Ranked Rewards

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

We are approaching the end of expansion and they have yet to provide any information on the future of Ranked.

It's just frustrating and dissapointing that despite all the suggestions everything has more or less remained the same. They took one good step forward with the Commendation Crystals and Weapon upgrades, but then practically forgot them. We get our new gimmick maps semi-regularly but so far they have just felt worse than the initial set aside from some Casual match meme potential, which seems to be their main aim with the mode as it is alive and well.

It wouldn't have taked much to just make an initial band aid solution after first few Seasons and at least double the baseline tomestones, exp etc. for winning/losing a Ranked match compared to Casual.
After another Season or two they could have expanded the Wolf Mark / Crystal shop to at least have the Hunt mark rewards etc.
Hell, even Mahjong suffers from complete lack of rewards and could be invigorated by just adding a good chunk of MGP for playing regardless of ending position to make it more worthwhile for casual players.

But no, even such easy baby steps were not taken. Not to mention all the expanded reward structures that people brought up that gave value to basically all the Ranks along encouraging the Top 100 competition beyond just doing your handful of matches and cashing out the next numbered plate.

They keep having PvP tournaments at Fanfests but barely support the competitive side of the mode. At least we get small balance patches, so they haven't completely forgotten that it exists, but all of it feels like huge waste when it could be so much more.

Honest question since I assume you probably have been around longer than me within PvP - do we even have a viable avenue of communication other than the forum? Because if I look at job balance changes and the utter lack of ranked incentives being adjusted, it feels *very* biased towards the JP pvp playerbase.

The forums get largely ignored, we lost our community representative a long time ago and most of us obviously don't speak japanese. Even if we did and tried adressing things either in the JP forum or by potentially sending a letter or a well-written e-mail, there is a good chance we fall on deaf ears because we'd be referred back to the english forums and they don't want to risk things - of which the irony is, they risked things exactly two years ago with replacing Feast entirely and retiring meaningful ranked rewards with them.

It's really difficult to get the point across what we need if "but it works in JP, you guys just don't like pvp" is the common narrative/brainrot repeated ad nauseam.

[ThaCa]

Unfortunately I don't think they will take notice unless someone gets to ask these things directly during fanfest or similar. Might need a community figure or two to rally out people, since it feels that no matter if you contact them through support, send email or try to interact with the JP forums, it will most likely either be disregarded or at most met with "thanks for bringing this to our attention, we will consider stuff" and just left hanging.

EU really is getting the short end of the stick due smaller active Ranked playerbase, I'm not sure how happy our NA or JP friends are with the status quo but they are probably busy playing matches throughout the season.

It's just sad state of things, because despite its issues CC is fun to play and spamming Casual just tends to end up in awful one sided matches one way or anoher when highest ranks get mixed in.

[SpritePR]

I just don't get why they don't add a top 100 token that can be used for top 100 rewards and keep them on a vendor adding to it every season.

No FOMO and you can always get the rewards. It's basically PVP ultimate.

They did it with the augmented hellhound weapons to a degree but we need more. These tokens should be for top 100 only to have them be something to shoot for. The issue with trophy crystals is that you can get them at diamond thus they don't requires as much effort as staying in top 100 through the end of the season.

Also please god more uses for trophy crystals. Current crafting mats/stuff that sells on marketboard. I'm getting close to 99 stacks on the series and that should not be a thing.

[Stormfur]

Honest question since I assume you probably have been around longer than me within PvP - do we even have a viable avenue of communication other than the forum? Because if I look at job balance changes and the utter lack of ranked incentives being adjusted, it feels *very* biased towards the JP pvp playerbase.

They really only seem to care if it causes unwanted media attention in some way. As an aside for the Japanese-speaking forum, DeepL.com is your friend. It does a much better job at translating than that godawful Google translator does.

Source: I am a translator.