On average, the cap is apparently 82, it hasn't been 79 since the very beginning, and some of the time it's 83 and then occasionally it's 84, it doesn't drop below 82 anymore, unfortunately.

I just want to point out that you have to be level 30 to do sage and there has never been a bracket split in the lower levels, it does depend on density but since the very beginning of cross server sage, the field has been 30-79, then 30-81, and now it's 30-83 most of the time with 30-84 sometimes.

It doesn't change the fact that how it decides is silly, 90% of my field is level 70s and below, put all the 80s in a field of their own I say rather than splitting them up.

30-79, 80-84.

Problem solved.

(It would be nice to split the level 50s/60s but there's usually only a small handful of them)

I've heard of similar situations where the 83s were apparently split between the "82 and under" field, and the "84+" Field. There's also been other situations where "Windrunner" A very, very strong level 83 player randomly gets put in the lower field with the 70s some days or gets put up with the 84 field other days and I won't see anyone in my field higher than level 82, which is pretty normal.

I just wish they would make their mind up with that stuff and have some consistency there, there's never a shortage of players in the 70 field, so stop dropping people with 70k power into it every other sage, round those people up a field instead of down.