ok that was bound to happen

I don't want to sound harsh, but your build doesn't too great. If you need help improving it feel free to send me a PM, although I play mostly on torment.

Let me just clarify: I'm not a newbie to PvP.
I was doing PvP before PvP was a thing, and although I'm obviously far from being a Fightgarr or a LordSidro, I'm not terrible at it either.

Well before PvP was a thing, LLD had many occasional good encounters because most people weren't dumping heaps of Exalts on their 28 chars, and showing up with utterly ridiculous gear to nuke you.
It was leveling gear in most cases, plus a few twink uniques or whatnot - so most fights were pretty evenly matched.
High Level Dueling was where the Ultra Rich mostly showed up to blow up the non-rich.

They still do, but ironically now that PvP is a thing, HLD is a more fun place to be.
A place where you can actually win a couple matches, and get some good match-ups even if you lose, before being nuked by the occasional thousand-Exalts mirrored crit dagger guy.

No such comfort in LLD, it seems. That's what I'm compaining about in OP.
When the system repeatedly matches you against this guy with an insane Super-Wand who one/two shots you - mostly off screen so you can't even get close - you get a feeling others are even worse, so you log out in frustration.

And again, I knew it was bound to happen, eventually.
Just didn't expect it to happen this quickly in the temp HC league.

They need a pvp anti-chamber. when you create a pvp character, they spawn here. In the chamber would be chests. These chests would contain gear that you must use to enter pvp.

One chest for each slot, filled with various gear with balanced stats. Each with max linked white sockets for the appropriate level.

Then there would be gem merchants.

0% quality would be free
5% would cost X amount of...say favor as a currency
10% x amount and so on.

Currency merchants.

For whatever the pvp currency is the merchants sell blacksmith stones and armor stones. This is the only way to gain advantage on gear, by increasing the quality of your gear in exchange for pvp currency.

Ranking would go by wins/losses. the system would always try and match you to an even rank, if there is none it would chose randomly to go 1 higher or 1 lower. if there was no match it would go 2...etc...

the anti-chamber could be like town, so that it is a social hub. People could talk and compare gear and such, and even create premades.

And of course , they could keep the Sarn arena for twink pvp.

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FadeXF wrote:

Not a lick of skill involved here folks. Not an iota.

No skill needed confirmed guyse!
Nice lvl28 chars youve got there btw.. I can basicly smell your experience

/s

to be honest with OP: Multimod made LLD gear very accessible for pretty much anyone that knows how to farm and has some spare time
before that you either had to use said lvling gear and lowlvl uniques, farm normal piety for days or buy totally overpriced equipment for atleast 10 exalts a piece

if you arent willing to spend a couple exalts on your pvp experience then yea.. it may not be very entertaining
that will get better as soon as Season 2 starts ("late next week")

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johnKeys wrote:

Well before PvP was a thing, LLD had many occasional good encounters because most people weren't dumping heaps of Exalts on their 28 chars, and showing up with utterly ridiculous gear to nuke you.
It was leveling gear in most cases, plus a few twink uniques or whatnot - so most fights were pretty evenly matched.
High Level Dueling was where the Ultra Rich mostly showed up to blow up the non-rich.

Even before 1.3 hit, people were already decked out in 15ex+ gear. Master modding has actually made it easier for the majority to reach the minority, instead of having to pay out of your ass for 6 t1 et-ex'd weapons or having insane luck farming dominus normal.

it's a 5-10 ex entry cap with a peak of 20ex, anything past that is overkill and won't make or break a build.

If you seriously think someone who spent 20 ex is majorly outclassed by someone who spent 200 in LLD gear-wise, then you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

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A222 wrote:

If you seriously think someone who spent 20 ex is majorly outclassed by someone who spent 200 in LLD gear-wise, then you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

1) you clearly didn't read my OP, or the post you quoted.
2) the moment PvP builds and players get measured in Exalts - rather than quality and skill - will be the moment we all fail, as enthusiasts of PvP.

PvP is a complete joke atm. I like how they have "taken our feedback" for season 2, which should have started yesterday btw.

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Skyforth wrote:

PvP is a complete joke atm.

I don't think I have ever heard you say that before, I'm surprised! I thought you loved pvp, isn't that why you post on this forum and show off your LLD gear?

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mrmagikboy wrote:

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Skyforth wrote:

PvP is a complete joke atm.

I don't think I have ever heard you say that before, I'm surprised! I thought you loved pvp, isn't that why you post on this forum and show off your LLD gear?

My LLD gear isn't even that good, still using 2 stat rare rings on torment lol. As for forums, I was giving a fair amount of feedback but after seeing the changes for 1.3.1 patch I think I'm gonna stop.

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Skyforth wrote:

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mrmagikboy wrote:

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Skyforth wrote:

PvP is a complete joke atm.

I don't think I have ever heard you say that before, I'm surprised! I thought you loved pvp, isn't that why you post on this forum and show off your LLD gear?

My LLD gear isn't even that good, still using 2 stat rare rings on torment lol. As for forums, I was giving a fair amount of feedback but after seeing the changes for 1.3.1 patch I think I'm gonna stop.

Specifically what changes in 1.3.1 made PvP worse? I'm curious