Carebear FF14

[Teryaani]

What I do suggest is an area/region dedicated to open-world PvP with objectives. An example would be wintergrasp or tol barad from Wow (minus the balance issues with server population). Every few hours there'd be a battle where players from all GCs/factions can participate to capture objectives. The winner would have free access to the area's resources and daily during the respite inbetween battles. It's still an area that allows for PKing, but the captured objectives are under the protection of the GC under control, with the other two having base camps situated in not-so-convenient locations for resource gathering.

Open world frontlines with few things added? As long as you don't make it part of the storyline (read: make it optional), you probably won't get much blowback from it. That includes pulling a tol barad and making it an area that isn't required to travel through to get somewhere else quickly (looking at you wintergrasp).

It really goes to show that they haven't put a lot of thought into PvP for the most part (specifically long term to consider things like open-world). Are they paying attention to it? Sure, but is it the right kind of attention (GC seperation for frontlines...flatout removal of cleric stance instead of adjustments, etc etc).

I have a suspicion that that 'not much thought' was intentional. As Risvertasashi pointed out, the game was designed as cooperative, not competitive. Open world pvp like WoW's doesn't really fit.

One more thing, I'm all in all for duels in open world, something like right clicking someone's name and challenging them. It can work work shifting to PvP actions/setup and such. It won't be balanced for 1v1s, but who cares really when its not going to be ranked or anything?

No. So much No.

Do this for me: download the free install for WoW and create an alliance character on...well any high pop server (or low pop, I had this happen on both Wyrmrest (high) and Nordrassil (low)).

Now, get your character to goldshire and try to do the quests there without some half naked character spam challenging you to a duel and following you around yelling obscenities when you decline.

If you do the duels like this, this will happen. Not might. Will. DenariusJay mentioned arena duels. That makes sense. Open world duels is an invitation to griefing.