Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

Originally Posted by Jimjo

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Are rewards still per data center? Welp gg ranking with my job and school. Oh well lol

Originally Posted by Jimjo

Suggestion: Maybe try to break the rankings up per Job so we dont have the best player per datacenter, but the best player in a specific Job per Datacenter.

Yep, been suggesting that for a while now. Not only does it provide more opportunities for rewards, as well as better rewards (Job specific ones, as nice as the gear shown was, it doesn't really fit some Jobs, and I'd much rather see PvP Relics anyway), but it also has a positive impact on Job meta. Doubt it would be too noticeable, but hopefully we'd see a better spread of Jobs, rather than people jumping on the current popular bandwagon, since that just provides more competition for that number 1 spot... Much more balanced way to handle rewards IMO, having different roles compete is just going to make the most important role (Healer) rule the top spot...

Making it Job based rather than Feast based also allows them to open the ranking up to all forms of PvP... That's just out right better for PvP, rather than queuing for Feast to up your ranking, we could instead have a proper PvP Roulette that makes the Fold, Secure, Slaughter, Seize and Feast relevant... All they'd need to do is standardize everything to have the same scoreboard (add Assists etc.) and rebalance the old stuff to Lv60 and possibly include new mechanics... I think that would be much better for PvP in the long run, frankly I'm sick of this flavour of the month PvP mode crap, have been since Slaughter...

Anyone know what this mean? Also the calculation if possible

The damage required to interrupt casting will now be determined by the caster's item level.
Following this adjustment, the caster's maximum HP will no longer influence the amount of damage required to interrupt casting.

So, after playing with Dark Knight a bit, the changes are definitely nice. The burst is very nice and Carnal Chill is powerful and frequent enough to have an impact now. Crowd control is the only real issue, one solitary Stun is still a major issue in extended matches...

I was thinking though, rather than provide an additional Stun, could we not just adjust how Parry works in PvP? I mean, Parry needs an overhaul in general anyway, but it would be nice if Parry was somewhat more reliable in PvP for Reprisal and Low Blows... Heck, quality of life adjustment for Dark Knight in general; Reprisal and Low Blows to also trigger from dodges, since Dark Arts Dark Dance and Dark Arts Dark Passenger are a solid evasion combo...

Originally Posted by Eul

Anyone know what this mean? Also the calculation if possible

Before the damage needed to be done would have been determine off of % of HP. So if a healer/caster was wearing fending right side they would be sitting at 13K HP ish. Therefore you would need to do 1,950 damage to interrupt a cast. Now it is based off Ilvl assumed HP, i.e. casters actually wearing healing/casting right side pieces. They sit at around 9,500 HP at this, so you need to do 1,425 damage to interrupt no matter what their actual HP is sitting at. Note that before the patch if you had a healer/caster in there normal right side pieces (i.e. 9500 HP) you would need the same damage for interrupt, so this would not change anything.

The purpose was to not allow for the inflation of the interrupt threshold needed by using fending pieces.

So I see we still lose rating even if you're down a member and the opposition gets an easy win... That's great...