Thoughts on Red Sands?

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Now that you mention it, it's been something I've been annoyed occasionally with EU as well. It can be extremely unruly and people tend to chase like crazy. To be frank, this can also be enabled by a lack of team mutual defense and cohesion on the other end, which allows melees to bully ranged pretty effectively in some silly games. Melee DPS especially tend to be extremely individualistic and don't always work with their team. Double edged sword, because it snowballs very well when your team dominates by far (and you know the game is lost when you have the enemy running rampant everywhere around your spawn), but it also can produce the opposite effect when your backline just collapses due to a lack of cohesion. Overall very aggressively focused, which puts a lot of pressure on backlines, but at the expense of your own sometimes.

At least, that's my feeling on how EU can turn out to be.

Yep, I'll probably be DRG main or might pick up playing with RPR or AST instead of BRD/WHM on EU if I get into those heavy skirmish settings until I hit Crystal. Then I'll be full-time JP since I prefer range classes. I don't get tilted from losing matches, I don't even titled from performing poorly, I get tilted from having a team that does not even try to synergize and protect each other. Even when I play DRG, I'm always checking my backline ever so often to make sure no1 is harassing them while trying to get a pot off etc. Even the small actions that show "hey, I got your back", normally lead me to having better games. Even on a personal level, when I see my team abandon me and they're arms reach away despite me pinging and its not overtime, I stop caring/trying. Because in my head, I'm dead regardless and so if I see them losing the 4v4 and they literally need me in the comp to win, but won't save me, I already know it's a lost match. Any effort I give is just going to get shut down by the backline harasser and my team won't stop it.

And I know it's people who either never got to Crystal/only got to it through RNG/op job, because any true Crystal players that climbed in Crystal should know already that some matches aren't supposed to be winnable. I found out that was literally why you got inconsistent credits. So if you end up in matches with people that are literally stacked and supposed to beat you, the only hope you have is better teamwork if your individual skill is less. To not even try to work as a team is just throwing matches away literally and the voice in my head says "Why are you even here?" To me, it's like playing pickup games in the neighborhood and you never interact with people. You never pass the ball, always want to shoot yourself, never throw as a QB, trying to 1vs whatever and juke everyone in soccer. You always need someone that just hard humbles people like that and matchmaking does it from time to time, but not frequently enough to put their ego down. We had a MNK with a ego on NA for a bit that got hurt when I brought up how they were 0-5 on their main job in competitive and had to go tank. Was always talking shit, top 30 this, top 30 that, but as soon as that 1v1 ability went out of the window and he couldn't harass a backline for free performance, he got checked and went tank.