Open world PvP Zone

[RiyahArp]

Why then is it so intolerable for PvPers to get a little something?

I'm not saying don't get it. Its just you guys seem to not understand open world pvp at all.

I think you believe open world pvp is like the wolf's den, just bigger and with no one-on-one restriction. What it means in practice is that 24 of your buddies on discord will form up into an adhoc alliance in order to gank people coming into the zone. The pve stuff in those games is designed to hopefully break up your buddies by spreading them out to search areas, as well as give people a reason to even enter the zone when they learn the Discorders are there again. Maybe they can sneak in to steal some wolfmarks or what have you from nodes and get out before they get ganked, or get some quick light or what have you. Maybe if they stay in zone long enough to kill enemies, they get a bonus to tome collection in pve. Otherwise, what will happen is that people will only zone in when they also can get 24 buddies on discord to have a decent fight. And that means a lot of dead time aimlessly waiting for fights.

If you don't have some kind of pve in it, you run into the problem where players don't have a reason to risk being farmed. You kind of need people to be willing to be prey in order to make open world pvp work. That means you need them to be willing to accept being ganked due to numerical disadvantage at times. Otherwise the buddies on discord will more or less force the zone to be empty unless you get 24 of your buddies to fight them.

Otherwise it would just be a place that is empty except for "open pvp saturdays" when you try to get people in there and hope that your buddies on discord don't premade and farm the noobs nonstop.