Oh look, a 227ilvl character queueing at 1500mmr, lovely…
So there’s 6 current brackets in the game
Unranked 200ilvl 0-1400cr
Combatant 207ilvl 1400-1600cr
Challenger 213ilvl 1600-1800cr
Rival 220ilvl 1800-2100cr
Duelist 226ilvl 2100-2400cr
Elite 233ilvl weapons 2400cr+
How about we have 6 separate brackets that we can unlock and queue into, and in each bracket players gear is reduced to the maximum ilvl of what is available with that rank.
First would be Unranked (0-1400cr) where players have access to 200ilvl gear, so anyone that queues into this bracket would have their gear reduced to 200ilvl.
For the Rival bracket (1800-2100cr), 220ilvl gear would be the max and anything above should be reduced to 220.
Brackets would be unlocked by reaching the max rating of the prior rank and you wouldn’t be able to gain rating past the cap of each bracket.
If you lose rating and fall into a lower bracket you lose access to the higher one until you make it back to the cap of whichever bracket you’re in.
An example of choice would be… “I’m 203ilvl, I’ve hit the rating cap of 1400 in the Unranked bracket and started upgrading my gear to 207ilvl, but I think I’ll keep playing in the Unranked bracket capped at 200ilvl for a bit longer so I can farm more conquest and upgrade my gear, then I’ll start queueing in the Combatant bracket”
If a low rated player groups up with a high rated player, they would have to choose from whichever brackets are available to the lowest rated group member, and the high rated players would be scaled down accordingly…
Eg: Billy with 1150cr and 195ilvl groups up with Mike who is 2100cr and 226ilvl, they would have to queue into the Unranked bracket because of Billys rating and the result would be Billys ilvl staying the same at 195 while Mikes would be scaled down to 200
TLDR: You shouldn’t have to fight people with gear that is unobtainable to you in your current bracket
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