Speaking of items obtained prior to the latest Dragonflight stat squish.
New legacy Legendary items rewarded from quests or drops, such as the Warglaives of Azzinoth or Shadowmourne, have a higher item level than Legendary items that dropped prior to 10.0.5.
Developers’ notes: our goal in fixing this is to raise the item level of existing Legendary items that dropped before 10.0.5.
The item levels are still all over the place. Existing legion legendaries which are already in player possession are either 163, 159 or much lower.
Ragnaros mace is about 70 levels lower than average drops in MC, so is Shadowmourne and both Blades of Azzinoth.
Thoridal is item level 34 on my hunter.
Wrathion’s Pandaria cloaks are 44 and item lvl still the same after reacquiring the items.
For example Dragonwrath is on one character 37 and on other 118. Somehow I am surprised that it was correctly scaled up for characters who have been copied onto PTR few cycles before but when the patch hit live it didn’t work out as intended.
Rogue daggers also stuck at level 37, significantly below the item level of items dropping in appropriate raid where they are eventually obtained.
Savage Hollow Draenor rings are somehow significantly over the intended current WOD expansion item level range at 132.
Valanyr hammer is also stuck at 35 and completely useless.
Newly acquired legendaries on the other hand are significantly higher level (100+).
There’s also an issue with Pantheon trinkets from Antorus (5 epic and a legendary one). While the purple ones aren’t exactly “as rare” as the orange one, I doubt I’ll be getting new ones anytime soon if I don’t delete the existing which are significantly lower in item level. If I do delete them, I might get another in about 2 years time… so lets say a decade until you get all five again.
Please make this right because some items are either too rare or unable to be obtained again because they are rewarded through a one time quest. It doesn’t seem fair that some of these still work in Timewalking and that you get to suffer owning an unusable item when at the same time new owners get items of around ~ilvl 120 which mostly regain their full previous power level when downscaled.
There’s a great possibility of things breaking once again with the eventual introduction of BFA Timewalking. Please determine a consistent item level for all legacy orange items because the game now scales much differently than 10 years ago. Some might become more or less balanced but I believe you can also properly adjust their effects.