Obviously my choice to play where I want and when I want, but for this reason alone. It's why I sac'd Feenix, Kronos, Rebirth, etc. I don't understand why I would want to invest my time into a server where 5-mans offer better loot than the most end game tier'd content that will be the "focus" for months on end.
It's more so an issue with MC being trivialized more than anything, but it trickles into BWL and ZG as well. Nost had hiccups, sure, but CF has out right said they don't want to do it because it's too much work.
Regarding pre-1.4 itemization and stat changes on items, no. Even if Nost releases all the info, we still probably won't do it. We're going to be running on 1.12.1 spells and talents, so having itemization balanced for that makes sense. If you start rolling back items to previous patch versions, then you have to start considering rolling class spells back as well. Let's take the fear off Deathcoil, and take away Bestial Wrath, and take away this or change that.. You get into this rollback creep that is an absurd amount of work, and it's just not worth it. We're going 1.12.1 stats, spells and itemizations from the start. Content won't all be there at launch, (ie. Maraudon, Dire Maul, Cenarion Hold NPCs, Zandalar Tribe NPCs, Light's Hope Chapel Naxx NPCs, etc.) but when they are added, they will be added in their 1.12.1 form. It's a compromise we're making, but it's as far as we're going to go with it.
They think they'd have to expand it towards talents and spells, which some of it is easier to alter than others. Dunno. Again, "...maybe that's just me." I'm not exactly trying to persuade people not to play CF. Just doesn't really make much sense to me.
Nost was great and popular for a lot of reasons and I'm sure correct itemization and progression was part of that reason.
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