New matchmaking system is a failure

[SuperZay]

They need to prioritize unranked vs unranked, bronze vs bronze and so on

There aren't enough players for this which will result in hours long ques and dead mode in the end. Season 1 died for different reason, there was no incentive to que for higher rated players, but with new rating system they pretty much have to play the whole season or they'll drop from Top100.

[Enlial]

I cant really see upsyncing happening not only would having all job abilities thrust upon you at once be overwhelming but I think it'd detract from the experience of slowly unlocking them.

The problem with level 30 wolves den was primarily, I think, that wolves den is a more hardcore mode that isnt going to have appeal to a broader casual playerbase looking for an alternative means to level up. So yeah I'd rule out fold/feast, but nobody in their right mind takes frontlines too seriously. I leveled characted almost solely in battlegrounds back when I played wow so I can definitely see a low level synced mode offering the equivalent xp of low level roulette working. There'd need to be balance adjustments for sure though (adlo was obscenely overpowered in 30 WD iirc). It might be fun to screw around pvping on "non-jobs" xD

As far as splitting the playerbase, I dont know. Ultimately, though, we really have to get more players attracted to pvp. Something like GC restriction removal is just putting a bandaid on cancer. Even if it does make queues pop more frequently, pvp'ers will still be an extreme minority seen as deserving one or two updates per expansion. I'd much prefer that whatever dev resources get spent on us go towards finding ways to get more people to play (and in turn justifying greater attention towards pvp)

[Rose-Wild]

The new system is terrible and needs to go away. To have this system you might as well make the matchmaking be 100% random. Because right now it does the oposite of what's it's ment to do.

You go higher on rating thinking you will scape the new players and find more balanced matches to find out that it's even worst than before because the system will see you are high and usually give you 1 or 2 new players wich is pretty much a free loss specially if it's a healer. If the game can't handle a rating system just remove it or give us 4v4 training wich is really way more needed than 8v8.

[Aviars]

What's worse is the system right now gives people free rating up to bronze, some people actually deserve a negative rating, just the way it is, some people just can't be helped.