Naxxramas

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The major problem with PvP and doing new non-raid content is the power difference. A level 60 with ilvl 80 epics has a meta-level of 80. Dueling someone in ilvl 60 blues is like a lvl 60 dueling a lvl 40. There is no way to balance that. If you match up ilvl 80 epics with ilvl 80 blues, the person with the epics has an edge, but it isn't as massive as the current imbalance.[right][snapback]108146[/snapback][/right]

I'd argue "meta-level" of 80, mainly because your level (more accurately, your skill numbers) highly affect the outcome of battle. There's many ways to increase +defense, but not many +weapon and none +spell that I know of.

As for the ilvl thing, that's one thing that came up in chat last night. MC is huge for people. Not only is it the first 40 man, it's the first consistent epics and those epics are a higher ilvl.

The Dungeon sets are ilvl 57-63. Dungeon 2 is ilvl 65-66 blues, ilvl 55 and 60 epics looks like (and those just entered the game). Tier 1 is 66 epic. So most people are getting both an ilvl upgrade and an upgrade for going blue -> epic.

Reason this came up is people were mentioning how minor many upgrades have been for us recently. It's because we're starting to replace epics with epics, so all we're getting is the ilvl increase.