With the fact T2 is now buyable off of the shop and both Fury and Crom have lots of PvP 10's i think it would be only fair to open up PvP T1 armor to all 80's at pvp 0, there is a new influx of lowbies in minis and the reason for doing so is 2 fold.
1. These new 80's and lowbies are joining minis and they are getting destroyed, they are getting farmed by players in T1-3 armors non stop, we need to do away with this T1 armor requirement of PvP 4 and give to all at PvP 0, so they can take part with some kind of chance, im seeing new players in minis in Green and Blue armors, and this is crazy. How long will they stay and play and pay when the game is no fun and you see 2-3 players on the same team going 0-20
2. The second reason for this is also simple, Funcom has the worst mini game balance system we have ever seen, im sure we can all agree it is terrible... its beyond that its horrendous , and Funcom's system favors putting these under geared lowbie toons on the same team against pvp 10's, this is having the effect of destroying minis worse then they already are, so now we can no longer play with our friends in group minis , we now get one team full of pvp 0's in blue and green armors, Balance system is a joke and clearly Funcom are never going to put any effort into fixing it.
I have 4 PvP 10's i no longer play them because im tired of farming these poor players in minis, and also im tired of having minis games ruined because i have to do so,its not fun for my fully geared and AA'd Demo/Sin/Barb and DT to farm these players, i want to fight, i want to fight fair, i want to be challenged in minis, but above all else i want balance, id gladly loose a mini if its well fought, i know you will not address the balance issue, but opening up T1 armors to all 80's regardless of pvp lvl would go a little way towards helping, Maybe the boost of T1 armors would be enough for some to stick around and become a welcome sight in mini games instead of making lots of people shake their heads because of their shocking armors and the fact another mini game has been destroyed by gear gap...