Rating is so miserable. First week of DF I achieved 1750 in solo shuffle, then all gains stopped. Every single win was 0 or loss and every loss was cataclysmic. I sank back down to 1200 over the next few weeks and gave up entirely. I played 700 rounds of RSS on my priest this season, the first 100 or so the rating felt like it was working fine, then it just stopped working. It feels so bad to play match after match after match after match where you do great but lose rating.
It makes the game feel pointless. The game just arbitrarily picks winners and losers, it means nothing to have a good match. Elo makes more sense in a game like chess where it’s all very rigorous and well understood. Here, it is just total nonsense. Asking a reactive healer to 4-2 a preventative healer with this accelerated healing reduction to gain rating is ridiculous. All Elo is rating is someone’s willingness to spec hop to chase whatever is broken that season. PVP rating in WoW should be about something more.