The way it would work is you still queue for dps, healer, or both roles. If you really want to play certain specs, you can choose those too. Teams would still be 2 dps and 1 healer. There would be account-wide MMR for each spec.
After everyone accepts the queue pop, you get a screen with all your level 70 toons and their dps or healer specs to choose from (or just toons with the specs you chose earlier). The available specs would also be limited to those with MMR close to the lobby’s MMR.
Your team gets like 2 minutes to figure out which comp y’all want to use.
You pick your toon and spec, and that’s what you get when you zone into the arena.
Games would probably only be 1 round. Or maybe best 2 out of 3 rounds. (If one team wins the first two rounds, the third round wouldn’t be played.)
I guess it also wouldn’t be a shuffle anymore because there’s no rotation of players between the two teams. If there are multiple rounds, players might be able to change toons/specs. Not sure if that will drag out games too long.
This new bracket might have lower queue times because the matchmaking system has more toons/MMRs available for each player in the queue.
One possible issue with this is that players with many geared alts might be at an advantage.
that would probably just make it so having one of every DPS/healer and have them full conquest would be a massive advantage being able to switch to meta slime comps and would lead to flaming when you won’t adhere to other players wanting you to play a different class
There would be an account-wide MMR for each spec. You only get to select from the specs with MMRs close to the lobby’s MMR.
Um… Maybe there would be a minimum ilevel for a toon to be available as a choice. Or some sort of scaling. Or lower power gaps between honor and conquest gear.
I mean, if you really want to grief your team, you’ll find a way to grief your team.
Sounds like LoL. Why not just let a dying game die? It’s been out for 15+ years now and you want to change more of the structure of the game so they can attempt to fix balancing issues midway through another season?
No thanks…
I’m sure there are login technology issues that would prevent this, but an interesting idea. Tragically, I can see a situation where someone chooses like prot warrior and their “teammate” throws due to inward self doubts when faced with a challenge. The Sha survived MoP.
I would say you definitely need a minimum number of max level geared characters to queue for something like this (including a healer spec). Though you’d need all of them to be logged out in their correct gear or something.
this would be an awesome side bracket thing but not enough players for that sadly… No way this would work to replace current RSS. Would totally mess up MMR system and introduce too much noise. Would need to do like account wide MMR which would just suck
Nah. When you zone into the arena, it’s like you just logged in on that toon. You can change your gear set, talents, etc. (And it can figure out your PvP ilevel by looking at all the gear you have on your toon for each slot for your spec.)
