Let’s take LFR Aggy as an example. He was very simple to solo prior to prepatch. Then prepatch hit and he became a challenge - but still could be soloed with the use of Charge to prevent flame rend knockbacks. Damage to my character was a non-issue as recently as last week.
Now, at level 54 (same gear - 131 ilvl), I’m wiping on LFR aggramar. I’m getting hit hard by his abilities and exhaust all of my charges to stay alive before getting finished off by melee damage.
We’ve harped and harped on about Ion’s “whatever you can solo at 120, you can solo at 50” statement being far off-base, and now above level 50 things are even harder.
We’ve been screaming about this since prepatch dropped, but the problem is even worse now - a stronger character is now much weaker in legacy Legion content.
UPDATE 11/29 (made a separate post but am posting it here in the OP as well): I’m getting even weaker as I get stronger gear at 60.
LFR Aggy nearly wiped the floor with me. Freshly dinged at 60 with 141 gear, I had him down in 72 seconds with no health issues.
Now I’m ilvl 155 and it’s an 87 second kill time and had to burn both charges for flame rend, and I was down to 21%. .
Their past tendency has been to adjust old content when it’s two expansions old (if they feel it needs adjusting). So, you’ll probably see some changes by 9.1. However I bet once you get your first heroic dungeon gear from SL you’ll be fine.
I get what you’re saying but that completely misses the point. Stronger characters shouldn’t be getting weaker in legacy content, and now we have to go through a bunch of hoops to solo content that was previously soloable (to an extent) at level 50?
The point is: the “solo at 50 what you could at 120” was wrong, and now it’s even worse where power is going backwards. No matter how you spin it, getting weaker in old content while leveling up is plain wrong and it’s making the situation experienced during prepatch much worse.
I recommend waiting until you gear up a bit in SL before attempting any legacy raids. Part of my big push before SL was to get all of my pressing transmog needs out of the way beforehand, because I could see this happening a mile away.
“its going to be the same as before”
LMAO
No…its not.
Not even close.
Max level was 120. That was lowered to 50.
At 120 I was able to solo legion raids with my eyes closed.
At 50 now…yeah…cant.
so its not even remotely the same.
i hear legion is still not fully soloable at 60 and that its just the same as it is at 50.
no one should ever take what ion says as truth. this is a lawyer we’re talking about and not a real game dev. wait until you see what something is like in-game, first.