QUOTE(skillchip @ Mar 7 2017, 17:59)

Geez. No love for new and exciting things. Just because they were without peer doesn't mean a new thing can come in and take its place. Happens all the time. Competition.
Yeah. I do think that Peerlesses are somewhat too common nowadays and a "super-peerless" of sorts isn't a terrible idea, that way there is a gear type whose stat range is
genuinely rare. But a significant issue here is power creep. Making players stronger (via better gear quality) just for the sake of it probably isn't a great idea, but when adjustment patches come out, sometimes ranges have to be tweaked, and players may complain if they don't find themselves better off. (maybe, if gear ranges get tweaked, tweak monster stats as well to keep up?)
Another issue is gear rarity. Nowadays, high quality gear of pretty much every type is relatively common. High level players (450+) very rarely replace their great gears, but may get drops of high quality gears every so often. (or, what
used to be high quality gears, until their overabundance killed their value) Perhaps
solid great gears should be rare enough to be pretty difficult to acquire, even for high level players.
A related problem is that once something is released, such as quality X+ gears, it's quite hard to ever go below that in the future without massive riots.