will xiv's pvp ever be as robust as wow's?

[Kaiche]

It was way better when we had more skills and abilities, now its quite boring and simplistic. Everyone had carry potential in their own job whilst having interesting pvp skills on top of it. They haven't even added any skills / abilities for the jobs which is a huge shame since having such a basic set of skills left misses the potential of what they could've added over time make it more interesting. For whatever reason they still don't understand how to make pvp content like rival wings last past its initial reward hype. Frontlines back when seal rock was introduced was probably one of the peak times for pvp as that was a fun large scale mode that lived on for ages - instead they went with rival rings...

[Shougun]

I'd rather they give more money to Soken so he can bang out more hot tracks thank you.

Lol I just picture Soken in the sound room like:



"I give you, Primal Music"

[Zsplash]

Short answer is never and any development spent on PVP is wasted honestly.

FFXIV's battle system is just completely unfit for PVP, majority of movement skills are also limited to on target use only which isn't interesting, GCDs are also too high of course and the community isn't really PVP focused to begin with anyways. I believe very few people actually play FFXIV for the PVP, more so just another "to do for glamour/etc." deal.

[Sated]

I'd have much more fun with 1v1 matches with more interesting objectives than these 1v1v1 resource grabs.
I don't see why they feel the need to include all 3 GCs for PvP, especially when players have the option of fighting for whoever.

[RareItems]

Maybe if they place gear that has a comparable Ilvl to the Augmented Crafted gear that is purchasable with a weekly capped PVP Tomes, more ppl might play PVP xD.

[enthauptet]

PVP will never feel good with SE battle mechanics system / game system. Ever be next to someone while moving and you cannot attack? this is why. Until the system is radically changed it will always be mediocre. This is my main problem with it.

Also targeting, targeting is awful in 14 but again that is the battle system lol.

[NessaWyvern]

Also if SE develops more pvp i would worried about how its gonna end up because they've shown that they don't really have a idea about what pvp in an MMORPG should look like when they implemented this useless combo button system, which killed the fun in pvp for a lot of people.

And now there's people asking for this system for PvE. Gods help us all.

[KageTokage]

Slow GCDs, slow server ticks making melee almost unplayable in some situations, healers being overpowered (These are supposed be the guys in need of protection, not the ones you avoid like the plague in 1v1 situations), etc.

There are a lot of things keeping me from enjoying XIV's PvP even a fraction as much as WoW's.

[NessaWyvern]

healers being overpowered (These are supposed be the guys in need of protection, not the ones you avoid like the plague in 1v1 situations), etc.

There are a lot of things keeping me from enjoying XIV's PvP even a fraction as much as WoW's.

As a healer main in pvp, I think you missed the point of healers. It's not quite about how killable they are, it's all about juggling your own survival with the survival of your team mates. Sure, a healer can be quite unkillable (if Dps and tanks don't work together and use all of their toolkit) if they focus all their heals on themself. But this means their team mates will die from no heals, and they'll most likely lose. The feast is a good example of this.

Or let me put it this way. If a healer and a Dps are doing a 1v1 in frontlines or feast, both if them are stupid. Dps cannot take down a healer without help, and is wasting his time. A healer 1v1 a dps would win the fight, but lose the battle, as their team is dying due to their healer 1v1ing and not healing them.

[Sanctify]

I wouldn't even go as far as to call WoWs pvp "robust" unless u think humping a pillar and baiting until max dampening is fun lol. Now if we were talking about vanilla/tbc PvP on the other hand...