Where does this idea that the level squish means we’re “losing” something even come from?
There is a power reset at the start of every expansion. The only difference this time is that it also comes with a change in that arbitrary number next to your character portrait and in the tooltip…
It really isn’t a big deal, it’s ONLY a number.
the other part that cracks me up about these threads, is the delusion that if you don’t buy SL, you will somehow log into your toons in BfA and they’ll still be 120.
Some people perceive numbers in different ways. What you may see within your context, others may see differently. I think it really falls back to psychology.
they are doing the level squish so that the levels actually mean something. most of the time when leveling you won’t actually get any new perk after level 80 other than the talents every 15 levels.
also no, we should not be compensated for our level 120s, this isn’t some season change where we have our currency tokens taken away so we can just purchase all the new max stuff. we will still have the same relative power as we do now, we will not be losing out that much if any, based on previous stat squishes
Exactly. As far as I can tell the only thing changing is the little number by your name. Everything else will be the same.
While I understand your direction of thought, I am not sure this is the reason behind it.
Oh no the number that exists to indicate if you are level capped or not is SHRINKING! Say it isnt so, its going to really bug me! I put so much effort into 120 levels. No new expansion for me, this is too drastic of a change. SMH blizzard.
You ripped my heart out…
I’m sorry, Bloodelfs have hearts? 
That isn’t a fact, and new players aren’t really an issue with a game this old.
It is a nerf. Since all old world content will scale to 50 as well, we will be comparatively weaker in those areas.
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Very mature! I don’t have attachments to numbers. You are wasting time playing this game, lol… you don’t lose anything.
“Oh no! What will I do without the other 60 imaginary levels when I hit 60 in Shadowlands” Oh right… the same thing when I gained ten levels this expansion and the one prior… keep playing the game…
It is a fact and Blizzard brought it up directly.
I don’t know if I’d say it’s a non issue but I’m not sure it’s as big of an issue that this guy thinks it is. My gripe with it is the same as previous stat squishes. It messes up scaling of Legacy content. Prior to the first stat squish I used to make money selling WotLK gems because those had no ilvl requirements but gave vastly superior stats to the TBC ones. I also had a bunch of level 100s that I leveled during WoD(not like I had anything else to do) that I mostly abandoned after Legion came out. Legions AP system made it harder to maintain alts so I went down to 1 main and 1 alt and never leveled the other ones. Anyways after the Legion stat squish my level 100 characters got drastically weaker. This was a big deal to me as the only thing I was really using them for was to run WotlK and Cata raids for mounts. Back in WoD the power difference was such that they stomped those raids but after the Legion squish fighting through some of those raids became a slow arduous process that just wasn’t worth it.
tl; dr Stat squishes mess up Legacy scaling
What will I ever do. I don’t think I can go on. oh the horror!
Considering the OPs masterful mastery of the English language, I don’t believe he would have the gripping grasp of mathematics to understand your point.
You have not “lost” anything.
50 will = 120
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You can’t lose something you already spent. You played and you had fun, or you would not have stuck around. You’ve already received your reward. They don’t owe you a thing.
Meh. The current content is what’s important. You will still start at the same “level” starting out for Shadowlands. This primarily only affects for alts and new players.
They needed to do something about the giant amount of bloat that has built up after so many expansions. The current timeline/questing is extremely cumbersome, and personally annoying when forced to go back through unwanted areas (like WoD)
well yeah it’s not the only reason behind it, probably some technical number stuff that needed changing like how we need to have a stat squish once we start getting too strong. but it was one of the reasons they said during the blizzcon reveal.
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