Remove the Grand Company aspect entirely from Frontline

[DrWho2010]

Rival Wings required too many people plus class balance was wayy off, healers were wayy too OP. plus people did not know how to play the mode properly leading to a lot of unbalanced matches. all the good people grinded out mindlessly for the mount and then abandoned it.

[Nova_Rox]

Rival Wings required too many people plus class balance was wayy off, healers were wayy too OP. plus people did not know how to play the mode properly leading to a lot of unbalanced matches. all the good people grinded out mindlessly for the mount and then abandoned it.

That's the case with all PvP though, I'm talking the point of people not knowing how to play properly.

[Kai_Lee]

Rival Wings required too many people plus class balance was wayy off, healers were wayy too OP. plus people did not know how to play the mode properly leading to a lot of unbalanced matches. all the good people grinded out mindlessly for the mount and then abandoned it.

SE needs to revamp the PvP skills, as of right now it requires like 3-4 players just to kill a healer in frontline.

[GrumbleBeard]

Freelancer is a great option and definitely helps the queue problem that arr and hw had. I will say though, one thing I miss from back then is the faction loyalty many people had. It was kind of fun knowing what players they other teams would have and trying to plan against them, wholeheartedly cursing out their GC.

[Divinemights]

SE needs to revamp the PvP skills, as of right now it requires like 3-4 players just to kill a healer in frontline.

You just need 2 MCHs that know the mechanic, they can vaporize a healer

[Astrololol]

Yeah, it takes a lot of skill to actually focus fire the marked enemies, especially with a bunch of ranged dps in a call, vs randos, trying to work with a mix of people who don't pay attention to constant notices in the chat/people who actually are willing to cooperate/bots here and there.

[Drawxne]

Can confirm that Adders just threw the win to Maelstrom in my daily Seal Rock just now. It was sickening.

[Theodric]

Can confirm that Adders just threw the win to Maelstrom in my daily Seal Rock just now. It was sickening.

I think I may have been in that match with you...

It is, unfortunately, something I see happen quite frequently.

[GenericMagus]

I agree with the constant switching to Mael for free wins. This often ends up making people feel like they have to queue up as Mael, and just as Mael if Adders or Flames can barely win.

I know friends who are Mael who have done it, and they are sickened by it. This is not healthy to have one GC be a winner for too long, it affects the queue times, pre-Freelancer queue times.

Just put Freelancer on permeantly. No need to have the option to queue as a GC anymore, stop people swapping to Mael, increasing queue times as they turn off freelancer and then boom, PvP is back to the infamous queue times of yore.

[Vandesdelca]

I'm just here to agree with this. I started as Flames and generally stuck with them through thick and thin, and I also used to do Frontlines a lot. However with the GC-jumping, it feels like the game is "switch to Mael and grind out your wins there". I CAN still win as Flames...if I play between 1am-3am EST.

If the winning tactic is "make sure you queue as the right team" or "queue while everyone is asleep and exclusively play 8mans for a fairer shot of winning" then something is definitely broken.