[Suggestion] Engaging more people to PvP

Here's my 2 worthless cents on this, as a player who has had 0 interest and participation in organized, informal and all other PoE pvp.

But I did a ton of informal pvp in my teenage days in D2, I'll briefly explain why below, maybe this will help the pvp popularity thing, maybe not.

1) Hostility feature. Gave me true incentive to be the hunter PKer (revenge, disruption etc), be the hunted (adrenaline rush). This 'forced' me into pvp and having self organized 1v1, particularly WW barb back in the day.

2) Chaos, unpredictability and uncontrolled environment. I dont recall much nerfs or general meddling by blizzard for pvp, unlike what ggg has done so far. This is a big turn off for me. I dont care about pvp skills in a non pvp based game and doing or getting 3, 4 shotted in a non pvp based game, i dont want to have 10, 15 20 min battles doing scratches on each other; the recklessness and imbalance was part of the fun in d2.

Rewards probably wont help much, they wear off quickly. Make PvP fun by following those 2 above, for myself I'd definitely be interested again.
Dark_Chicken - lvl 100 Marauder
Divine_Chicken - lvl 100 Duelist
Last edited by Dark_Chicken#5481 on Mar 20, 2015, 7:42:45 PM
I kind of like the idea of the loot boxes for the main reason he expressed,there isn't a way to PvP without putting allot of time into PvE. I had suggested something similar to WoW's PvP gearing system a few times,and I still think it would work beautifully here as well. Maybe in these boxes they could award "valor points" that you spend with Leo who has LOTS of new PvP only gear that "cannot be worn outside of PvP areas".

The main agreement between new players,veteran players, and "elite players" that I have seen,is it's a bit much to get into and gear for PvP. I think suggestions like this post are good ideas,and the more positive responses from the community can possibly get this implemented in the future.

Hell,the only other thing beside something like this to get players involved,might be a different server where your characters never change and you can play with the same gear for 10 seasons and get your alt rewards if you want with the same character. A different realm-wide PvP set of rules could be implemented,thus ensuring it NEVER affected the PvE world. Note: This is actually what I wanted for PvP since day one,and while I do understand GGG not wanting to segregate the communities,looking back I still feel this would have solved about 75% of complaints with PvP.

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