Since 2.5 no one seems to do PVP anymore

[Ametrine]

I'm curious as to why.

What is everyone doing instead?
We even have a Roulette for it now, and instead match making being faster, it's takes well over a few hours. That's more than a bit much!

Where is everyone?

[Nalien]

Slaughter completely put me off PvP.

I'll maybe go back to Secure if I can queue and play Triple Triad at the same time, but I'm doubtful I'll touch the Roulette given how utterly awful Slaughter sounds and seemingly is. I'll fully admit I haven't really given it a proper try, but what I've heard about it just put me off that much. Throw in Hunt style random NM placement with actual rewards to break people up off mid and encourage scouting and I'd perhaps love the event. Don't mind PvE elements in Frontlines, but I hate how they script it. Never liked that in Secure, and it really shows its flaws in Slaughter imo. PvP is at its best when it isn't scripted, stop doing that SE...

Really though, if anything I guess it's the developers who've put me off PvP. They do not seem to give a crap about it. The PvP community in this game is drip fed content at a pathetic rate and the developers seem more intent on releasing new PvP content than actually refining what they've already released. See: Wolves Den. When the new content they're pushing out instead of improving old content in Slaughter? Yeah, I'm sick of what the developers are doing with PvP in this game. Call me in 5.4 when they might actually get around to introducing tournaments and the likes.

[Elusana_Celah]

I'm strictly PVE. I don't like how competitive and serious people get in PVP. Total put off to me. Plus I just suck at PVP anyways so you wouldn't want me holding your team back :P

[Jynx]

For me?

• Takes to long to get in.
• Favors specific setups.
• Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
• Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
• Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
• Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends

I've never been a big fan of PVP in any game, while this is mostly a extent of this the entire implementation of the system screams of design failures the developers can't bring themselves to fix. I get the whole "Lore" aspect of the PVP but jesus it's so restricting when you have a allready small pool of players fragmented even further by a arbitrary system like this.


Christ XI did the whole PVP thing better and that's not funny. While it had the same national restriction stuff they at least had schedueled matches so the people interested in the content knew when to be around.

[CYoung187]

The only reason I ever do PVP was due to boredom or for nexus lights. Now my time is much better spent elsewhere. Maybe if ranking up just to be able to use the glamour gear didn't take 8 years to accomplish I might go back. Plus F that queue.

Just my reasons.

[Mugiawara]

Because my server Maelstrom BLM's spam LB stack and it's kills any fun there is to be had.
No thanks...plus PvP in this game was never a strong suit.

[ECHOxLegend]

I for one love that PvP is an afterthought allowing me to enjoy it casually whilst all efforts are made towards the PvE, QoL, and Vanity that matters. No really, tired of MMos being divided by PvP and PvE fanbases, it just makes it so half the fanbase is bitching guaranteed.

[myahele]

I actually liked fronlines (secure) before this patch queue was pretty reasonable (usually 15mins give or take) But with the introduction of Slaughter I only end up getting 24 man teams in secure...and that's just not fun.

Slaughter there just isn't much strategy. Just cometeor spam. As such I no longer do PvP myself. If only having personal limit breaks in secure was a thing...oh well

[Slappah]

72-man slaughter is a bit hectic.
24-man slaughter is awesome.

24-man secure isn't too fun but 72-man secure is.

Wolves den is the best but those queues can be really atrocious and the 30 bracket seems to be the most populated which is a shame because it's not as fun as having all your skills available since you're level 30 not 50..

[Slirith]

For me?

• Takes to long to get in.
• Favors specific setups.
• Developers seem OK with win-trading and other shady practices
• Due to the above doing anything properly takes forever for no reason
• Rewards are purely cosmetic for the most part
• Grand Company restrictions prevent me from queing with friends

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