I agree with PeNMaX.

It pretty much feels like oasis is taking a piss in my face and says its raining. I'm dead honest. This "Balanced" matchmaking is just... I cant really find the words for it. I'm 58k bp with my main setup. being matched up in the same battlefield with Tiffany, Kyo, GodPain, AlinaCox and other beasts, that's just a complete motivation killer. I am honestly thinking about quitting the game, as its just no fun any more. I can bet there are a lot of people like that in the community and if nothing will change - the game will die.

Hahahaha,same,im not even there in sage time ;P

I was with you mate, on the same battlefield then. The saddest part is not me moaning about how I cant even get top3 in land anymore after every day activity for the past 8 months and mild money investement. The saddest part is that among those 80k+ power beasts I managed to get 7 wins, which means there are even weaker people than me who got matched up versus these highest spenders region wise. "Balance"

Yes it helps the lower levels. But really not in any way which is even remotely significant to justify what it takes away. I am completely free to play and low level refines are NOT hard to get at all. You don't even need much of low level refines @.@. At a certain point (which is very early in your progress) low level refines become completely redundant. Space time redemption also allows you to redeem 2/day in case you didn't know. But i really really don't recommend that (its wasteful, go for med threads). GNW packs are also a good source for it.

Regardless, you will find that there is no hurry to max your hinata/sai and farm iruka. Simple patience (the core of a free player) will solve all of what you are saying. And ultimately ALL players in the 60-80 range who keep playing will reach the point where advance refine runes are priceless. SO yes it takes away from the future of all players! Not just high level players. It may seem beneficial to your immediate situation but there will come a day when you will feel what everybody else is saying. Maybe you haven't reached the stage to understand how valuable and rare advanced refines are. There is literally no free way to get them except sage. And now with cross server, a free player has theoretically no chance of getting any at all (no server excluded).

i got 90k+ ppl so double my power non stop was the worst thing and way to laggy couldn't even use our group chat to talk about it or pass time wile getting murdered round 1 by ppl double my power you think if they had months to delay it these things could have been fixed the chat at least or some matching not literally feeding us to 100k ppl

i agree it has to be a joke like are they literally trying to screw up at this point?

add sage to the list of things i cant do anymore like arena is still messed up from cross server really they shouldn't have made anything else cross server till they got the first one working no keep forcing us to be cross server with a matching system that works and rewards

funny how you guys talk as if everyone hated it lol
i really liked the xserver swb and i was in the top bracket with 80k people as 57k
you guys forget that not everyone voted against it, it was about 60:40 and those 40% are not writing in a forum thread where literally everyone thinks your work for oasis just for likeing this change
so have fun writing into an echo chamber where everyone thinks they talk for everyone and only likeminded people write/read it

we need this i always wondered why everything is lvl makes no sense cuz ive seen lvl 70 ppl with 60k power

i totally agree with you making brackets only depending on power would be so much better

Didn't you also say you were winning against 70k powered people somewhere else? Your power is irrelevant if you are winning. Most people quote power to show how hopeless the situation is. (they subscribe to the viewpoint that at a certain point, power difference is insurmountable) And if you are winning you probably must admit your viewpoint is a bit biased?

yes 40% supported cross server, but how can you know if these very same 40% have not changed their mind after seeing the implementation? Im pretty sure some of the 60% who were against it changed their minds the other way too... saying its an echo chamber is unfair because you don't know that at all or rather there is no way you can know that. From my reading of the forum so far I have only found 1 individual who isn't winning and liked it. Several quoted not having sage before so to be fair they are comparing cross server sage and no sage at all. And I've seen those who are winning but very honestly admitting matching to be totally not balanced.

Really is quite a pain, was fine with normal Sage world, but look. Now this is a thing :/. Why not make the cross server for only dead servers?