Ranks in PvP are usually used as a form of MMR bracket typing. However, we have to deal with bronze and unranked showing up in gold matches which is atrocious. When we have a group in an MMR bracket it is easier to determine what I can do better.

When you get someone unranked at my gold 2 promotional game and they don't know the buttons because they didn't play casual mode and drip-feed 4v5 fights, there is NOTHING I can do. NOTHING. I can't focus on "what mistakes I did", in an absolutely outnumbered steamroll because I got the bad unranked player.

So even if you can carry your games, you still need the RNG to be in your favor that the games are "carryable". Once, you establish a >50% win rate, you need to grind games for massive amounts of hours when the tier levels are completely arbitrary.

You need 4 ranks of gold for what? 4 ranks of diamond for what? If you can win the total number of stars in that rank (12 games for gold, diamond, etc.)- why would you de-rank? It is arbitrary. You have already proved you can win that number of games in gold etc. Now you have RNG as the factor by which you rank.

Don't even get me started with the auto-scripts. If you have completed your series malmstones, haven't hit the diamond for the commendation, and are stressed to hell, it's ok to quit.

The reward system is flawed and that is on the developer's side to see these things out. Usually, the best reward systems allow a player to obtain an exclusive appearance for a long period of time, but SE has made these weapon and armor models for people who might not even play the game in the near future. Just wasted assets in the game that is denied for most of the player base on RNG or based on the length of the season.

Unobtainables are exclusively the worst rewards in MMOs because it punishes you for your circumstances in life, irrespective of skill or anything else. Ultimate fights are always available but not these PvP rewards. Don't let these developers make you resent the game.

I look at my 3 yr old son and am like "he will never own a Hellhound Attire Coffer". So don't worry about it. Just chill. The funny thing is, I feel like the final relic weapons are going to outshine the augmented hell hounds and they are going to be tomestone-only requirements .

They make you upset via the grind. Wait how upset you'll be when some random PvE weapons outshines the hellhound weapons. I know because I look at the DSR GNB weapon and the augmented hell hound and I think to myself "Man if I was a GNB main, I would have no reason to go after these hellhound weapons" lol.

Imo the only weapons I think are worth it are WAR (barely, because the blade is small), SAM, RPR, RDM - and MAYBE NIN.

Everything else has better models w/ better particle effects.