Ratcheting ranking system makes for an utterly miserable experience

[Loggos]

I said this years ago that ranking should be job based. Like if you got to platinum on WHM then if you suddenly switch to say SGE then you will have to start from bronze 3 again. This way, people who are trying to climb won’t have to deal with your newness to a job just because you see other players playing it well and now you wanna try it. Stop disabling your team like that. Try jobs in causal not in ranked.

This honestly seems like the most intuitive and effective solution. I’m surprised this is not how the game handles it because it would be such an easy way to solve certain problems.

[AlliciaCapulet]

This honestly seems like the most intuitive and effective solution. I’m surprised this is not how the game handles it because it would be such an easy way to solve certain problems.

Well it's the same thing in almost every game. I agree that it would be a solution, but, just an example out of many, if you play League of Legends for example, you can play any champion and you will stay on the same rank. It's also impossible to fall down in rank, like here.

And why is it like that? Because it allow players to adapt. Let's say that the queue is full of WAR that queue. Well, you might end up with an higher waiting time between 2 matchs because too many people play your job. Then, you can swap to something else and play faster. Sometime when I play and that I keep getting the same bad person on a job, and that I know that I can do better, I will take the job so that way I'm sure I won't be queued with that person again. But when you try to reach Diamond or Crystal for the weapon reward, you don't want to rank up on multiple jobs.

I understand that I don't know how to play the 19 jobs in pvp, I'm good with maybe 2 and ok with another 2, that's all. But yeah, I did my practice in non ranked. Some player doesn't care, that's the issue.

Maybe SE should instead put a restriction, like you need 30 match in casual with a job to be able to play ranked with it.