What about an Eureka-like instanced pvp zone?

[Vandso]

We all know open world pvp in this game is unreasonable, but a few players (like Xenos, as he said in a video a few days ago) still want this kind of game mode. Well, what about an instanced zone?

Here's an idea of how this could work:

• The game will be FFA, which means everyone will be the enemy of everyone. You can enter the instance as a party, but this will only assure that every player will be thrown at the same instance;
• You will spawn randomly in one of the set spawn locations of the map, and you will be invisible/invulnerable and for a few seconds. This is to prevent new players to be harassed by veterans;
• You start the game with 100 Reputation. Killing other players steal half of their Reputation (if you assist, you will share a part of this amount). There will be a leaderboard showing the top 5 players with the most Reputation of the zone, as well as an icon above their head. If you're the top player, your location will be revealed on the map every few minutes. Leaving the instance with 200 Reputation or more will drop your Reputation by half, but you will keep the remaining for the next instance. The Reputation of all players will reset every Series reset;
• Killing players will also give you Wolf Marks and Series EXP based on their Reputation;
• There will be items throughout the map that you can colect. These items can range from heals, powerups, consumables and passive abilities. There's a limit of how many items you can carry, and if you die you drop all of your items;
• There will be achievment rewards of how much Reputation you can get, as well as for how long you can stay at the top of the leaderboard.

[VerdeLuck]

Oh god, not another streamer thread.

[TBerry]

Nope, you won't get away with zerging.
I can already see the gaping loophole that enables it.

[Vandso]

Oh god, not another streamer thread.

It's not a streamer thread, it's a streamer reference. The idea was mine.

[Erzaa]

How would you balance all the jobs here?

[iVolke]

Would be horrible with current netcode

[Vandso]

How would you balance all the jobs here?

Just like Frontline.

Would be horrible with current netcode

Not really. If you have the number of Frontline players in a much bigger map it won't make that much of a difference.

[Erzaa]

Just like Frontline.

I'm not sure I understand. You mentioned it would be FFA. How would say a SCH contend with being bursted down by say a SAM?

What kind of balancing changes would you make to each job to make sure they're all viable being played solo?

[MoofiaBossVal]

A big zone where there is the potential for PvP happening at any time while you're minding your own business would certainly be interesting, though there needs to be motivators besides PvPing for the sake of it as FF14 PvP isn't that fun compared to WoW and GW2 PvP. Ie, faction pride, or earning rewards.

[Burmecia]

so, bunch of melee mains slaughtering each other for leaderboard fame?

our jobs are balanced for CC, that sucks for frontlines, it would suck here. this mode would be lord of verminion of pvp by the second week.