Originally Posted by
Pachycrocuta
One of the points of an RPG is to progress from weak to strong. You defeat weak enemies to move on to stronger enemies, who then become weak as you grow stronger. It gives a sense of progression of the game.
Come with me on a journey to Septermber 9th, 1999. The world was coming to an end thanks to the Y2K bug where planes would fall from the sky and nuclear reactors would meltdown and explode. But there was a game coming out on this day for the Playstation. A game people were greatly anticipating. That game was Final Fantasy 8. It had such realistic graphics, and the cutscenes were the best we had ever seen. However, it did one thing that made people view it as one of the worst Final Fantasies ever made (well, 2 things: the other was the Junction system). What was that 1 thing? It scaled monsters to your level. It took out that progression of getting stronger, because those goblins from the beginning? Well they are also level 99 now. People asked what was the point in grinding out the levels when the creatures around you would just get stronger? Why even play it? Sure the story was good, but one of the biggest draws of an RPG is progressively getting stronger.
Now, back to the present day. All enemies in BfA scale with your level from 110 to 120. Eh, sure why not. They won't scale once we reach 121 in 2 years. However, as you get stronger by getting stronger gear, so do the enemies. When you dinged 120, with your 290 ilevel, you saw the world quests and dungeons giving 295+ ilevel. You get some, but wait. You don't feel stronger, because the enemies you had been fighting grew stronger too. You get to 340 ilevel, so you should be stronger. But no, the enemies grew in power to match. Let's say it is August 23rd 2020, and the next expansion is about to drop in a couple weeks. You are completely decked out in final tier mythic gear of ilevel 400. You continue to do WQs for the gold, war resources, and reputation for the bonus chests for every 10k rep you gain. You think you should just steamroll the enemies for the WQs. But no, the enemies in the world are now stronger than monsters from normal dungeons, because you have ilevel 400 gear.
Why play past 120 if you will never get stronger?