Gosh, if only someone had called out the Combat Rating requirements being too high.
Oh, wait. Someone did. It was me…
February 6th…
February 15th…
Basically, for over 2.5 years, players had been able to pre-farm the next difficulty so they’d have gear waiting to be equipped when they reach the paragon milestone that allowed them to use it. Then Blizzard changed that with the huge increase needed to reach INF5, and they’ve done the same now for INF6. It’s clearly an intended change, presumably precisely to prevent pre-farming by anything other than the whales (as their high-level, expensive legendary gems give enough CR bonus for them to have enough to be in the next difficulty). However, this just leads to the nonsense of 4-man dungeon groups forming where none of them have the CR for INF6, 3 players will be on INF6 (to get drops), the 4th player is on INF1 killing all the mobs, and they rotate which of them is on INF1 after a few runs.
They should have already dropped the CR requirements for the 5th INF5 boss, the INF5 Gauntlet and INF6 in general by now, but they’ll wait until the server’s paragon 800, which will be 1-2 weeks too late, because most of the players will be 800+ when the server’s 780 or 790.
Blizzard want to prevent players racing ahead in paragon levels.
That’s why the increasing penalty to XP gained was implemented.
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