New Mode

[FinalWolf]

Hope the wait times will be better

[Cidolfas86]

Anybody excited about this new mode or did the lack of abolishing GC requirements kill it for you?

the latter mostly. I mean it'll be great for the first week or two cause many people are queing for the new mode, but i imagine que times will have a return to form once the initial excitement has worn off. this doesn't really take into consideration that the new game mode and map are any good mind you. i'll be happy to eat my own words since ive pretty much given up on pvp in this game, but i'm not holding my breath with GC restrictions still in place.

[Stormrider]

i150 really? We are already synced below main gear.

[Culfinrandir]

i150 really? We are already synced below main gear.

I was surprised at the i150 to be honest as I'm only circa i142 using the items gained from the MSQ (I only completed it a few days ago). I thought it may be set at i142 to entice newly level 60s into the mode.

I'm a lowly level 27 PVP player although I do take it seriously & really enjoy it. Unfortunately the queues killed my ability to get higher. I'm going to have to grind PVE content to get non-PVP gear to just play the latest mode. Boo hiss.

Just hope that by the time I reach i150 the queues haven't increased back to crazy times.

[Akari_Theron]

i150 really? We are already synced below main gear.

We have to let the brand new people feel special, I mean they get to be special and barely work for the best looking armor in the game(imo). I am honestly looking forward to arena fixes since the max ranked people will actually get to take advantage of their gear.

[Nalien]

You know what SE, good on you.

Seal Rock is a pleasant surprise indeed. After my first impressions of Slaughter (and continued dislike of 72 Slaughter, 24 grew on me though) I had all but written off any new addition to the PvP roaster, instead bemoaning the lack of attention Wolves Den and Secure receive. Damn it all though, I was wrong. Seal Rock is (at least from first impressions) amazing, and more importantly I think it shows a fair amount of listening to the community with regards to PvP gameplay. Still ignoring the queue issues, but bravo all the same.

Perhaps the only issue I'd take (outside the lack of a Mercenary system to fix queue times) is the iLevel... I'd have put it at a i130 cap, because you know... Those Liege sets wouldn't have been replaced by our PvE stuff then...

[meldon90]

Seal Rock awesome? You nuts?

Its the most random battleground i've ever seen in an mmo, if you're lucky most of the towers activate near your spawn point and you get a solid advantage from just being lucky, how is that fair?

Is there a mechanic choosing wich towers are going to activate?

[valindurai]

i honestly think it's because with all the damage output from i180 gear it would be impossible to cure through. otherwise i think people will be dead within 5 seconds.

[edit] this is in regards to why ilvl is 150

[Ultimatecalibur]

Seal Rock syncs to i150 for the same reason Secure synced to i80. In order to allow fresh max level characters to be effective against long time PvPers.

[morerancor]

yup they took all the skill out of pvp, come on in you funzies and ride your chocobo around for 15 minutes.