Thread: Patch 4.3 Notes - PvP section

Personally my only issue with the new changes is the fact that like you said, there's still no rank decay which is a NEED haha!
Also the fact that your rating carries over, to me that just doesn't seem fair to anyone that isn't top 100 or close to it. if you make diamond you start in gold, plat start in silver. etc. I understand what they are trying to do, with help better match making with players of your "skill level" maybe it's just me and it isn't as bad as it sounds to me haha! guess we will see XD.

I fear that the rating carry-over will cause the queues for No Tier and Bronze Tier will die a lot sooner than what they already do. As you said, good for people that play a lot, bad for people that play less, from time to time.

Originally Posted by OskarXCI

I fear that the rating carry-over will cause the queues for No Tier and Bronze Tier will die a lot sooner than what they already do. As you said, good for people that play a lot, bad for people that play less, from time to time.

This is my concern too, but I'm hoping I'm wrong and it'll get more players to play. A lot of people quit because they get stomped by good players. Removing good players from low rank means they get more fair matches early on, which hopefully means beginners won't run away.

The feast map modifications and revive at spawn brings back the 'push and pull' dynamic of the fight, which is good.

Unless I am missing something, the class balance is yet again a roll of the dice, especially as PLD's cover is still unchanged. This will basically turn Solo into a culling-fest where whoever gets the first kill will force a run-back to spawn, healers will be the juicy target.

BLM looks like it got nerfed into the ground, but there's maybe 2 players on chaos who play BLM and you rarely see them, so it's just further pounding the class into the floor.

WAR changes seem pointless, an extra second on Inner Beast has never helped me as far as I can recall, they're still too under-powered versus a heavy DPS team.

The rest of the classes IDK much about, but we'll see how it goes.

This is the best RDM has ever been at least, so I'm happy with that.

The Daily Map Challenge may be a killer for me but I will wait to see what the Secure changes mean. It looks like it will be another Shatter mode. I will probably only play 2-3 days a week for Seize.

I think this will be the other problem as queues may die off even further on specific days of the week.

Originally Posted by Wintersandman

The Daily Map Challenge may be a killer for me but I will wait to see what the Secure changes mean. It looks like it will be another Shatter mode.

Originally Posted by Reyn

I hope the changes they're making don't turn it into another Shatter.

It will be similar to Shatter but less with reliance on PvE enemies. Secure only has one big PvE target.

With the reduced size of the map, it will have a greater emphasis on bases compared to Shatter. Especially on 72-man matches since you have 6 bases instead of just 3 in 24-man. You get 10 points for removing one other team's claim over a base and another 10 points securing it for your team. Only 1 point per tick though compared to bases on Shatter where they give you 2 points per tick. They didn't mention bases in the patch notes so I would assume this weren't changed.

Originally Posted by Sunako

I m bit sad hyoton nerfed into 2 seconds. It was fun bind tank and melee for 4 second constantly, but I guess it was kinda annoy for opponents.

4 second bind would have been pretty much OP when you think about the changes to Bind itself and respawn changes in the Feast.