Reviving PvP & Ballista

[Gallus]

Gear-swapping should not be frowned upon in PVP. It's been a key game mechanic in FFXI since its inception. A penalty (as I already mentioned, a 3 second bind effect should be more than enough) need to be in place to prevent people from abusing it while running away. That said, S-E could easily promote static sets of armor by instating caps on stats, attack, accuracy, m.acc, m.atk, evasion, etc while inside ballista.

[Habiki]

All that gear swapping nonsense can stay in PvE where it belongs. It's really not hard to put together a solid build based around your job/enemy team's jobs or to quickly write some ballista macros.

Most likely if the restriction stays in place noone will do it except for the people posting they think the restriction should stay, atleast there should be an option to turn gear swapping on or off inside PVP areas.

[Gotterdammerung]

Id enjoy if the game went full PVP everywhere except towns. Would breathe life and skill back into the player base.

[Volkai]

Id enjoy if the game went full PVP everywhere except towns. Would breathe life and skill back into the player base.

Maybe.

But I think it would more likely drive away a large number of players that are not simply uninterested but actively disinterested in PvP.

[Hotsume]

Most likely if the restriction stays in place noone will do it except for the people posting they think the restriction should stay, atleast there should be an option to turn gear swapping on or off inside PVP areas.

I really don't think a gear swap penalty is what's preventing people from PvPing. XI's community for the most part seems very against any form of PvP to begin with. Why would the ability to gearswap for every spell/JA/WS/emote/whatever stop you from enjoying ballista?

[Squirrels]

I really don't think a gear swap penalty is what's preventing people from PvPing. XI's community for the most part seems very against any form of PvP to begin with. Why would the ability to gearswap for every spell/JA/WS/emote/whatever stop you from enjoying ballista?

The reason it stopped me from enjoying Ballista is because I can't play my jobs as effectively as I can outside. I don't like being constrained to a single set of gear, no one does it outside PvP, so why be constrained to it inside. Granted the whole lose target thing sucks, but there are more ways to deal with that than just removing an essential part of the game itself.

Random: Currently, I think if you are attacking someone in Ballista and they switch gear, you only lose lock-on. Not 100% as I haven't played seriously since 07.

[Urteil]

Yes blu is as good as I think. So is rdm, Resist won't do crap unless you have a crappy rdm.

Resist traits do a lot, around 10% chance to resist per tier. In addition to making the duration last way shorter, in ballista resistances are greatly enhanced.

A BLU can only hit a target with its most powerful spells if they are CC'd, /sch is a very powerful tool against BLU on many jobs, SAM, DRK, ...MNK even.

[Urteil]

I really don't think a gear swap penalty is what's preventing people from PvPing. XI's community for the most part seems very against any form of PvP to begin with. Why would the ability to gearswap for every spell/JA/WS/emote/whatever stop you from enjoying ballista?

Its because the community is dwindling down to housewives and weenies, and is quite honestly the biggest bunch of sissies I've ever seen.

[Akujima]

Its because the community is dwindling down to housewives and weenies, and is quite honestly the biggest bunch of sissies I've ever seen.

Love this post <3

[Akujima]

I have recently started a PvP LinkShell on Asura, and we've been doing some 3v3 Ballista, Brenner and Diorama lately. It's been quite fun and I ask any of you who are interested and on the Asura server, to send a /tell to Shinjima in game if you're interested in a linkpearl.


On another note, I see that they are working on revisions to Campaign and Nyzul Isle, and would like to therefore ask the Dev team if they could give a response to the chances of an update for the current PvP system. If you could let all us Ballista/Brenner fans out there know if it's possible that there may or may not be a future update to these events, that would be great.

I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that just as the dev. team is planning adjustments to Campaign and other content, both Nyzul Isle and the Assault system itself will be seeing changes in the future! While there aren't plans set in stone yet, they plan on handling adjustments in the order that the community speaks the loudest about (so keep that feedback coming!).

I love the idea of adjustments to Campaign and Nyzul, and am looking forward to them, and it's great to see that the Dev team is posting more replies to our idea's and suggestions, so thank you for that Camate and friends~

Also, I encourage everyone who enjoyed Ballista/Brenner to give more feedback to this thread. Doing so could possibly see the changes we would like to see in PvP, such as ease of access and better rewards. If you loved doing Ballista or Brenner, and would like to see it make a come back, please post with more idea's on how to revive it^^.

Thanks guys and take care.