There basically was a cabal of wintraders on the NA DC's, who got slapped on the wrist. Lets not even talk about people using third party tools.

That alone would be enough to discourage someone from wanting to rank to top 100 when PvP is so poorly moderated, and penalties are not high enough to discourage illicit gameplay. Not to mention the casual population of our game who already have a low opinion of PvP. It just makes the image of FFXIV PvP even worse than it already is. If people think augmented hellhound weapons are going to change that, sorry to say but probably not.

CC queues are fine as they are, we don't need premades. If they're going to change anything they can just merge both casual and ranked and put in a better matchmaker, and assign rank promotions/demotions based on ingame performance. Assuming anyone has faith in SE implementing any changes to PvP with their current track record.