Does anyone here do PvP?

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

Exactly. Typical example of someone who enjoys killing more than scoring. Correct me if I'm wrong but, Lilth did not just say "AMAGAWD I GET SUCH A RUSH WHEN I TOSS THE PETRA AT THE FLOATER THING!"

Yet to appease the more, 'I want to work with others' type players, there's no reason there can't be a team death match and what not.

Don't get me wrong, maybe it's just my server; but it seems absolutly NO ONE is reliable anymore, no one has any idea what they're doing, and to rely on these people it seems impossible to do anything "team-based" on this game.

There are a couple of really good points in here.

I have a fool of a brother who thinks FFXI is "dumb," and, knowing him, his only reasoning is the lack of a dedicated PvP.

He obviously knows nothing about the game itself, which is why he's a fool.

(We actually had a wager once that I won, and what he had to do was start playing FFXI and try it out for himself. But, he decided to be a smart aleck and go "well, okay, I'll start a character, take a couple of steps, and then quit." Argh, he's just a closed-minded dolt. He hasn't even done so much as -that- yet, and the bet was easily a good 2 years ago . . . but, I digress . . . )

[Tipsy]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

Fenrir is a KNOWN server to have good ballistas, and lots of people who play it.

Seraph ballistas are ALWAYS being canceled due to lack of players latly, so don't tell me.

And yes, it IS an MMO based game, yet SE has been working on more soloable type mission (ToAU, likely WoTG/Campagin) there's absolutly no reason that a more PvP type of system shouldn't be added. No one ever said that ballista has to be taken away. But I'd place all my chips in that more people would play the killcount type PvP than ballista

Yar, I have fun in Ballista when I can catch a game going on. I've recently been on a BLU/WAR kick, and it's just so much fun walking up to some random WAR/NIN and just completely dismantling them. Monk are slightly different, in that they have a lot of hp (and I mean a lot), but they're essentially the same thing: frontline troops susceptible to "Red Shirt Syndrome".

Exactly. Typical example of someone who enjoys killing more than scoring. Correct me if I'm wrong but, Lilth did not just say "AMAGAWD I GET SUCH A RUSH WHEN I TOSS THE PETRA AT THE FLOATER THING!"

Yet to appease the more, 'I want to work with others' type players, there's no reason there can't be a team death match and what not.

Don't get me wrong, maybe it's just my server; but it seems absolutly NO ONE is reliable anymore, no one has any idea what they're doing, and to rely on these people it seems impossible to do anything "team-based" on this game.

[LilithAngel]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

Yar, I have fun in Ballista when I can catch a game going on. I've recently been on a BLU/WAR kick, and it's just so much fun walking up to some random WAR/NIN and just completely dismantling them. Monk are slightly different, in that they have a lot of hp (and I mean a lot), but they're essentially the same thing: frontline troops susceptible to "Red Shirt Syndrome".

[DakAttack]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

Legion is old school. I remember seeing him with one of the Ballista tournament prize caps when I was back on Seraph.

I still have him on my AIM list.

[Legionnaire]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

That's not the way it should be. FFXI is a team based game. It's not about how much uber1337 damage you can do or how many people you kill. It's about working together, which is why Ballista works so well. And Ballista is not dead by any stretch of the imagination. I know for a fact that Seraph has more than just 4v4 Ballistas. Just the other day on Fenrir, there was a 50 person match up. To say that Ballista is dead, and that people don't want to play it is a lie. Taking away the rooks and just focusing on killing is the worst thing SE can do and completely destroys what makes Ballista unique and fun.

[Tipsy]

Re: Does anyone here do PvP?

I PvP more than I do anything else. When I PvP tho, it's not for scoring petras. We just host up a match in Diorama and have 1v1s and just have fun killing each other. The way it SHOULD be.

Ballista, the game; scoring petras and what-not, is the worst game I've ever played and I hate it with a passion, lol.

I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way either, assuming the amount of people who attend ballista (8ppl tops on officials, not even.) SE needs to make a better PvP system.

Maybe a system like FPS use, each player has a kill/death count, at the end it's tallied up in the chat-log, similar to how it says "XXX-Scored the most petras!" maybe just throw down the list of players and their kill/death count and winner gets a prize/etc. Maybe their kill/death count could be viewed when checking the player. Maybe even have a permanent record that you can see how many people you've killed total/ how many times you've died total /etc

I don't know.

Just something better than, "THROW THE PETRA AT THE FLOATING THING FOR TEH POINTS!"

This isn't NBA Live, it's FFXI!

I always thought of PvP as Player VERSUS PLAYER. Pit two players against each other to see who wins. Yes, yes, some jobs have an advantage over other jobs, but, do NOT tell me Job A cannot kill Job B.

[Rain_Blade]

Does anyone here do PvP? I'm just wondering since this section is pretty dead. I PvP a few times, if anyone cares. Some people still don't like the PvP playstyle in the game, associating with people who can't understand teamwork, losing, or just think they'd rather do something else. So once again, do any of you PvP?