Why Have The 25 Gear Bracket?

[NittNittNitt]

Wanna start with I love this game and I'm not complaining I just genuinely don't understand why gear score is the way it is. If you have under 25 gear score you go to the all grey items maybe some common white items lobby, fair fine I get it it's a chill spot for newbies to roam. BUT, you picked up one or two greens now your gear score is 35. Well newbie be ready to enter the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thunder dome against a cleric in full cobalt and various greens with stats that with cave in your single green helmet and grey cloth pants into dust.

Myself being the green helmet and cloth pants guy. Not angry about it, this guy didn't kill me. I like to hit spectate after I exit and this cobalt demigod was roaming the halls and I found it very strange and little funny that I got thrown into a match with him when I myself have a fraction of that chad's aura. Just this slight 10 point increase from 25 opens up to player who, purely statistically, are almost 5 times stronger than you and that's kinda wild.

[NittNittNitt]

I should have taken a screenshot but I can promise you this guy had mostly cobalt gear and a green mace named something holy paladin kinda name and I myself had only 35 gs. Maybe was just an matchmaking error then if it's not supposed to work like that.

[effusivemind]

you can queue <25 with all common items as well as one piece of green jewelry if you want.

125 seems like it was arbitrarily chosen just cuz it's 25+100, it probably isn't optimal but they have a new matchmaking system coming out very soon anyway.

edit: they do warn players explicitly with the squire before they queue, and your gear score is now visible in the pre-lobby right above your character. maybe there would still be better ways to warn new players but this isn't terrible from my view

[NittNittNitt]

That's weird but there are a couple posts about server errors. Been trying to find the mace I saw but I can't find anything on it online. I'm starting to feel like this game is gaslighting me.

[NittNittNitt]

Originally posted by effusivemind:

you can queue <25 with all common items as well as one piece of green jewelry if you want.

125 seems like it was arbitrarily chosen just cuz it's 25+100, it probably isn't optimal but they have a new matchmaking system coming out very soon anyway

That logic checks out. I hope the new system works well then.

[effusivemind]

Originally posted by NittNittNitt:

That logic checks out. I hope the new system works well then.

same!