PVP Servers Newer Lower Populated

ShaiFatali - Lost City

Onatop - Lost City wrote: »

Perhaps all these pvp servers have 1 OP guild like Chinatown (LC), and because no one can beat them, PK is dead...

I wouldn't say no one can beat them, ThaClick is strong and continues to get stronger. But I digress.

Longknife - Harshlands

Onatop - Lost City wrote: »

Perhaps all these pvp servers have 1 OP guild like Chinatown (LC), and because no one can beat them, PK is dead...

Yes and no.

You wanna know why I think PVP is dead?
We've hit an equalizer. Before Nation War, r9 +12 was the OP gear, and only a select few were 3rd cast. Now? Anyone who has r9 can easily EASILY farm r9 3rd cast with time, and thus they're both able to focus more money on refining and actually catch up to the end-game standard.

The result is we're more equal in gear than we've ever been. Is this a problem? Yes and no. Obviously it's kind of nice for a lot of people to be up to par, but it's a problem in the sense that people's dreams are dying.

People like to play this game in the belief that they're the most pro **** ever to log onto the server, and they'll naively and arrogantly believe so until evidence to the contrary comes along. With equal gear, evidence to the contrary is more prominent than ever.


I can't speak for Lost City, but Harshlands? The percent of the population that camps stealth, runs with purify weapon (not I said run, not kite. There's a difference, and no I'm not talking about kiting, I mean they just SZ) or forcelogs/Morai teleports is absolutely staggering. To top it all off, we've sorta hit a point where you basically PK as a group or you don't PK at all, AKA you're gonna get ganked if you're not with your guild.

The result? I know from personal experience and on behalf of my guild, that oftentimes we simply don't WANT to bother to try and PK. It's not that we've lost the desire to PK in and of itself, but rather we can't be assed to organize a small troop (rally ~5 people), go out and HOPE the enemy doesn't immediately SZ in the belief that we have the upper hand, HOPE the enemy doesn't start force-logging and Morai teleporting the moment they begin to lose, HOPE they return even if they do lose (and that they don't turn it into a gank war of who-can-bring-more), and HOPE that we're not left with NOTHING to shoot at but a select few sins and archers who are perfectly content to ONLY shoot at the guarenteed 1-shot target amongst the group over and over and over and over, never taking any risk whatsoever and only popping out of stealth for the duration of AD.
So yeah, often times there'll be enemy players wanting to PK, yet we may not go out at all simply BECAUSE we can't be assed to go out there when it's highly likely they'll just SZ it.



In that sense, a lot of it is the attitude of the community, at least on Harshlands. People need to maybe stop thinking so rigidly within guild lines (don't always PK with guild), do NOT be afraid to die and aim for equal numbers rather than aiming for omgwtfbbq ganks.

Kywe - Harshlands

its easy to explain why PK got dead. PWI killed when they added r9. I remember before the r8 cheapest sale came out.. HL server only had 2 people with r8. On that old and awesome times r8 was so freaking expensive and it was great balanced with no OP gears. PWI Owner/Developpers gonna keep adding more op stuffs untill everyone gets bored of spending money for next gear updates steps. Since not everyone can afford the gear fast, people will quit or stay in sz few by a few untill pwi does something BIG to fix this issue with op stuffs. I know you could farm it. Yes you can, but once you finish getting your char the r9. PWI already have added a new recast or gear. So no point... A merge wouldnt help much and its neither possible, because both servers dont share the same database.