MMR is all about rating and it should be.
It reflects your overall winrate/experience in pvp.
If you take gear into account, that would mean sending 220+ ilvl pve team to the slaugther vs 1k8+ rating real pvp players. => that’s a new issue
For boosters they probably find a flaw like queuing with low ilvl then switch during prep time or anything like that… => still an issue with boosters
You could probably use something like curent season max rating reached to force boosters going back to their high rating faster/losing rating slower, but this would lower pvp standards by much because defeat wouldn’t be that important…
Since ages mmr has never been a problem, the actual issue is gear being too much of a gap, especially for late starters or alts.
Quick fix would be a better catchup mechanism for alts, like honor being uncapped/shared for characters on same realm.
Better fix would be to fix the fact that +7ilvl makes you world apart …
The WoD scaling solution seems okayish but not sufficient if it’s something basic like :
+pve gears keep their ilvl in pvp instantiated context/war mode
+pvp gears gain +15ilvl in pvp instantiated context/war mode
There’s still an issue about progression. How the upgraded conquest items would work ? If the upgrade as it is now, the issue would still be there…
Something like adaptative gear with rating could be nicer :
- pve items in pvp instantiated context => downscale to 200
- honor pvp items (max 197 ilvl) in pvp instantiated context => nothing changes
- conquest pvp items in pvp instantiated context => downscale to your current rating depending of context (2s’ rating in 2’s, 3’ rating in 3’s, etc.)
*Let’s say i have full 226 items from rbg, if im playing in 2s’ my gear would downscale to : 200 during 0->1399 rating, 207 during 1400->1599, etc.
It’s only downscale, so being ungeared would remain a thing.
But progressing and upgrading would also remain.
Boosters cant abused their gear in low rating because of downscale.
Looks like a fair thing.