I am a big fan of this project. I think its a great idea. But I am concerned about the gear. I thought one of the points of this was to make it easy, But now everyone is going to have to farm mats to make their goggles. I realize that this is not much work, but it will probably make people less likely to want to join in--myself included. Also, it achieves nothing. If we ALL have zero hit rating, we are all still equal.
I do get the point of why warriors have shoulders and druids do not. That makes sense (and I like it), but the hit-rating thing makes no sense to me if we are all equally diminished. I could perhaps imagine someone arguing that it takes some of the "skill" out of the game, but there will always be elements of chance in WoW. This is not chess -- we dont complain about the fact that some attacks can randomly cause double damage.
Anyway, that is my two cents.