Seconded, the discrepancy between the 270+ iLvl players and people in not even full furious with a few offpieces that are now together in the 'upper' bracket is too high.
Add in the faction imbalance created by donotion gear (which heavily favours alliance) and this bracket is not as enjoyable.
Whilst the 'lower' bracket is a lot of fun to play as its actually competetive.
Would definitely be interesting to understand the exact limits of the gear brackets. Would make gear twinks interesting.
Would be great if full relentless was the the cap and anything beyond goes to high end gear seeing as relentless gear cap was much more balanced than wrathful with lolmournes. Though I can imagine it's closer to furious being cap.
I assume that there is no hard cap between the gear brackets.
I believe its a dynamik cap and the longer you are waiting in the BG queue the more the cap exceeds.
I just hit 4.5k (2 furious parts, rest is mostly PVE) and I'm getting matched with the high GS group, it is not fun at all. It would be nice if the maximum GS would be around 5,4k instead of 4,5k, cuz it is definietly not enough for the participate in high GS BGs.
The problem with this is that it'd significantly lengthen the queues. We might be able to do something about it if mercenary mode gets turned on and the pool size of potential players on both sides increase but for now it is unadvisable to further separate based on gear. Of course, the idea and focus is to have evenly balanced battlegrounds and so far the intention has been mostly fulfilled.
We will see what the future brings, thank you for enjoying and making use of the system and noticing some parts of it.
I'm actualy loving this new bracket system. Today as horde we won more BGs than we lost. Ofc, until evening when premades showed up on alliance side.
It would be cool to have more info about new bracket system - how it works in details.
the bracket system is great and for me the lower tier is by far funner to play in as it feels absolutely more balanced than the high bracket. Many players do not enjoy doing arena or cannot buy gear, therefore, making wrathful sets near unattainable. I also feel that a mid-tier would be positive for game play. I feel as though many players have been lost/quit simply due to the item gap when just joining the 'high bracket' because during that period(which lasts some time) you're just being farmed. I try my hardest to stay in the lower bracket for as long as possible because of this.
the bracket system is great and for me the lower tier is by far funner to play in as it feels absolutely more balanced than the high bracket. Many players do not enjoy doing arena or cannot buy gear, therefore, making wrathful sets near unattainable. I also feel that a mid-tier would be positive for game play. I feel as though many players have been lost/quit simply due to the item gap when just joining the 'high bracket' because during that period(which lasts some time) you're just being farmed. I try my hardest to stay in the lower bracket for as long as possible because of this.
Absolutely agree. 4.5 - 5.5k gs would be nice and balanced. Smourne guy with 2 pocket healers can kill whole team in this existing brackets