With the new Gnomeregan loot being datamined it’s clear a lot of stuff is on par with lvl 60 pre-raid bis gear, and it’s only the level 40 bracket. We’ll have one at 50 with more powerful items that will be even better than the gnomeregan loot.
Just a few examples from a priest healer’s perspective:
[spoiler alert for gnomer loot]
Classic pre bis 1h healing mace: The Hammer of Grace
NO stats
+31 healing done
Classic healing offhand: Tome of Divine Light
+4 stam
+5 int
+26 healing
+4 mp5
Gnomer healing offhand:
+6 stam
+6 int
+22 healing
Epic gnomer healing staff: (prolly low drop but still)
+11 stam
+14 int
+15 spirit
+35 healing
At this rate the level 60 dungeons will be 100% obsolete. Sunken Temple will not be run for the class trinkets because the level 50 raid will already provide better trinkets.
Strat/Scholo will only be run to level up.
Will we be going straight into MC when we ding 60? I’ll go even further, will the lvl 50 10-man provide better epics than MC does? What then?
Only way I see this working is that MC gear is scaled up or we’re getting new raids that can be run right away when we ding 60.
Anyway sorry for my rant.
thats what i meant. based on the SoD reveal presentation where they had a slide with BfD, Gnomer and Karazhan on it. I also seem to remember from somewhere else that Sunken Temple would be the lvl50 raid
could be but SM is lvl40 content and we already know that Gnomer will be the raid for this bracket. yes , on the Kara point. Still i don’t see a way how Scholo/strat/LBRS/UBRS would stay relevant