Why people don't want to PVP in this game...

[KenjiMuyo]

The balance in Feast 4v4 is actually much better than other MMOs when they first released similar arena style PvP modes.

[Eorzean_username]

Can you elaborate more on this? I'm ironing out the kinks in some guides, but am not entirely sure I have everything covered. I'm new enough to remember when I didn't even know what an AST was, but any insight into what's been tripping people up helps.

Sorry for missing this question earlier. As for the answer, it's hard to remember everything, since it's been a while since I was truly deer-in-headlights new.

But some stuff that immediately springs to mind as both very opaque and very unintuitive (coming from PvE), while also being very important:

• BRD and MCH do more damage the closer they are to a victim. (?)
• Diminishing Returns on CC, how it triggers, and how long it takes to reset.
• LBs aren't LBs, and they aren't shared, and function differently.
• Healers don't DPS. (!)

Defense:

• Defense and Magic Defense mean nothing and do nothing, damage taken is based only on Role/Job.
• Foresight and Fey Covenant do nothing.
• Protect does nothing.

Dispels:

• MNK can spam-dispel all of your buffs, including extremely-important rotational stuff like Berserk, absorbs like Stoneskin and Crit Galvanize, even defensive CDs (including Attunement and Hallowed Ground, if the MNK is lucky).
• PLD and SMN can also do this, but on super-long CDs so it's not as important.
• So Protect, Foresight, and Fey Covenant are actually useful after all (!) as a junk buff to try to save your real buffs.

Probably more I'm forgetting. It was a lot to suddenly crash-course because it was so different than all the rules in PvE.

[Boom_Shakalak]

I'm silver rank, and I now wait for almost 4 hours to play 4 on 4 I'm almost to a point that I'm giving up on feast till next season.

I feel this so hard. And I'm just starting.

[Dimitrii]

There is no way to climb anymore in standings in Feast, at least not in the NA data centers. The top 100 have been static for over 2 weeks now. You may as well just wait for next season. Try to get your games in at the start of the season since this situation will end up repeating itself once people hit 1100 points and retire again till the end of the season to maintain standing. I didn't originally like the idea of rank decay since there are days where I just do not have time to pvp during the week but the way this is turning out it seems almost mandatory to have that instituted.

[Cynric]

There is no way to climb anymore in standings in Feast, at least not in the NA data centers. The top 100 have been static for over 2 weeks now. You may as well just wait for next season. Try to get your games in at the start of the season since this situation will end up repeating itself once people hit 1100 points and retire again till the end of the season to maintain standing. I didn't originally like the idea of rank decay since there are days where I just do not have time to pvp during the week but the way this is turning out it seems almost mandatory to have that instituted.

Pretty much 100% mandatory if the rewards change. If they do not you may see more people inclined to not care about their placing in the first place. If they offer the same rewards there is a very high chance about 100 per data center have just retired

[Zensho]

JP data centers PvP like a boss. Super active and fun. (prime time is condensed since they only have one timezone)