I think numbers should be like WotLK. They felt perfect then, Then it started spiraling out of control.
I think numbers should be like WotLK. They felt perfect then, Then it started spiraling out of control.
That seems unlikely given that they did an ilvl squish as well. The problem with the pre-WoD squish is that you still had an exponential power curve thanks to ilvl inflation. If they flatten both the stat and ilvl power curve things become more manageable. From what we saw, quest gear was ilvl 180 or something, so I doubt we'll go much further than ilvl 300-350 over the course of BfA, which is equivalent to roughly early Cata. Hopefully after that they keep the numbers under control.
By the way it looks, you pretty much just get 1 lvl from 1-110 now. Of course, with the world scaling to your character now, that probably fixes it. However, with such a small, insignificant boost to ilvl, combined with blizzard almost completely removing lvling stats previously, they should go ahead and make ALL dungeons available at ALL lvls.
Also, non-max lvl PvP, which very few ppl care about, will be... changed at least. Lvl 60s being able to take on lvl 100s or something.
180 is the level 110 green iLvl. You'll be over 300 before BfA even starts.
They aren't planning to reduce power growth rates. They're just lowering the starting point. It'll still be 15 iLvls per tier, and the relative stat gain per iLvl will remain unchanged.
The only difference to the WoD squish is that this time they're actually adjusting iLvls, instead of only the stats. This is a purely visual thing with no actual impact on the game.
Last edited by huth; 2017-11-22 at 10:43 PM.
there should be a smaller curve tbh, its so silly how massive jumps in dps we do nowadays, esspecially in wod and legion where we do like 4x more dps than at the start of xpac
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No, I was mistaken, as both of you pointed out. I thought the gear shown was BfA questing gear equivalent.
So the squish is not as strong as I anticipated, but to me what matters more is if they can keep the number growth in check. I wouldn't mind MoP numbers, so long as we're not back to Legion within one xpack.
Do you realize that at some point they can't squish lower without literally destroying the damage and health while leveling, right? At some point, Cataclysm gear becomes exactly the same as TBC gear and new players who are leveling up have ZERO sense of progression of their characters. That feels bad and completely destroys that sense of fun as you start doing more damage as you level up.
I gotta have the feeling that the numbers will skyrocket @ lvl 120... similar to how it was in WoD already
Fucking disgusting. Stats squish is the most retarded thing since ptw lvl boost on ingame shop.
I do like the statsquish but Im worried that we will end up in 100 000 plus health when dinging 120!