Thread: Difficulty format for Normal and Savage will remain in 4.0

Originally Posted by Nalien

Part of the problem there is item level inflation... I mean, Lv60 starts out at i150, then before 3.1 even came around, we had i210... We could actually have a much tighter progression up the item levels if SE wasn't so set on making everyone the same every other patch... If you don't hand casuals raider tier progression, then you don't have a situation where Scriptures are going to outclass everything we currently have... You don't rise through the item levels at a fairly alarming level, and content maintains its difficulty for slightly longer... Heck, they don't even have to make these jumps 10 point differences... We had i220 > i230 > i240, for example, but i220 > i225 > i230 is just as viable...

The new prototype/crafted gear doesn't even need to be higher ilvl, it could be 240 but pentamelded would still be better. The tome upgraded stuff could have been like 235 or something to compensate for prototype ilvl. That way raiders still have good gear to start the next tier with even if they don't want to start out crazy with the crafted stuff.