Item level crunch,. and then inflate again,. followed by an expansion, another crunch, and an inflate again.
I agree to this. But I would also add that the transmog option also ruins the game. I remember that you could not transmog, that made a character TOTAL unique to that time and expansion. You can now transmog to look excactly(alsmost) alike the top players. For me, that douses my feeling with the game not having to strive agains that pair of shoulders, you can always get them next expansion. /meh
Remove the transmog part for Vanilla - that would be indeed awesome!
I like transmog, but I also see where you're coming from. Maybe have transmog for the current expansion only able to be used by the character that unlocked them? Then when new expansion comes out, it is unlocked for all the characters since it's considered old content.
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