Question about pvp

[Wolwosh]

Hello ^^
I try to do pvp everyday (Frontline) a d some extra if the que is okay, for the marks and if possible the Garo mount.
Here is my issue;
It seems like I can never get a win with my grand company (Gridania)
It feels like Limsa is always super organised and my GC just yolo's >_<
They go for kills instead and totally ignore crystals etc
Should I change GC, am I missing something?
This isn't a salty rage post, i'm a patient guy and I don't mind getting it a day before 5.1.
I just feel like i'm not getting anywhere like this and i'm wondering if anyone has suggestions about this problem.

[GrimGale]

PvP suffers from faction Imbalance. Maelstorm seems to have become the "serious PVP" faction so most adept pvprs flocked to it.

PvP is not exactly popular in this game, long queue times and imbalance are the general reasons.

[spf1200]

Hello ^^
I try to do pvp everyday (Frontline) a d some extra if the que is okay, for the marks and if possible the Garo mount.
Here is my issue;
It seems like I can never get a win with my grand company (Gridania)
It feels like Limsa is always super organised and my GC just yolo's >_<
They go for kills instead and totally ignore crystals etc
Should I change GC, am I missing something?
This isn't a salty rage post, i'm a patient guy and I don't mind getting it a day before 5.1.
I just feel like i'm not getting anywhere like this and i'm wondering if anyone has suggestions about this problem.

You could try signing up as a freelancer and hope you get lucky or you could change GC until you get what you are after.

[spf1200]

Oops didn't mean to quote the OP and can't edit on a phone

[RyuSaarva]

maelstorm used to be dominant but lately I have seen gridania do really well, personally my own win% has dropped a lot during this expansion, maybe I just started to suck more or more people use premades with voice chat.

[Wolwosh]

Can you pre made the roulette though?

[Cidel]

There's no "right" answer to your question, but Maelstrom does have something of a better winrate than the other two. The problem is when enough people realize that, they bandwagon to Maelstrom and it inevitably becomes bogged down with the complacent people that are hoping to be "carried" and not put any effort into learning the objectives or learning how to effectively play their role; not realizing (or caring) that they're part of their own problem. Thus Maelstrom periodically falls into pretty bad "lows" when it accrues enough refugees from Flames and Adders looking for "easy wins;" and this is when I find that Adders usually start to dominate. So you can be patient and stay with Adders; I imagine it won't be long before you experience a spike in winrates- or swap to Maelstrom and possibly find yourself in the same situation for a time because it always gets spurts of those "fair-weather" transfers that dilutes the overall skill level until they seek greener pastures again- usually in Adders. It's a cycle.


And yes, premades do (must) use roulette, but they are forced into Freelancer status. Premades are the exception to observed winrates, because their existence on any team usually greatly increases the cohesion of the team they end up on. Half of the battle of Frontlines is getting the rest of your team on the same page- made easier when one-third of the alliance is actively leading the rest and farming battle-highs/fevers.