Quote Originally Posted by EmSix View Post
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But I guess arguing that one is too much of a challenge.
I'll bite on this one. The point is quite simple really; you're just deliberately ignoring all the other effects that gear scaling would have. You wouldn't just have lower damage, you would also have lower healing, lower health and lower threat generation. Couple those with a fight taking longer as a result and you have many many more chances to fail a dodge and it would be far harder to recover from them.

I can't help but laugh at the implication that lower stats don't make a fight challenging... it's as if you're trying to suggest outgearing a dungeon doesn't make it easier. Those parties that want overgeared people for AK or WP don't just do it because of the speed boost. The fact that many of them don't even bother to dodge AOEs any more simply because the damage is negligible and easily healed is proof of that.