World scaling

Since people are starting to complain about world scaling, let’s gather some data on it.

Just below Dornogol on the map, There’s a Ramolith Stonecrusher that patrols around in a circle.

Post a link to a screenshot of how much health that mob has (if you don’t have TL3, put the link to the picture in backticks ` so we can see it), and your bag ilvl (since that’s what scaling uses).

For example, This is what it looks like currently on my 577 warlock:

(I know it’s bright, HDR display + screenshots leads to weird results)

2 Likes

I’m 525, Level 79, and the mob is 837K.

Does level matter? This one is 80 with 531. But I have some alts 70 with 440-470.

After the last few expansions I expect this sort of crap at level cap (which I still find as incredibly dumb and annoying) but not while I’m leveling.

1 Like

Yes, the zones are known to scale with level, so ideally we want to isolate level 80 data.

1 Like

Can’t help then if it looks in the bank. My gear is 531.

Yeah, the character I just capped hit at 531, and it has shows 2.48M, so bad luck on that front.

But taking those 2 datapoints together indicates that we scale way faster than the mobs do.

1 Like

Did they start scaling mobs based on your level plus ilvl now? Because in DF and before, they have only scaled mobs based on your character level.

Its’all fun and games until you start compounding the scaling. As in, you go into a Delve level 3 and spontaneously an elite has over 9 M health, when an elite at level 1 only has 2.4M.

1 Like

There appears to be some at 80, but I suspect it’s mobs scaling down if you’re below a certain ilvl, which is why I’m asking for more data.

The point of this thread isn’t to complain about scaling, it’s to gather data so we can accurately describe it.

1 Like

I heard something about them doing that with ilv. Though I heard it was to make content a bit easier for those that had lower ilv coming into the expansion.

always how it has been honestly

2.48 million 557 item level

I can’t post picture it seems.

imgurcom/a/T9aUtCg fix that if want to see.

alright

ok cool

2592k @ 581

495k @ 493 L70
2478k @ 561 L80
2478k @ 566 L80
2500k @ 568 L80

ilvl scaling was absolutely terrible in shadowlands. Until you got to normal raid gear level, you just didn’t really start feeling much stronger. That meant any casual player who didn’t do high-end content just didn’t get to experience their character getting particularly stronger at all.

2 Likes

hmm, ok

Shadowlands ilvl scaling stopped before you got raid gear.

The mobs in ZM only scaled up to ilvl 184, in the zone that was giving you free 226 gear and raid gear that started at 252.

1 Like