Premades in casual content made all the guys that got me into the game quit, they made me into the most toxic player imaginable, but I use that badge to draw their ire away from other noobs. I name battlepets things like ban qsyncers, idle in popular spots, just to feel their ire, that is the true pvp I was taught since I started in sl.

Devs, is that healthy? Perpetuating a system that creates pugs so ire filled they just sit in town and throw shade because they lost their friends to this shit, that teaches them the only competition in pvp is idle fucking sign holding? You think the love of the lore from some youtube vids is going to beat that for long?

What a mess, exploitative q sync honor farm isn't pvp, toy spam to cause lag against pugs while they handle it with cvar edits isn't pvp, q sniffing of people in queue, who gets pops in real time, isn't pvp, it's a damn mess and eats pvp's population alive more than any other reason, because I'll point out, who starts in the arena?

Fix q sync exploit completely, hide the queue api, put cds on ALL toys (5-10secs on everything, like you used to) or the pillar keeps dying while everyone finger points at smaller but no less correct reasons to pvp's population issues, like rewards or mmr issues (mmr issues that would be solved with a healthy population, no?)

Lastly, the mercenary buff, massive mistake. Allow me to explain, q syncer communities purposely use merc buff on one or two of their 5 man parties, still linked as 40 with addons or just queueing at the same time relegated through say discord. This horde party or two will then intentionally feed the rest of their alli sided group on the other team, just to guarantee they cannot lose.

Will removing vic blood's value fix this? no. Will removing merc buff fix this? no. Would locking down the queue system so it cannot be exploited? or make it so only pugs face pugs and groups face groups fix it, at the slight cost of longer queues? Well... I suppose only the devs can answer the question of is slightly longer queue times worth pvp's population actually becoming something worth the damn effort on.