TEST Release Notes - February 4, 2011

[Raikel]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

From your post, it seems you only justify jumping around an enemy and hacking at them.

You don't like dolls, using a broadsword, or silver freeze to stop an enemy. Silver freeze is something you earn, so not using it in PVP seems... silly. If it took me two days worth of gameplay to earn, I'm going to use it on you.

Really, if all there is to PVP is jumping around an enemy and hacking at them, knowing very well they can't use a mouse to turn fast like you... then you shouldn't be surprised when they pull out a broadsword or blunder buss to own you.

Now don't get me wrong, I like that people can enjoy the Silver freeze and all, but it still seems cheap, and feel sort of like breaking a code. I dunno if you guys are like me, but I enjoy matches with good clean fighting and very little dolls and weapons like broadswords. i will admit I do use a doll, but I do not use the abilities such as life drain and grave shackles to get away from my enemies. I have friendly matches and keep my word.

Back before these weapons and the legendary skills I thought PvP had hope for this system. I had an idea where we could choose from a list of matches that were set up by other players based on whether they wanted Tonics. As well as what weapons could be used. I thought this up, and realized it would never happen so Mad V and myself made up our own PvP guild and decided to rank up based on pure rules without dolls and items such as tonics. We had a good time and enjoyed the clean fun. Sure I wanted to use the doll more than I did, but I knew it wouldn't be smiled upon, and thus I guess this is why I don't like dolls now.

Silver Freeze just seems like a cheap version of Grave shackles to me. You can't do anything, but I noticed that we pirates can reduce how long shrapnel keeps us stunned and how much damage it is. I just thought certain skills such as that could be added into the game to give us PvPer's more ways to fight and more of an upper hand in some area.

As for the jumping thing, I can justify that lag is the only true problem because I have played myself in PvP, and by monitoring both character multiple times at multiple angle I can easy tell the game is off by 3 seconds. For certain computers I also noticed a 5 second delay, so it is not at all good for PvP.

I guess what I really want will not be happening soon. What I vision are more and more types of PvP. I want to see a Classic PvP where you can only use up to the level 25 weapon quest weapons. I would love to choose which type of weapons were available(maybe choose certain skills to ban to keep things fair to where both people can enjoy their fight), or if we could use tonics. But I'm probably asking this just like I would be asking to allow my pirate to be drunk on rum and able to fall on my face every 5 feet I walked.