Anonymity in PvP

There is no way of telling who you are up against aside from playing a guessing game on their armor.

Wouldn't it make sense to (and yes, I am taking this from WoW) show a separate party UI which shows enemy players? Of course this will only be available after the arena starts and not during the 2 minute ready time.

OR

Substitute the god awful name "Fresh Meat" with the players corresponding class.

Better coordinated attacks.
Faster reaction timing with targets.
Makes up for useless tab targeting.
PuGs will find it a lot easier and more enjoyable to play.

Meh, just my 2 cents.

Shouldn't be too much of an issue for a coordinated group of people using vent, teamspeak, or mumble.

I doubt PUGs will be competitive enough to matter honestly.

They should remake the interface for the PvP.
That's stupid we can't have the ennemies HP on the interface so we can keep an eye on the progression.
Also yea "Fresh Meat" is so damn retarded... so offensive, i don't like it.

Focus healer, cc dps, cover your healer.

Win the match or lose it

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Originally Posted by LastDream

Also yea "Fresh Meat" is so damn retarded... so offensive, i don't like it.

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ROFL at the irony.

Ive just done emotes and it shows up there names

Ill repeat what I say in all these 'Fresh meat' threads.

They should go the DAoC route and display race + class as 'names'. Seeing a 'Highlander Warrior', 'Midlander Dragoon', 'Seawolf White Mage', 'Dunefolk Black Mage' come at you is more engaging than x4 fresh meat, imo.

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Originally Posted by McStagger

ROFL at the irony.

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At the irony ? There's a difference between beeing offensive and arrogant.
I prefer someone calling me retarded than calling me trash, like you call here someone just "Fresh Meat".

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Originally Posted by BoomerOU

They should go the DAoC route and display race + class as 'names'. Seeing a 'Highlander Warrior', 'Midlander Dragoon', 'Seawolf White Mage', 'Dunefolk Black Mage' come at you is more engaging than x4 fresh meat, imo.

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I would rather they just display our names. I want to know who I'm up against.

Yeah, it's annoying as hell. I'm just repeating myself but it basically impossible to build any sort of community now, not to mention the fact that this franchise has a huge RP following. It makes absolutely no sense

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Originally Posted by Naunet

I would rather they just display our names. I want to know who I'm up against.

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It's SE's intent to "protect" players from harassment (hate tells, general douchebaggery) before/after a match. For better or for worse, it it what it is. I guess this way no one sees "Godmode team" and instanstly gives up.

/ac "Standard Synthesis" <Fresh Meat>

I thought Yoshi-P said something in the live letter about how you'd be able to see their names in the Battle Log.

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Originally Posted by mythicrose

It's SE's intent to "protect" players from harassment

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I know what their intent is. I disagree with them on the idea that it's necessary. It's as silly as their reasoning for /doze only being available for beds in FC houses (oh no, people might make ~inappropriate~ screenshots) and disabling tells in instances.

I personally like the Fresh Meat names. It adds another layer of difficulty to the encounter. I know in other games with an arena style pvp, you eventually get into a tier where you only play with only a few other people that are equally ranked. If you play against the same people enough, you learn their strategy and that reduces the challenge. "Oh it's John Doe again, he always pops his CDs prematurely so engage him and then run away immediately" or "That whm focuses too much on DDing, he is an easy target." I realize that learning their tactics is a skill in and of itself, but not being able to memorize other groups' strategies is also more challenging in the long run, in my opinion.

My previous MMO displayed names and it was terrible, really. "Oh we're fighting so-and-so? Drop party now, we'll just lose!" It killed morale. Rather than focusing on winning your own battle, it also became a way to stroke epeen. Certain people became known as really good and everyone spent too much time circlejerking each other and talking smack. I much prefer anonymity.

Just a reminder, this thread is not about replacing Fresh Meat.

It's about having some sort of indication on who I am fighting against, class wise.

I'd like the anonyminity to be a choice. Not forced. If some people want to curb smack talk and play in secrecy, give them the option...

But damn Square-Enix is all about not giving people a freaking choice in these matters. -.-