Toxic Community

You are a beautiful example of the defect in the matrix at elitists. Completely unable to have fun, only on criticizing others and themselves as holding something better. Please stay away from the fields for normal players. Thank you!

You confirm with every sentence everything I say.
You do not to meet me, I do not either. So go play Rated and stay away from Warzones.
As long as it is not fully understood whether elitism is innate or socialized there is no treatment. The only thing that helps is a consistent separation of those affected. I know it sounds harsh, you can probably even nothing for it but it does not help.

You confirm with every sentence everything I say.
You do not to meet me, I do not either. So go play Rated and stay away from Warzones.
As long as it is not fully understood whether elitism is innate or socialized there is no treatment. The only thing that helps is a consistent separation of those affected. I know it sounds harsh, you can probably even nothing for it but it does not help.

So the problem with solo ranked is that you have a toxic community, because rating is on the line and when you aren't actually talking to someone in a group (like on voice) you are more likely to rage at them or blame them just through the nature of text compared to speech.

It's 4v4, where you are playing a limited class already (which all the classes in this game are really limited to just their role and not much outside that role) and you are reliant on the actions of 7 others, which means you can't possibly have a great impact on a match. This can be frustrating.

The game is not designed around 3dps/1healer or 4dps. You have inflated damage taken when there isn't a tank in play. Classes without an out (snipers, mercs, jugs, pts) are going to have surviability issues. They aren't meant to perform without a tank and healer in play and when that tank/healer is replaced with another 2 dps, it just turns the matchups into dps races. Also frustrating because it promotes faceroll and makes certain classes feel helpless.

The tank matchups in solo ranked are also very boring. Most the time they are predetermined before the gates drop just based on specs. Specs that rely on hard swap will probably never get a kill in solo ranked tank/healer, just because they won't be able to coordinate it. Most tank matchups go to acid. The ones that don't usually are either won by a team being cleaved down or with tank tunneling. This assumes everyone has a general idea how to play.

Because it requires 8 people in queue of the same role, the system can't even pop games on off hours for even the most active servers. Requiring 8 people to make one game in a low pop game (w/ no cross server) is beyond stupid, because there is no possible way an elo system will work unless you have several games going at the same time.

This is also a problem for faction. Because it requires so many people to make a team, you might have 3 players of your faction in queue around the same skill level, but one new player let's say queues for ranked. You then get grouped in with that new player. This is why harbringer republic for example doesn't really see any solo ranked pops, because this is going to turn off the 3 players ready for ranked if they get someone queued who should be allowed to queue, but can't start at a low elo to learn. The faction problem also brings queue syncing. Cross faction and cross server would obviously help this.

The elo system is messed up. It apparently forms teams before checking for 8 players in queue of equal rating. So what happens is if 4 players have around 2k rating and are waiting in queue, the system will group those 4 players, not give them a game yet, but eventually then pair them against a lower elo team which causes imbalanced matchups.

Because the system doesn't have enough players to make a working elo system, you don't have an entry level where new players coming into ranked can play with and against people of the same relative skill level. This is just going to make veteran players angry when they get new players on their team. New players also won't be able to learn and will probably get turned away from playing ranked altogether.

Everytime a new player gets turned away from ranked, that's another player that could have been helping the elo system work. This is not a player's responsibility to help guide other players. The game itself should have training grounds and tutorials. It should teach new players and really everyone how to play their class and role. The game should also encourage veteran/fully geared PvPers to play ranked. The current rewards simply just isn't getting it done on a large scale.

People are not encouraged to play ranked. This is probably the biggest reason it is unpopular. Ranked isn't a requirement in the gearing process. Look at PvE. You get different gear based on the level of content you are doing. This makes people want to do nightmare mode or heroic or whatever. When you can get the best gear in regulars. Where it is easy, because there is no elo system. Where you can group with friends and steamroll undergeared, underexperienced players. A lot of people will stop there and not want to do ranked.

Arenas themselves are not maintenanced well by the developers. They have still not addressed barrier and shield probe and whatever else in acid. They have not addressed skank tanking. Each map has several bugs. Makeb is still not optimized well.

The developers are also poor at balancing even for the tank/healer scenarios. The 3 healers for example are not equal in tank/healer. This is amazing to me, considering the 3 healers all play with the tank almost identically. The tanks themselves are also not balanced. Also amazing, because they play so similar as well at least when you are talking about tank/healer. This causes a lot of issues when trickled down to solo ranked, where sorc healers and pt tanks are clearly the strongest. This will discourage operative/merc healers and sin/jug tanks from queuing.

Find any Ranked Community (or any real-life high-level sport) that is not considered 'toxic'.

Lawl I take it you're not a sports person, have you not watched Hockey or College/pro Football? some of that stuff leads to straight up fist fights or nasty hits

A long time ago I actually played college football (Division III) and competed on a national level in Muay Thai. I'm in my late thirties now, and this is my first MMO, but there's an enormous difference between a sports team / league and a MMO community: namely, there's no anonymity when your opponent is in your face. This has a tendency to keep trash talk down and you better make sure if you open your trap, you can back it up. Generally speaking, the MMO community appears to be comprised of nerds (I'm one but larger than most) but the most toxic are those that wouldn't dare speak to someone like that in real life because they'd get popped in the mouth. An MMO allows them complete anonymity and a way to bully they way they might've been bullied. I've met and competed against plenty of real life bad *****3$ and 99% aren't trash talkers.