The psychology of GREED and EGO, you mean?
No, scaling is a good thing, because it means casual players can join a BG just as well as serious players, and HAVE FUN.
That’s what this is all about, right? SOME differences can occur, but the completely unscaled version is pure hell for everyone except a handful of ELITE players with super gear.
If you could AT LEAST gear from BGs and not -have- to grind PvE stuff, there could be some argument against scaling.
Anyone and everyone should be able to kill anyone and everyone in a BG. Sure, healers are harder to kill, but other than that, there’s no point of a 680K warlock one-shotting everyone because they played 8 hours of mythics for a month, while someone that can only play a couple of hours a day or few hours a week can never have that kind of gear.
It was satisfying back in Legion, when you could do good damage as a really low-geared char, and as you progresssed, your damage dropped - so you got an IDEA of what it will be like after you gear some more, like a preview, whetting your appetite. A really fun and good thing.
It’s like Blizzard has tried as hard as possible to take ALL FUN out of the game, and only reward EGO and PvE grind, and nothing else.
So much could be done to reward teamwork and doing the objectives properly - maybe you could get better gear, the better you have been doing the objectives - running close to our FC would, for example, give you points, peeling a healer would give you points, capping flags, obviously, etc.
So much could be done, but “no scaling” only benefits the egomaniacal, greedy PvE people that just want to stomp lowbies and laugh without having any proper challenge against players.
They sneakily AVOID having skill matter, they go AROUND having any kind of challenge against people, by doing PvE until they have super high gear level, then they can just smack everyone around and never have to experience what it’s like to have a challenging fight against another player.
I think THIS is the worst thing about ‘no scaling’, and I don’t see how scaling would take fun away from normal, casual players that aren’t obsessed with PvE.
Those super geared people should only play rated BGs, or only play against each other. Then it’d be fair.
Maybe there could be several LEVELS of BG - a ‘casual’ one (the one I would play exclusively), which ‘levels’ both teams as well as possible, and makes sure nothing and no one is OP, regardless of class, gear, level, etc. Everyone would have pretty much equal POWER.
Then what we have now could be some kind of weird ‘mid BG’, and then rated at the top, or there could even be some ‘high-geared-only’ BGs that you can only join after high-enough item level, so the higher people could fight each other instead of stomping regular PvP players that have no interest in PvE.
At the very least, they could EXPERIMENT with a BG, where gear does not matter, and then see for real, whether it would ‘ruin the fun’ or actually ‘be a lot of fun’.
I think it’d be the latter, but I would actually ENJOY not being stalked by DKs and even 516K HP DHs. One DH killed me twice and I couldn’t escape it, I couldn’t kill it, I couldn’t damage it, my CC seemed completely ineffective, and it slowed me, I couldn’t slow it (as usual… I don’t know why blizz does this to arcane mages, but this is ALWAYS the thing - I can’t slow anyone and they slow me to a halt).
When arcane mage can’t even escape a DH and the DH stunkills the arcane mage with multiple ‘Eye beams’, there’s something wrong with the game and balance, and this non-scaling gear crap. Does gear really allow someone to stalk lowbies and kill them without trouble? Is this what non-scaling means, and what these people that hate scaling really want?
Is this their motivation? To raise a weak class to such high standard that even arcane mage can’t escape it (I used everything I had multiple times and my blinks and invisibilty and all - nothing helped, and after iceblock, the DH killed me ALTHOUGH I used a glider! completely ridiculous situations, but there you go… this is what Blizz wants, I guess)
