Yikes. This 3.85 gb is taking about as long to download as the whole game. Had 80 k/bs for a while
The more I think about this, the more I'm not sure about it either. The scaling down to normal will lower the gear proficiency bracket, meaning with PUGs at least, that you'll just be finding dis-assembly fodder for gear. That's not great especially when capped. Pre-made groups can circumvent it, but thats always not readily available to do. I REALLY don't wanna have to ask in region chat for LFGs either.....
Also, I've done a few low level msm runs and the like over the last few days to help people out, and despite no loots or rewards it was still pretty fun getting though msm with 2 people in 20 mins. The struggle can get pretty real playing in the proper bracket, so sometimes its fun just to be able to nuke everything, knowing that at least someone else is benefiting. If I'm not mistaken, the way the new system works will prevent that from happening too
On the flip side, queue times should be less of an issue, and from what I know players in RU that have had the feature for a while now, seem to be pretty happy with it, so I guess we'll wait and see