Remove the knockback attacks in Rieves

[Karah]

(Now, I don't see why someone would argue against the premise of this thread personally)

I did agree with you, on page one, that a change indeed needs to be made, however, knockback is not the way to go about this.

FFXI has had knock back since day one in the form of Goblin Rush (as far as I can recall) they didn't just add it for Reives it's not going to change, hate to be the barer of bad news.

This is not a tournament fighter arena. This is a battle to colonize the wilderness. In reality there would be no hard-line battle area boundry at all. the countdown and ban is there to punish people who bail out of a Rieve- not to allow the opponents to win a battle by a referee calling "RING OUT!"

Basically every (non-zone-wide) event that has been added since WotG has had a boundary line. Dynamis NMs, FoV NMs, Voidwatch, Level sync even has a "range" within where it's affects work, Spheres upon gear, Aura's, even Geo itself has boundaries inherent to it's job. It's the way the game is played now, within "Arena's" that do have (Ring-outs).

It is -literally- a battle arena, the Epitome of one in fact. Where the enemies can in fact defeat you with a Ring-out.

If you are fighting on the edge of the arena, you're the moron getting support jobs killed when you die (not you specifically... but you, as part of a group apparently) and you deserve to lose credit for that Reive.

That's not to say that a strategic retreat is sometimes necessary.