" The reduction in stats on pieces of gear happens due to the new item level allocation. For instance, in Shadowlands, a level 30 will receive item level 35 gear from quest rewards. In Dragonflight, this item level 35 gear is intended for level 17 characters instead. In both Shadowlands and Dragonflight, this piece of gear is intended to give 1% critical strike, for instance, which, in Shadowlands, is 12 crit rating for a level 30 character, but only 5 rating for a level 17 character, which is the target in Dragonflight, thus the same item at the same item level will have different stats when comparing live with beta. "
Hmm.... so we're getting a 'buff' to gear? Hopefully this will mean that our existing gear will reflect this change, instead of having to go back & geet every last peice we're wearing.