I have to admit that I haven't followed SWTOR real closely, but the bolstering mechanic has me a little nervous. I see many uneven matches in the Warzone. Who is going to want a bolstered player on their team? It leaves many questions in my mind on how it is all going to work. I found this gem explaining bolstering.
If it is 80% of the top players than that is going to be a huge difference. If someone gets bolstered ten levels does that just mean their health, and mana will increase? What about your spells, and damage? Is his weapons, and armor going to be ten levels lower? What if everyone is max level, and one guy is 10 levels from max, and gets bolstered? Will he really be competitive? Will he gain any spells that maybe he hasn't trained yet being ten levels lower?
How is a bolstered player going to play? Are they going to be inexperienced, and cost your team a victory? I just don't see how any competitive pvper is going to be happy with this.
I remember in the early days of World of Warcraft you could queue up for Warsong Gulch with a ten level disparity. It caused so much anger. All the 60's would belittle the person, and tell them to leave and go do some PvE. I know many times even one lower level player meant the difference from winning, and losing. Eventually Blizzard changed it to 60's only queueing after all the griping on the official forums for months.
This could also be interpreted that if everyone is level 40, and you are 50 that you could be lowered to level 48 to try to make it more competitive. Once again if it was me playing I would be pissed off if all of a sudden my health, and mana was cut down to make the match more fair.
Q: How will the Bolster system work? – Kelremar
A: If after a time the Warzone matchmaking system has not found a match of players of the same level range, then it will start up a ‘bolstered match’ where players of varying levels will have their stats bolstered to within 20% of each other. Therefore, player skill disparity withstanding, the lowest level player will be 80% as effective as the highest level player in the match.
How is a bolstered player going to play? Are they going to be inexperienced, and cost your team a victory? I just don't see how any competitive pvper is going to be happy with this.
I remember in the early days of World of Warcraft you could queue up for Warsong Gulch with a ten level disparity. It caused so much anger. All the 60's would belittle the person, and tell them to leave and go do some PvE. I know many times even one lower level player meant the difference from winning, and losing. Eventually Blizzard changed it to 60's only queueing after all the griping on the official forums for months.
This could also be interpreted that if everyone is level 40, and you are 50 that you could be lowered to level 48 to try to make it more competitive. Once again if it was me playing I would be pissed off if all of a sudden my health, and mana was cut down to make the match more fair.
