PvP Ranked System needs addressing.

[Rhyneth]

I think the biggest issue why Ranked sucks in CC and can be such a frustrating experience is because there's no "draft phase" and what I mean by that is.
There's no role restrictions and matchmaking is just pooling 10 people of whatever class together (which means you can have 4 DPS, 1 Tank or 3 Tanks and 2 DPS ect, all sorts of wild stuff), however, I think if for thirty seconds everyone could pick what class they were going to commit to for the game, as well as seeing the opposing team's picks it would lead to healthier games and teamplay.

Almost every team-based ranked mode in other games allows a phase to draft, I think it'd also help fix CC's biggest issues of wildly varying compositions but the only issue here is how FFXIV works, they'd likely have to re-code parts of the game to allow this functionality to be much greater in-depth or do some half-baked method of drafting in CC.

I think the easiest fix for the dev team would be to allow people to freely change classes during the pre-game setup, we already have to wait thirty seconds until the game starts when everyone loads in, so why not allow that time to let people change between gearsets to select different classes? Like sure people might counter-pick, but isn't that apart of PvP skill; that being the knowledge aspect to pick something stronger against what you'll go against to give your team the advantage potentially. Of course then it'd come down to which side could execute fights better with their arranged compositions.

Obviously with the current systems in place, when people can queue as teams (when it comes available) there'll be no issues since everyone will arrange their composition before queueing as appropriate but for solo play this is not possible, since anyone can be paired with everyone at the mercy of matchmaking.