With weeks 1 and 2 down, we've gathered a ton of great feedback for the new changes to Cloak and the main takeaways have been on how disrupting the new drain and recovery penalty are. While we wanted to tighten the restrictions on how easy it was to sustain Invisibility and create a more lasting penalty after you've used it, our original changes focused purely on translating the existing cost to a toggled one, with nothing but more restrictions - leaving a sense of all nerf, and no new excitement. We've seen a lot of great feedback on how the toggle feels more natural to use (after going through some natural growing pains of unlearning the previous optimal usage), especially when paired with the fact that it naturally turns off the same ways as it did before, so we're confident in sticking with this new model and shifting our focus more towards the cost and penalty to try and make them more curated to this new experience.
Internally, we've been going back and forth with numerous cost models, tick rates, and varying amounts of Magicka Recovery augments to try and find the perfect balance – but something always felt off. We then started sneaking about in the core Crouch gameplay that every class has access to and immediately drew inspiration at how natural the costs and penalties are introduced there. Normally, Crouch comes with heavy penalties too - disabling your Stamina Recovery completely and rapidly draining your Stamina while moving, but it also enabled more strategic use by turning those penalties and drains off when you stopped moving to take in your surroundings and wait for enemies to pass by. While we haven't gone to the exact same steps of completely removing the penalties, since Invisibility is significantly stronger at keeping you hidden than Crouch with none of the movement speed reductions, our hope is that these proposed adjustments now make Invisibility feel better to engage with and strategize around, while still coming with clear costs if you don't.

There has been some misconception that MMR is derived from Medals, which is not the case. MMR is purely based on your Win/Loss/Tie from Battlegrounds. This calculation also takes into account your opponent’s MMR to determine the amount of gain or loss your MMR takes at the end of a Battleground.