Stat Squish Confirmed for Midnight - MrGM Fireside Chat with Ion Hazzikostas

Posted 2025/08/23 at 10:56 AM by Squishei

This Fireside Chat was not live streamed and there is no current VoD. One should be uploaded at a later time.MrGM

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Comment by Iceman3317I'll be honest, if anyone has been paying attention to gear spikes and damage and what not, you probably should have known the squish was coming.Comment by AilwynnBut the power level compared to vanilla content and mobs should still retain, right?
If a lvl 80 goes down to 100 ilvl, then the starter gear must be in the 0.001 ilvl range lolComment by CrowzerGood. It was expected and no more 15 millions damage and bosses with 3T of health bar., it was getting ridiculous.Comment by JakoLet's go down back to what We did during BC daysComment by Iceman3317Stat squish was inevitable but Ilvl? Really man? It’s crazy how Ilvl squishes just further and further invalidate previous expansions’ gear acquisition, tww leveling gear is gonna be 10 Ilvl higher than the %^&*in stormwind guard leggings from killing hogger.

And how about heirlooms now? Also not really sure why you guys are still married to the idea of buying 10k gold worth of 7 different “upgrades” to make the piece level with you past classic wow even after removing its only usefulness bonus of xp gain, and now it will hardly level up at all.

100 is just abysmally low number for Ilvl you gotta knock that #$%^ to like 200-300 at least and maybe don’t go up 45 item levels a season since turbo boost is now a permanent fixture to the game to prop up mid season playtime numbers, thoughts?Comment by SouledkThey've really beeen dropping the ball on getting this information out to us. Why were these not live streamed? Why do we have to wait hours after the event to see the video? *sigh* this is why they should just stick to doing internal or Blizzcon type releases.Comment by aaron000This is fine, saw it coming, now ideally we stay around that number and it doesn't explode back up to 100k by 12.2Comment by immoralsoulA stat squish every three expansions and a level squish every six is my expectation.Comment by KYZ123I'll be honest, if anyone has been paying attention to gear spikes and damage and what not, you probably should have known the squish was coming.Comment by NiexMy repair bill thanks youComment by AlexmcsThey need to rethink their whole scaling math for longevity, and stop with the ridiculous power increases between patches.
It's fine to never reach secondary soft/hard caps.
It's fine not to keep doubling our power every season.

Just don't make a fresh max level char 10x weaker than a geared one from the final season.
Make the power scaling for a whole expansion much lower FFS.

It's ok to have items last for the whole expansion.
It's ok for sidegrades to be a thing.

Let's slow down the eternal gear treadmill for a while, please.
Give me a chance to gear my alts for once.Comment by malletinAs expected, I am gonna miss doing 1 million+ dps and having near 17-18 million health as a tank, but realisticly its not gonna be that much different when it comes to gameplay.Comment by talonsaurnJust hope they handle the legacy content scaling better than last time. If I can solo mythic Shadowlands Raids now I should be able to prepatch, not at max level in MidnightComment by itruliaThey've really beeen dropping the ball on getting this information out to us. Why were these not live streamed? Why do we have to wait hours after the event to see the video? *sigh* this is why they should just stick to doing internal or Blizzcon type releases.Comment by sunman42Expected, and yet every time it happens, I sniff and tear up for those vanishing memories of Really Big Numbers. So much more satisfying.Comment by Lenrisia#$%^ off with this stat squish, let the numbers keep going higher then do the squish at the end of last titan IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE IT THERE!Comment by PeckNeck6Good.Comment by trixstarOh joy, wonder what old raids will be messed up because of this. Oh and time walking will wreck you now lolComment by Findoor214and the lv squish is after LT when we are lv100Comment by SkraxWasn't live streamed because they knew a lot of players would be up in arms about it and it would make the interview look bad. Wish they would stop scaling us back to classic and be numbers and just scale it back down to ilvl 500-600 so we could be at where we are now by season three of that expansion. If people want classic numbers then go back to playing classic servers. Stay off retail if you can't handle seeing a number with more than five digits on your screen.

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