https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1ghcxkk/the_balance_of_power_appearance_tint_for_timing_a/
This explains it all.
TLDR: The Balance of Power appearance tint for timing a +15 was never changed with the key squish.
+15 now is about equivalent to a +25 then (with the affix that kicks in at +12 it’s more like a 27-28 but whatever)
Seems like an oversight as timing all +15s right now would put you several hundred score above the .1% title, while timing all +15s back then was what you needed for KSM. Appearance unlock should be changed to requiring a +5 to keep it about the same difficulty it was before the squish, instead of requiring people to be one of the best players in the world like it is on the current live game.
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Yeah here’s hoping that Blizzard sees it and knocks the requirement down to 10+. My girlfriend wants the skin badly, but there is no way we are on the skill level to be doing 15s together.
I want the purple primal kitty sooo bad.
Should be lowered to a +5, since everything after the squish went up by 10.
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I am surprised they have not fixed this. Hopefully they fix it before Season 2 goes live.
Welp, Blizz just posted a post saying they are fixing the newer KSM(lowering the level needed) but not this one.
Feels like they are trying to gate-keep it or something idk. Salty dev?
I’ll write an in game suggestion about this again.
glad I got that one at the time - it is my favorite.
Legion remix will fix this though
How does Legion Remix fix a M+ tint?
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Oh I did, its the first thing I did after I saw the post.
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Awesome! I just wanted to note that I want to pester them again about it. 
The requirement for purple sparkle kitty should be changed to 10 bg wins in any bracket appropriate to the level of the character that unlocked the baseline appearance.
Yes but no.
15s were tough in Legion and BFA. Like, fully mythic raid geared I couldn’t get the BFA KSM mount. SL made them a bit easier. Pre-squish DF made them easier still. 5s now are completely trivial by comparison.
TWW +10 would be about right. Especially with the S2 nerfs.
It was also never changed with Keyflation, you had the entirety of DF, SL, and BFA to get it essentially for free. If anything it’s now closer to its original difficulty.
I bought a 15 to unlock that tint during BfA for 15k. Nobody was complaining about them being tough.
There are a few characters in the top 0.1% that have a 15 in their top runs. There’s no universe in which this is closer to original difficulty than it was prior to them removing the bottom 10 levels.
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how about the universe where legion also stopped scaling rewards at 10, leaving only the 0.1%ers to push to 15s?
Legion rewards scaling stopped at 10. It also had uncapped artifacts, dual-equip legendaries, uncapped aoe, and generally easier dungeons, on top of the bottom 10 levels being substantially lower than a 10 now.
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