Nearly 800 back to 525

How is this fun? I think it\\'s time to give up. We all spend tons of time in Feast,working our hardest to rank up and it\\'s all a waste of time. Im not even gonna go into the reasons why we rank down, we all know them and so does SE. Feast was fun at first, but now it\\'s just torture.

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Originally Posted by Chevronone

How is this fun? I think it\\'s time to give up. We all spend tons of time in Feast,working our hardest to rank up and it\\'s all a waste of time. Im not even gonna go into the reasons why we rank down, we all know them and so does SE. Feast was fun at first, but now it\\'s just torture.

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Please provide more information, you can't counter the system without extensively stating your case. Not to shit on your post but if you want to change things this is a necessity.

It's been discussed ad nauseam in previous discussions. But to just rattle off a few points, we have players joining ranked queues with absolutely zero idea what PvP skills are, LBs out of the ass, and forcing players to work as a team when some players don't want to even communicate.

All one would have to do is scroll down and read a few of the posts regarding what is wrong with the Feast. It's just exhausting to keep hashing the same points.

It has been a roller coaster for me, and I do not feel like it is measuring my skill really at all.

Feast seems to be more of a luck of the draw measurement rather than how good you are at pvp. Are you lucky to get with not new/not disconnecting people? Great! Enjoy your gold+. Bad luck? Ah, silver or bronze is for you.

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Originally Posted by Titor

It has been a roller coaster for me, and I do not feel like it is measuring my skill really at all.

Feast seems to be more of a luck of the draw measurement rather than how good you are at pvp. Are you lucky to get with not new/not disconnecting people? Great! Enjoy your gold+. Bad luck? Ah, silver or bronze is for you.

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Enjoy your gold+ and then get demoted again! But yeah, I feel the same way. I've already quit the feast, save for 8v8s every now and then for funzies.

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

Enjoy your gold+ and then get demoted again! But yeah, I feel the same way. I've already quit the feast, save for 8v8s every now and then for funzies.

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That would explain why I haven't seen you lately, lol. When you find a competent healer in there, you tend to remember them more than the others, heh. It definitely does feel more like a battle against RNG than the actual players though, honestly. I was already #9 on the server on the second day (one of the handful that reached silver), then I plummeted due to a losing streak, lost my silver, and dropped 61 ranks (the most of any player on that day), iirc. Afterwards, I moved up a little bit, got my silver back, then my rank improved a little. On the following day, I got stuck with terrible teammates again and was winning maybe 1 every 3-4 matches. By the end of that day, I wasn't even in the top 100 any more.

I somehow managed to keep silver, but just barely. I finally called it a day, then just queued up again the next day. From there on out, I've been hovering between 500-700 points. It feels like I'm constantly taking one step forward, then two steps back. Every time I manage to find a good team, I get two bad teams right after that and it screws me over. It feels like (especially on Primal, since our points are terrible compared to other servers right now) I'll meet a good player out of every 5 I see.

So, there are definitely a lot more scrubs/noobs/etc. than there are actual good players, so the odds of getting a good team are rather low (I'd guess somewhere in the 35-40% range). Take tonight for example. Time after time again, they kept putting a new/unranked healer on my team while the enemy kept getting silver healers, so they've got a hell of a lot more experience on the battlefield.

Not once did I ever see an unranked healer on the opposing side tonight. I always got them. Mind you, I played for a good 4-5 hours or so too. It really makes me wonder if there's some kind of algorithm which sets up with specific people because it is rather suspicious that the top 10 ranked players right now don't have to deal with said people.

They continue to win and maintain their ratio because they're not constantly given the new healer or anything like that. Any time I've ever played a top 10 player, they were queued up with another gold while we had like 3 bronze and 1 silver on our side. It's like they have this incredible amount of luck which constantly pairs them up with competent players for some reason. They might as well be in party ranked since it always feels like they're running with a premade and they're hard as hell to fight.

If it was just a skill thing, I'd completely understand. I'd simply say "Oh. Well, they're better than us, so of course their party is good.", but when you're never paired up with the gold member or top 10/5 players and you always see them on the enemy side, it really makes you wonder if something else is at work here. I wish I knew what was causing this phenomenon.

It could be a specific server time, Eorzea time, maybe the first letter we chose in our name, our race, I'm not really sure. It definitely feels like it's controlled by luck though and nothing will be able to prove me otherwise. I have a 14 loss streak I'll always remember from this season. You try to tell me that queuing up with the same bad players that many times in a row is fair. Go ahead.

I've gone from 1200 to 900 after about 30 games of feeling like I'm the only person who's actually trying. It's extremely disheartening, borderline depressing. The rating is not an indicator of personal skill; far from it. It's basically just an indicator of how lucky you get with the broken matchmaking.

Looking at the ratings on Primal right now, I'm thinking if I somehow manage to break 1300 or so, I'll just hang up the old sword and shield, then let the scrubs below duke it out instead of risk losing points again by queuing up with them, lol. Our #1 reached Platinum recently and didn't even bother playing today and I doubt he will play for a while now since he has a bit of a lead. I try to take baby steps though and only go in 100 point increments a day or so, basically to not push my luck or fall too far, but even with 100 points being only 4 wins away, that's a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT farther away than it sounds, lol.

I can't tell you how many times I've told myself "okay, only 2 more wins, then I'll break 800" or something, then I'd be looking at my rating 5+ matches later and see myself barely maintaining 600 points and I'm like "how the hell did this happen? come on!" because it seems like I actually get the good teams when I don't need them the most (like when I'm trying to increase my rating) and they come out when I've already lost 100+ points, so I'm just making up for my losses at that point instead of making progress, lol. Nevertheless, despite nearly dropping below 600 points tonight (twice actually), I kept pushing and finally reached a little over 820 (naturally, it was after the rankings had already updated though, heh). So later today, I'm going to try my damnedest to reach gold and pray those good players get on my team during the qualifier, lol.

TL;DR: Elo hell finally arrived in FFXIV?

Imo the real problem is with people treating this like actual PvP, i mean we even got Rankings^^. Rankings of what exactly? When you see PvP rankings you would assume its for represented "skill" in PvP environments, but no, in FFXIV it's all about how much of a lucky son of a b$tch you are.

So i really hope after this joke of a PvP Season ends SE will patch it up and at least not make it a frustrating experience. I mean you got more chances winning the mini cactpot than progressing in this hellish ranking system they put in place.

And of course let's not forget the special PvP skins, that are only available to a few lucky bastards and not everyone that spent hundreds of hours "trying" to rank up this season.

Kudos on a well thought plan.NOT