EU+US PTR breaks 101 Twinks in Dungeons

[Kierla]

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but Dungeons now scale a 101 up to level 110.

This completely removes the STAT scaling benefit that thinks used to enjoy.

It also scales the Mobs and up to proper levels while at the same time increases their health based on your gear level.

As a bear tank ilevel 835. I used to pull all trash to a boss in any of the 4 available legion dungeons.
And still defeat them with ease.

Now just the boss fight takes like 5 minutes on the PTR because of the changes

Also, I have ilevel 878. as Boomkin and had to delete the boom kin gear to get the boss beatable as the bear tank. The high level items added 10 million health to the boss.

 

[MyPerfection]

One question Blizzard: WHY?

 

[Kundis]

I'll literally stop playing if this goes live lol... holy shit they're retarded.

 

[PhenomTitan]

If it's like this on live I'll have a tear in my eye lol. But then again it was only last patch they implemented an ilvl scaling in broken isles and they had to change it.

Saying that it will be sold as a way to stop dungeon carries being sold, while also killing our main way to AP farm

 

[Kierla]

On live my 101 can solo any of the 4 dungeons we have access to in 5 to 10 minutes depending on the instance. That is when killing all the trash. with the changes it is 30 minutes while skipping most trash.

I will add the stat changes in a few minutes.


Bear ilevel 835 with all leather items
crit 44
haste 45
mastery 34
vers 22
dodge 34


in dungeon after their new scaling us up to 110
crit 21
haste 14
mastery 14
vers 7
dodge 18

 

[Soloing]

Please noooooooo

 

[Torben]

RIP

 

[Kierla]

my guess is all twinkers need to start posting hate messages on the blizzard wow forums. I for one will officially quit wow if this goes live. and have played since 6 months after launch.

It isn't just thinks that get killed. It actually completely takes away the incentive to get better gear. Because it makes content everywhere tougher to kill even on your 110s. This is due to the mobs becoming tougher when your gear is higher ilevel.

They also base the mobs being tougher buy gear in your bags. So it doesn't matter if you have it equipped or not. Or if you just have it because it fits your other spec better. Like better suited rings/neck/trinket for diff spec.

 

[Kierla]

It appears that the only thing a Twink can still shine in is open world pvp or duels. Everything else just got nerfed to death

 

[Aelobin]

It's been like this for ages and only happens on the PTR due to the testing buff.

 

[Imnotabelf]

I'm going to assume this is just a PTR thing for the sake of testing. There would be zero reason to do this at all.

 

[Kierla]

I hope you are right but It's the first time Ive seen this.

 

[Aelobin]

I hope you are right but It's the first time Ive seen this.

Anyone who has played on the PTR would tell you the same. It was active all the way through the 7.2 PTR (I played there a lot) and it never hit live.

The testing buff has existed since at least MoP, originally only scaling peoples ilvl for raid testing. There was another bug at the time of the Throne of Thunder testing where you could get low levels into high level raids so my guild took our 80s in and the testing buff scaled our ilvls to ~517 (level 90 gear). Was really fun to mess around with but they nerfed it soon after by making the buff scale your level too (which is what you're seeing on the PTR now).

 

[PhenomTitan]

Phew! Aelo in there to save the day

 

[Smashingbaby]

@Aelobin thank you for sharing that tid bit considering I'm farming rep for Valarjar. I just came up with a fucking crazy ass farm schedule to hit exalted in the next couple days because I thought I was gonna be fucked xD

 

[Changzu]

This is only on PTR, been like that for ages. Nothing to worry 'about.