Simple fix to trading?

[Pibz]

When 2.2 (or whatever it was) hit when the matchmaking was first implemented the queue times were insane (I'd say one game every 40-90 mins), and you'd see the same people every second game or so. The new armors and pvp skill changes have really brought a lot of people back to pvp. The only thing holding pvp back now is the messed up match making system.

No, the simple fact is/was the overwhelming majority of the population of players in this game is/was not interested in wolves den pvp from the moment they tried out a few matches when 2.1 hit.
When 2.2 hit this was aggravated by the fact that new pve content came out and even people who usually pvped didn't bother to pvp anymore as they were:
1- Too busy with pve stuff.
2- Waiting for 2.25, which was supposed to be "big pvp patch" to come out.
When 2.25 came out, the increase in people pvping again was highly noticeable by the fact that the queue came back from the dead(for a while it got really active), which alone proves that it isn't the matchmaking that's broken.
And now again, 2.28 came out, people were getting instant queues. Of course if you are higher rank than the average population(which isn't really that big a average) you'll get slower queue times as there isn't that many players to put against you to make a fair match.

Regardless of rank, you will constantly be paired with low rank members. I am high ranked and the vast majority of my games are with beginners.

Of course if there aren't enough people within your rank it tries to even out the average between the 2 competing groups meaning that high rank players will often get paired with low rank ones, this is the basis of matchmaking......

And yeah it bugs out, but it bugged out way before matchmaking was introduced. Now it just seems worse cause you're high rank and since there's less of us we get the short stick until more people rank up.

Simple solution(to crappy high rank queues ): Make the middle(20s and i90) rank and gear,as i90 and r20s is still highly competitive vs i100 and r30s while the latter still has a decent advantage, way more accessible so we don't have to deal with long queues only to get gimped players 60%+ of the time.