Originally Posted by
Dragonmaster083
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My guess is that it was originally intended to be harder to get 500 drops then when compared to the WT4 level of 450. Mainly because really the cap for WT1-4 wasn't really achieved since you'd be going into the stronghold long before you capped out the WT level. They probably wanted to extend the loot grind to 500 since there is nothing else above that. I think more of the problem is that GS 490and 500 gear can be flat out weaker then the 450 drops.
But I do think that the non-500 was indended and we only thought that max GS would drop due to being stuck at WT4 for so long when in fact normally you wouldn't have really seen 450 drops in WT4 and woudln't notice the drops all being 450 at max level but since we got stuck there, we assumed that it would be the same for WT5.