I like you Jim, stop saying things like this. We are talking about a company that makes billions of dollars, has been a AAA studio for decades and this game has been out for 20 years.
They 110% can balance between two different brackets, if they can’t they need to rethink their approach to pvp at all.
I think they can balance it. They have loads of money.
Wishful thinking. Maybe it’s my elderly cynicism, who knows. I wish they did a better job. Hell, I can’t even believe they took a holiday sabbatical while leaving RSS in the state they have.
However, it’s just measured expectations. We’re talking about a billion-dollar company that had a nonexistent or vastly ill-prepared HR department that couldn’t handle any level of non-harassment investigations. So yeah, I have very little optimism for their ability to appropriately balance multiple game modes.
I sighed, the truth of your words hurts this early.
Can’t wait to have my steel trap last 30% less time in 2v2 but not 3v3.
Have hope they are owned by Microsoft! 
I think they’re getting in to some legal battle over it because of monopoly or something.
they should remove glad & r1 from 3v3 for one season and see what #1 is at the end of the season
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64047809 they are you are right. But its Microsoft not the first time they have dealt with this. They are prepared lol.
Why a ground mount? Why does it need to be lesser than in some way? Shouldn’t it just be a different color variation or have some different spell effect like they do for every other form of content in the game?
I was thinking that too. Especially since Blizzard hates making new things. A recolor would just be fine.
Also, the point was to deliver the same reward capability. To inspire and allow players to play PvP in their favorite mode and not be gatekept.
Not to rehash the reward to decrease incentive even more.
i mean honestly adding any reward, same flavor or not is only a positive
as it stands the only reward you can get is a tabard, but because top 6 of 2v2 is 2400 it’s a little bit more difficult to get than 2400 in solo shuffle or even 3v3
Solo Shuffle is such a mess. You queue and someone gets mad at losing and they leave. Boom 12-16 min of work gone and wasted.
The DPS Queue is 15-20 min.
It is buggy. It is not pleasant.
No exclusive incentives leads to reduced participation and therefore less plentiful rating. Throw gladiator in there and after a few months 2403 cr will be like #14,385
so, what we have right now?
as opposed to 2150 being on the same page as #1 2490?
is there even a reward to play beyond 1800 anymore?
I’m not sure there’s much of a reason for 2v2 to be played by most people any more. Like, if they just want their set then there’s shuffle. Maybe if their spec is stressful/unfun in shuffle or something.
yah
i can feel my heart breaking with each day i queue, for once they get gearing right and the game itself is somewhat in the right direction
but the bracket i play was tossed in the ditch and 1700 players get to tell me why 2v2 isn’t balanced
Yeah, I think that it’s a bit of a shame that 2s is as neglected as it is. RBGs, too. Just unsure if throwing the dragon up there as an incentive is the right fix.
Yeah, I think 2’s are pretty extinct. For the past weeks, all I see is about 10-12 postings all they want is to grind conquest and or the occasional 1800 grind for the set.
Healers are extinct because Solo Shuffle is easy for them to get 1800 and quit.
Solo Shuffle for DPS is really long queues and takes way to long than finding a healer and doing the grind.
There are no 1800 and beyond teams. Why? There is no reward for doing so.
Yeah, shuffle seems like a bit of a vacuum for everything below gladiator range.