People wearing lvl 1 gear in Feast, getting sick of it

[Petite]

I agree.

To put it into perspective, imagine if you were obliged to solo queue into raid finder for savage content with complete randoms and without minimum ilvl gear. That would never fly with the community.

Not only that, ranked modes are just that: ranked. They should be treated with more seriousness than casual modes.

[Zojha]

Well, the solution to the gear issue is simple:
In ranked PvP, gear is nullified and stats forced to a set value. Thus, the influence of gear is eliminated, leaving only skill, lag, job differences, chance and synergy effects as determinants for the match outcome.

Not only that, ranked modes are just that: ranked. They should be treated with more seriousness than casual modes.

Can't help snickering at the notion every time. Slapping the "Ranked" tag on the mode is going to make people treat it like a serious competition as much as slapping the "Expert" tag onto a roulette is going to make people treat it like content that requires profound knowledge and high expertise. That is, not at all, because it's neither serious nor expert content. It's solo queue, the same mode duty finder is infamous for. Pugs. The tool that exists to trade quality for quantity to cater to casual demands of faster queues. It's a casual mode by nature. Big surprise, people are treating it as such! What an outrage. I wonder if people will ever lose their delusions about this...

[aeoncs]

Well, the solution to the gear issue is simple:
In ranked PvP, gear is nullified and stats forced to a set value. Thus, the influence of gear is eliminated, leaving only skill, lag, job differences, chance and synergy effects as determinants for the match outcome.

That's the lazy, blizzard-like approach. Min-maxing is fun and shouldn't be taken away from players just because a select few are too lazy and/or ignorant to properly gear themselves.

Can't help snickering at the notion every time. Slapping the "Ranked" tag on the mode is going to make people treat it like a serious competition as much as slapping the "Expert" tag onto a roulette is going to make people treat it like content that requires profound knowledge and high expertise. That is, not at all, because it's neither serious nor expert content. It's solo queue, the same mode duty finder is infamous for. Pugs. The tool that exists to trade quality for quantity to cater to casual demands of faster queues. It's a casual mode by nature. Big surprise, people are treating it as such! What an outrage. I wonder if people will ever lose their delusions about this...

That's a really odd and unreasonable comparison. Saying that a solo queue mode is casual by nature pretty much only implies that you have never played it at a high level, in any game. I don't have very much Feast experience since I started like 2-3 weeks prior to the patch but I have played other solo queue games/modes, like LoL, at a relatively high level and while it isn't as competitive as team ranked, it's only casual if you as a player treat it as such. If you wanna get to the top, you have to give it your best, even when playing with people you have differences with - solo queue is different for each player involved but in the end it is a ranked mode, making it competitive by nature, not the other way around.

[Norleas]

I'm surprised the stats aren't completely scaled for a competitive mode. Never did the feast. Welp, that's SE for you.