I dunno about you but during solo play by about hour 40 into the game play almost all of my characters were in legendary gear. I was pretty much one shotting guys and I'm not on explorer mode. I got so sick of that, I restarted my game because it became boring.. I dreaded combat because it felt like a waste of time, there was no challenge. I didn't even get off the second island and all I had was +2 into LC and my group all had at least +1 I think.

I can see why this was needed.