is this the worst pvp in MMO history?

is it?

y or n, thanks...

Having to pick from the games I have played, yes. This is easily the worst.
But I didn't play disasters like WAR or Age of Conan.

Before this, I thought it couldn't go any worse than Aion, but seems like I was wrong.


Reason? This is the first time I'm having trouble to explain what's bad about pvp in a game, because here it's broken in every possible aspect of it.


The engine is utter garbage: see Ilum. Ten years ago (with the graphic standards of ten years ago, obviously) I was able to turn down the settings on DAoC and play with 200 people on screen. Here, well, I don't need to elaborate further.


Class balance. No need to explain, really. When the 75% of any random team consist of two classes, something's very wrong. And what's their first move on class balance? Nerfing one of the least played classes, wich accidentally happens to be the most played class' hard counter. If these are the premises, I cannot see any serious pvper sticking to this garbage for more than a couple months.


Open PvP. It's meaningless, it has no impact on the galaxy and it encourages lame tactics/exploits. Ilum doesn't really add anything to the pvp experience.

Faction balance. One word comes to mind here: total amateurs. No cap on faction population? Population cap on Ilum while not capping it 50/50 for the two factions? Are you kidding me?

Warzones. Finally something salvageable from this trainwreck. Two of the maps are actually interesting. A very dumbed down version of the GvG maps on Guild Wars. Teamplay is sort of important. Too bad the whole experience is a disaster for the reasons I mentioned above.
And the third map is...words are failing me to describe the huttball monstrosity.

Various bugs/annoyances wich could be expected from some 4th rate cheap ftp garbage.
Victories not registered.
Joining losing games already in progress.
Relog bug when entering warzones from the fleet, wich STILL happens.

And to complete this disastser tour, the whole CC system.


So yes, worst pvp for me.

Only people who were bad at WoW PvP can say that "it's made for noobs".

To be good at arena, you had to first master your class, then had to master teamplay. True, certain combinations were insanely overpowered and allowed lower skilled players to win, but usually the best players always won everything in front of them.

You guys actually realise that the ones saying that WOW arena and PVP was a failure are the exact ones that couldn't get past 1600 rating?

Sad but true!

I was on 2500+ rating in every season and I consider it the second best PVP in MMO history! The first is won by Guild Wars!