I really feel like pvp is just some tacked on side thing that was never a real focal point of this game. It is the same in XI it is awful there too in my opinion. I don't feel like either game was designed with player vs. player combat a true core principal of it, and that is not a bad thing in itself. It is bad because they are trying to appeal to pvp'ers I guess but not providing a pvp game.

Pvp is not the deal breaker for me in XIV tho. I enjoy parts of the game enough that I'll play it til that loses its luster. PVP was at one time something I would log in and do, I was never "super good" at it, but I think I did pretty good at times. What we have here now tho, just seems like massive leaps backwards from what was there even just before ShB "updates". Another thing I didn't enjoy at all was the Dashing Nadam or whatever that's called. That was about the end of pvp for me in this game.