Where is my pvp

[Fensfield]

Hokay since nobody's given a detailed reply (though I kinda can't blame them..) and while I've not much interest in it myself.. =.=

A form of PVP is due for implementation in the v2.1 update through the Wolves Den, around.. oh.. November. Ish. This will be a 4v4 system wherein people can either go in as a party or use something akin to the duty finder for random grouping if they want, with rewards for performance and abilities rebalanced for PVP instead of trying to change PVE abilities to fit PVP.

Yoshida has also said that there will, probably, be 1v1 PVP duels, but it'll be a lower priority and probably limited to the housing areas as more of a 'for fun' thing given it'd be too hard to balance it for meaningful rewards and so.

Finally, there is a formally announced mass PVP system called Frontlines. This /will/ be an open world combat system, but only within zones specifically for Frontlines. It will have its own rewards, its own systems, and is intended for entire grand companies to compete for rewards and resources with such large systems as summoning a full on primal once a week. But that is a long way off. Formally announced and planned, but not scheduled.

There.

[Swishytail]

Starting to get bored hoping pvp will be good and come soon and I hope to god there will be leaderboards ect ect and maybe some large 10v10 battlegrounds

Plz let the pvp come soon and be good

They are adding 4v4 Arena PvP in patch 2.1 I thought I saw
something about 8v8 coming at some point as well. Maybe
around the same time?

Somewhere down the line they are adding larger scale (24v24)
grand company PvP battles. How these will work I have no
idea.

As for open world, I also thought I read somewhere that you
can dual people 1v1 in the housing areas. I'm really sorry,
I cannot remember where I read this information. I'll dig around
and see if I can find it again.

PvE and PvP skills will be completely seperate, as well, so that
they can balance them seperately. So whatever you have as
your PvE skills will not be used in PvP.

Edit: Guy above me beat me to it, haha. Must've been typing at the same time.

[Renytenz]

Now about 1v1 balancing issues. Will use an example of Lineage 2. The Olympiad system there granted substantial rewards and bonuses not to best pvp players per se, but to best pvp players in their class. It also allowed to get points from pvping among classes (there was a choice whether to register for among classes or in-class), but that can be left aside, the main idea is to reward players that achieved high results against same class. Now where is the balancing issue here? It would be great. Not that I'm against party vs party, but why not have both options, if they can be implemented.