Reviving PvP & Ballista

[Alhanelem]

I have been hosting periodic Player Events on Shiva to promote it. It has gone fairly well so far.

[Hotsume]

Managed to get an official 3 v 3 going on Sylph the other day. Shit is damn near impossible.

[Selzak]

I'd love a PvP revival. I think the main problem we have now is that it takes too much effort to do something that doesn't really offer a reward. You can tell by the direction that players tried to force (small groups doing 1v1's in Diorama) that what's wanted is a simpler, straightforward way of battling other players without any bells and whistles.

[Akujima]

I'll post in this thread only from now on.

I did some uncapped today 4v4 Diorama. There was a DRG/SAM that was rocking people, and also a RDM with some nice PDT gear. The RDM was literally unkillable. But yea, it was fun stuff.

Anyhow, I've been able to rally at least 15 people who enjoy just doing PvP for fun. If any reward additions were made, I'm sure way more people would be doing PvP. Especially if that reward addition was PvP specific gear.

[Leonlionheart]

Considering there have been little to no PvP updates since brenner (iirc), I highly doubt we will come across good news.

Although somehow I don't think it would take too much work, considering the main dynamic of PvP is already in play.

Pertaining to gear that is specific to PvP: Since they release maybe 200 pieces of gear per update, I doubt this would take priority over 95 cap and 99 cap gear, in both the eyes of the players and the developers. To bypass this however, I think an augmentation system using ballista points (or some type of tab like system similar to the one already used by FoV) would be quite fitting. That way there are three sets of gear: Mage, Heavy DD, Light DD that can all have preset augmentations that are specific to PvP and only work in such situations, such as: Latent: WS Damage Taken -10%.

[Arlan]

BUT THATS WHY WE HAVE THIS THREAD!
lol To come up with our own ideas to see what SE can possibly do to help make pvp worth while and fun to do for all who wish to participate.

=) /cheers

[Hotsume]

Make the ballista license quest optional, offer EXP scrolls + CP to the winners, create cosmetic ballista rewards, add more ballista zones. Not only that, but make it easier to tell when the next matches are, people who don't regularly PvP aren't gonna check with the pursuivant all the time.

[Dart]

I believe that lakshmi(spelling forgive me) has a fairly lively 60 cap scene going on hots (I know that for a couple years most people were going there or fenrir). I'm tempted...... since my small empy ls is slowly dying.

[Harukusan]

60 cap? I don't personally care about any sort of cap. A real test of ones' mettle is to prove their worth in an uncapped environment.

[Dart]

then a defensively geared, vereth mnk comes along and trucks your ass lmao.