Quote:"Losing damage" as you level up is a little bit of a misconception with the 'rating' based system. You still do the same amount of damage to the same opponent as when you were 60. It decreases only when your opponent's level increases, which makes a lot of sense, really.
This was true for many stats before the rating system was implemented. Armor, for example. If you show at something like 45% DR at level 60, you'll mitigate very significantly more than that if you start running Wailing Caverns or The Deadmines.
The rating system is a necessary fix to bring the +x% modifiers back into line with the normal stat bonuses like +agility, armor, etc... that already scaled in exactly the same way as the 'ratings'. I think the rating system is very clean, it just needs a page in the spellbook or character sheet that mentions what rating = what % at various opponent levels.
From posts I've read in the Blizzard forums, it's possible to simply extrapolate the numbers of the rating system to get values for other levels. I believe they used this method to determine that 25 Resilience is -1%/-2% at Level 60. You could likely do the same for other ratings versus higher or lower levels (+14 Crit is equal to 1.30% at Level 48 and 1.76% at Level 37.)
EDIT: It's also been a very long time since I've done any kind real math, so I could be wrong. I'm just relaying what I've seen in posts at other places:)
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