Welcome back Valis,
Open world currently is running on fury mostly from 10pm CEST onward using the pvplevelup app (aoc player created software). This app is balancing teams and all players use t1 pvp gear to get balanced matches. If you like pvp it’s worth checking out.
This way you also dont have to worry about the overpowered PvE gear such as rf rings, t6 gear and t5 weapons in PvP that you may have missed in the past years.
Here is a link to the thread: PvP Levelup: Ranked PvP Matchmaking