Agreed. Throw us some PvP content even something as simple as this.

I think @quickblade418 has a valid point. Since Zenimax does not seem to be catering heavily to the PvP world and the game lacks the population for it they may have chosen the business decision to forgo a ranked system.

Ranked BGs/Arenas would be so cool

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

As an example:

Diamond 1, 2, 3
Platinum 1, 2, 3
Gold 1, 2, 3
Silver 1, 2, 3
Bronze 1, 2, 3

You can have this code complete in 2-3 sprints. Why has it not been added? Where's the leadership?

- Make the ranks ESO themed
- Let us see player ranks on the BG scoreboard

Future work:

- Delete the current BG leaderboards because they're useless. Instead show top players based on MMR.
- Expose unit ranks via lua api for addons
- Reward highest ranked players at end of 3 month season (titles, mounts, outfits, polymorphs, emotes)

Totally agree with this

Alucardo wrote: »

This game isn't balanced around competitive ranked combat.

This game isn't yet competitive at all, but battlegrounds are the only thing that is "almost" competitive.

a REAL ranking system will make more balanced match and eventually more player will join the queue.

Fhritz wrote: »

a REAL ranking system will make more balanced match and eventually more player will join the queue.

Agreed, ranking with some new rewards would bring loads of new players.

MrMazurski wrote: »

exeeter702 wrote: »

Ranked implies there is something inherently competetive about the format.

4v4v4 hodgepodge game modes are a meme and wanting a ranked environment for them is equally comical.

The fact that it's a 3 team affair specifically because they wanted BGs to be casual friendly and low stakes where the win condition was equal parts a toss up should be answer enough. Battlegrounds as they have been implemented in eso have no business having a ranked variation.

Then why is there a hidden MMR in this game that never falls off?
When I hit 500 CP my main got stuck in games where I play mostly against 1200-2000CP people, new characters fall into that range after a few games. Totally ok, without CP, but it's about gears, experience, etc. (skipping the fact that BG is high MMR is a strange crossover Harry Poter with Jumper movie, because 3/4 of the players are sorc.)



The current system is neither friendly to beginners nor old players. This is the worst system there is. And for so many years (I've been playing myself since 2016) nothing has changed. The BGs don't have any attractive system to encourage players to play in it in any way.

Battlegrouds need a new system, leagues, a better MMR system because personally I'm tired of the current state of affairs and BG is the last thing I can recommend at this game.

Do not conflate an mmr system facilitating player separation based on experience and capability with a ranked format being applicable here.

There is actually quite little in terms of a ceiling for which high level 4v4v4 becomes interesting. If you want a ranked format, you first need to ditch the awful 4v4v4 format, full stop. Thinking that structure alongside even DM, let alone the extremely weak objective modes would make for an interesting experience is silly.

Even in high mmr since morrowind up through now, BGs become an absolute joke. The reason people like them, myself included, and why most really only want to play DM is because it's simply about getting into skirmishes quickly, and where individual performance carries more weight compared to cyrodil shenanigans. But this is in the moment to moment micro fights throughout a bg match. It has nothing to do with some kind of deeper strategy.

4v4v4 BGs was a mistake for a number of reasons, ranked format and beyond.