Frontlines ilvl sync

[Shake0615]

I dont think PVE analogy works due to the core differences between the 2 things. In pve, your always focued on killing mobs. Doesnt matter if its a solo quest or coil or a primal etc its about you vs a mob, period. It never deviates from that, ever. The outcome is always the same, you kill the mob or the mob kills you. There is no winning by doing other things, there is no sneaking past things without killing them to get your loot, there is nothing but killing them dead.

In pvp, arena is deathmatch. You kill each other ASAP. Its you taking out your opponents any way possible. If you dont kill anyone you lose. Objective pvp, you dont really need to kill ANYONE. You have to claim your objectives and thats the goal. It doesnt matter if you kill 50 people or none. You win all the same. To me, those are inherently different because of the goal of the "game".

Well, I could also respond that your analogy doesn't work either because let's face it...in FFXIV the majority of your performance is based on doing a dance not just doing damage. I don't think anyone could argue that beating T5 is ultimately boiled down to "there's nothing but killing Twintania" or that you could beat Leviathan/Titan Extreme without knowing how to dodge. Even in PvE there are many "objectives" to winning besides just dps-ing. But even if it were different in PvE, let's also face the fact that it's unreasonable to assume that you could win a battleground without actually fighting another player in reality. People will be defending their objectives and from the time you engage them to the time one party wins for all intents and purposes it becomes a deathmatch. Sure, theoretically you could wind a BG without actually fighting another player but in 7 years of playing MMOs I haven't seen it yet. If you don't really want to face another player in the battleground, you really don't want Frontlines; you want SE to bring back Skirmishes from 1.0.

It seems that you and I are at impasse, so I suppose we'll just agree to disagree. It's not like the Dev's will be taking into consideration our comments anyway.