Quote Originally Posted by eonfreon View Post
but I don't know how these guidelines have any effect on those of us who've played and already acquired our gear.
Possibly what he's thinking of is that it will be harder for your L16 characters to loot a bunch of rare items to send to any new alts you might create, causing those characters to be much more relatively powerful than similarly-leveled characters of newer players.

Of course, that was the objective: overpowered lowbie alts is not an appropriate reward for a high-level character. If the game designers really decide that a player has earned a reward of easily skipping through the low and middle levels, then he should just allow her to start new characters at level 5-9.