Just to fail in the end

The amount of effort that was put in into the feast just to not even make top 100. Having close to 1000 matches most them running the full time duration. Falling short of achieving you're goal is hard to take. I played most games a healer and the countless hours of stress and going back-and-fourth of try get high enough, just get a pair of jewelry. I set a goal to get the mount and I didn't get it. seeing that people put far less time and effort (less then 200) into getting the mount compare to had I put in, just to say nope u don't deserve it, was biggest middle finger to face I ever got from this game.

Sorry to hear things didn't turn out like you'd hoped. That's the nature of rankings in games of this sort, though. Just gotta do what you can and hope for the best next time.

i mean... karma happens when people do wrong to others is all ima say... i could of made top 10 but a certain someone afk'd most of my loses i had with them.

There is always next season sport.

They already confirmed, that the top 10 Minions will be made available in some other way. Maybe we get lucky and the mounts will be optainable on other ways as well. Heads up friend, I am only 17 points from the top 100 as well while I stayed in it for the whole season, so I feel you.

The mount will be available as an achievement for 300 kills in Feast but I understand the OPs thinking. Until they sort out the cheating in Feast you can work your guts out for nothing. Sad but true.

How can someone who throws games on purpose to spite others complain about losing :thinking:

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

The mount will be available as an achievement for 300 kills in Feast

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One of the minions is 300 kills in Feast. Did you mean that?

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The mount will be available as an achievement for 300 kills in Feast but I understand the OPs thinking. Until they sort out the cheating in Feast you can work your guts out for nothing. Sad but true.

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So not for healers, damn , so the beating continues...
Well i dont care for the minion but doing this for the mount is is like giving a "dps mount" like tank ones, well i guess we have the unicorn for whm

it's minion, not the mount.
I need to improve if i wanna get the reward but i din't do 1000 games
It would be too harsh to do 1000 games with the others things you can do in the game.
I understand how much it's frustrating after doing so much

Not buying the salt at all. Lost a few matches because you gave up mid-matches. Want to be in the top-100, suggest you try harder.

Indeed, I meant the *minions* are available for 300 Feast kills and/or 300 Feast assists. I had read elsewhere it was the mounts & got overly excited. Unfortunately it's just the minions.

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Indeed, I meant the *minions* are available for 300 Feast kills and/or 300 Feast assists. I had read elsewhere it was the mounts & got overly excited. Unfortunately it's just the minions.

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Its okay i guess?

Minion collectors got upset and at least got a way to obtain them now.
Maybe mount / gear collectors need to get upset too :D

If you have the spare time to play 1000 matches and couldn't crack Diamond...honestly what was your win rate, like 30%? There are tons in the top 100 with a sub 50% win rate. I played tank only (20-30 min queues more often than not, even in primetime), the whole season I could at best play 2-3 matches a night, I even ran into the wonderful random losing streak because I would get matched with the same shitty healer, or that healer would suddenly switch to melee for better queues and be even worse. So I lose 10+ matches in a row that night.

Even with all of that being said, I busted my ass to get 300~ matches. Not to be a complete dick, but if you can't hit top 100 after 1000 matches...maybe you don't deserve it? I know that's hard to accept.

darn i am stuff and mount collector i am upset XD

PvP, like in most successful competitive PvP games, is more about skills than anything else. Skill that is only developed with time, dedication, introspection and feedback. As long as the playing field is normalized for everyone this fact is specially true (not saying that it is 100% for this game, specially with cheaters, wintraders, lag/distance disadvantage and imbalance etc.).

Consider that a lot of those people with less than 200 games in FFXIV might have played other similar games in the past. They might have spent way more hours than you do, and thus less than 200 games to get diamond or top 100 is the result of that skill obtained with that dedication. In my case I got to TOP 100 as a BLM with 285 games. I wish to have played way more as I find PvP in this game to be very fun. However I couldn't do more because my work is very mentally exhausting. With that said I am one of those players with a lot of previous experience. I got Gladiator (similar to TOP 100 in FFXIV) 2 times in WoW which PvP is very similar. I'm pretty sure I've ended up with thousands of games during my playtime of WoW arenas. And let me tell you at the beginning I was the same as you. I played an irresponsible amount of hours to develop the skill that I have today, and even then I feel that I'm not that good yet.

So don't feel down. Your countless games have made you better than just a few games or no games. Use that to your advantage for the next season. Keep improving, and seek to fix what you do wrong. You are many steps ahead than before, so everything is not for nothing.

By the way, I would recommend you to stick to a single job for as long as you can and try to master it. Seeing as many situations as possible with a single job will allow you to develop patterns to use to win games. I believe changing jobs all the time increases the level of complexity. I don't say this because in this game all I have is a BLM (in previous games I have had many other classes and I did the same anyways in FFXIV I just don't have enough time/will to level other things), I say this because this is what has worked for me.

If one were to eliminate the 100+ games that were intentionally thrown for one reason or another, one could theoretically get a higher score in a shorter amount of games and time. Just stuff to consider for S4.

Try doing the 3 loss rule-- if you lose 3 in a row stop for the day. That way you don't get stuck with match throwers

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it was biggest middle finger to face I ever got from this game.

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Truth is, if you play MOST of your matches as your main it just isn't good enough. You have to play almost all of your matches as your main to meet your goal. Season 1 I played almost 1000 matches but only 300 (?) as my main. Meaning 700 matches were literally just for fun and I wasn't expecting to win to the same degree.

...But if you can't make even Top 100 with 1000 matches then there's a problem on your side. It's not a "middle finger from the game". Someone's just said you give up mid-match and just throw it, so why make a forum post when it was your fault you ended up where you were? People can make Top 100 with as little as ~150 matches.

The first path to actually growing your skills and getting your goal is understanding your skill level and why/how things go wrong. Just learn from this seasons experience and try again.

Enjoy the karma.

I never saw how you play but if prople say you throw mid-match... Never do that. I did over 600 matches this season, and some were won when we were losing 575/225 - it made their team easy to kill with all these stacks and recover. Many matches were won last 10 seconds by melee LB. So don't give up till you see Defeat or Victory on screen.
Also, after losing -200 per day several times and being demoted I can recommend to STOP queing this day after 2 loses in a row, because it'll be a depressing and infuriating downward spiral and a lose streak. If you win, keep pushing your luck till you lose, then stop. Make small steps in your rating management and don't be too greedy because you can lose everything without a chance to recover if close to season end.

Yea, the system punishes spamming games... I went from 2220 -> 18xx on the last day... That's what I get for trying to push for top 10 and not stopping when I just got terrible matchups

This is precisely why I hope they tie the mount to number of wins as well, like the minions.