PvP Zone/wilderness

[VictorTheed]

If it was sectioned off to its own little place then I wouldn't mind, it'd be cool to play the defender and get a couple high lvl buddies to join me in bringing justice to the innocent low lvls who got ganked by those who prey on the weak.

I'd def store anything I had of value in glam dresser or some other place before I did this type of content so peeps who defeated me couldn't steal my stuff I worked hard for.

[Divinemights]

I am a reletively long time pvp lover in this game and even though I enjoy what pvp has become I think it would be AWESOME if there was a wilderness zone (no need for references here)

It is irrelevant that how long you PvP in this game.
Your PvP experience will not make a failure idea works.
Same idea already being brought up in PvP forum and that thread last since 2.4.
The ratio on the idea is 8 (against) : 2 (support) and they are feedbacks from "experienced" PvP players.
I am not sure why you want to sell this idea here when it is not even looking bright within PvP community

[Bright-Flower]

I don't neccisarily mind the existance of an open world pvp zone if I don't have to go there, but what would you put there? Any story content? Rewards? Pvp or pve objectives within it? Is there a reward structure and point to it or is it just a big side area to play around in? I feel they would need to have 'something' going on there to justify creating a zone for it.

[MattDank3eyes]

Easiest thing is to just have a zone with open pvp and just add generic quests. a story would be cool but it wouldn't really have to be necessary for pvp.
I just mean a no holds bar open pvp map would be litty.
I'd hope for a zone without using the pvp profile, the reason behind that is that it wouldn
t necessarily be a competitive zone just a zone with the possible encounter.
Some shit like 100x tokens for a mount or some suits lol

[BloodRubyXII]

ye sik lets go play some heckin r00nies all

[Astrophysx]

Open World PvP in FFXIV = One-sided instance that favors veterans heavily (especially in premades).

Expectation: "Me and my friends can sneak up and gank people! This will be fun!"

Reality: Premade consisting of Diamond Wolves kill everyone in their path and spawn camp until everyone leaves the instance.

If you're not proficient at PvP, you will be miserable in the open world... and you will NOT enjoy it.

If you're good at PvP with several seasons of Feast experience... you will find excitement knowing the players you killed (a multitude of times) are smashing their keyboards onto their monitors in frustration.

... and this is why I want Open World to happen. XD hahaha

[Nedkel]

Its possible, wolf dens already has something like that but only for duels.
Wolfden should have free pvp arena imho

[Crit]

Time to get banned for being mass accused of hacking

[ElazulHP]

I used to love Open World PvP in SWG back in the day. You could hunt down Jedi as a Bounty Hunter or any other overtly flagged Rebels or Imperials. Was quite fun. Not sure it would really work in this game though and as others have said most people wouldn't really want something like that I'd imagine. But it was really awesome having playercity vs playercity warfare going. My friends town I was a part of was completely imperial and had a beef with a neighboring Rebel town. So we'd raid them and destroy all their Rebel installations and anyone flagged overtly. Good times.

[Myon88]

In my experience there is generally only one kind of player that wants content like this. They tend to be younger, a little immature, a little hot blooded and eager to prove they're better than other people. They also, strangely enough, never see themselves as the ones getting ganked in this system. They'll want to be the ones doing the ganking, preferably in a posse with their friends, and will defend it as fair because 'lol you can just organize too bro' (hey, this is starting to sound kinda familiar).

Well, let me introduce you to the wonderful content called Lord of Verminion. As it is, it's the activity with the highest execution barrier and skill ceiling in the game. This should be right up your alley, what better setting to prove how much of a badass you are? Unfortunately, it's 1v1 content so you can't team up, but I'm sure a PvP chad like you doesn't need to hide behind their friends. If there's a player on another server talking shit (like me right now), you can just roll right up and put them in their place, no rng, no matchmaking, no excuses. Isn't that exciting, this is what gets you people off right? This content has all of that and more.

As you can see, an open world zone like this already exists, it's called the Gold Saucer. With the addition of that new 'The Slice is Right' gate, it now contains both the hardest PvE and PvP content in the game. So, what are you waiting for? This is the no-holds-barred, endgame zone of your dreams.