Greetings, I bring a dead horse
TL:DR
- Ion did it on purpose
- No more bonus damage
- They believe every expac you get 4-5x more powerful
- Now you are (theoretically) 20x more powerful, which means you can solo as well as a 20 person raid
- This all ignores that previous content had a 100x damage buff, reduced to 10x in SL
You can still see this if you take a level 45 / 50 alt and run them through content 2 expacs old (mists, wod). They have 100x still. This was the case since the WoD prepatch.