(07-19-2012, 08:19 AM)Archon_Wing Wrote: It's understandable that they aren't balancing the game for pvp, however regardless of how competitively you define pvp, people will naturally have a pecking order and bragging rights. It's the nature of the thing.
I'm sure they will try to establish it, but my point is that Jay is not going to help them. There will be this rating used to match people, but it will not be made public. There will be no ranking beyond looking at # of wins, which given their rating system will stick most players around 50%, isn't going to indicate much more than time spent PvPing. No real public way to compare the skill of players, no official tournaments for them to fight in either. Whatever else this means, it surely rules out PvP seasons. This video goes into pretty good detail on related PvP topics if you have the interest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E452S_fJwA
8:20 until the end has some pretty interesting stuff on how they will handle skill balance. The short of it is that they do have seperate data values for PvP versions of skills and are tweaking them, but are adamant that PvE *always* comes first, so we should not be expecting PvP-oriented nerfs to hit PvE much. Jay also mentions that they don't particularly want to tweak damages I.E. they are not that mindful of there being some obviously "best" skills, and are mostly tweaking to control CC and invuln cooldowns from breaking everything.