I think something that people are forgetting is that Blizzard doesn't want to see 85s running around in level 80 gear. While making that level 81 green a step up from your hardmode RS 25 might hurt now, having the next tier of level 85 raid instances doable in level 80 gear would suck even worse.

Gear can only scale up. There was a blue post about this a couple weeks back saying that to scale down would require level 1 chars to do less than 1 damage, so the number can only go up. I wouldn't be surprised to see tanks with 150k health and dps sitting in the 70k mark as Blizz has also said they want to grow health pools so that healers don't feel like they might lose a tank in a GCD if they heal someone else.

I know it's rare for me to not being saying the sky is falling, but I honestly feel like it will be okay

- Souca -