Uncapped AoE is ruining PvP Frontline/Rival Wings

[Niroken]

This is basically what it looks like when the other teams are stacked. While the team I was on had issues with staying together, the flames literally just camped the spawn for the team and yes they were mostly DRK, BLM, SMN, SAM, oddly no dragoons, but warrior was there. The big thing was that the DRKs were always fishing out anyone with a lot of single target burst automatically and then just running off to do other things because everyone else will do the work for them. I can't do anything if I'm pulled into a mob and then cut up while the rest of the team is mindlessly running around getting mass CCed / AOE'ed while being constantly pushed into a corner. In fact, I think both the other teams basically just decided to troll adders.

I am literally on a freaking machinist with an LB and drill combo, and I can't even kill the BLM. He just double tanks two attacks meant to assassinate a single target because there is so much healing and so much cover from running around in the school of fish, that others can't even join in to finish the job. The only jobs that have any impact are ones that either fish or can do mass CC / Damage to a huge number of targets.

I'm sorry. A 3 man game where one team is basically at 70 points? Out of 700? With every team being literal 24 man raids it is not as simple as a player skill issue unless everyone just happens to be bad on that 24 man team and can't attack.

Usually when I find these scenarios it's one team (usually flames) that is hyper aggressive from the start, pick a team that is the weakest of the two and uses that team as fodder for BH cheese. The other team (in this case Maelstrom) will continue objective hunting while killing the last team (Adders) in order to keep up with the BH advantage Flames got from feeding off of Adders. Maelstrom may attack Flames first depending on the situation but if they do, Adders usually attacks Maelstrom because Flames is stronger from BH farming so the option would be to attack the weaker team out of the two. After this, Maelstrom will focus on Adders to avoid getting teamed by both Adders and Flames (as Adders is the weakest so the biggest threat is Maelstrom to Flames).

Eventually Maelstrom will have to attack Flames and both teams will backhand Adders if they try to benefit from the two teams on the fighting. Since both of the top teams at this point have a substantial BH advantage, Adders is pretty much done.

[Mawlzy]

Usually when I find these scenarios it's one team (usually flames) that is hyper aggressive from the start, pick a team that is the weakest of the two and uses that team as fodder for BH cheese. The other team (in this case Maelstrom) will continue objective hunting while killing the last team (Adders) in order to keep up with the BH advantage Flames got from feeding off of Adders. Maelstrom may attack Flames first depending on the situation but if they do, Adders usually attacks Maelstrom because Flames is stronger from BH farming so the option would be to attack the weaker team out of the two. After this, Maelstrom will focus on Adders to avoid getting teamed by both Adders and Flames (as Adders is the weakest so the biggest threat is Maelstrom to Flames).

Eventually Maelstrom will have to attack Flames and both teams will backhand Adders if they try to benefit from the two teams on the fighting. Since both of the top teams at this point have a substantial BH advantage, Adders is pretty much done.

You're suggesting that, in a mode in which team assignment is random, the Flames have a tendency to behave in a certain way?

[Niroken]

You're suggesting that, in a mode in which team assignment is random, the Flames have a tendency to behave in a certain way?

Based on my observations, strangely yes. The teams have a vague generalization that is reminiscent of previous iterations of Frontlines PVP when more PvP focused players picked one GC. Flames are generally more aggressive, followed by Maelstrom and lastly by Adders. It's not always the case but it's what I've observed over the years. As to the reason why that may be I could only theorize. As someone who is in the Flames GC I find myself more involved when I am on Flames, leading me to try harder then when I am on Maelstrom or Adders. Impossible to say if that rings true for everyone or maybe it's entirely false and I am imagining it.

[Mawlzy]

Based on my observations, strangely yes. The teams have a vague generalization that is reminiscent of previous iterations of Frontlines PVP when more PvP focused players picked one GC. Flames are generally more aggressive, followed by Maelstrom and lastly by Adders. It's not always the case but it's what I've observed over the years. As to the reason why that may be I could only theorize. As someone who is in the Flames GC I find myself more involved when I am on Flames, leading me to try harder then when I am on Maelstrom or Adders. Impossible to say if that rings true for everyone or maybe it's entirely false and I am imagining it.

If enough people believe it, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.