way you suggest is not healthy to the system. The weapons you are referring to are not irrelevant, they are just irrelevant to higher level gameplay. You can still do the VoG at 29 or so and get the weapons and play with them if you want but for higher level content you need better gear. The system has to work like that otherwise you will remove a lot of incentive. So I hope VoG weapons will stay the way they are. They are still great to use for lvl 30 content etc.