Attack & Defense Levels

shotwhointhewhat

Everyone already knows (or should know if they are PW savvy) how powerful attack and defense levels are. Recently I had been wondering how Perfect World would have been had there never been any attack or defense levels added to the game.

If the higher grade gears had progressed similar to how TT gears progress from grade to grade, but attack and defense levels were removed from the equation, what do you think PvP in PWI would be like today?

truekossy

Well let's see.... Warsoul would be even less of something anyone considers, DoT/DoD/JoSD would have some other boost like maybe to vit or a large amount of a primary stat, blessings would all be more along the lines of HP and whatnot, Damage over Time skills would be even less valuable (DoTs aren't affected by defense/attack levels and bypass immune on skills that have no initial damage such as myraid rainbow or absorb soul), and overall a large part of the perks R9 has would be eliminated... in favor of something else that's insanely broken in favor of it compared to other gears.

_Skai_ - Raging Tide

In compensation to what anything with attack levels gives, a big boost to something else will happen.

R9 weapons would get a huge boost to their base attack that equals 30 attack levels, Jones' blessing would give a huge damage boost, Omalleys would give both damage and defensive boosts, and so on.

As true said, DoT, DoD, and Jades would give compensation attack power/defenses instead of att/def levels.

That's how I see it working. Then skills such as chill/white/black voodoo/adren numbness would give compensation similar to how BM's marrows work.

TempleSlave - Lost City

shotwhointhewhat wrote: »

Everyone already knows (or should know if they are PW savvy) how powerful attack and defense levels are. Recently I had been wondering how Perfect World would have been had there never been any attack or defense levels added to the game.

If the higher grade gears had progressed similar to how TT gears progress from grade to grade, but attack and defense levels were removed from the equation, what do you think PvP in PWI would be like today?

Without attack levels, a highly refined R9 char would be unkillable 1v1.

OontzOontz - Dreamweaver

TempleSlave - Lost City wrote: »

Without attack levels, a highly refined R9 char would be unkillable 1v1.

Doesn't have to be r9. Barbs in private servers without them are already unkillable 1 vs 1, even with custom weapons with tons of attack.

shotwhointhewhat

TempleSlave - Lost City wrote: »

Without attack levels, a highly refined R9 char would be unkillable 1v1.

There would be no defense levels either in this scenario.

What I am really asking is if the gear progressions just continued similar to the power differences in TT gears as they go from tier to tier. Not if they added anything just as OP to replace atk/def levels.