BlizzCon 2017 Battle for Azeroth Item Level Changes and Stat Squish

Blizzard Posted 2017/11/04 at 4:14 AM by Anshlun

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Source

Current

New Item Level

Legendaries

1000

335

Mythic Antorus

970

305

Mythic Tomb of Sargeras

930

265

Mythic Nighthold

900

235

Mythic Trial of Valor

885

220

Mythic Dungeons

885

220

Mythic Emerald Nightmare

880

215

Heroic Dungeons

865

200

16k healthChaos Boltgamescom 2017FatbossTV

Item levels and health pools are very high, so it's very likely we are getting a stat squish. Blizzard has learned a lot from the last stat squish and wants to do it in a better way. Ion also wants to look at the concept of item levels - right now it's a bit meaningless. For example, going from Burning Crusade to Wrath, you go from ilvl 115 to 200 and gain +2 intellect. Then when you hit max level, every item level boost is a huge deal. The concept of item level has to be normalized.

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Comment by DeamonizedI'm glad they are taking steps to reduce the huge inflation of stats and ilvl it was getting ridiculousComment by pireusanother stat squish? i think it's good idea, the numbers startet to be riddiculous.Comment by AsianBoiyHerein lies the problem with a game that can theoretically never end. Stat squishes are necessary and inevitable.Comment by TreebaI wish they'd squish character level too. 120 just sounds sillyComment by etheldaldits really necesary? i wouln't mind hp bars goin up to like 30-40 k (m) like wrath was.Comment by LlaroldI'm glad they are taking steps to reduce the huge inflation of stats and ilvl it was getting ridiculousComment by wovenspadeno i dont want this nor like thisComment by JardonI think it's a good idea, it's something that's needed since Legion's ilvls have been inflated by so much. probably something that'll have to happen every other, or every 2 or 3 expacs from now on.Comment by FeedthycatI don't like this change, because getting high ilvl gear feels good, but lowering my gear down to 300+ isn't going to feel good, doing 1m dps feels good.Comment by CryusI'm wondering how the squish will impact soloing old contentComment by puggledYeah the numbers were getting way too high, i wonder how this will affect old raid soloing? Tbh i spend most of my game time doing old content and bgs so hopefully it works like the last squish.Comment by rmalheirosI like it. As long they compensate with old content damage bonus to help those doing solo content.Comment by Chaman27Stat squish is needed at this point. Hopefully we won't feel like we lose too much power!Comment by WackhausIt's over 9000! Oh wait... not anymore?Comment by maryadvthis is a good thing, any news regarding the beta/alpha ?Comment by DecilaSo you tested the item level cut on a Demo Lock?Comment by PuuhaPerkeleI do like smaller numbers, doesn't make the damages so ludicrous.Comment by Patter4PresidentFinally, I'm glad they did a stat and ilvl squish. It started getting too out of hand.
It might take a while to get used to, though. I, for one, have gotten used to the higher end of it.
Considering the ilvl squish, how will the low level items look? And with that, I mean what their ilvl will be now.Comment by makuta2stat squishing 1000 down to a scale-able value would be for the best (down to 100 maybe) so that we can have more space for ilvl increases throughout the expansion. that way every raid tier could have a bigger ilvl difference and some classes wouldn't be forced to take an insane titanforged tier set from the previous raid into the next.Comment by Tisinawhen players would increase even more ilvl and stats, players would walk around with 20m hp at lvl 120. What would the hp cap be of the raid boss in mythic raid...
reducing stats is always good to do once per 2-3 expansions... putting things back in perspective

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