"General" PvP Rules Agreement

[Nidsrule]

A lot of the people who PvP don't like PvP events (or events in general).??It may not always be a 'bad time' or 'bad day' but more an issue of overcoming the fact that almost every PvP event to date has failed miserably and people don't really want to waste their time (or catalysts) if they think it's not going to be fun.??Although, that's exactly why this thread was made so that people will have input on the event and hopefully overcome that.

Kadar raises a good point. Personally, I find random pvp or dueling to be rather boring, as RO is all about the one hit kills. ToH is a great example of this. One on one, the balance between classes is too broken to ever see a decent pvp match.

For a more entertaining PvP experience you need to look at group pvp. The format used by the USRC is a good example, although I'm not sure of the practicality of such a tournament on heRO.

Basically, the tournament is announced a few months in advance. People form teams of 8 members (either in the Trans of Non-trans divisions). Gravity holds the tournament on a separate server, as people compete from across the 3 servers hosted by iRO. Each team nominates the classes they wish to use (I can't remember whether or not people had to have the classes on the server they played already or not). The GM team would make characters for each member of the team at level 90/60 (for trans). These characters would be allowed to nominate the gears they wanted to use during the tournament (based on strict limitations). Of course, there are a lot of teams on a server like iRO, so a ladder system was used, with one team going on to the next round after each match.

Now, I realise such a system would need quite a bit of tweaking to work effectively on heRO, but I think it would provide a much more interesting pvp event compared to the one sided style of ToH PVP.

While I have many ideas for how such a system could be setup on heRO, so that it would be somewhat streamlined and workable, I'd prefer to see some expression of interest before spending any time on it.

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tl;dr:

1 on 1 PvP is broken/boring. Group PvP is much more interesting and requires team work and more skill than what is shown in events like ToH.