Can we make PVP gear relevant?

[Dyvid]

They need to make Unranked (No Moral bonus) and Ranked (Moral bonus) matches on all forms of PVP.

[CeveArthu]

They need to make Unranked (No Moral bonus) and Ranked (Moral bonus) matches on all forms of PVP.

This equates to the same thing, except in Unranked PvP gear would make you worse off than PvE gear and in the later patches until 3.2 when more pvp gear is added, any new PvE gear over i210 would again be better than PvP gear

Morale no longer provides damage bonus and resistance, it buffs the ilvl of the gear its attached to, so this solution ultimately would not work

Ranked mode needs a combination of ilvl cap AND no materia restrictions imo, if you dont have a cap there will always be a point where players at the current pve endgame will have higher stats than those who dont, giving them an advantage in a mode that has nothing to do with PvE

Once ranked is added in 3.2 and they add more sets, they need to unlock the rank requirement of the i180 pvp set (or make a plain skin set with the same stats), reduce the cost of it from 93150 wolf marks to 20300 or 10150 and set the ranked ilvl cap to 210.


This allows people who want to do ranked:

* Not have to go through a stupid amount of grind to get access to ranked mode

* Gets them into an (almost) stat capped set of gear for the mode quickly, roughly 85 lvl 50 wolves den wins or 10-12 days of doing 1 frontline roulette, the main reason for this is that the main stats (vit, mind, etc) will be on par with everyone else regardless of gear, while still allowing for customization and progression from materia and different secondary stats

* Still allow to use PvE gear to start if its high enough, this opens the mode up to PvE players who want to dabble in ranked without having to grind the pvp set out while also not giving them an advantage (cant put pvp materia on pve gear, blue gear doesnt have materia slots anyway, etc)

* Removes powercreep like the old morale system, if you were rank 40 in the old system with a full hellwolf set and you fought people who were rank 0 but the same ilvl gear without morale, you dealt 32% ish more damage to them and took 32% ish less damage from them, it was such a dumb system and no one misses it