This thread is still going?
You don't have to stray outside these forums to see that epics were able to be completed by level 1s on live.
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The decision to change epics to level 46+ was made for a variety of reasons. Simply because something existed on live servers does not mean that it will be the case here if it conflicts with the vision of the server.
At the end of the day, you're playing for free on someone else's box.