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In any case, they can't change the cap to my knowledge or they would have done so a long time ago.

What they did with other tradeskill recipes is simply remove the non-classic ones out of the game. But they can't do that with the platinum combines because they are indeed classic.

SO basically it's one of those few instances in the game where it can't replicate classic 100% and you just have to deal.

It's not that huge of a deal other than the fact that good resist gear is much more readily available than it was in 1999. But to sort of balance this out resists are nothing like they were on classic either; based on a (guesstimate) 400+ cap instead of 250. So it's hardly game breaking when it comes to raids. Maybe a little bit outside of raid encounters.