In reply to Jessica.

When you have thousands of comments like my site, and you reverse so that most recent is at top, there is a major flaw at the point of pagination where you set number of comments per page. Without custom function or plugin, it leads to just a few comments appearing on the first page until it reaches “x” number of comments per the page settings.

Comments are getting a huge amount of focus in the upcoming release. In the last couple of weeks alone, there have already been numerous fixes made to everything from how comments are queried to how they are paginated. I could be mistaken, but I think this was one issue that has been fixed and will ship with 4.4.