Because they got rid of the elder cipher. Nobody really liked doing the cipher and you could cheese the hell out of it. Also if you had an incomplete cipher at the 2.0 drop it could be redeemed for any of the 3 PoE exotics. No work involved.
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He's the equivalent of a level 27
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But why on his first 28 .-. Why not like the 34?