I posted about this on June 30. A customer support person moved it to Bug Report. There’s been no acknowledgement from a blue in that thread, so all I can presume is that this was an intentional design change. Can't see level needed to equip BoE gear
Someone suggested I post about it in General Discussion as “feedback,” so here goes.
If your character is level 60, since 9.1 you can no longer see “Requires Level X” on any unequipped BoE gear, cannot see it on any consumables (food, pots), can’t even see it in your spellbook when you craft gear.
This affects everyone, everywhere, it’s not an issue with the UI or addons.
If on a lower-level alt you have a BoE or consumable that is too high, then then level does display. E.g.: You have an unequipped BoE weapon in your bag, which requires level 51 to equip. If you are on your Level 50 toon, you see “Requires Level 51.” But if you are on your level 60 toon, you cannot see what character level is required to equip it. If you are on your level 51 toon, you cannot see the required level, because you are high enough to equip it.
In summary, the change is: if your toon is high enough level to use an item, then you cannot see WHAT level is required to use it.
For those of us who send items to lower-level alts, this is a big hassle because if you can’t see what level is required to equip or use an item, you have no way to know which alt to send it to.
It’s also a big problem when crafting. The crafter’s marks are a big change to crafting for Shadowlands; you can use crafter’s marks to adjust the iLvl and/or level required to equip. For instance, I use the Novice Crafter’s marks with tailoring to make Shadowlands cloth gear that can be equipped at level 50. There’s a premium for these on the AH because players who are leveling up want current xpac gear they can equip right at level 50 when they’re entering Shadowlands.
But if I’ve crafted, for instance, several versions of a Shrouded Cloth Cape to sell on the AH, I can’t tell which is the one that is equippable at 50. I can see the iLvl in the tooltip, but when there are different versions with different iLvls it’s not immediately apparent what can be equipped at level 50. If I used a Novice mark, the item has iLvl 87 and can be equipped at level 50. If I used Crafter’s Mark I, the item has iLvl 117 and can be equipped at level 55.
So if I just had to remember that iLvl 87 can be equipped at level 50, I could manage that… but wait, I have some Shrouded Cloth Bracers I listed on the AH the other day which expired, and they are iLvl 100, what level is required to equip them? I cannot tell if I look at the tooltip on the item, I cannot tell by looking in my crafting spellbook. The only way in game I can know what level is required to equip them, is by sending them to a lower-level alt.
This seems like it could be a bug, and if it’s a bug it’s a very significant one that ought to have been corrected by now (8 weeks later). Since it has not been corrected, and the thread in Bug Report has not gotten a blue response, I suspect it was done “on purpose” and it is “working as intended.”
If this was an intentional design change: it just wan’t a good idea, it causes a significant quality of play issue, please, please change it back, so we can see “Requires Level X” on all unequipped BoE gear and all consumables (foods, potions, flasks, scrolls, etc.).