3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[Februs]

Yay, they finally added Assists into the damn game! Boo, they sure as hell wont be retroactively implementing that to Wolves' Den/Secure/Slaughter/Seize...
Oh, one tiny request; The Mentor system is going to be slapping a crown icon next to Mentors names or something? Yeah... Can we slap the Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond icon next to PvPers names?

Totally agree. I'm very happy that they added "assists," and I can definitely see this solving a lot of problems with the unbalanced achievements for PvP if SE follows through with it. If they add rewards based on achievements it might be a good way to get healers some recognition and encourage people to Q as heals. It would also be cool to have a stats page (though I'm sure SE will cite memory and resources as a reason for not doing this) and have assists contribute in some way to matches, points, or rank. Right now it seems pretty bare bones, but the fact that SE is suggesting we try to rack up a lot of assists implies that they might have a bigger plan for them. I want to see where they will go with this.

And I definitely approve of having a player indicator of PvP rank. That sounds pretty snazzy.

I'm all for reviving Secure (slaughter can stay dead, I don't really care), and keeping it so that we have plenty of PvP options, or at least one Frontline mode that cycles between the three to keep them active...but SE seems intent on just leaving old content dead, so we'll see.

I now it's foolish, but I am still holding a candle for the idea that SE might up the ilvl of Secure and Slaughter in the future and include them in the FL roulette. It's wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that they're putting it off while they focus on FEAST's rollout, and that they will do these things when FEAST has successfully been introduced into the community ... A man can hope.

[Nalien]

It would also be cool to have a stats page (though I'm sure SE will cite memory and resources as a reason for not doing this) and have assists contribute in some way to matches, points, or rank.

I think I've been asking for that since 2.1... Just like we have a page that details our victory rate in Wolves' Den/Frontlines, we should have a page that takes the results we get at the end of a match and keeps track of them. I don't need to go back and look at the results I had for a match 10 months ago (although that would be awesome as well), but I'd love to have a page which has my total Kills, Deaths, Assists, HP Healed, Damage Taken, Occupations, and so on.

I care about that kind of information far more than the results of something like Frontlines (and to a lesser degree, Wolves' Den). Those results just tell me how the team is doing, not how I'm doing.

Perhaps the only problem with that is that there is no way it will be able to account for matches from before its implementation, but with Seasons getting added, I think now is the perfect time to just start a new slate and start recording that stuff.

The special reward for diamond rank is equipment with a completely new design, and diamond ranked players can earn the entire set. There will also be trophy furnishings.

Holy crap! I cannot believe I missed this! I've been requesting furniture trophies for years now! More of a housing thing than PvP, but damn, they're renewing my sense that they actually listen a bit here.

[Februs]

Perhaps the only problem with that is that there is no way it will be able to account for matches from before its implementation, but with Seasons getting added, I think now is the perfect time to just start a new slate and start recording that stuff.

I totally agree with you here, and I've been pining for this for a while now. The problem, though, is that SE has traditionally been unwilling to include such things. Last time this was brought up, the cited that system storage was not sufficient to do it. The same issue was brought up recently with our request to store action points separately. Their answer was that it would "require too many resources" to do. So, as much as I would like to see it and this is the ideal time, I can already foresee SE's answer.

Holy crap! I cannot believe I missed this! I've been requesting furniture trophies for years now! More of a housing thing than PvP, but damn, they're renewing my sense that they actually listen a bit here.

I was actually impressed by a lot of things they are adding (assists, for example) which show that they have been at least somewhat listening to the PvP community. Seasons, Rankings, Rewards, Assists (and the possibility of new achievements), furnishings, and new equipment are all very good news to me. My biggest concern now is that it will be well received so that SE is given all the more reasons to continue adding things to PvP. That, and Q times.