I would like to point out that if you are in one of the lesser groups, you might have a pack every week assuming the group can qualify. Whereas player in the strong group only have one every other week, assuming the leader isn't reserving some for himself and his pals.

"balance" exists. It's just players rarely make optimal choices.

It's not going to change if you think a new server or even a merged server will make players join different groups so the pvp can be fun and balanced think again. After merge the top 2 teams will recruit 90% of the top bp players among all the merged servers and then you left with what? 4-5 servers at most. the top 2 will always win gnw and will always win sage world, however the top 8 receive rewards in gnw so it's not such a big deal. It will only be extremely boring you can just afk even. The top players do all the fighting at the nodes that ''matter''. The same with matsuri you retreat from 1 and you auto the next and so on (there is almost no real pvp in this game anymore). All you can get out of this game as a mild spender or even f2p is maybe arena and ''hero collector'' type mindset.