It probably depends. I am that jester, who (as some already know) have multiple non-linked accounts (meaning for game its fully different people, nothing carried over). And when my hunter did Mage towers and I jumped on “lol easy 2 pulls” (when mage towers came out, i did 1st the BM one - the one with that worm and tauren NPC you needed interrupt; and in reality took me 5 pulls not 2, but in gchat I said 2) - someone took note of my gear.
I did not feel offended etc, but I took notion of this comment. So … I did later do some of the challenges twice - and 2nd time using only gear I got from world, and even then not best. Pretty much ilevel when towers came out.
And I can say whoeever commented my gear had a point. There was HUGE difference of me doing challenges in any raid gear, lfr gear-mythic gear or M+ ger or no gear at all. Even “easiest boss ever” imp mother stopped being “make 2 pulls” when done on the gear levels that were accurate, when the towers just came out.
So it all depends of perspective and sometimes also false memories.
Same way I was one of the highest ‘waved’ hunters in EU proving Grounds in WoD. I got incredibly bored somewhere on 58 though, but still - it was easy - even and after 60, I had time even to type in guild chat.
On my 0 gear hunter who had world quest gear + something from LFR I couldn’t get past 30 no matter how hard I tried…
We all may believe we are best players eu, or that ‘something is easy’, but we tend to forget reasons why things feel easy. Maybe you were warlock main - easy class for you. For me warlock was 10+th alt I got … what that MoP level was 90 ?
I did most mage tower challenges, minus healing ones. Healing is just something I am not very familiar with. Some mage tower things I did twice or more - various gears. And I can say that - Xylem was probably hardest boss there was… except as DH, for DH this was easier than imp mother was for feral druid, and it took my feal druid kill imp mother with 2 pulls. *
And regardless how easy or hard you find something. Players are different - no need to look down to anyone.
Our gears, experience etc all probably was different. Just like me doing proving grounds in wod and falling asleep near 60, there were people, who struggled to get 30.
- the boss got nerfed to druids due to druid change some point, i did it after aoe change to feral druid abilities which trivialised the boss. And the DH refference is actually that my DH was severly undergeared and needed to hit enrage, but I got my glaives regardless. I struggled on xylem a lot as frost dk however.