The mode never should have existed with their current xp and mastery restrictions.
With that said, I actually had fun and played the game for the first time since before the holidays.
The problem is the whole time I was just thinking, why can't they just let us have this unlock ability against the AI in AoW? In that mode there are objectives, people shooting back at you, and it's the actual game still.
All these restrictions have killed the game for me. Just let the players have fun, it's a very vocal minority who are fighting the fight to keep T1 pvp only.