08-07-2006, 08:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2006, 08:11 AM by MongoJerry.)
Quote:From everything that I heard, the outlands will be PvP enabled regardless of server type. I believe they basically alluded to the "no carebear zones" quote when describing it. They are also supposedly working on more world pvp incentives in the outlands and also a "major overhaul" of the honor system coinciding with the expansion.
No, no, no. That was a gross misinterpretation of what Blizzard said by some random idiot who didn't know what he was talking about. What Blizzard was talking about was that each zone would have PvP objectives that players cam engage in if they wish to -- the new "spice" game in Silithus and tower objectives in EPL that will be introduced in 1.12 are precursers to that. PvE players will not be flagged unless they specifically choose to participate in the PvP aspects of the zones. Each zone will have plenty for the PvEer to accomplish as well, so you will have a choice in the matter.
oldmandennis Wrote:Those experiences were only fun and fair because you lucked out and were on a server with a relativly balanced population, Jerry.
Absolutely, oldmandennis, but you missed the point of my post. The post was demonstrating that competition can be drawn around players fighting over limited resources. It does not mean that the limited resources have to be tied to world PvP. It could be tied to battlegrounds as well, where faction imbalance isn't such an issue.
However, one other world PvP event that I had fun with today was the fishing tournament. I helped a guildmate fishing the tournament by alternatively guarding him and ganking alliance fishermen during the tournament. Of course, a larger alliance party -- about 4-5 of them -- was doing the same. We spent so much time stopping them and they us that neither of our groups won, but it was fun. Again, what was fun about it was that there was a limited resource that we were fighting over. "PvP with a purpose" and all that.