Planning on hopping in later, but I saw someone say BFA mythic was wrecking him after the patch presumably because it’s being “tuned for 80,” and isn’t legacy yet. Anyone else solo BFA? Is everything older still fine?
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Yes
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Thanks! Haven’t tried SL more than a few times but UGH
Happens with every pre-expansion patch like this. Max level increases to that of the upcoming expansion. Scaling is automatically adjusted for that new max level. Then bam things can be more difficult because we have no way of reaching max level yet.
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Isn’t this kind of silly though? Why isn’t scaling based on your current level if it is going to scale and thus should be just fine for 70.
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Don’t know. I would say it should scale to your level on legacy raids but I didn’t design the system.
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To force people to buy the new expansion, level up, and regain the power loss. It’s pretty scummy.
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There goes my tmog farming…
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it’s impossible to solo SL now, i was able to solo heroic Nathria and Sanctum until last week on my WW monk, now idk if it is really hard or if WW its really weak…
it happens most expansions on pre patch old content gets harder because of talent scaling for the new expansion w/o our new powers it won’t be as easy and setting things up for the new expansion tends to create unintended stuff in old content a lot
As long as I can solo up thru Legion, I really couldnt care less.
BFA and SL mogs were pretty much all garbage anyway.
Actually, SL mogs were worse than garbage.
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It wouldn’t be a Blizzard expansion update without random changes to make soloing old raids harder for no reason.
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Because there’s such a massive group of players that just play WoW for the legacy Raids, lol.
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Glad I got my Mythic Dazar’alor set that I wanted before they screwed us.
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This is true but since it’s been a while since a stat squish now, it should be easy pickings at 80.
The real question is whether they will be soloable come level 80 and relatively geared than they are now.
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The rescale factors in lvl 80 as max base damage, whereas the scale had 70 as max base damage prior. Thus, it loses some ground. However, by the time you’re 71/72 you’ll likely be as powerful (or more) as you were before the prepatch.
The over simplified example that I was given after a prior squish:
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Imagine base damage going from ~0 at level 1 to 10 at level 70 before the patch.
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After the patch, that base damage of 10 shifts up to level 80, so the base damage at 70 would now be ~8.75. You lost power.
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Now you wont feel the full impact of that loss because the prior levels would also see a loss to scale.
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So the effective loss would only drop you to around 9.97 in terms of real power. That’s why things might be a little harder or just take a little longer. If you were barely clearing the content, this might make it seem more punishing than it actually was.
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most do. lol
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I get it, but that basically just means the scaling isn’t done well. It should be the same if the scaling is done smoothly. You pretty much just said “yeah their scaling is wonky”. Which I totally agree with.
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