R.I.P. Feast?

[Dimitrii]

On primal the rankings are way too tight starting from mid to bottom for feast to stay dead all the way through till 3.35. Once they announce the release date for 3.35 more than half of the top 100 most likely gonna be forced to play simply because there just isn't enough separation in points. Case in point #47 currently has 1149 points while #100 has 1030. That's only a 119 point difference which is nothing. Especially considering the fact that just before the patch hit the minimum amount of points to get into the top 100 was rapidly rising again (for weeks the late 990s was enough to get in and in the span of like 3 or 4 days it finally not only eclipsed 1k points but went up to 1030 points (and will likely keep climbing later on). I'm still of the opinion if you have less than 1150 points you do not have the points to be able to safely just retire and ride out the season and will most likely have to feast again later on whether you want to or not to remain in the top 100.

Whether you ended the season at 3.3 or 3.35 seems irrelevant to me because even if you ended the season at 3.3 you would still have to wait a week or 2 to start the new feast. New PVE content will always supercede PVP even for the most hardcore of PVP'ers usually. So if you are gonna suffer this dead period in feast regardless you may as well let it end at 3.35 and give ppl outside the top 100 a shot at getting in later.

[Thekk]

Whether you ended the season at 3.3 or 3.35 seems irrelevant to me because even if you ended the season at 3.3 you would still have to wait a week or 2 to start the new feast. New PVE content will always supercede PVP even for the most hardcore of PVP'ers usually. So if you are gonna suffer this dead period in feast regardless you may as well let it end at 3.35 and give ppl outside the top 100 a shot at getting in later.

Funny you'd give your example starting with rank #47 given that's me xD.

In the past month, rank 100 was going up 10-20 points at most a week, sometimes less. I seriously doubt it'll move up by over 100 in the 2-3 weeks after they announce 3.35 is coming, if we even get that much of a heads up. Considering that at that rating, losses start costing more than wins gives you (all depending on how "balanced" your match is), you'll need 5 more wins than losses to get that, and all those people are going to be fighting each other. I simply don't see 50 people getting that many points that fast, especially with a reduced number of matches going on.

We all know that PvE has more importance than PvP for a huge portion of the player base, and I think that's exactly why it should have ended with a major patch (3.3). There is a lot more time for people to clear the smaller amount of new content in a minor patch during the long period before the next major patch in opposition to clearing the bigger amount of new content from a major patch before the next small patch hits shortly after. Players with less time on their hands had a much better opportunity to compete for a final rush right before 3.3 hit because they had plenty of time to finish all they had to before. Now when 3.35 hits, they'll have to make choices between working on PvE or PvP. And all that is leaving aside that with the addition of Shatter, the PvP community is now split.

[KenjiMuyo]

Well at least queue popped today for the first time since patch hit.