It's almost hysterical that we are more than 2 years into 7.2, and people are still advocating for a separate que when a 4man limit to groups would solve literally every single issue with premades.

6 months later, and we are still gaslighting with the completely disingenuous argument that "people can still group up in a separate que."

Rage jugg has the most root breaks in the game. Even without mad dash (which I don't take 99% of the time), rage juggs have intercede, enrage, endure pain, obliterate, and breaker to purge roots/slows. Not to mention root/stun immunity on leap and several 10-30m abilities including saber throw, vicious throw, force scream, and force crush if you do find yourself out of melee range and unable to leap. AND even if somehow I do get rooted/slowed, that is actually a buff to rage juggs because of pooled hatred. Rage has literally an ultimate kit to deal with crowd control. If you cannot stay ontop of a sniper as rage jugg, then you are playing the class wrong. And yes, I duel decent players. As you can see from the link in my signature, I am S9, S12, S14 top3 conc op. And many of the people I play against are also retired top3 players. Over the years, I have co-hosted the most successful PvP tournaments on NA along with my friends SWTOR influencers Kogass and Biggs. I know a thing or two about dueling. 🤣

Check link in signature. 🤣

Rage beats oper, sorc, sniper, and merc. Sin is the only thing that beats it.

Death matchers are not a premade issue. People will continue to death match even without premades. Death matchers are the result of practically 0 incentives to win games. When the game does not incentivize skill or winning, players find their own enjoyment.

What? 🤣

No, if all else equal, madness will always beat arsenal. But as I said earlier, 99% of the players in regs are not very skilled.

If you want to get into specifics, I recommend recording your gameplay and uploading it here. That way we can actually help. Just going through a list of scenarios that could happen is extremely speculative, and rather unproductive. As you already stated, the best way to learn how to beat other classes in 1v1s is to play those classes yourself. If you're struggling with madness sorc, play against it to learn its weaknesses. As you've come to realize, madness v arsenal is always going to be a hard matchup for the arsenal merc. But that doesn't mean you need to always lose to them. Oftentimes skill trumps class, especially in reg warzones were the average player is extremely bad. With enough skill and experience you can beat maddness on arsenal merc. Lastly, I wouldn't put a lot of value in lowbie pvp. Lowbie PvP used to be a great place to learn, now it's a waste of time. The skill level in lowbies is very low, many players don't have their full range of abilities, and the type of gameplay is significantly different from lvl 80.

Oh what's your toon name?

Gotta love the forums. Somehow it always comes back to premade QQ. 🤣

You need to be doing a lot more than just ignoring tips to have a 10% winrate. 🤣 I've seen notorious throwers like Moophy come out of solo ranked with a higher winrate than 10%. Do premades on SS que arenas? On SF most of the premades only que warzones, which can get quite boring.

Is no one else going to comment on this? 🤣

There's no point trying to engage with this guy. It's useless. This guy has been obsessively responding to every single one of my comments with "I have too many friends" (as if it somehow a bad thing) in order to ignore and deflect from the actual conversation. It's not worth derailing threads to respond to delusional people.

Putting aside the laughable notion that I'm going to look through thousands of hours of twitch vods to find an anonymous character name... It's completely disingenuous to tell complete lies like "only 20 people played ranked." Perhaps at its worst, at 2am in the morning 8 months into a year long season... sure? But as I've said many times, the population only fell of that much as a result of BioWare neglect in the first place. But then again, all of this is pointless discussion. Most people here on the forums likely have never done ranked. And no amount of truth is going to outweigh the amount of propaganda other people, who supposedly have done lots of ranked but at the same time don't want people to know their character name, have told.