3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Yeah, it's best 3 out 5. If you had 2 wins and 2 losses then it would go to the 5th match to decide if you promote or not. If you just win 3 in a row then it doesn't need the next two matches, you pass.

I was about to ask what happens to the points you gain during the qualifier, but I just realized you'll pretty much drop back down to 500 anyway if you don't qualify since you gain 25 off a win, then lose 15 or 16 on a loss.

[xTysonx]

I was about to ask what happens to the points you gain during the qualifier, but I just realized you'll pretty much drop back down to 500 anyway if you don't qualify since you gain 25 off a win, then lose 15 or 16 on a loss.

It drops as normal, even if you go below 500. If you lose too many matches on any rank above bronze and fall under the min. then it will demote you as well

[TetsuyaHikari]

It drops as normal, even if you go below 500. If you lose too many matches on any rank above bronze and fall under the min. then it will demote you as well

Dammit. I typed all of this stuff out, but accidentally clicked the wrong button. I'll just shorten it.

A. Do you have to participate in the qualifier again if you're demoted or can you just raise your points to automatically bring yourself back to silver (or whatever)?
B. Is there a demotion period like the qualifier where you have to win 3 out of 5 matches to keep your rank or do you just drop back down?

EDIT: Also, do rankings only update every week? I thought it would be every day, but I guess they're keeping the same format they had for Frontline and stuff, huh?

[xTysonx]

Dammit. I typed all of this stuff out, but accidentally clicked the wrong button. I'll just shorten it.

A. Do you have to participate in the qualifier again if you're demoted or can you just raise your points to automatically bring yourself back to silver (or whatever)?

Yes, I got demoted in preseason and you basically have to get back to (that ranks) min points and retake the qualifier

B. Is there a demotion period like the qualifier where you have to win 3 out of 5 matches to keep your rank or do you just drop back down?

It tells you with a giant message you been demoted and just puts you down the next rank, you will still have whatever points you had at demotion, meaning you can recover rather from starting from scratch

EDIT: Also, do rankings only update every week? I thought it would be every day, but I guess they're keeping the same format they had for Frontline and stuff, huh?

I assume its a 24hr like most lodestone stuff and its posted on the site
* Rankings are updated daily when seasons are in progress. Should an error occur with calculating results, the day's rankings will not be updated.

I put the answers in red

[TetsuyaHikari]

Hrm... Alright then. I haven't seen the rankings update today even though the first day it says they were updated at 11:00 P.M. and 12:00 A.M. PDT.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Alright, just checked and apparently they must have updated the rankings in the past hour. It seems they're going to stick to the timetable they made since the beginning, so the rankings page will actually update at around 2:00 A.M. PDT or so. At least that's when it did for me anyway. I'm currently in the top 10 on Primal so far, but it's only the second day, lol. Still... I was #19 yesterday, so this is a better improvement than I thought. I don't know how the hell this #1 guy already has over 800 points though.

Talk about getting incredibly lucky with teams. I had to do my best just to claw out of bronze because every time I would get close to reaching 500 points, I'd get like 3-4 bad teams in a row, then get pulled right back down to 400. I always run PLD in The Feast and I find that it's rather incredible that there are sooooooooo many players that can't even follow a simple instruction like "focus on the marked target" and want to just do their own thing, inevitably screwing the entire team over. How hard is it to attack the guy with the 1 over his head...?

Really hope they start weeding these guys out soon and I only get stuck with people that actually play The Feast like it's 4v4 instead of 1v1.