As some of you may have already realized, there is a huge gap between the Top Players and everyone else. Meaning that it would take years for a new player to catch up to an active leaderboarder (except for timed runs). Gear, Account Age, and Availability are the key factors that widen this gap. Here's how.
The difference in stats between a Top Player and an Average Player (both capped at 41) is inappropriately astronomical. Comparing my decently geared rogue (~3m gold for the best legendaries plus mythic armor, which is affordable to 25-50% of players) to a max-geared rogue (~150m gold for best myths and arcanes, affordable to 1% of players), their health is roughly 150% higher than mine, damage is roughly 160-180% higher than mine, armor is roughly 200% higher than mine. I understand they deserve better stats, but not that much better. It jumps from a cost of 3m to 100+m. A major factor is the constant release of upper-class items (mythic weapons, upper-geared-farmable gear*, arcane pets). We've had 3 sets of Lv41 mythic weapons released, like 4 or 5 arcane pets released, 1 arcane ring released since expansion. How many sets of legendary weapons, mythic pets, mythic rings, and decent legendary amulets have been released? It seems as though the upper class is constantly upgraded and the lower and middle class is left neglected. I'm using the same gear I started the expansion with and it's still the best gear in my middle class. A great fix would be to add things for all three economic classes every once in a while.
Now for the leaderboard. Does it seem fair that older players deserve to be on the leaderboard more than the younger players, regardless of who works harder? The top players have racked up astronomical kill-counts, score-counts, etc. over the past 2 1/2 years of AL and are still growing, as opposed to the newer players unable to catch up and feeling discouraged. A great fix would be seasonal leaderboards. I haven't even checked the leaderboard in like 6months, and I know Setara or Cusigma is still in the top 3 at least in PvE kills. It should be an everyday dynamic mystery.
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