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[Ninjafeet-thrall]

@Kittredge-azjolnerub

In Remix, if you’re a newer player and queue for LFR, Dungeon or Scenarios, your entire time will probably be spent running from dead mob to dead mob, looting and not being able to contribute, because everything is one shotted. It’s a very boring experience.

I agree that there’s something that can be done. One of the treatments I thought would be fun is exponentially decaying character power growth. Here’s a longer link about it:

@Ninjafeet-thrall

As far as the currency goes, I had a thought that was something like two separate LFG tool modes. One for “Blasters”, that gives the full power of timerunning – no caps, no dampening, no “diminishing returns” on fun. Just go plus ultra as hard as you like. But here’s the catch – the rewards you get are dismal +1 threads.

The other mode disables the bonuses of timerunning and scales down your gear to a maximum level. This preserves the original difficulty of the mode – if you do heroic, it’s actually BRUTAL (which starting off, heroics were). In this “Timelost” mode, you gain character power at a rate relative to your overall cloak power. If you have a level 1-10 cloak, you get +1 threads. If you have a level 11-100 cloak, you get +4 threads. This way, if you have a 20,000 power cape, you are actually able to level faster by getting on “equal footing” with newer players (+25 threads–assuming the same log(x)^2-style maths), and it hides your true power from them in the mode. For people who just want to blast though or get carried (especially helpful when starting off anyways), there’s a separate mode that functions like it does now.

_{(It’s worth noting here though that secondaries all have hard caps in the 25k-40k range, so the only thing that really ends up scaling is primary stat, which means after a point, only 12% of thread drops matter.)}

Not trying to stump or anything for it, just share ideas. But if players knew they could get 25 runs worth of content by “turning off” God Mode, they would likely do it after their daily chores are done. I think it’s worth remembering though one of the spirits of remix is a Diablo 3 Paragon Season where you have the chance to just blast through maps and grow as big as you can within the time limits.

And as far as ELO or whatnot, here is a really old suggestion (Shadowlands) that had some functionality for priority queues based on how well received you’ve been among community members. Instead of FIFO, it would run down the priority stack on positive reinforcement:

Semi casual is purgatory in SL

I’d be happy with 10%! At least then their 5% variance could mask it. But as it stands right now, the spread is almost 20% in the 95th percentile, and upwards of 40% near the median. I mean… this is exactly what needs to happen. Actually consider individual performance and try to measure/rank those performances. It becomes difficult when you have DPS popping Bursting, for example, because they continue to AoE and pad instead of FF. Even just allowing a end-of-match “card and congrats” syste…

If you’re a good person to play with, and new players rank you positively, there’s no reason to exclude you from the new player experience. Having guides and experienced players helping “show the ropes” and showcase what’s capable is better than a mode full of smurfs and twinks (my opinion).