It's unbelievable that anyone thinks this is okay.

The only brackets i see coming would be a lvl 50 only one. I LOVE the bolster pvp, if you are good a lvl 10 CAN take down a 49. Granted its not likely but i have done it. This means that while lvling you dont have to really worry about gathering pvp gear either because there is no pvp gear below 50 hence why there NEEDS to be a lvl 50 bracket.

Only players i see complaining about this system are the bad kiddies.

Are you really this stupid?

1-49 and a 50s bracket would be hugely different from the current situation. The scaling works well enough for pre 50s and 'premades' of 1-49s would not be a problem. (they will eventually hit 50, after all)



Wait until you start running into 50s with serious PVP gear. It's a whole different world from some fresh 50, trust me on this.

Ya, I've run into some geared out level 50s, and I get pasted fast, but that's the way it is. I got a pair, and I keep going out there and try to level up and learn. Is it the absolute best system that it can be? No, but it's pretty new and young. I would highly doubt that PvP will be the same in 2 months that it is now anyways, so why waste energy arguing how bad it is now? Maybe I'm too new to the MMO scene, who knows.

Theres level 40 pvp gear. which works just as good as the 50 pvp stuff.

The fact that there's a debate around the lack of bracketing is mind numbing. This is common sense. For as much expertise and time it takes to craft a massive game like this, lacking common sense to the extent that they'll allow new level 12s to make an attempt at a warzone and be instantly converged on by level 40s and 50s is astounding.

It reminds me of some of the things I saw in Star Wars Galaxy back when it first came out. I was a seasoned MMORPGer at the time, having spent a great deal of time pvping in Dark Age of Camelot.

People in Beta were training in creature handling and taming multiple rancors, which, individually, could kill any player. I thought this was some kind of beta oversight that would never make it live, and it did. The thought that a company was able to make a complex game but lack common sense to that level made my jaw drop. I just couldn't believe it. Everyone in port was running around with two mountainous beasts following them.

Brackets in WOW always seemed like common sense to me. It was just assumed. "Oh, level 15s can queue for battlegrounds too?" It was just assumed that they'd be against people in their own level range because that was common sense. You never even considered the possiblity that you'd be fighting level 50s.

It speaks to not just bad judgement by bioware that level 12s are queueing against level 50s, but it speaks to sort of a perversion of common sense, that's now pervading the playerbase. The fact that this is even a discussion is amazing to this old hound, but I suspect I'm not alone.

We all know that brackets will go in sooner or later. It's a fact. Why? Because, as a rational human being, I recognize it as common sense. Whether the developers and community see it now is irrelevant. Brackets will be coming and one day people will look back at this and facepalm.

So just do it sooner rather than later to keep the embarrassment (and damage to the culture of PVP in this game) to a minimum.

I've people assert a lot that having brackets would slow down queues a lot. Where is this coming from? This doesn't seem guaranteed to me.

Say you have 10,000 people online at a time with three brackets:
1-30 - 3,000
30-49 - 5,000
50 - 2,000

Why does this guarantee that queuing at level 32 will be any slower than with no brackets? Yes, there are more people pvping, but there are also more people in queue that you're waiting behind.