Back during the first patch of BFA I was taking out Blackhand in world quest gear with ease on my Ret Paladin. People like to bring up level squishes and stuff as the actual reason, but they’re wrong. Blizzard really messed up legacy raid scaling for transmog runs during SL from what I’ve seen.
The rule used to be 11 levels to get the damage and resist buffs, but it really hasn’t been the same in the last few years. I’m a big opponent of the way they’ve implemented scaling over the last few expansions. People like to say, “Just wait 2 years until the end of this expansion so you can over-level 2 expansion old content.” It didn’t used to be that way, and it isn’t fun today.
Like I said at the beginning of this post. 11 levels was the mark, and it had almost nothing to do with gearing beyond quest gear to farm 5+ year old content for transmog items. I dislike scaling as done in this game. It even affects regular questing while leveling in a bad way, in my opinion.