Is Pvp balancing ever going to get any focus from the Devs? Or are they waiting for us all to quit?
Current Problems with UO PvP:
#1 People have to many HIt Points now. If I turtle, no 1 person can ever kill me. (Ask anyone that has ever fought me. This makes Dueling stupid. How about a much lower cap on HP Increase...like 5 or 10 or maybe every 3 points of strength gives 1 HP instead of 2.
#2 Evasion on a mage? I mean everyone has told you guys these hybird templates need a good looking into. That's all I am saying about this one.
#3 Archery needs something to make it playable again. The best archers can't even kill anyone alone. (Ain't that right Hunter? :P) This is because uo now forces everyone to have parry to deal with Splinter. And Archery can't keep up with the splinter weapons.
#4 Splintering Is OMG OP. Unlimited force walks anyone? Plus a Bleed to boot.
#5 Shatters destroys to many pots. Multiple people can hit 1 person...its an issue.
#6 VVV Sucks! Old factions was so much better for so many reasons.
#7 Non VVV Players are not allowed to fight now. Why? Because they go orange healing or attacking 95% of the Uo population. What you are saying is people can no longer play Solo. Because 6-12 people will just gank every time you try to fight 1 or 2 guys. Its so dumb.Do people really need to go orange if attacking or healing? The answer is no..it was better before with old factions.
Okay, I have a ton more but I feel like these are a great start. Most of them are good points I feel.
#1 People have to many HIt Points now. If I turtle, no 1 person can ever kill me. (Ask anyone that has ever fought me. This makes Dueling stupid. How about a much lower cap on HP Increase...like 5 or 10 or maybe every 3 points of strength gives 1 HP instead of 2.
#2 Evasion on a mage? I mean everyone has told you guys these hybird templates need a good looking into. That's all I am saying about this one.
#3 Archery needs something to make it playable again. The best archers can't even kill anyone alone. (Ain't that right Hunter? :P) This is because uo now forces everyone to have parry to deal with Splinter. And Archery can't keep up with the splinter weapons.
#4 Splintering Is OMG OP. Unlimited force walks anyone? Plus a Bleed to boot.
#5 Shatters destroys to many pots. Multiple people can hit 1 person...its an issue.
#6 VVV Sucks! Old factions was so much better for so many reasons.
#7 Non VVV Players are not allowed to fight now. Why? Because they go orange healing or attacking 95% of the Uo population. What you are saying is people can no longer play Solo. Because 6-12 people will just gank every time you try to fight 1 or 2 guys. Its so dumb.Do people really need to go orange if attacking or healing? The answer is no..it was better before with old factions.
Okay, I have a ton more but I feel like these are a great start. Most of them are good points I feel.
Comments
#2 evasion on EVERYONE. what do you mean on a mage? when you say that you lost me.
#3 archery still serves its purpose. Although running shots taking mana was the dumbest thing ever.
#4. Yes.
#5Shatters were created by a non pvper.
#6 Incorrect. you should not be able to jump in other peoples fights and ONLY flag one person. As a matter of fact there is an issue with that. If a blue attacks an orange and dies he can come back and keep only one person flagged and then interfere with fights as you think they should be able to.
Factions too broken to fix is a fact.
You can't go backward, so brainstorm a way to go forward. What would you change in VvV to make it more relevant?
No offense but Petra is right. The current VvV is so much better gameplay than the last years of factions was. It's not perfect but even with untapped potential it's already superior.
Every faction base was a giant choke fight. Chokes get stale quick. Every sigil reset meant hours of babysitting. Most of us don't have time for that anymore. People kept joining and piggybacking the same faction to keep from fighting. 20min stat.
Not only can every player do VvV but it was made to accommodate every schedule which is something the players spoke about. If I work nights I can participate in the morning. If I work days, it's going at nights. If I'm off, I can do it all day if I want. Stat is short. Towns give a well rounded mix of fighting terrain.
The only thing that made factions better was horses that never disappeared and a title system.
In the end it doesn't even matter. Unless they stick everything at yew gate only a few will even do it . I've done hundreds and hundreds of towns being the only one there.
A dev spent a lot of time designing and building new bases for us and those bases were completely ridiculed by the experienced faction players. They were horribly impractical and poorly placed. This left the team butthurt toward the idea of investing any more time in factions.
Unfortunately, factions are gone and they are never coming back. Forget about them. An unpolished VvV was pushed out and hasn't been touched since. A LOT has to be done to make it a decent system. Most of the changes being requested would only scratch the surface. Hopefully that'll happen, some day.
Also, I have to agree with TastyTreats. I always hated the name "Vice vs. Virtue". Never did make sense, from a couple different standpoints.
Sig reset fights were crap. Faction guards were crap. Base choke fights were crap. The timers were crap. VvV was made because as the saying goes, you can't polish crap.
The name vice vs virtue I'm sure was a spin on the old chaos and order. I don't care about the name really but I'm kind of puzzled there isn't a side and it means nothing.
because right now 2 vvv guild can fight and guards zone and you always ave random blue jumping on someone without any problem
#2 evasion need to be fix on all temp, but in same time the game need a better balance between high damage versu high defence you should not be able to ave both
#3 true archer 1 vs 1 dexxer or mage with parry can do nothing.vs a dexxer you going to be splinter ,disarm ai ai death,vs a bok mage its worst .you get hit by a wooden weapons that max swing ,paralyze you and hit hard that any weapons.plus he can exlpo fs in same time.and you on your archer if you lucky your going to hit him one time on 5 6 shot.only place archer can be use full its in group fight
#4 something need to be done,double with focus should not be in game and its need a better timer between the hit
#5 shatter need to be deleted or heavy nerfed
#6 vvv not bad just need more thing to fight for .old faction was fun but at the end no one really fight for town or base its was dying