Deep Blue wrote:other than that i wonder if you fixed the issue of 200 AP players enjoying to farm newly made companies / beginners. This is also a serious issue that scares people away.
Well, we made many changes to matchmaking in that sense.
It might not prevent totally the newbie farmers behaviors, but we hope that it will help (a lot).
It is now much more likely that the top 20 players will meet each other instead of the bottom of the bracket and / or the low guild rank players.
But we are still actively working on other solutions, so even if our changes did fix the problem completely, we'd still like to add one thing or two that would stimulate the players to explore higher brackets instead of staying in the 200 AP bracket.
About Divine Favor and Favorable Auspices, no worries.
I think you will like the "new" Divine Favor more ; Favorable Auspices is still pretty good, just not "completely broken" as it used to be in certain sets. Bad Omen was originally changed to mirror the Favorable Auspices changes, but we came to like it more, and think that it's more fair that way.