Is there any chance to have updated/competitive PVP ?

[Edenlys]

In it's current state I believe that PvP is far more frustrating than it is fun, after few month of rank up, farming equipement and melding task (bored, expensive...), what should we expect from pvp ?

I mean, gears will be obsolete in 2.2 with new ilevelcap, so is the current pvp a story about rank, gear and even more boring materia melding ?

There is nothing exciting to farming rank or get gears if we cannot enjoy this more than few weeks, the pvp shouldnt have a similar PVE approch.
We play players against players for fun, competitive or others reasons, probably not to get xperience with pug.

Pvp might be interesting in the near future. Farming keeps attention of players but i really hope you decide to instant updating gears instead of giving us bashing again and again.

[khmfdoom]

The plans for 2.2 are stated in previous live letters and more info will be released on the 21st with the next live letter. That being said yes they are adding matchmaking for pvp based on ranks also rated arena matches as well as adding in tweaks and balancing issues. Also stated in the recent game watch interview with yoshi p he said the req for ilvl 90 pvp gear will not be rank 30 anymore which leads me to believe that higher ilvls and higher ranks and or incentives are coming very soon.

[Almaxia]

Well i hope too that the modification of matchmaking will lead to competitive pvp. Because i didn't read something about it for the moment (maybe you have some sources ?)

There is no challenge in PvP for the moment. There is now some R30 players but (at least on Chaos) they all stop PvP after getting geared. 4v4 does not exist. PvP really lack of competitiveness.

[Eriatarka12]

The plans for 2.2 are stated in previous live letters and more info will be released on the 21st with the next live letter. That being said yes they are adding matchmaking for pvp based on ranks also rated arena matches as well as adding in tweaks and balancing issues. Also stated in the recent game watch interview with yoshi p he said the req for ilvl 90 pvp gear will not be rank 30 anymore which leads me to believe that higher ilvls and higher ranks and or incentives are coming very soon.

Where did you see this? I must have missed it but would really like to read it.

[Exiras]

"Is there any chance to have updated/competitive PVP ?"

No

[khmfdoom]

Its from a 2 part game watch interview from early this month. Official translations were posted on the forums also Reinheart translated the entire interview word for word and posted as well with his own forum topic. Most of the things people don't know because all the major interviews are usually never translated to English.

[Eriatarka12]

Its from a 2 part game watch interview from early this month. Official translations were posted on the forums also Reinheart translated the entire interview word for word and posted as well with his own forum topic. Most of the things people don't know because all the major interviews are usually never translated to English.

Ah, I see it now. For anyone else who is curious it's located here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1911521

GW: What kind of regulations will the rating system have?

Y: Right now we’re looking into what to split the entrance. But we’re going to make adjustments so those who just started PvP won’t get matched up with those who has tons of points already. Top ranking players with Dire gear is too strong, so we’re going to make it where players can get that at lower rank and make it where they’ll gradually get stronger. We’ve put in detailed changes here, so we’re planning to explain this in the next live letter or at the timing when we read the patch notes.

[Theory]Looks like it's saying maybe you could access Direwolf gear at level 20 now but you won't get it's full stats or materia bonuses until rank 30 maybe?[/Theory]

I think something like that would be fair, as long as those people who have already been 30 for awhile and had to wait for the gear aren't completely shafted then I won't care. If it encourages people to play then it's good for the community.

[Pentara]

The plans for 2.2 are stated in previous live letters and more info will be released on the 21st with the next live letter. That being said yes they are adding matchmaking for pvp based on ranks also rated arena matches as well as adding in tweaks and balancing issues. Also stated in the recent game watch interview with yoshi p he said the req for ilvl 90 pvp gear will not be rank 30 anymore which leads me to believe that higher ilvls and higher ranks and or incentives are coming very soon.

They better not add new gear, i've already grinded (ground?) 2 sets and going for a 3rd. If i have to replace it all in 2.2 i'm going to be real mad

[BkSandaddy]

They better not add new gear, i've already grinded (ground?) 2 sets and going for a 3rd. If i have to replace it all in 2.2 i'm going to real mad

This times 100

[Eriatarka12]

They better not add new gear, i've already grinded (ground?) 2 sets and going for a 3rd. If i have to replace it all in 2.2 i'm going to be real mad

Yeah... I'll be sad too, lol.