07-19-2012, 07:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2012, 07:16 AM by MongoJerry.)
(07-18-2012, 01:36 PM)FoxBat Wrote: One thing Jay's been pretty clear he *doesn't* want from WoW is PvP that tries to be competitive. He doesn't want their team to even try to balance it, and are therefore avoiding competitive metrics (e.g. elo/ladder/tournament) that you could use to gauge skill of players.
I think they want to balance it as well as they can, and I expect several skill adjustment patches to come out specifically due to PvP balance. However, what they've said is that they don't want to go through what the WoW people did where they tried (and mostly failed) to have it become an official ESport. They want to keep PvP as a mostly "fun" thing. However, people will earn PvP ratings and will be matched up with people around their rating bracket as a way to balance out the skill and gear diversity. So, if you're good and have poor gear, you might find yourself matched with someone with great gear but who's lousy (or vice versa, but of course everyone is fantastic at PvP -- just as 90% of drivers are better than average drivers--, so the vice versa case would never happen).