Since 2.5 no one seems to do PVP anymore

[Jynx]

For me?

• Takes to long to get in.
• Favors specific setups.
• Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
• Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
• Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
• Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends

I've never been a big fan of PVP in any game, while this is mostly a extent of this the entire implementation of the system screams of design failures the developers can't bring themselves to fix. I get the whole "Lore" aspect of the PVP but jesus it's so restricting when you have a allready small pool of players fragmented even further by a arbitrary system like this.


Christ XI did the whole PVP thing better and that's not funny. While it had the same national restriction stuff they at least had schedueled matches so the people interested in the content knew when to be around.

[Slirith]

For me?

• Takes to long to get in.
• Favors specific setups.
• Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
• Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
• Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
• Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends

this /10chars

[Nalien]

I get the whole "Lore" aspect of the PVP but jesus it's so restricting when you have a allready small pool of players fragmented even further by a arbitrary system like this.

There is no "Lore" reason for the draconian Grand Company restriction.

I'm usually the first person to say I love the Grand Company aspect of PvP, but there is absolutely no reason they couldn't have implemented a Mercenary system by now... Let people who don't care queue as a Mercenary and have them dropped in any Grand Company. Have parties queue up as the leaders Grand Company. All they need to do is justify it in "Lore" by saying its to ensure fair and faster matches. Done.

Still the same Maelstrong verses Win Adder atmosphere with less of the queue problems. People can hate on the "Maelstrong" stuff all they like, but it makes PvP a lot more welcoming if you're automatically part of a static team, rather than it just being the sopro statics verses losers.

[Laerune]

• Takes to long to get in.
• Favors specific setups.
• Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
• Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
• Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
• Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends

This, 100% this. My friends are in different Grand Companies and the queue can take from 60 minutes to 120 minutes. I have never seen a mmorpg with such a queue, PvP queue should be within 5-10 minutes, waiting for 2 hours is way to insane for me.