How to bring dead PvP modes back

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

Wouldn't the easiest way to make them alive again be to bump the level cap to 60 in Carteaneu? And make both award Poetics and Lore.

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Would you call Seal Rock "alive"...?

Because that's the best case scenario if you just bumped them up. Note: Best case. Worst case, queue times for everything increases because the small community gets spread out more.
After all, Seal Rock already has all the rewards Shatter has, except the mount which is replaced by the Field Commander set (Which I personally managed to get about a month or so ago, so it does still pop - Ironically, though, it often stopped popping in the EU evening hours, which I suspect is due to the game waiting for a 72 match instead of going with the 24 people it had previously).

The same would go for Slaughter and Secure if you just bumped it up in levels. We already have a precedent of a "dead" frontline that doesn't have a different level/considerably worse rewards. So I can tell you that this is not going to solve anything.

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

Except people already do that now. Just queue for Shatter and afk -> get free tomes.

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-> Get reported for AFK in battle content -> Get warning &/or lose account.

Do not go AFK. Do not even joke about it because it has ruined games for many of us in the past.

Honestly part of the problem of why Seal Rock is dead is because Shatter is just a lot easier to get into than Seal Rock. Part of the reason is that Shatter mount is only 100 wins, queues are fast, and you can get credit on both ADS from just Shatter so newer players that want these mounts will play this mode. Also, Shatter requires very little pvp experience and you don't even really need to know what your pvp abilities are or do cause all you have to do is really hit ice, where as in modes like Seal Rock/Slaughter/Secure, you actually had to PvP and learn a different type of game play that most people in this game aren't used to. It was alive longer on Aether than it was on Primal but eventually it even died in Aether so all we're left with now is the new mode that (almost) all veterans hate.

I'm all for pvp roulettes but I think they should also scale the level 50 maps up to the current level cap.