Update 13 September 2022: In WoW: Dragonflight awaits us no new value squish after all! This was announced by Community Manager Kaivax in the official WoW forum. The fact that account-bound items currently have less stats than on the live servers is due to a bug related to the Chromie Time redesign. It is still unclear whether WoW: Dragonflight will make old Shadowlands or BfA raids easier to farm, similar to previous expansions.

As redditor Burneddowntown discovered in the official WoW Reddit forum, there will be a stat squish again with WoW: Dragonflight. This stat squish is something the developers have been doing lately whenever the maximum level has increased with the new addon. Players and enemies will be downscaled and adjusted to a new level, so to speak.

The value squeeze leads to the fact that, for example, there is only +5 instead of +12 strength on the account-bound chest plate compared to Shadowlands in Dragonflight. In exchange, however, the strength of the mobs should then be equalized. As the past has shown, the developers have not adjusted the Stat Squish since BfA but not well managed and thus made the game worse.

New stat squish in Dragonflight

Leveling twinks becomes a roulette game again with the value squeeze. Either the developers get it right, or leveling becomes a pain again. The bigger fear of the stat squish, however, is that it will once again not simplify raids from past expansions the way they were used to before Shadowlands. On the Dragonflight beta server, the final Mythic bosses in the Legion raid Tomb of Sargeras are suddenly challenging players again, even though their characters have become even stronger in the meantime.