Why is level freezing so bad? It's just a tactic employed by people to avoid getting crushed in pvp events like sage world and matsuri.

Lets rephrase it: the fact you may have advantages by level freezing is, by itself, something that should not happen if not for a very limited time, because goes against the very purpose of making a game based on levels.

The reason why happens is because, while the game is strictly level based, it's too rigid in it so may be predicted and people take advantage of features that are meant to help who was left behind for good reasons that instead get abused by who has literally no reason to do it by pure selfishness.

Change some scripts of the game and you'll see none would deliberately level freeze, by taking advantage of a possibility that is there just due to this rigidity.

An example?

You are top 3 in a lower level swb field for more than two swbs in a row?

You are permanently added to the immediately higher field in the place of a low bp person that in that field was never in top10 last two times.

Last month you got sage of six paths rank in arena? By default for arena meanings you are considered level 105.

Did you get 5 wins in matsuri last time?

Then next time you are treated like if you had 10 more levels for the matching purposes.

Those are the things you should implement to highly discourage what happens, for example, in ICEx bracket of swb.

I disagree with you saying that the rewards were increased in 5.0. In what aspect? In my opinion, rewards have been decreased or replaced with pseudo currency in lieu of older, more desired rewards.

In SwB, the only thing that was added was everyone who ranked decently got 1-4 adv runes. This doesn't affect anything other than to get more players to participate. Which it did. Before they would get nothing but pitiful summon coins. But even now, this amount is almost hardly worth it.

In Matsuri, you (Oasis, not you personally) took away (replaced) the decent rewards (summon scroll, half summon scroll and half seal scroll frags) for sun coins. While I'm sure you will argue I could use the coins to buy these things, I think the better option would have been to keep the old rewards in there and ADD the sun coins. Also, keep in mind most people reach cap, thus the coins become worthless halfway into the week.

Honestly, the only thing that was changed to be beneficial was changing the rewards of strong approach. While adding moon coins to Team Instances is nice too, as others have pointed out, it does cut into getting tools for growth.

In short, almost every single time when it comes to "free things" that we can get from daily events, we get shafted. I still remember when we went over two months of not getting adv. threads from Strong approaching despite being told that it was just "rng" then, after an update, we suddenly got it every single fight. This tells me that it wasn't added when it was supposed to be added, and then we were lied to about it being implemented. **coughmoodscrollsgroupwheelcoughcough** Ahem....I'm certain that isn't the only thing we were misled to believe.