Field Commander set: can the requirements to earn it be reviewed?

[Iscah]

The requirement of 100 Seal Rock wins to obtain the Field Commander coat is utterly frustrating, especially since you get no progress at all from anything but a win – no matter how well you played or how narrow the victory was. It seems an excessively high wall to lock glamour behind for what is supposed to be casual content – by comparison, you're guaranteed your primal mounts after less than a hundred unsynched victories, but this will take on average 300 twenty-minute fights with no possibility of it becoming easier over time.

Ideally I would like to see it simplified in general – perhaps 100 matches rather than 100 wins – but if lessening it is not an option then perhaps is it possible to shift the requirements for it from pure wins to some kind of cumulative points total?

The current requirement is essentially reaching 100 x 800 points, so a cumulative total of 80,000 points would be the same target, but then you'd still be making progress towards it with a fail while getting there faster by winning.

[Nikoto]

Theoretically, yes, they can be reviewed.

Will they? No. Enjoy the suffering.

[Esmoire]

I quite like where it is. 300 matches theoretically, though the better you get, the fewer it will take.

[Iscah]

I quite like where it is. 300 matches theoretically, though the better you get, the fewer it will take.

It just doesn't seem to be anything much to do with skill. My proportion of wins hasn't gone up over time, and everyone else wants the same thing so everyone improves equally and we're back to a game that's so balanced that everyone comes close to winning but can't.

It's a massive amount of luck, and you're guaranteed to have more frustrations and losses than wins, for which you get nothing at all.

[Kansene]

It just doesn't seem to be anything much to do with skill. My proportion of wins hasn't gone up over time, and everyone else wants the same thing so everyone improves equally and we're back to a game that's so balanced that everyone comes close to winning but can't.

It's a massive amount of luck, and you're guaranteed to have more frustrations and losses than wins, for which you get nothing at all.

Pretty much. I did 3 Seal Rocks today and 2/3 matches we lost because one of the teams decided they would relentlessly spawn camp us even when we were in last place and the winning team got to keep node after node in peace on their own side of the map. Literally nothing our team could've done to salvage the situation because it was just red killing their own chances at victory and dragging us down with them.

[JamieRose]

I quite like where it is. 300 matches theoretically, though the better you get, the fewer it will take.

Uh, we are talking about Frontline here where wins and losses are determined solely by luck?

[Esmoire]

Uh, we are talking about Frontline here where wins and losses are determined solely by luck?

A single match is luck. Many matches is your ability. If you still have <30% winrate after hundreds of matches, you should be re-evaluating your approach.

[Llynethil]

A single match is luck. Many matches is your ability. If you still have <30% winrate after hundreds of matches, you should be re-evaluating your approach.

Your skill barely matters, all you can hope is there are more inept players not pressing the map on the other 2 teams then yours and that the absolute bs random A and S ranks are near your base and not all near theirs.

You can be the best FF14 pvp player ever and still have a bad winrate if majority of times your own team keeps hitting the shielded samurais and chasing random ninjas all across the map instead of reacting to objectives, meanwhile a terrible player can have a good winrate because rng is rng.

Like, good luck soloing a node vs 15 enemies or being the only person in mid on borderlands, this happens all the time and you can't win matches like this, no matter how much your try and call out spawns.

[Towa-Musa]

Your skill barely matters, all you can hope is there are more inept players not pressing the map on the other 2 teams then yours and that the absolute bs random A and S ranks are near your base and not all near theirs.

You can be the best FF14 pvp player ever and still have a bad winrate if majority of times your own team keeps hitting the shielded samurais and chasing random ninjas all across the map instead of reacting to objectives, meanwhile a terrible player can have a good winrate because rng is rng.

Like, good luck soloing a node vs 15 enemies or being the only person in mid on borderlands, this happens all the time and you can't win matches like this, no matter how much your try and call out spawns.

Yup, you can go 15/0/36 and still lose and thats why i don't listen to the 'git gud' community because they are objectively wrong when it comes to this.

[Commander_Justitia]

In the past you just went full premade with 7 PvP friends and played the 24 version of the mode, because 72 would have never popped, because we didn't have Frontline daily rotation yet. And then you had a 90-100% winrate.

Nowadays you suffer through RNG matches with 72 players forced sized maps, with only being able to join with 3 PvP friends. Your impact is smaller. You probably need 300 matches to get 100 wins. But the advantage is you don't need to wait hours for Seal Rock to pop anymore.

I would recommend them to let players play with their friends again more in PvP...and reintroduce 24 mode