Mobs melt before the superior Assassination spec. Packs with 1-2 million health mobs stand no chance against our powerful bleeds.
Being able to 2 dot and walk away never gets old.
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I am annihilating enemies in the overworld.
I don’t see any issue.
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This time solo content is also included in the vault, so even the players who don’t play group content will be getting vault loot every week based on delves and world events they do that week. So even they will upgrade beyond the point where the scaling is capped soon enough.
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It hasn’t done that for a few expansions now, I think Legion was when the iLvl scaling at cap started.
The “idea” is to give fresh 80s incentive to keep gearing for a while, not just buy a set of gear on the AH and dominate the world content.
It doesn’t go on forever, though. There is a cap to the scaling, or at least there has been in the past, such that once you gear enough, the mobs stop scaling and you just get stronger relative to them. That number is never disclosed, obviously … my own guess is that the higher end of the range of LFR gear reward levels (which per Wowhead give ~584-610 iLvl as gear rewards) is around when the player will move past the scaling cap.
One thing this does is prevent you from having a happy experience with an underpowered class. IMO, scaling should take class into account if the classes are unbalanced.
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The idea is, frankly, a crap one if it causes new and poorly geared folk to rage-quit. Open world needs to be the easiest, so the weakest characters can have something to do. Not everyone plays this game for combat challenges, and for players who do want to be challenged that way, there is plenty of harder content available, even at this early stage.
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Every single dungeon run is a trash slaughterfest. One group? Nah, they pull half the dungeon and then mow it down over a few minutes.
Most groups survive. It can look very impressive keeping the tank alive in the midst of fifty million bees and goblins but is it practical?
Thank you! I can’t stand to see math butchered like that, even when I agree with the overall sentiment.
Get rid of ilvl scaling, it is a developer crutch that weakens the game.
they’ve attempted to get
too fancy with the scaling.
it’s miscalibrated.
thats assuming they tried in the first place.
Umm this expansion doesn’t offer those unique items at max level so not sure why you are comparing it to that.
My man, it’s one extra auto attack. Why are you flipping? 
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If you can’t do open world content with greens from the AH idk what to tell you
Then why did you post?
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And people complain every single time.
It was more sarcasm than anything. You should be able to easily kill open world mobs in AH greens. You have to do be doing something very wrong to not be able to
people love to exaggerate , i am ilvl 573 and already demolishing everything on the world map
Monsters shouldn’t be scaling with item level at all. Scaling with level is already silly, but scaling with items is dumb and dilutes the point of grinding gear. It’s not whether you can do it, it’s the power fantasy of starting out weak and then being able to mow them down with gear.
There seems to be a problem with being 80 ant around 555 or less. For me, at 545-450 or so, it was a real challenge to fight two of anything. After 550 or so it eased up, and now it’s what I would call “normal”.
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