Exactly, Rich. To go FIGHT Illidan, you need to be geared. That's seems consistent with him being this incredibly powerful figure.

What I like about the idea of this post is that people who can't or don't want to do that could still get inside the Black Temple and see it. Should they be able to fight him? I think not. It makes very little sense to have everything scaled for some guy and his 2 friends. After all.. if we go that way, why insist that they be level 70? What about people who don't want to have to level up? Why not let 5 level 60s? You can continue this to the point of absurdity and posit a handful of level 1s... :)

There are artificial limits throughout the game... you can't kill a level 20 toon if you're level 1... you can't enter the portal until 58... you can't Arena until 70 (aside from practice matchs), you can't BG until 10... etc etc.

And here's the thing - you don't NEED 25 to kill Illidan... you need to be attuned to the BT and that's it. I'm sure he'll be 10 manned or something when we're all level 80, just as Ony can be 3 manned now and we can 10 man Molten Core.

At the end of the day I just don't agree that your monthly feee gives you the *right* to do everything in the game... it just gives you that *opportunity*.