Quote Originally Posted by Iyrnwaen View Post
We're almost a month into this thing, and 95% of players still don't seem to understand that more bodies on a checkpoint will cap it faster.
People still run around in the open with all their abilities on CD slapping their basic combos until they die,
and dogfight in the expressways after winning a team fight while one player from the enemy team pushes the crystal to checkpoint.
Folks will blow their entire burst combos into Guard or Hallowed Ground, waste CC on targets that just broke root with Purify,
split DPS between 5 different targets, and refuse under any circumstances to peel for an ally.
It's common for teams to play FFA Deathmatch for 5 minutes only to suddenly panic and try to "get serious" when the clock goes into OT.

I'm sitting at 2200 CC and this is still my experience in the vast majority of matches.
It does not get better. The raw incompetence of the PvP community in this game is astonishing.
It's not just the PvP community, lol. Square-Enix doesn't put any effort into teaching players how to play the game, nor do they even have even gentle knowledge checks in the MSQ (remember how they nerfed Into the Cold in the first hotfix even though that little adventure is really simple for people that actually pay attention?), so it's not surprising to encounter it in PvP.

But it's usually not a good idea to have the team sitting on the checkpoint. Far better to have one person left to cap it while the other four push into the enemy base to pick off stragglers and intercept reinforcements. I'll admit the lack of peeling or really paying attention to their allies is my pet peeve, being a healer main. So many games I'm running in circles around pillars and back and forth while 2-3 DPS are chasing me and whittling me down and my team is just off in Narnia. If we actually accomplish something... well, whatever. But half the time they'll somehow lose the 4v3 anyway! Best not to care about ranking/points in the Ranked mode, unfortunately. If we're not allowed to select our teammates, the whole thing is just nonsense. But it's the only way to get halfway decent games - Casual is fun but you get tons of people that are just basically afk'ing for their GARO stuff so you can't rely on getting halfway decent games there.