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~~@Ertai:~~
> Everyone know who the avid pk'ers are. All you need to do is watch who is on and where. This promotes game awareness along with basic cognitive reasoning. (big person waiting to pk me… better not go in there)
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> eRT
THANK YOU. I'm glad someone finally said it. I've been avoiding the "people who got ganked usually deserved it" point, but you pretty much hit it for me.
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~~@Syn:~~
> This thread is for intelligent discussion of PK changes. :)
Its not about the silly getting ganked, that will still happen no matter what system pf Pk is in place, its about making changes to the Pk system wether thats for the good or not, and if at the end of the day if all this discussion amounts to is that everyone is totaly satisfied with the current system then so be it.
So lets have some intelligent discussionand a flow of interesting and unique ideas or votes of aproval for the current system if thats what you want. I for one am not happy with it, and think that there can be changes wether minor or drastic made to pk to get more people activly involved in it.
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I for one am not happy with PK as is. It boils down to (and has nearly always boiled down to) who can dispel while keeping your hp up.
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As unhappy as I am with the current pk systems, I have a different complaint than you do. I see the damage being way too much because I know that there are higher level 4th classers that still don't survive more than 2-3 rounds with a 120\. I don't however, feel that a level cap is the way to get past this.
Look at it from a 120 perspective. You are punishing them for spending time leveling. If I knew that I could be in the main rush of pk at third class, I would have stayed at level 90 and just trained all of my stats to the max. However, I put in the time and effort to get to 120, why should I be limited by who I am allowed to fight? Especially if I did it twice (remort).
You are, however, correct that it is not intelligent discussion unless I can offer some sort of CONSTRUCTIVE advice. So here is my idea to help this.
Look back at the basics behind hp/mana/movement. my take on them is as follows.
Hp = vitality. Essence of life.
Mana = concentration and intelligence mixture.
Movement = stamina
Someone hits me with a big axe, I not only would lose vitality, but you can be sure I wouldn't be able to concentrate as well. Also, it would be harder to fight back after losing a certain amount of blood(stamina). So how about we make it so each hit does less damage* but also takes a certain amount of mana/movement away at the same time (possibly just mana since attacking already takes movement) This would allow people's mana to be useful again besides the amount to cast initial attacking spells and a few heals. You would still only die if vitality ran out, but it could make fights more interesting and spells like channel useful again.
* this change should only be in PvP because it would be much harder to calibrate with all the mobs we have.
Whatcha'll think?
eRT
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If all other factors remained equal, I don't see how this would affect pvp at all personally. No one's mana is running out with the current state of pk. If any of the other myriad of suggestions are ever implemented, namely those calling for reduced pvp damage/sanctuary effectiveness, this persistent mana drain would be devestating to racial balance.
Minotaurs will be utterly useless. Titans may still prove to be viable due to their damage output, but you can expect them to be weakened, and dwarves are gonna need all those resistances to justify themselves in pk. Vampires will become godlike, inconquerable hp/mana under such a system. All the high mana races will be at a supreme advantage, especially if they have channel.
I don't think this idea is a justifiable fix.
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~~@Ertai:~~
> * this change should only be in PvP because it would be much harder to calibrate with all the mobs we have.
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> Whatcha'll think?
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> eRT
There is quite a lot of merrit in what you say here Ertai and will add to this line of thought. Takeing those elements into account that you outlined will help with simular class range PvP fights
One should always be able to exploit 1 races vulnrubilities, just as we all have sanc to give 1/2 damage taken, mayby they remorted races coulld be given some defence to these attacks in PvP fights. Like some sort of Holy Barrier that reduces the damage you take from holy weapons by some percentage based on level for those that are getting wopped silly by it at the moment, not a lot but a small reduction to give balance to one current unbalance. Dwarves have drowning as a vuln, so have a spell that calls fourth a mighty river to drown us.
The harder side of the story is when the PvP is against lower classes. one possible solution would be to give them a better chance of Fleeing PvP combat, or just reduced lag, so if they do manage to flee they can run like girls to a save haven, but first they need to be able to survive the first 2 rounds of combat. There could be an auto flee in the first round of PvP combat that has some chane of success,
if 3 classes lower 90% chance of auto flee with no flee lag
if 2 classes lower 60% chance of auto flee with small flee lag
if 1 class lower 30% chance of auto flee with moderate flee flag
if same class 0% chace of auto flee with full current flee lag.
This wouldnt make them super strong, but might up the chance of surviving the PvP encounter and also make the higher classes attacker use the skills they have levled so hard to get like ensnare/web.
This could be coupled with a success chart for dispel magic too so that its harder to dispel or you can only dispel so many spells per cast mayby like 1 spell dispelled per class you are minus 1 spell per class lower you are fighting, so a 4th class could dispel 4 spells per clast if fighting a 4th class, if they were fighting a 1st class it would be only 1 spell per round.
Add in some sort of damage reduction in PvP so i cant be killed with 1 bolt/arrow that takes 1500 hp out of me while sancted.
Actually just an after thought, that coult balance this out all lies in defensive skills, my dodge/parry/gymnasitc ect are all mastered or close to master and yet as a 3rd class remort i cont dodge parry nothing against a 4th class. Remove the level calculation in PvP then i can dodge and parry the 5 attacks per round from a 120 with an altrixia doing its 350 ave per round. Also make the learning of said skills slower so that a 2nd class mort wont be mastered but will still have a chance of parry based on its learned level.
Im not toaly against having the system as it is, i just think its to biased to the highest leveled player and that makes the lower levcel players opt out of PK when i think that we need to encourage people to opt into it and i think the few Pk'ers out there would love to have a lot more people opt in.
Ok there is some more food for though. Thanks Ertai as you post provoked some new thoughts from me on this subject.
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I could use your autoflee suggestion to force lower class players to flee into cpk.
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Yes Inimical there should be a risk to this, and thats a valid one, you wouldnt make me auto flee into Cpk but that could happen just as it does with normal flee if a wimpy is set , i could auto flee into cpk, it could also be a toggle like any other auto, sort of like a supoer wimpy for PvP. I dont go to POa with a wimpy set so if attacked on the river i wont flee ever..
Its just a automatic flee chance given when attacked in PvP by a higher level player. In RL terms when Big Bubba is taking a swing do you stay there and get hit or do you try and take off while he is swinging and aviod being hit altogether.
So a reduced chance of auto flee could be given to suprise attackes like that new frightten or B/j or any attack from from hidden or sneak position.
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I see your point about racial balance. I take it back :)
eRT
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I think we've had enough discussion in this topic so i'm gonna lock it but leave it up to look over. Not to say we've solved PK problems on a general scale, far from it in fact, but I want to reopen this topic after I release the next version. Thank you all who participated 8)
