3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Most irritating is seeing people come in, not use PVP abilities at all, wearing PVE gear ONLY (PVE gear by itself is good but not good enough) and then fail to pay attention to medal counts. Further, I speculate they haven't upgraded their Mind/Peity or Vit/Int under the PVP menus. I think many bronze players get screwed over by this factor when trying to reach silver. Often I'll get silver tier to run against and do very well. Then I get put in a match with barely Bronze players and it looks like I just picked up the game for the first time. Can't cast, can't stay alive, opposing healer with 200+ medals and other DPS is going after caster with 25. Something has to change with the ranking system. Going from a 70% win percentage down to 40% makes anyone want to quit PVPing.

Actually, PvP gear is shit for this mode, unfortunately, so yeah... You would actually be better off with PvE gear here. Unfortunately, the PvP gear is what's not "good enough" here. It bothers me more when players come in there in full PvP gear, thinking their morale and shit actually makes a difference, when it doesn't, lol. Blame SE for that though.

I'll agree with your point about that PvP abilities though. It seems a lot of people just simply forget they have them. Also, something definitely does need to change because we're having entirely too many good players getting screwed out of wins because of scrubs.

Last night I had an unranked healer in 13 of 16 matches. It's always fun as a melee to be paired with new and inexperienced healers with the current meta being to ALWAYS burn the melee first since they never have the defense buff. It was so bad I started conceding the attack buff as well (something I never do unless there's a war on my team) since I wasn't living for more than 10 to 15 seconds at the start of engagements anyway. Couple that with all these fking nins on primal pretty much guarenteeing an advantage at the start of the match since they can use hide to avoid this new meta while DRG and MNK can't (though monk at least can pop fist of earth, on drg either I stand and die or try to kite and do no dmg in the process).

Yeah... I always get focused pretty damn hard in the beginning as a NIN since I grab the offense buff. Even after that though, I see people constantly focusing me anyway and I'm like "wtf? why me again?", lol. A NIN hiding at the beginning really isn't something you should be worrying about though.

What becomes really problematic is when we have 4 or more stacks and we're hiding towards the end, heh.

EDIT: Welp, the rankings for today just updated and it finally happened... I'm no longer even listed in the top 100 any more. It happened just like I said it would. The bronze have been flushed out tonight and now only silver remains. Unfortunately... I have the lowest amount of points I can have in silver right now, so I'm not even listed any more. I told myself I was supposed to get 800 points by this point in order to stay on the ladder, but I only broke 600 once and I've been going back and forth since then, barely even able to maintain 500 now.

The top 10 seems like it's further and further away now, so I'm not even sure what the hell I'm supposed to do at this point since you need at least 925 points (on Primal anyway) to even be in the top 10 now.