I had a post about it recently as well. I was trying all ways to go through it solo. But really, lfg is the only way to go if you do not have clan mates who wants to go grind crucible. All my clan mates avoided crucible mostly. I tried like every soloist only to see my rank going up and down and it's taking forever. I nearly gave up the idea of comp until lfg shone some luck on me when I found some randoms all between zero and heroic ranks and we went in as a team. Took a few matches to blend into one another's play style and to decide who should be striker and who should play support. Nothing will work if no one wants to wear their comms set and talk. We played a total of 14 matches and won 12 of them, 11 straight in a row. I've never ever been in a winning streak of more than 4 ever in D2. But as a team, we did it and both my teammate and myself gotten our Recluse in 3 hours from Heroic 1 and friends we became. Our team of randoms are from all corners of the globe, 1 in US, 1 in UK, 1 in Asia and 1 in Australia making a full circle... 😅 I never thought that would work out but it did... There's no other way to play it unless you can keep a minimum of 2.0 KD in the worst of matches to be able to see a miniscule of hope. Else I don't see how a large pool of soloists wouldn't end up as cannon fodders in comp. Hard to find or join comp activities via lfg, true that. Start one on your own, state your criteria in the header and wait. Still that isn't a sure fire win once found. Have to depend on your team work next. Unless it's going to be for a quest step that doesn't require ranking in comp, I don't think I'll ever set foot in comp as a soloist moving forward. QP wise, I'm not playing with much expectations these days. After I'm done with my Redrix, I'll vaporize from QP... probably forever... Lol