Leveling now is not really leveling up… it’s now just this ritual we’re forced into at the beginning of each new expansion.
Forget the numbers, numbers are relative to the content.
I was just as strong the first time my toon was level 60, back in vanilla, as I was when I got to 60 again in SL. The names of the mobs changed, but the result remains the same.
I’d be fine with it, if we didn’t “level up”. We already have plenty of de facto progression, that serves the same purpose.
So far, in SL, we leveled from 50 to 60, campaigning questlines… once we got to 60, then we “leveled” again via the covenant quest chain… then at Korthia, another set of leveling quests chain… and now in ZM, another set of quests…
And gear, is just more de facto leveling… leveling, or call it progression, getting better gear… it’s all the same process.
All level 60 meant in SL, was get off one hamster wheel to get on another wheel, and right now I’m on the ZM wheel.
Obviously when 10.0 lands, we all will be leveling, or progressing, whatever questing, calling it level 70 is just a waypoint we reach before changing hamster wheels. Just doing another campaign quest chain serves the same purpose.