Ballista Reborn!

[Urteil]

Yes please.

[Rosina]

saw a match yesterday @ 2pm on Lakshmi. It was in the marsh lands. Ballista has capped and un capped fights. I would like to do it also. Just hard. Personaly speaking. Your doing it wrong if you NEED to be rewarded. Rewards come in all types. Why not do it for the fun not the reward as most games are about.

[Shinron-PUP]

saw a match yesterday @ 2pm on Lakshmi. It was in the marsh lands. Ballista has capped and un capped fights. I would like to do it also. Just hard. Personaly speaking. Your doing it wrong if you NEED to be rewarded. Rewards come in all types. Why not do it for the fun not the reward as most games are about.

I completely agree that Ballista is a reward in itself, but in reality this isn't how people, for the most part, think. People like my brother calls ballista "A waste of time" and quite literally it's true because you aren't benefiting from it except for skill as a player. If people don't see a physical or concrete change, then they believe it's useless. I think for people who find ballista as being a reward in itself, then good for them/us, but the count of people with this mentality is so miniscuol that I am sad to say entisement is necessary to lure them in. Without people, ballista doesn't function... This is another issue maybe they can touch on? Ballista matches cancel if you don't have 3v3 so maybe make the minimum capacity 1v1... It would be wierd being in a big zone with only 2 people but regardless... for those who play the game for PvP they can't enjoy it because no one shows up.

Ballista needs many fixes such as job balancing and more content, but I must say that rewards are also amongsts them.

[Malamasala]

Well, if you balance the jobs first, then ballista would solve itself.

[Alhanelem]

There's a multi-hundred-post thread with the same title, just bump that one...

[Korpg]

This game is not PvP.

This game is PvE.

There is no such thing as skill when it comes to PvP on this game. And if you arrange a 1v1 match, always some idiot (would use another word but don't want the mods to get angry with me) decides to screw that up and get the killshot, then start talking smack because they waited until both players are at 10% or less health to kill them both.

[Inafking]

PvP is only for jearks who want to beat up on other people. Please stop wasting time with this crap.

[Shinron-PUP]

This game is not PvP.

This game is PvE.

There is no such thing as skill when it comes to PvP on this game. And if you arrange a 1v1 match, always some idiot (would use another word but don't want the mods to get angry with me) decides to screw that up and get the killshot, then start talking smack because they waited until both players are at 10% or less health to kill them both.

PvP is only for jearks who want to beat up on other people. Please stop wasting time with this crap.

In my opinion, it sounds like you guys both have some personal grudges in which are making you feel that Ballista should be discontinued, but this is not a really laudable reason or condition for it not to see an update. I actually believe it's kind of rude to put your nose in somewhere you don't belong... if you don't like the enterprise then just don't participate in it... and if you don't like the thread and don't have anything positive to say then don't post. I'm kind of tired of having things in which a lot of people can enjoy being held back by completely bias narcissist who really in essence are being selfish themselves because they don't want to see something updated where as in result it might take away a little attention and time from Square Enix from other important issues and patches, they have some personal vendetta over it, or because they just only have negative things to say about everything. Not all people who play ballista are jerks... Real life fighting and fighting in game are to totally opposite things. Ballista calls for a new style and aspect of fighting in comparison to a mob where the enemy is no longer stationary and predictable... In ballista you must adapt and really think on what's going to happen. If you weapon skill at an obvious time then the enemy can run out of range, flash, or use means of protection to mitigate it unlike a monster can. If you don't have some type of shield you might be silenced or slept but in ballista this would happen at your inconvenience rather than your convenience because no type of A.I. or monster we can fight can read when your images, third eye, or stoneskin are down or when executing a weapon skill will ensure death at that point in time... Ballista is the only unique system in which you will fight another enemy on the same intellectual level as you while also having the same HP and MP limitations making the fight fair, fun, and educating.

[Inafking]

I actually believe it's kind of rude to put your nose in somewhere you don't belong...

Right, like putting PvP in a PvE game.

[Alhanelem]

Right, like putting PvP in a PvE game.

No, like complaining about PvP you don't participate in as if it affects you in some way. It doesn't. Let the people who enjoy a feature of the game enjoy it, and leave them be.

A game doesn't have to be purely 100% all about PvP, nor does it have to be with PvE either. It's a minigame, a diversion. That's it's purpose and it serves that well. If you don't have anything constructive to offer to the discussion, then do us all a favor and get out, or blacklist us all so you don't have to see it.

Ballista hasn't been touched at all since the ToAU jobs came out. It's not like it's been stealing away a lot of time from development on your precious PvE.