With items in the rouge trader store moving to an account wide system it got me thinking about in game gear. If you start a new character and move from one sub faction to another unless gear is faction bound as opposed to being character bound its going to suck to lose access to all your gear.

With the devs saying the progression system is looking like it will using a certification unclock system to ether allow access too or make certain gear cheaper in the loadout, I cant really see a problem with making gear faction bound as players will already have been through the progression of another subfaction and are in effect temporally nerffing themselves to change subfaction.

One small exception to this would have to be subfaction specific gear like Frost Blades and Blood Chalices.

What do you guys think?

That's exactly what happens when you start a new character. The only reason that the Rogue Trader items are going account bound is because people didn't want to have to keep buying expensive guns with real money for every character.