Some words of encouragement for climbers.

[Nihility]

Up until your in the top tier the pvp ranking is very much just getting thrown into a tumbler full of garbage, getting beaten against the walls for a while, and hoping it spits you out in the right direction.

I'm only in gold, don't really play that much, but still get teamed up with people that maybe have 3 or 4 career wins. You'll get 10 game losing streaks where all you can think at the end is "did they really think funneling in 1 at a time versus a full team was going to work?"
and then you'll get 5 wins in a row and jump 3 ranks in the snap of a finger

my wife got to platinum accidentally not having 3 skills on her bar including her limit break, it's just luck of the draw

[Jybril]

Up until your in the top tier the pvp ranking is very much just getting thrown into a tumbler full of garbage, getting beaten against the walls for a while, and hoping it spits you out in the right direction.

I'm only in gold, don't really play that much, but still get teamed up with people that maybe have 3 or 4 career wins. You'll get 10 game losing streaks where all you can think at the end is "did they really think funneling in 1 at a time versus a full team was going to work?"
and then you'll get 5 wins in a row and jump 3 ranks in the snap of a finger

my wife got to platinum accidentally not having 3 skills on her bar including her limit break, it's just luck of the draw

For me it's a limbo in S3. I just can't get out. MM is garbage because
I get Bronze or Unranks versus like Gold 1 then constant meta picks on enemy side.
WHM + WAR + DRG + BLM + RDM lately in almost every game today and I'm just sick of it lol.
My luck ran out when I won a few games just to quickly head out of Bronze and Silver is where I stay.

At least you guys are getting 2 stars, I haven't seen that in the last 30-40 games I've played.
I'm just going up a star, then lose 10, up 1, and lose 8, etc.
I like the bit of competitiveness but only I can take so much of the stunlock metapick 10 kill WHM sweatruns vs.
my team who is Deathmatching the random NIN on the side while everyone else is pushing every single game like I'm sorry lol.