Day two of playing as ranged DPS I was promoted to Silver with a rating of 586 (60% win rate). 50 matches on, my rating is now 474 (36% win rate). Where I'm Silver and the majority of Silver+ players appear to be healers, I'm almost always placed against a Silver healer, who can out-heal the unrated healer on my team.

In this match our team's unrated healer was 38% as effective as the opposing team's Silver-rated healer - for every 10,000 HP the opposing healer recovered, ours recovered 3,800.



I propose:
  1. Rating and job type should determine who you are placed against.
  2. A given job type should only ever be placed against the same job type plus or minus one rating level.

If I'm a Silver-rated ranged DPS I should only ever be placed in a party against Bronze, Silver or Gold Ranged DPS. If I'm a Bronze-rated Tank, I should only ever be placed in a party against an unrated, Bronze or Silver Tank.