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Amaron
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Reply #35 on: July 03, 2011, 07:46:53 AM

It just seems that this expansion was one of the more brutal curves in terms of the rating needed, possibly because its only over 5 levels instead of 10?

Well the whole reason they do it is to do a total gear wipe and leave themselves room for new gear.   So that's probably exactly what happened.
Mrbloodworth
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Reply #36 on: July 03, 2011, 07:49:05 AM

They also unlocked TBC for everyone who only owned the base game

This part has apparently caused a number of level 60 twinks to accidentally level to 61, causing wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Haha!

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Reply #37 on: July 03, 2011, 03:39:24 PM

Yeah, the spell thing has to do with the massive bump to base health / mana you get as you ding through the 80's.  Spell costs are calculated off of a % of Base mana (Ie, how much mana you have naked with no buffs). At 80, in icc gear, your "base" mana pool probably covered about 20% of your total max mana.  At 83, unless you have been heavily replacing gear, your Base mana pool was probably covering like 50 or 60% of your total mana pool, which caused spells to really eat up your available mana.  It balances back out once you are in full heroic / basic raid gear, but in the middle levels it's a real bitch for casters.

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