Real PvP can we have it PLEASE S.E

[Missdivine]

Even a duel function would have to be restricted to certain areas- or you oculd have people trying to cause disruption by spamming duel requests in events or something.

It's best to just keep PvP in designated events, and polish up the balance and offer some better incentives to participate. Adjust the ballista schedule so the lowest level caps are removed, and add a 75 cap, perhaps. It definitely does need to be made somehow easier to access, as well. the license needs to be removed and allow people to participate freely.

Ballista needs to be more inviting and more open, right now it's limited to a very tight group of people, some of which can be a bit uppity at times. Nobody seems to want to just relax and have a good time.

sure... because SE won't even come with the idea of giving you the option of blocking someone that is spamming you duel requests right? please...


the game just need open pvp/ pvp arenas like they will do on ff14 on patch 2.0

[Kaisha]

I'd be all for a simple duel-request system a la WoW's setup.

Would make it easier to better test the effects of some abilities and spells also.

[Alhanelem]

sure... because SE won't even come with the idea of giving you the option of blocking someone that is spamming you duel requests right? please...


the game just need open pvp/ pvp arenas like they will do on ff14 on patch 2.0

Open PvP just will not work for this game. There's no basis for it. If the three nations were at war with each other and there was some logical reason for such PvP to exist, then it would make sense. as it is, any PvP that isn't painted as a recreational event / battle exercise doesn't make sense in FFXI"s world. There are no opposing factions for players to take sides on.

Realistically, the best thing they can do is to adjust and polish what they already have, make it feel more rewarding, and make it more accessible. Any totally new PvP system would require too much work on the devs part when there are a lot of other things to do.

[Natenn]

just need to bring back the old HNM pop once a day or week, all the pvp we need.

[Alhanelem]

I see what you did there.


Buuuut, no thanks.

[Draylo]

More like bot vs bot

[Meiisein]

I'm of the opinion that unless the game was designed for PvP first it'll never be balanced. After all PvP player mechanics will work perfectly fine in PvE if the game content is tuned to it. The reverse is rarely true though. Take WoW as an example. 1v1 and even 2v2 will never be balanced simply due to raid mechanics not being designed for the low numbers of small scale PvP.

That said I'm not opposed to adding more PvP options to FFXI as long as it doesn't come at a cost to the games future PvE path. I don't see that happening though. FFXI is very much operating on limited resources. Taking the time to add this feature will almost certainly come at the cost of something else.

[Evviva]

If you want uncap official matches: Fenrir
If you want 60 cap official matches: Carbuncle(jp time only) and Lakshmi

Ballista in it's current state is absolutely perfect.
Although, uncap needs a damage adjustment -again-

I've taken it upon myself to promote ballista on Undine - but unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be enough incentive for people to participate.

[Alhanelem]

If you want uncap official matches: Fenrir
If you want 60 cap official matches: Carbuncle(jp time only) and Lakshmi

Ballista in it's current state is absolutely perfect.

Ballista is not perfect, and the fact that you can't simply do it whenever you want and regardless of your server should be a good indicator of that. I love Ballista, but it has barriers to entry that SE needs to resolve before any rank-and-file player will take any interest in it.

[Evviva]

Ballista is not perfect, and the fact that you can't simply do it whenever you want and regardless of your server should be a good indicator of that. I love Ballista, but it has barriers to entry that SE needs to resolve before any rank-and-file player will take any interest in it.

If there was a lineup of players waiting to get into the diorama, I could see your point.