I have em but they ' re playmaker cert <| sep |> Muh boi Wilcox <| sep |> did u find it ? <| sep |> Ok , but remove the one item bit and that statement becomes utterly false . And that ' s my point . In past expansions you can absolutely have onpaper worse gear i . e . lower item level and be outperforming someone with better gear that ' s actually worse because it lacks set bonuses , because it ' s a bad trinket for your class , because you have the wrong stats , etc . . And that ' s my point . We can talk about how power is far too concentrated in legendaries . That ' s a perfectly reasonable discussion . We can talk about the methods for getting legendaries and how they ' re too rare and can ' t be distributed around guilds . That ' s a perfectly reasonable discussion . What doesn ' t make any sense is saying that it ' s bizarre or new that someone with a lower average item level to outperform someone with a higher average item level because they have gotten the right items , that are still lower ilevel . The person with onpaper better gear is the one who has managed to get the right items , not just the one who has managed to get the highest average item level .