They might be required for some people to succeed on legend, but there likely exists a portion of players that don’t require them. How big portion of player’s should be able to play legend is everyone’s own personal opinion, naturally. In VT1 it could be said that a team of 4 competent players was required to play on Cataclysm. On the other hand people were solo playing the content without bots. Likewise I don’t think the current power level is necessarily required for playing legend… it could be for you or me to succeed, but not absolutely required; the loss of power could be replaced with a healthy dose of “git gud”.