Well of course tr is a separate issue due to lack of participation but in terms of solo ranked there are plenty examples of Top 3 players i'm almost certain are legit. As far as being impossible to climb, of course the win trading and trolls make it more difficult to climb and I would argue the state of solo ranked is so bad that you shouldn't even care at this point, but Its still possible as I did on my commando in my last stream which you can watch at https://www.twitch.tv/alim_95 .

I agree that ranked needs a change but this doesn't seem like the right way to do it.

You're a bit of an idiot aren't you? Of course there was a 4th player, they didn't specify the class or spec but it doesn't really matter. Also, I referred to assassin as the second weakest class, I didn't specifically mention specs. I think we could spend some time debating whether lethality is squishier than deception but this is besides the point anyway. And yes, it was a sorc healer too. Just to clear up things, the combat dev just gave a few statistics in a conversation where pt survivability was being discussed so my original post may have been a little bit inaccurate, i'll edit it now.

Guard in T/H games seems justified in the way that it functions but what the dev team overlooked was that in PVP the population would dwindle and not all be T/H games thus giving DPS the abillity to use a tank only abillity in a role they didn't even q as.