Yeah well to be honest here the gearing still takes ages the time decrease you get here is insignificant compared to like soul etc. i dont think thats the huge problem. If you had a cheat like 24/7 godmode from fm that would be something gamebreaking.
Nah for me it was more like i dont wanna farm months if not years to get pvp gear equal to what i would encounter even in silver. Its not fun getting one shot while having to combo for several seconds to kill the enemy.
Majority of players that dont wanna go 6v6 are not going 6v6 just cause they would have to farm months for the pvp gear and no Elder Scale tier is to weak right now for mains. To revive 6v6 a way to get the gear fast or borrowed gear needs to be implemented.
Most players that could be interested in pvp are probably already quitting cause they need to farm tons of pve gear even before starting to farm pvp gear so not a great idea to put that much farming behind pvp gear after you already farmed for months to get ur pve gear.
How do you want the cheaters to stop creating their own clan if they get kicked ? Cheaters needs to be perma banned its the only solution.
for 1 match to get one shot and see "thats not a gamemode for me" like i wrote above way to much farming to start pvp.
Thats the biggest reason for wintrade thou so its a big worrie.
What do you think is one of the biggest reasons for player quitting ? Wintrade, Cheats, Dungeon Difficulty, game design......
Wintrade is the reason. There is no competetive aspect to 1v1 and 3v3 anymore since we know its not possible to get the top spots cause there is a handful of people wintrading to the spots. And no i cant reach 2200 without wintrade on last day of season in the night.