70-74 BG has been dieing a slow death, with a grand total of 4 players in it at one point today.
They are broken because the design intent behind them was short sighted from the begining. New players aren't coming in to BG because they don't stand a change against the old hands. The old hands aren't going anywhere because they need the honor and aren't ready to make the jump to 80s BG. Now with the insane idea to start selling honor, the BGs are empty. This can be fixed with simple adjustments. Step 1) Sort, BG entries not by level but by BR. Have the game poll players average BR so people don't strip gear and sylphs to get into an easier BG. 2) Adjust honor awards so that it doesn't encourage high BR players to repeatedly farm low BR players, causing the lowbies to never get kills and quit. 3) Get rid of the spawn spot fence. No one gets to camp anymore. Give a spawning player a ten second buff that prevents them from being attacked. I've been kicked out of several BGs recently because the whole other team is camped in their spawn.
Level segmenting worked when BR was under control and the BR spread in a 5 level group was reasonable. Now that 70-74 BR ranges from 80K to 400K it's simply not a viable way to segment BG groups and keep the population tenable.
They are broken because the design intent behind them was short sighted from the begining. New players aren't coming in to BG because they don't stand a change against the old hands. The old hands aren't going anywhere because they need the honor and aren't ready to make the jump to 80s BG. Now with the insane idea to start selling honor, the BGs are empty. This can be fixed with simple adjustments. Step 1) Sort, BG entries not by level but by BR. Have the game poll players average BR so people don't strip gear and sylphs to get into an easier BG. 2) Adjust honor awards so that it doesn't encourage high BR players to repeatedly farm low BR players, causing the lowbies to never get kills and quit. 3) Get rid of the spawn spot fence. No one gets to camp anymore. Give a spawning player a ten second buff that prevents them from being attacked. I've been kicked out of several BGs recently because the whole other team is camped in their spawn.
Level segmenting worked when BR was under control and the BR spread in a 5 level group was reasonable. Now that 70-74 BR ranges from 80K to 400K it's simply not a viable way to segment BG groups and keep the population tenable.
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