Hi everyone!
This is my first post on the forums, but I wanted to give my feedback on the new PvP after finishing my grind to Crystal rank a few days ago. I didn’t want to read too many other forum posts about PvP balance yet as I wished to keep my opinions as uncolored as possible, so if there is information in this post that is repeated elsewhere, I want to apologize now as I didn’t meant to copy.

So starting off, I predominantly played SAM during the entire grind. I started playing the new PvP mode relatively soon after patch 6.1 went live and actually started queueing for ranked immediately. After only a few games of job hopping I landed on SAM as it felt not only easy to pickup and fun, but also quite strong. And with that I was off to the races, as I for the most part was winning quite a lot of games (probably due to the power level of SAM). During this time I rarely if ever swapped off SAM until I made it to Platinum.

Once I made it to Platinum, I wanted to expand my repertoire of jobs and become better at the game as a whole, not just the one job. Therefore I quit SAM and swapped to DRK as I found the move set incredibly interesting and I (at the time) believed with some practice, DRK could be incredibly strong to play. I believe I queued for about 9 hours with DRK in ranked and found less than decent success. By the end of my time with DRK, if the enemy team had a WAR and I didn’t have a Co-Tank WAR, I knew about 8/10 times I was not going to win the match. It was honestly a little crushing to learn that “The Dark Knight Dream, couldn’t win against the Warrior Reality”. To be fair, I could have been playing DRK completely incorrectly and others might have much better success than I did, but it definitely did feel as though most groups would’ve rather had a WAR than a DRK.

After coming to this conclusion, I swapped back to SAM and continued my grind into Diamond, where the games were very difficult. I spent the large majority of my time fluctuations between Diamond 3 and 5. However, and this will sound a whole lot like bragging, so I apologize now, but after I had fallen down to Diamond 5 0 Stars, I proceeded to win 7(8?) games in a row to make it into Crystal. It was pretty epic.

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