Quote Originally Posted by Peptaru View Post
You really want everything to be transparent, boring, simple enough for a toddler to figure out... there is a reason WoW gets so much hate, and why people who say "WoW did it this way!" get flamed. Too simple is too simple. Should just be happy you don't have to run past level 98 things anymore. WoW would never do that.
WoW gets hate because it's cool and trendy to be "different", and since WoW has become the standard of MMORPG design, you hate it by default. Going the route of tribalism, there's also the "us" vs "them" thing.

That said, my point was actually that by being obscure (as put by Ildur), the devs are also giving themselves room to scale and balance boss and special mobs separate from normal mobs and thus requiring different stat caps from players. It also means the devs may be using different rules for said mobs vs normal mobs.