So they decide on a start point. No legendaries. Then go encounter by encounter and mob by mob and rebalance it with that in mind. If a permanent AoE slow isn’t available, make the mobs move slower now. Mobs no longer explode when they die or buff the caster? Make them explode when they die and buff the enemy.
Instead, we just got the same encounters run through an Excel calculator to adjust for item level, mechanics be damned.
From what Ive seen on various sites it seems more that tools that players had available to them back in Legion (not just gear but skills) arent available now or are ineffective. If thats true then they need to adjust that.
Imo what they should have done is entirely rework the fights to fit into the Shadowlands systems so that a well geared and suitably skilled player could approach them as a challenge now. Rather than how they have done it, which is obviously problematic. While it might cause issues in future expansions, at least it would have worked now.
well, the game just expanded to make it a curent expansion, didn’t it?
If its current then my current gear and borrowed power should work in it but it doesn’t. So its not worth the headache.
others will disagree. not all content is hand-crafted for you specifically.
With seasons, like brawler’s guild. Tweak difficulty for SL’s power levels (leaving borrowed power from covs etc. in). You earn these rewards, or don’t, this season.
New set of rewards for a new season once power changes significantly enough (either a .X patch or new expac) with new tweaked difficulty.
Never said it was. Others are more than welcome to disagree but when I say it isn’t worth it I’m speaking for myself not others. If others come to the same conclusion on thier own then cool.
Technically, the absolute best gear is triple-socket dungeon gear from TBC obtained through Chromie Time with a group of XP-locked level 45 characters funneling loot.
Which means true BIS for MT is obtained ONLY by abusing a modern scaling system to inflate the ilvl of gear that is SIX expansions behind the actual content.
… which feels like just about the right level of sweaty degeneracy for modern WoW.