Quote Originally Posted by MrSmiley View Post
Just warning, nerfing old content every time new content comes out is a good way to make players feel their achievements mean nothing, which is bad for an mmo. Speeding up progressions somehow (though not too quickly) is a better direction to take as opposed to simply making it easier/easy which makes players feel their effort was wasted and likely less liable to redo with other players.

Why try not when it will be handed out later?

edit: also, if your going to make harder content while making older content easier, doesn't that create an odd jump in difficultly for players who come in late?
With the way that power creep works this is the way MMO's have always been anyway. You do new content to get gear that's better than the gear you already have which in turn would make older content easier anyway, they're simply skipping the middle-man.