if your such a pure pvp'er why arent you pvp 10 yet?
you can still pvp naked if you want no one stops you.
even prior to new pvp lvl's players were leaving game because after pvp5 game had same issue it has today
there are no pvp systems
today people stop playing and/or reroll after reaching pvp10 and get bored playing over and over again same minigames against same people :P.
gear always counted, just gear used to be so crappy as hell.
i already pointed out the only pre-existing mechanic wich realy added more skill to combat but i guess you missed it focusing on my grammar :P.
also for years the combo skipping exploit was untouched allowing some melee classes to have upper hand especialy barbs & bs.
but yeah the skill to combo skip
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i pretty much pointed out all the reasons pvp is fail in this game and let me state again t4 gear inst one of them, its simple lack of pvp systems.
biggest disapointment when kithai came out was kithai factions didnt have any direct impact in pvp i was expecting people in same faction as me to have something similar to a guild tag and gain faction points by killing players oposite faction.
basicaly i had asumed with all that factions there would be included pvp quests but noooooo.
why you want a return to launch where game was horribad? just so you can pvp naked? you can still do it.
but yeah a 1.04 server with would be great for some classes but crap for a bunch of others, personaly i would make a new ranger just to play it with combos again.
game was lame at start tosses one shotting everyone hello :P
gem stacking guardians everywhere just charging and one shotting everyone :P.
chain cc's like mad no chance to do anything?
but yeah lol lets go back to that
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by the way i cant wait for craft revamp to have more gear options for pvp; despite all requests to make pvp gear any good they dont care so hopefully with craft revamp i can make my own pvp set wich is actualy good for pvp
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hoping someday they revamp inventory so i can keybind gear to swap faster mid battle extra speed gear and physical/magic mitigation gear.
and people did "great" in crap gear because no one realy knew how to play that well so the faster you were a learner the faster you could farm people worse then you, wich is pretty much valid today especialy melee vs melee, player who knows game can dodge most combo finishers with good movement, and you can dodge with your speed and movement cc's and long casts from mages getting behind them.
i would clearly say skill is very much part of the game because takes instinct and lots of agility to do that.
if anything game has been perfecting it self to despite not being balanced its getting closer, something wich was ridiculous first year of game wich especialy at lvl80 you had huge imbalances.
and guess what gear helped reaching that state by allowing classes to perform as intended and with optimal results.
i hope unchained minigames become only type of minigames but from a veteran player point of view not being allowed to use the gear i choose or adjust gear mid fight its crap, and i hope they allow player to use whatever gear he chooses and even swap mid fight gear.
on the other hand its very fair that players joining this new minigame get at least t2 pvp armor by default with access to all aa's even better.
cheers and try and find more grammar errors; im sure i did more then a few
im so gonna laugh when you face the wrath of the russian hackers lagging you dead
i guess will be re enactment of the cold war with russians having superior technology with radars, autocomber and basicaly teleporting all over because their latency is so crappy.
prepare your Cyrillic dictionary
, and btw they have t4 gear.