This is probably an issue that most people don’t encounter, but if you have alts that you played last season, and now in the new one, want to que that said alt, it will be completely unplayable for the first 10 lobbies due to your MMR being skyrocketed to +2400 in full greens.
Like… I queue up, wait 30 minutes to get into the game, go 0-6 because I do not have gear. After that I have to sit another 30 minute queue just to probably 0-6 again due to the same issue. All in all I have to spend more than 4-5 hours in just the QUEUE alone, tanking my MMR in rounds that I know for a fact I will, and if I do not, I SHOULD lose.
I dunno if they’ve ever addressed some sort of an MMR/cr reset system, and how hard it would potentially be abused by people pushing r1 etc, but I s2g there should be something of the sort.
Conquest boxes etc are a sort-of-kind-of fix in my opinion, because you still have to go through the effort of buying all the sockets, crafted items etcetera etcetera.
I see the pro’s and cons, but for overall gameplay, I think it’d be nice, because I really don’t like unintentionally griefing someone’s potential legend lobbies purely because I thought it’d be cool to play on an alt.
This is actually a well-known problem. Mostly encountered obviously by streamers who do their various challenges but i have faced the same issue in the past. The only moment Blizzard ever resets mmr completely is in S1 of a new expansion. However i think the mmr should reset with every new season because queing up with full greens mid season is just pain.
I usually just farm all the gear before even bothering to enter shuffle but honestly, you shouldn’t be forced to do that. Just wipe mmr, we will get up there again anyways.
Wish they made it like it was in Cataclysm where you get like 10% of your total conquest cap per a win. Made it far easier and more enjoyable to gear and allowed you to be on an even playing field without the horrible grind of being a chew toy for the first few days of playing an alt/newly dinged char.
For 300 shuffle rounds i farmed 18k conquest, and have like 12k left to gear my alts, so i don’t think it is an issue since you can craft some gears and send some conquest boxes to your alt via main, but yeah, if you are complete newbie on your alt’s class or spec you gon grief hard
Also you don’t need sockets until you reach 2400 or so, i think it’s doable
Exactly my thoughts. I don’t want to AFK in World PvP for 10 hours farming some mf boxes on a 30 minute timer lol I actually want to play the game, but the mmr not resetting kind of just ruins it.
Conquest catchup is a real problem. I wish they would radically increase conquest gains across the board. People who regularly pvp are way over the cap anyway, but farming conq boxes for 2 afternoons, cannot be the intended gameplay loop
Yea i never understood why they didn’t just make conquest warband transferable, but instead just added some rng currency decay system that leaves everything up to chance, and realistically makes the gearing process probably cost even more conquest in the end.
