Blizzard: It Is Time to Scale Old Raids

Tuning is still necessary. You’re calling for stats and gear to be scaled down algorithmically, which carries the same challenges as scaling up . Bosses can and will still be under and overtuned by scaling players down .

You would be scaling based on the gear, and stats that were present at the time of the raid’s relevancy.

It is not math that is in constant flux.