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Originally Posted by Trinidy
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...even up to leveling to 100...
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Jeez! I quit playing in 2005 (Secrets of Faydwer? Shards of Destruction?) and I came back to look at the next expansion that expanded players to L75. I think I logged in, dinged 71, but the landscape was what I abandoned, so I abandoned it again, hehe.
Just prior to finding p99, I had found all the joy that existed for me in WoW. Wondering what to do about my MMO habit, I began to look at EQLive boards. This was mid summer 2010. I saw signatures boasting stupendous personal stats... wizards with 40k mana, healers with over 800 wisdom... clothies with over 25k hitpoints! When I quit in 2005, I was a lower-rung "decent" raiding paladin proud of 16k hitpoints...
I wonder what that mudflation looks like now with two more full years' worth of expansions.
This has always had an odd effect on my conscious mind: the same game I'd cut my teeth on looked nothing like what bears its name. There's no non-bullshit way to reconcile a 5STA bump being something to really shoot for in gear to becoming such an insignificant increase that it isn't even missed at all; or even considered...
So weird. Maybe this is the digital version of aging without grace. Think of Jocelyn Wildstein or Joan Rivers... more and more newer-looking crap smeared across the same aging skeleton until the end result cannot be reconciled as a descendant of the original.
Mudflation makes perfect sense in a vacuum ("on paper") logically, but if you take out a big chunk of the history, the end result just seems alien.
Case-in-point, since I had been present for mudflation from vanilla through DoD/SoD... the increases were small enough that seeing my L71 self, I understood how I'd gotten there from L1.
Gah! I pulled something in my head! AckackackHEEEEELP!!