Yannos

Just making this post to see how others feel about "casual PVP". what i mean by this is a seperate zone that can be used to fight over various objectives. Think WoW's Battleground system or DAOCs RVR.

A place where pure PVE'rs would NEVER have to step inside if they did not want to. But give those of us that enjoy this type of PVP a place to fight.

This could be done by revamping current arena and making them more accessable.

just so you know I tried the PVP server and its just not my thing, not saying its a bad playstyle just not my thing. But i love competition and options and would love to hit up a "battleground" after a raid or when i dont feel like grinding quests

Kelenvor

Not for me

But...

It works well in World of Warcraft. I'd say go for it if it will help keep more people here. I've seen players get burned out. Maybe it would help with retention..you know giving players something besides questing, raiding, etc to do...

Arty

Keep pvp as fucking far away from the pve servers as humanly possibly. PVP has already (against the statements by SOE) screwed enough things up in pve. The last thing we need is having them bork up the blue servers even more by bringing a different rule set into certain zones and not others.

Horrible idea, imo.

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Leorrasanoob

Would these battlegrounds be for everyone in game to play against each other or just pve servers vs each other and pvp servers vs each other. Not sure how well it would equal out if pvp servers were in same battlegrounds as pvp servers.

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Vendetta

+1
bring back arena

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Kelenvor

I never did Battlegrounds on my WoW server..but couldn't you get PvP gear by doing the Battlegrounds even if you weren't on a PvP server? It gave players who didn't raid a chance to get fable type gear.

IDK..I didn't like it but it was really popular. I don't see how having a battleground type area would hurt the PvE server. These would be new areas designed for PvP encounters. And they'd be cross server so you'd get to interact with people throughout the EQ2 realm.

Of course, in WoW, it made blue lvl 19 twink gear on the server cost more than most lvl 70 gear.

lost

They could just open up pve->pvp transfers. The gear on the servers isn't that different....Nagafen has 1 guild that has cleared VP and 1 guild on Silverwing, which matches most PvE servers for progression, so a gear disparity really isn't that big of an issue.

Mendanbar

Because the argument is - if you can get your fix competing against other players in a "safe" environment, then there's no reason to go play on the "dangerous" server. Obviously, there are people that would never go to the pvp side no matter what, but as an ex-pvp dev in another game, I can definitely sympathize with the pvp'ers side, there are people who I occasionally saw stop logging pvp chars once they were able to screw around in pvp with their mains in the "safe" side.

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Sorry, I thought you had said how it would hurt PVP. It could hurt PVE because skills are speced totally differently between pvp and pve. Assassin backstabs in a raid can hit for 20-30k. YOu obviously can't do that in PVP as it would be overpowered. That kind of stuff.

Arty

LOL... literally, laughing out loud.

/pats Kelenvor on the head... and i'll leave the light on so the boogie monster doesn't get you tonight, junior.

If you want pvp, /duel or go roll a character on one of two PVP servers. Leave those of us who do NOT want to be inundated with changes to combat, rulesets, gear, items, procs, spells, and the community alone.

This is not a PVP game, was not designed to be, and the infectious tentacles should not be allowed to encroach even more on the "pvp will never effect you" blue servers.

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Yannos

I'm not saying this IS a PVP game all im asking for is a possible revamp to arena's so that those like myself (i know of others as well) who enjoy this consentual and casual PVP can have another option.

/duel doesnt work because I enjoy the dynamic of group combat.

Last thing i would want is any PVP changes to effect PVE. I don't think it has to at all i believe the PVP servers already have thier own ruleset for fighting players. Can't see why this can't be done for these special zones.