Gearis more important than skill?
Let me ask you this: imagine you have all blue gear -- good blues, certainly, but all blues. How much more damage could you do if you then replaced all those blues with ilvl 264 gear? We're talking four tiers of gear here, skipping Naxx, Ulduar, and TotC, and going straight to ICC 25 gear. Silkroad GoldWe're going f Aion the worst level 80 (and some not even 80) gear to the best currently available. How much better do you think your DPS gets with each full tier of upgrades?
The easiest way to answer this question fairly is go use the hunter spreadsheet*. As we know, the spreadsheets aren't very good at modeling real boss fights (given the errors in averaging, movement, and multiple targets), but they're pretty good at comparing gear and stats.