Quote Originally Posted by Omedon View Post
The only concern I have is that I cannot formulaically promise myself that that will always be the case because of the design philosophies of “you’re level X you should be this good by now.” That doesn’t ever bother any of you? I’m seriously asking here.
This ties somewhat into ilvl sync which does bother me, actually. SE does not like letting gear power creep naturally nerf fights for their lower skilled base like blizzard does. They put a fairly strict cap on how powerful they let you be in current level cap content which does nothing but hinder people who do actually need the power creep for whatever reason. In my example above of WoW class halls, you could wait until the end of the expansion and steamroll them with that gear. SE doesn't like this, and they ilvl sync everything. In that at least, I agree with you in that eventually your tome gear should be able to just carry you through a fight if you're doing it late into the xpack.