PVP duel outside city

[Manux]

I think Its about time they let us PVP duel outside city which would be sick

[Sayomi]

I think Its about time they let us PVP duel outside city which would be sick

Would be pretty cool, that's for sure.

[Atomic_Skull]

No it should be in a steel cage in Norg.

Someone posted this idea on Allakhazam way back in 2004:

I dont see it that way. I see one on one fights as something you would do in Norg. You would talk to the guard at the gate and ask him about PvP. You get a cut scene where the guard tells you that it happens but its illegal. He tells you how in fact they just arrested a ring that was staging fights down in the galka district last week. It seems some of the people have Tenshodo connections. You go to the galka district and talk to the galka that needed the zinc ore. It seems he is in trouble again. He owes money to tenshodo and has been fighting trying to win the money he needs. The fights are just to harsh though and the injuries are getting worse with each one. He doenst know if he will be able to win the next fight and if he doenst,the Tenshodo wont be happy. Cordelia shows up and overhears. She is very angry that he is doing this and wants to pay the tenshodo back herself. He wont accept it and stormes out. Cordelia then asks you if you can go talk to them and get them to accept the money. You go to the warehouse in port bastok and talk to the people there. They say they are happy to take her money,but there is a fight scheduled,and a fight theres going to be. He suggests that if you take the galkas place in the fight,he will accept the money and release him from his debt. He tells you to go talk to a man in norg. You talk to the man in norg,get a cut scene. He isnt happy that he wont have a galka in the arena,but "I guess even someone as pathetic as you will do,so long as there is blood for the crowd" He calls over a pirate moogle and your are warped to teh arena. You must fight a level capped battle where you basically get the $@#$ beat out of you. If you can take a certain amount of damage before going down,you get a cut scene.Your told you must have impressed,becuase he usually doesnt let anyone out of the ring alive. You are now allowed to have PVP fights in the arena.

You would talk to the "Pirate Moogle". (yes,he would have an eye patch and call you matey instead of kupo) You would both agree on a level cap (could be asymetric even,like 45rdm vs 47pld). You might even wager some money on it. The pirate moogle would then warp you to the steel cage,with a hord or screaming virtual spectators watching, where you would fight to the death. If you die,you lose experience,becuase this is Norg,and unlike balista,its real combat. I can see the pirate moogles response now. "Of course you loose xp when you die,what do you think this is matey? a game? Go back and play your little balista game if your not up for a real challenge. (all his pirate moogle buddies would laugh at you)

[Alhanelem]

If you really want to do this you can use the diorama for it. You don't even have to do official matches to get ballista points anymore.

[Rosalie]

Or there's always Abjhalis-Purgonorgo. Don't even need Ballista Points there at all!

Realistically, though... if there was going to be a duel arena, they have one in Fort Karugo-Narugo that they used for some JP-only (big surprise there) promo events before with Vana'TV.

Or, there's always the forgotten part of the Coloseum that was never implemented... (All we got was "The Pit".)

[Sayomi]

If you really want to do this you can use the diorama for it. You don't even have to do official matches to get ballista points anymore.

That's nice and all but how old is that stuff? Almost every other area of the game has been updated but Ballista, so to be fair its safe to say it's time to try something different, even if its a little tiny something I think the hardcore PvP fans out there can agree on that. (Please don't say Monstrosity.)

[Alhanelem]

That's nice and all but how old is that stuff? Almost every other area of the game has been updated but Ballista, so to be fair its safe to say it's time to try something different, even if its a little tiny something I think the hardcore PvP fans out there can agree on that. (Please don't say Monstrosity.)

There wouldn't be anything different about it though other than the backdrop. You don't have to "play" ballista- you can just fight each other 1v1 if that's what you really want to do. And yes, you're right that almost every part of the game has been updated. Now it's time for them to update PvP too, but I'd rather they just fix up what they have than implement something new, such that we don't inconvenience people who want more PvE fixes too much.

I'm all for actually putting the Colosseum into the game, whatever it was meant to be (We don't know that it was actually meant to be a duel arena or not), but if they couldn't do it in the last 5-6 years, I'm not convinced they're going to implement it now. It would take a bloody miracle to get even minor pvp improvements. Literally the only "improvement" we've seen in many years is being able to buy ballista points.