One this is a beta. Expect change
Two, you should look at it in a good way. You probably have a quite a few legendary items. The players that hadn't reached your ranking before probably didn't have enough money to buy the more expensive weapons back then and now with this patch they have a 1% chance of getting one from the items box.
On top of all this the level 30 now is as hard to get to as level 50 previously. So you still got to some what work to get to level 30 now.
Btw switch the "dismantler" with the "100 sword" (they yellow version) and that will now do knock back.