Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Hopefully, but unless that's a specific aim, there's no reason to think it'll happen, sadly. Scaling everything down proportionately, for instance, to the smallest ilvl step possible (and perhaps even collapsing some ilvl tiers across ARR) still will not, in itself, combat power creep. They'd need, purely and simply, reduce the rate of increase across those problematic tiers (e.g., 65+ Stormblood, which accelerates rather suddenly, iirc).
They already stated that with the squish they are going to reduce the stat inflation going between lvl50 and lvl80. Meaning a level 80 players would be less affected by overgearing a lvl50 instance, and that as a consequence some "fights may be longer than what we are used to now". We'll need to wait and see if it reintroduces some mechanics into the CT raids for example.