Blackout - What Happens?

[Stormfur]

Since this is my first season of Feast, what happens during the blackout week? Do rankings still accumulate, they're just not posted on the site?

[Zojha]

Nothing, really. Everything proceeds as usual except that you cannot look up the ratings on the Feast page anymore.

The cynic in me wants to remark that it's the best time to wintrade due to that.

[SuperZay]

What happens is many people think they are safe and don't que, just to see their Top 100 spot lost 1 week later. Unless they are really high on the list.
Many deliberatelly waited for the last week to get in Top 100/Top 10, because, as you may know, lower rating balances you with higher rated teammates and a higher chance to win.
However many high rated players will not que in the blind week at all so I don't know if this tactic will work. I myself need around 100 points to be in safe zone, but who knows if I'll get them with silver healers and dps in que. A tank can influence the match only so much.

[KusoWat]

The cynic in me wants to remark that it's the best time to wintrade due to that.

That's not cynicism, it's truth.

It's exactly what has happened every season.

[Praesul]

Look forward to name changes and fantasia, and people climbing up by an obscene amount of points.

[itsoni]

Everybody secretly goes +100 and you lose your spot. Also... about 3-4 players nobody's ever heard of will end up in the Top 100.

[randysquirrel]

haha I've already seen a few name changes, didn't think anything of it, until the post above... sort of makes sense, everyone suddenly trying to go anonymous lol

this has been my first season (since garo) and I have no chance of getting anywhere near the top 100, but it's still been a lot of fun. a steep learning curve, but fun nonetheless

these sort of "underhand" tactics, wintrading etc, sound rubbish for anyone that actually takes it seriously and has made a concerted effort to place. what a shame. sounds like the only way to compete with that is to do it yourself. maybe they should have diminishing returns for beating the same player each week, to reduce the impact of people just continuously queuing against the same team

[Stormfur]

It really is. I can only hope that the GMs are monitoring things and will strip the win traders of their rankings. But .... one can dream.

[KusoWat]

It really is. I can only hope that the GMs are monitoring things and will strip the win traders of their rankings. But .... one can dream.

It's more likely that we will get a 3rd job in Stormblood than it is for SE to actually do something about cheaters in PvP.

[Stormrider]

Was just looking at last update out of curiosity. Did someone from aether move or get a boot. Players 3-20 (21?) all moved up but no one really moved down. The board makes sense at 56 they jumped up a bunch and everyone between them and old position moved down.