You kept the faction ranks, character base level, you got to keep your old items... I'm not sure what you expect from a Loot grind based DLC expansion if TTK was "starting from scratch". I for sure didn't want to stay the same lvl, didn't want the same light level system they had in HoW, CE, PE... that's for damn sure. Game would have lasted maybe 10 minutes after TTK if it had been that way as what would be the point in character levels or item levels at all in that case? Which if you stop to think about it there still really isn't a valid reason behind light levels or character levels at all in this game... my own argument is somewhat invalid I suppose. So sad.