How boring is PVP now?

[Wintersandman]

It was fun in HW and some what fun in ARR but not that much as barely any non-DD job had any burst back then. So the "golden age" of XIV pvp was from beginning of HW to release of Shatter(that is when pvp died for me).

I agree with this. You could feel the difference between secure/slaughter to seize. The PvP skills were unique for each class and when looked at, it was extremely well balanced. Any job could take on any job. The removal of CC from dps jobs really made healers shine in present day PvP.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I agree with this. You could feel the difference between secure/slaughter to seize. The PvP skills were unique for each class and when looked at, it was extremely well balanced. Any job could take on any job. The removal of CC from dps jobs really made healers shine in present day PvP.

EXACTLY this. 4.0 brought good QoL and functional ideas, but what it did to the jobs and the overall gameplay was a huge step back.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I find the new PVP boring. Good job Square

I agree. I have always had a blast in Shatter. But, man Rival Wings is so boring, I almost don't know if I even want to try for the mount. I played one game tonight after work, and was so bored and frustrated at yet another loss (4 wins out of 15 matches) I just logged off for the night.

[KageTokage]

I'm currently on a seven game losing streak out of eight games played and almost all of said games were totally one-sided with the opposing team having both towers intact when time ran out or the core was destroyed.

I don't know if it has to do with the party composition, the other team just being better, and/or people not knowing how to use the Brute Justice properly, but it's feeling more frustrating then fun, partly because the matches usually ended by timeout with my team fruitlessly struggling and being caught in a stalemate once both towers went down (This might be in part due to the cannons at the base being so powerful that it's difficult for anyone to mount much of an offensive on the core).

On a related note, I feel like it would better for the flow of the game overall if approaching the cores from the south with the oppressors was actually viable because having to scale the stairway before you have a vantage point to fire on the core from makes it extremely impractical compared to coming from the north where there's a corner out of the range of turrets you can blast it from.

[Brill_]

I think the lopsided matches come down to coordinated groups vs uncoordinated groups. People need to learn to communicate or it will be frustrating. A coordinated vs uncoordinated group is like a bunch of random folks playing paintball against navy seals. I do hate that most matches end by timeout. Healers are really annoying kill.

[Yagamoth]

I absolutely love the PvP in this game, but the que times & endgame rewards for it are just horrible.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I've warmed up to RW quite a bit. I'm enjoying it a lot more now. Though, I'm highly annoyed that they tout a "new, easier way to report PVP related incidents" and yet they still do nothing about bots. I watch the same bots run rampant weeks after I've reported them for obvious botting.