It's getting difficult not to go into a mindless ramble lol

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I won't say anything about the first point, because it's factual and obvious. Enough said.

As for the second point...even with you explaining it the way you did I'm not sure if I'll ever change my stance or views for crystal conflict. I will agree with putting tons of hours in for modes in order to master them. However I will somewhat disagree with you based off that point was used. At the end of the day everyone either wins or loses in pve. In pvp there must be a winner or loser. Regardless, you have given me something to ponder on since I'm somewhat in doubt with my reasoning here.

The true reason why I view CC as another mini frontlines mode was the way it was presented. First, win rate is not a factor at all. SE may have total win rates as far as their reasoning for making buffs, nerfs, and overall adjustments to classes, but we don't have our personal win rates to see where we need to make improvements at. It's as though we being told not to take the mode seriously. Matchmaking would probably be slightly better if win rates were to be taken into account instead of just current queuing class and current rank. We have what we have. It is what it is at this point. Secondly it's the mode itself. Kills do lead to wins, but it's as you said: KDA means less and less the higher you go. Regardless, many value this for how well they done in an objective game. Also, let's be honest here. They made it way easier to kill from pressuring. Depending on what rank you're at you're just not going to see many (if at all) kills from bursts/nukes until mid diamond at least. I love CC to death, but I just don't see exactly how it is a good replacement for feast, successful or not.

All that being said I'm not on your level, and with the way I farm more aggro than rank these days I'm pretty certain I'm not going to be there for a while if at all. I'm not afraid to admit that. I'm good enough to at least separate myself from the casuals. Yet I'm bad enough to be barred from enjoying high level games. Most of everyone using the pvp forums has probably hit Crystal or experience Crystal gameplay for at least a season. Meanwhile, I've never touched Crystal before, and I only have 3 hours of experience at most with Crystal games before I was shoved back down to the dead queues. Not exactly sure how I can personally improve in general at this point. Casual mode doesn't give me the immediate feedback, regardless of games being put in due to too many blowout games.