Question about this for my level 80s. Will they all squish down to the same ilvl?
Example like my DH is 687 but my RET is high 590s. Will they all be like squished to same ilvl if over level 80?
Or will one go down to a certain number and vice versa?
Im curious how that works if they all are like ok if your gear was 600 and above its now “300” or whatever they do right.
I want to know how it works so when the squish happens how to gear up before March.
I can’t seem to find a table that breaks down the ilevel differences, so I’m not sure.
But here’s an example of what it’ll look like on Tuesday:
It’s relative, since ilvl is still based on item quality.
Put another way, two max level characters, one with full 8/8 myth track gear and one with all 8/8 veteran gear will be different ilvl after the 20th like they are today. The gap will be smaller though, numerically, but power difference will be close to the same. Or at least that’s the intention.
That’s the key part, but we know every time they do any kind of squish, we always end up weaker and not able to solo content we could before the squish, then told by Blizz and their shills, just wait until the expansion, level up, get some raid gear and it will be fine.
If you mean that pre-TWW content is getting harder, that was identified in the beta but I’m not sure if they’re doing anything about it. Really all they need to do there is improve the multipliers you get in older content to make up the difference. Whether they will is a whole other thing.
If you mean for current content, it will probably be a little different, but they tend to err on the side of making things slightly easier. It just comes down to mob tuning.
On Tuesday, I am going to plant my butt in a lawn chair, grab a drink and some popcorn. And watch the forums lose their collective mind.
We may have to do that on Wednesday, because we’ll spend Tuesday watching them have a meltdown because the game will be down all day. 
I’m ready!
We know 655 will become 102 but 730 is supposed to be what? 102+(730-655)?
I still can’t believe they decided to do the stat squish in the middle of the trilogy. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to do it with the War Within? This way we feel the gradual power increase over the course of the trilogy instead of getting power, being nerfed to crap, only to regain power.
I don’t think there doing a level squish for midnight.
Item level not player level.
The ilvl jumps between ranks are the same as current gear.
myth 8/8 730 = 170
Hero 8/8 717 = 157
Champion 8/8 704 = 144
Veteran 8/8 691 = 131
Adventurer 8/8 678 = 118
The relative jumps are the same, but that’s not the same as the squish from TWW gear to Midnight gear.
The leveling campaing on Beta was handing out 214 greens. My level 728 pally was squished to 170, but my 664 mage was only squished to 160. You should test this out on Beta or PTR for yourself (my observations were from Beta and could have been adjusted on the PTR).
Based on what I saw and assuming it’s linear the squish is on this line:
New iLvl = 0.15625 x Old iLvl + 56.25
Don’t forget to tally how many posters “joined the forum on 20-Jan-2026” and have a post count < 10!
My lvl 700 warlock will be 140 or that what is was in the ptr??
How is that possible? I guess theres some floor because the squish can’t bring you too low ilvl and be in old expansion territory.
At what level? I heard youtuber say they didnt replace their mythic gear until late leveling 86-87+
I’d really love for them to stop showing post counts on the forums. Either someone doesn’t have enough posts or they have too many posts. So they’re either belittled or dismissed for being new/an alt… or they’re insulted as having no life or something is mentally wrong if they have too many posts.
Post count needs to die in a fire. lol
Nah, do that on wednesday.
Tuesday’s just going to be the usual complaining about extended maintenance.
Blizz won’t fix it, I’ve seen this in WoD with the first stat squish, and again in SL with the level squish, Blizz never fixed it, they and their shills just said to get some high level raid gear and it will be fine. So unless you are a heroic or mythic raider, prepare to wait until probably near the end of the expansion to get close to where you are now pre-squish.
I think that’s the one thing that’s annoying me through this whole thing. Blizz does have the tech to amp up our damage in older xpacs. Its why my Frostfire Bolt on this mage hits around 200k in current content, but hits for well over a million in anything Legion and older. Blizz has the tech in place to fix this issue, but idk why they’re not turning it on for at least the BfA and SL xpacs since they’re already in legacy mode.