I've climbed up to diamond 2 before yo-yoing back & fourth between 5 & 3. Yet I repeatedly am playing against the top ranked players, whom I've beaten in my countless hours of matches. What in the flying 7 circles of hell is supposed to be enjoyable about this game mode anymore?
Every match comprises of two teams using AST, WHM, & RDM. You spend what feels like 50%-60% of the match in a state of CC as you mash purify hoping it's up or or will even work this time to get you away from the mess of casters. Only to get deleted without knowing if you were the focus or just happened to be in the crossfire of several mages mashing high potency AoE CC that got you low enough for the "skilled" ninja to use LB.
Meanwhile it seems 50% of the time SAM lb doesn't even work properly as the target I go for with Kuzushi doesn't die. At first I thought myself insane but people watching me play have confirmed it just did not work.
Regardless of that however you're just playing a nightmarish game of roulette to see who gets the teammate that spends the game running it down. The one leaving you questioning how they ever got to plat, diamond or crystal. Because I've had people ranked in the top 1-20 on my teams do this. So clearly their skill & decision making alone didn't get them there. So I'm good enough to play against the, come out the best performing, but RNG has dictated I don't get to climb as my teams grow more insufferable. Ranked doesn't reward good players, it rewards lucky ones with the most time committed to running it back over and over.
The only thing keeping me going with this grind is the disappointing fact there are items locked behind this that aren't made available through other means. Except the more I play the less I care about getting anything out of this and just want to be done with it.
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Every match comprises of two teams using AST, WHM, & RDM. You spend what feels like 50%-60% of the match in a state of CC as you mash purify hoping it's up or or will even work this time to get you away from the mess of casters. Only to get deleted without knowing if you were the focus or just happened to be in the crossfire of several mages mashing high potency AoE CC that got you low enough for the "skilled" ninja to use LB.
Meanwhile it seems 50% of the time SAM lb doesn't even work properly as the target I go for with Kuzushi doesn't die. At first I thought myself insane but people watching me play have confirmed it just did not work.
Regardless of that however you're just playing a nightmarish game of roulette to see who gets the teammate that spends the game running it down. The one leaving you questioning how they ever got to plat, diamond or crystal. Because I've had people ranked in the top 1-20 on my teams do this. So clearly their skill & decision making alone didn't get them there. So I'm good enough to play against the, come out the best performing, but RNG has dictated I don't get to climb as my teams grow more insufferable. Ranked doesn't reward good players, it rewards lucky ones with the most time committed to running it back over and over.
The only thing keeping me going with this grind is the disappointing fact there are items locked behind this that aren't made available through other means. Except the more I play the less I care about getting anything out of this and just want to be done with it.
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