Changing old raids to make them solo-friendly It probably won’t be easy, but certainly possible. Raids require 25 people, so if one player can channel power close to that with higher levels and newer gear, it could be solo’d. In this case, that would be Battle for Azeroth. Whether or not this applies to older expansions modified by the level squish is undetermined, but Hazzikostas is suggesting that players will be 16-20 times more powerful when tackling content from two expansions ago. The raid wasn’t trivial for a 20-player group back then you might have the power of 20 people, but that doesn’t mean you’re gonna walk in and one-shot Mythic bosses or anything.”
But there’s that middle ground where it’s like, mechanics still kind of matter. One more expansion, and now you’re 80 times more powerful, and that’s the point where you can just go in and destroy stuff. And that means that you can now go and solo stuff that required 20 players two expansions ago. Well, it’s like, two expansions later, well four times four, you’re like 16-20 times more powerful. “If you compare the numbers players are putting out in Sepulcher today to what they were doing in the 9.0 pre-patch at level 50, you’ll probably find that it’s about that quadrupled. “Over the course of a given expansion from start to finish, as you get 10 levels, as you get 150+ item levels of gear, you probably get at least four times as powerful, in terms of your total stats, hitpoints, dps and so forth,” Hazzikostas continued. What exactly can we expect from the growth in power promised by Dragonflight, and how does it relate to soloing old content like Mythic raids? With every expansion, the level cap increases (typically by 10), and we get our hands on far more powerful gear, but the depth of that strength is something that has been confused after the level squish. How powerful do players get between expansions?
However, the latest gear from 9.2 is probably more than enough to make Mythic Legion raids an easy task to solo. You’d need the perfect build and far greater skill than I could ever dream of having to solo this - at least during the launch of Shadowlands. We weren’t all max level, but it was still massively challenging. Similar to how things operated during Shadowlands when jumping back into Legion, the ability to solo Mythic raids from Battle for Azeroth will be possible, but “not trivially.” Even in a group with a few other people, trying to defeat Kil’Jaeden on Mythic difficulty in Tomb of Sargeras took my friends and me weeks.