Solution to boosting

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@Emothanos-bleeding-hollow

Or a real solution to boosting is that you can’t lose rating. If you work your way up to 2100, just because you lose a few games doesn’t mean you have forgotten how to play at 2100 level.

Letting people with 1800+ ranking play at 1200 is like having a MLB team play against a Tee-Ball team. It isn’t fun or fair.

If you are 1100 and queue with a 1600 you should match at 1600. This means the booster must be good enough to kill at their own level instead of stomping people well below them.

So if I want to play with my RL friend, and let’s say he wasn’t good, but I am good and have a 2400 rating, then my friend has to play at 2400?

I get what you are saying and I mostly agree with it, but there are cases where it isn’t boosting and friend playing with each other.

The only way to get rid of boosting is to get rid of the incentive. Get rid of the gear being tied to rank. Let’s Xmogs, Mounts, and titles be the reward for being good. With little incentive people are less likely to be getting boosts.

This also makes the game more fun in all PvP content because now it isn’t gear based but skill based which is how it should be. Could you imagine if chess ratings were like this. I would have to sit with my pawns against a guy with an entire front row of queens and then be told to “get gud” when I struggle to beat him.