User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/Overratted New World is OVERRATTED!!/@comment-4899461-20121120201116

There's a reason that literally every opponent Luffy's ever had had told him "You're too weak to make it in this world." That's because the New World is really that powerful. Everything we've heard from people who have been to the New World is them saying that it's extremely powerful, so why are people doubting that?

The World Government doesn't even want to fight the Yonko, that's how powerful they are. The power of the world is held in balance because the Marines AND the Shichibukai are allied. Without that alliance and balance, the Yonko could destroy the Marines or the Shichibukai. They could easily steamroll the most powerful people we've ever seen. Nobody should be surprised that they have armies of Zoan users, or anything else.

I expect the gap in power between Paradise and the New World will be even larger than the gap between Paradise and the East Blue. The only thing we've ever heard is that the New World is difficult. I'm not going to ever declare it "overrated" when everything we've heard and seen about it actually points to it being more powerful than we could have ever expected.