Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
For a short, happy, time I was actually impressed that they were making an effort to sustain a PvP game mode instead of just putting it out and ignoring it, but their commitment to Season two has been less than encouraging. The lack of a pre-season and the resounding silence from the developers has made me think that they're falling back into their old ways of flagrantly ignoring the PvP community ...
I suspect they've scheduled for 3 Feast seasons before kicking it into the same ditch as Secure et al... 3.25~3.35, 3.35~3.45, 3.45~3.55, then 4.0 takes us to Lv70 and all current content passes peacefully into the night... No time for pre-seasons with that schedule...

You know what I think they need to do? Give PvP a similar progression system to Palace of the Dead... Remove gear from the equation and just standardize everyones stats, that allows you to effectively manipulate players level... Right now we need i150 for PvP, that means we absolutely have to be Lv60 in order to wear that gear... Remove that, and like Palace of the Dead, you can just boost players levels... That means you can potentially open PvP up to literally everyone, rather than just the people at Lv60... Some issues with that, depending on how far you take it (one does not expect a Lv20 to have any clue what they're doing with Lv60 skills), but just lock ranked behind the level cap and I don't care, more players is more players... It also means you don't need to leave Fold/Secure/Slaughter as they are, they can be made relevant for the new level cap, as can Feast/Seize/Shatter when 4.0 rolls in... That allows them to provide variety without rendering previous modes moot, assuming they also address the roulette...

As it currently is, they're going to be making modes irrelevant... The 2.0 options have to remain there for people who don't buy Heavensward... The Heavensward options have to remain there for people who don't buy whatever is next... Slap a Palace of the Dead style level boost on PvP though? Someone who doesn't buy Heavensward can do Lv60 Secure, perhaps even Lv60 Shatter if SE does the right thing and doesn't split the community by locking modes behind expansions... It would allow them to build up PvP, rather than constantly replacing it...