Open World PvP

[Caurcas]

Greetings fellow forum posters. I post this thread today in order to promote and spur discussion on open world pvp in 14. I know this might be a bit of a hot take around these parts, but I believe it would improve the game immensely. Primarily in the social grouping aspect as it would encourage partying when questing more due to safety in numbers. Furthermore, it could be used as a way to settle disputes between players. In short, might would make right. It would also be a good way for players that have issues with certain pfs a way to take care of those without swamping an overworked GM with reports. Thoughts?

[Jin-]

Yes please. Classes are super unbalanced in pvp so doubt it would be fun for long

[Taliriah]

As far as I'm concerned, pvp servers all that XIV is missing. To me that's the end game. Lacking this I sadly don't see myself hanging around once I finished the story because I don't find replaying instanced PvE content appealing.

[MilkieTea]

No thanks ahah. I overlevel classes on purpose to avoid fighting mobs in the open world. I’d like to not have to think about players on top of that.

Maybe, as an alternative, having an open world PVP MODE? You set your character to a status and it allows you to be attacked, but in order to attack you have to also have this status? This way those who wish to only play PvE are open and allowed to do so and don’t have to worry about random attacks.

Or even a 1 on 1 gladiatorial-style PvP mode.

[IDontPetLalas]

In other words, flagging for PvPing- which is not great. Most people don't flag for PvP, and the flag rules need to be well defined - e.g. once in combat, cannot drop the flag for PvP.

[Roeshel]

No thanks ahah. I overlevel classes on purpose to avoid fighting mobs in the open world. I’d like to not have to think about players on top of that.

Maybe, as an alternative, having an open world PVP MODE? You set your character to a status and it allows you to be attacked, but in order to attack you have to also have this status? This way those who wish to only play PvE are open and allowed to do so and don’t have to worry about random attacks.

Or even a 1 on 1 gladiatorial-style PvP mode.

Open world PvP usually has some filters as to who can be attacked or penalties occur if someone is griefing. Otherwise, if there are no filters open world PvP is just fancy wording for what it truly is: a griefing fest. Games like that die as fast as the newbies who want to level up their characters.

[MPK]

PvP is by far the worst designed thing in this game. You cannot have PvP with this netcode

[Puremallace]

PvP is by far the worst designed thing in this game. You cannot have PvP with this netcode

Basically this. If I want balanced pvp I am going to play an FPS. I could not even imagine how toxic it would get. They would have to design it like Aion where there are specific zone that flag you for pvp.

[Avatre]

PvP is by far the worst designed thing in this game. You cannot have PvP with this netcode

I thought Bozja was the worst? Which is it?

Also, I think if, and that's a mighty big if, they do make open world PVP it would likely be limited to specific worlds by either making some currently existing ones do so, or creating new ones to do that.

[Anhra]

As much as i'd love any new addition to PvP content, but as long as Jobs are designed the way as they currently are, we will never be able to see even proper working duels, let alone anything else.

I really wish the Dev Team would stop smoking whatever it is they're doing when they design Jobs, and make them work in a way that any Job has at least a chance of beating a healer or tank and vice versa in a 1vs1 scenario.