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What Daimera is talking about, assumingly, is people in The Feast Light Party que, high ranked players take in lower ranked players to increase the points they gain for each win. When you're a full team of silvers/golds you get ridiculously miniscule rating points, like 1s or 2s, for each win. But when you have say 1 or 2 silvers and the rest unranked or bronze, you get more points.
In essence, higher ranked players are carrying low/unranked players to bronze-ish to get more points for themselves. Basically abusing the system is what I'd like to categorise it as.
So I was wondering, gripes about balance/gear/matchmaking/etc. aside, are we going to have any promotional events for the Feast seasons? Like a double reward weekend or something like that? We seem to have the Community Reps jumping in for Culling Time occasionally (psst, it would be fun if beating them was worth more!), but some other events would be interesting... Doubt double rating would go down well, but I wouldn't even mind double Wolf Marks, considering how nice they are for GC seals (and we're getting new ranks 3.3, so hey, those have a purpose again) or Desynthesis...
That's probably because it's not. I mean, it's a thing, sure, but it's not really a big thing. Your party ranking and your individual rank level up separately from one another, so even if you exploit the system by bringing in a bronze player to your party matches it does absolutely nothing for your individual rank. You're still exploiting the system and boosting your party ranking, but in regards to your actual individual rank (the only one which can potentially reward you) it makes no difference. You wouldn't even notice this kind of thing happening unless you play a lot of party matches.
Want evidence? Here:
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and here:
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The first two pictures show unsynced stats and the second two show i150 8v8 PvP synced stats.