The leaderboards are not designed for healthy player competition and enjoyment. No MMO should ever incentivize excessive amounts of play time to rank high on a leaderboard. Players who fall into this trap do not deserve recognition, bragging rights, etc. This is a very bad design for how PvP ranking should work in an MMO.

Blizzard failed big time in Vanilla WoW when they incentivized Rank 14 Grand Marshal / High Warlord, which took 12 hours/day for 3+ months to achieve. Rank 13-> 14 took 16+ hour days for 2 weeks and there's stories online about players collapsing from exhaustion. They eventually removed ranks altogether in favor of healthier, more competitive PvP systems.

I hear similar horror stories about the time required to get Emperor in Cyrodiil.

yeah it sucks, just like the rest of the BG in this game.
there are no real ways to fix it as the skill gap in this game between people who actually can pvp and the bots who play this game on first person for questing and decide to get their pvp daily completeled.
If they added a true MMR we'd have 30 mins queue everytime, and it would be nearly impossible to adress a true ranked system between solo queue and premades.

Maybe they should follow Lost Ark steps and make it where you do have the grindy-everything-counts queue where premades are available and everything and make the solo queue be a true ranking system with rank tiers and rewards, actually based on win/loss ratio AND individual performance.


Let's be honest tho it's never gonna happen