Quote Originally Posted by Serilda View Post
The Cometeor timing happens in JP groups irrespective of voice communications; the leader simply throws down a marker or two when everyone signals that they're ready in text and does a countdown so people have a chance to use their crowd control. Bam, half a dozen perfectly-timed AR explosions and most of an entire team wiped out. I don't know how it is on non-JP datacentres but blocking premades won't stop that in the slightest; most steamrolling GCs are just 1 sensible person with lots of macros and a bunch of randoms who follow orders. Personally, I don't mind it the way it is (Slaughter is ridiculous but it never pops any more due to the level cap).
Quote Originally Posted by Rilasha View Post
In non-JP datacentres, premades stomp without having to stack caster LBs. They literally win by killing people normally and the other two teams get steamrolled by this one party. The skill level gap between premades and randoms in non-JP servers is huge compared to the JP servers.
Both of these perspectives are exactly why PVP in general has a lot of problems. Trying to limit scope by saying "premades are the problem" or "Shatter/Slaughter/whatever is the problem" barely TOUCHES upon the plethora of issues the game mode has. There's not just problems with premades - tons of solo queuers could make macros to stack Cometeors in Slaughter, and they do it sometimes in Shatter too, it's just that there's not as many casters left in the mode due to caster-gutting so it doesn't always work out. It's not just a problem with Cometeor spam though either - there's not much room to capitalize on that in Shatter due to both less casters playing AND a bigger arena, and yet premades are still trolling around the map with multiple Battle Fevers winning the match with mostly just kills alone.

Even the removal of three-team gameplay, while solving a LOT of problems, would mean nothing without a separate queue for soloers and a separate queue for premades. And even THOSE things might mean nothing without the removal of personal LBs, back to the system of one shared LB that you were forced to coordinate and use wisely. Or even the removal of the LB system altogether.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly just one thing that is screwed up with PVP in this game right now.