{"id":716,"date":"2005-05-12T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-12T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:41:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/716\/","title":{"rendered":"PvP or PvE? Why I’m forced to choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a comment. I’m writing a lot from forum to forum. And busy on RL stuff. I wish I had time to delve more, organize and move everything to archive it on the site…<\/p>\n

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\nI really hate this decision of Blizzard to separate PvE character builds from PvP builds and armor sets.<\/p>\n

I love BOTH PvP and PvE, I’d like to be able to experience BOTH, instead of being forced to choose just one option while gimping my character for the other.<\/p>\n

I do not want to specialize because the fun of the game for me is the amount of possibilities it offers. Why I should have the PvE forbidden if I choose to get PvP skills and equipment? Why the PvP FORCES me to dedicate my full time to it by negating me the possibility to compete if, for once, I go play another part of the game? Why this segregation and specialization of gameplay?<\/p>\n

And, in particular, what’s the reason that brought to the choice of adding this new barrier?<\/p>\n

Back to what Raph concluded on MUD-Dev a year ago:<\/p>\n

I think we can agree that designing a game that discourages players from playing regularly is probably a bad idea (at least in terms of mass acceptance–some games, like turn based games, PBEM, etc, have some flex here). Designing a game which allows players not to HAVE to play regularly, however, seems desirable.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This last move of Blizzard is severely damaging the fun and variety of the game. Just to run after the catasses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rywill<\/b>:
\nAre they really exclusive?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s where they are going.<\/p>\n

The PvP ladder is simply not viable if you cannot dedicate your FULL time to it. So yeah, you can engage a BG and getting farmed. Sitting at the lower ranks with absolutely zero hope to move from there and achieve something.<\/p>\n

At the same time the PvE is also being locked out. It’s already hard to impossible trying to join raid groups as a “foreigner”. If you have the wrong build you are just dreaming. Or you are able to get yourself hooked to this spinning wheel or you are out and staring.<\/p>\n

With this last patch they removed all PvP bonuses from PvE loot. I definitely see this as the direction they choosed. It’s impossible to keep up with both systems at once. It’s already hard to keep up with just ONE.<\/p>\n

It’s not a news that the elder game is completely different from the 1-60 treadmill. Now they are putting a barrier even between PvP and PvE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a comment. I’m writing a lot from forum to forum. And busy on RL stuff. I wish I had time to delve more, organize and move everything to archive it on the site… — I really hate this decision of Blizzard to separate PvE character builds from PvP builds and armor sets. I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}