OP is correct. So many different aspects of this game are great. However, I am astounded at what a terrible job they did with warzones. As the OP mentioned, other existing MMOs have addressed these issues and this is why it is so surprising that the devs got this so wrong. No brackets. Fail. No battlegroups. Fail. Premades vs. Pugs. Fail. 50s vs. lowbies. Fail. If I didn't know any better, I would guess that the dev team who designed warzones never played another MMO. I don't want to hear the argument that 50s would have no one to queue with...that's why you have battlegroups. They help immensely with queue times and they can be re-arranged "transparently" as populations shift. Server-only warzones went out of style in 2006. Bolstering is nice and should be done within lowbie brackets a la Warhammer. 50s (or whatever level cap) should never, ever be allowed in warzones with lowbies because of end game gear. Period. The one (and only) huge WIN for warzones was the idea behind cross-faction Huttball. Stellar. It's fun to mix up teams like that. For the tl;dr crowd...fire the warzone dev team, patch in brackets, etc. and reboot. We'll pretend that this putrid attempt never happened.