12-08-2004, 03:09 AM
Bolty,Dec 7 2004, 07:34 PM Wrote:Finally, we were discussing the PvP server. You are claiming that PvP rewards will include items. Until that happens, I consider it a null argument because it hasn't been done. Same as guild halls in D2. :) Also, how would they balance the high-powered raids and instances for PvE'rs if they don't have access to the same items?
Oh, no, you're not going to draw me into that. The discussion of items was related to a tangential discussion. It started with me saying that the reason you kept running into griefers was that you kept making new characters and throwing yourself at the zones where the griefers hung out. Then, you said that explorers like Lurkers tend to be would tend to do that. Then, I said that's not true since really explorers tend to range far from griefers and that after the 20-30ish level hump, it's easy to explore places that don't have griefers. Then, you said, but explorers like yourself would get bored easily at the level cap and therefore would tend to make lots of new characters and would constantly find themselves in the high-griefer zones. Then, my latest response was that in fact life does not end at level 60, that there are lots of things for explorers to explore at 60, and that items become the mechanism by which one continues to level at 60.
None of this has anything to do with item differences in PvP versus PvE. In fact, I predict that there won't be any, since Blizzard developers have already said that one can earn honor points by killing NPC's. The point of my discussion was that it is in fact not true that Lurkers who try out the PvP server will always find themselves the victims of griefers. Azeroth is a large wide-open world, and it is easy to avoid or deal with the griefers if one wishes to do so.