Quote Originally Posted by FeyFavilla View Post
Stress, mostly. [...]
Stress and anxiety to perform is most certainly something tied to Ranked, yeah - but being screamed at in this community, at least in EU, is something I have experienced as often as I can count on half of a hand. Generally bad behaviour if it is done in ingame chat is easily punishable with a GM report, so that keeps things at bay.

On the other hand... the mode is just not worth the time investment, plain and simple. Stress and anxiety can be moderately mitigated if not overcome, but if you got no reason to even stay other than "I like pvp but I want to play in my skill bracket", then it's not worth fighting your inner demons over it.

I love ranked pvp, I dont even have any anxiety about it - and it's still not worth doing it for me, there's nothing worth the effort at the end of the road. That's time I could be playing ranked in games that reward me, or getting other stuff done.