Awesome way to ruin an event

No it's not all PVP stuff, actually.. there is more PVE stuff than PVP stuff. But to complete all dailies each day you do have to go to an auto-flag area. That is just for a handful of dailies though, not all.

This.. I have no idea where it comes from.. Each patch has had a PVE update. Be it new flashpoints, operations or world events. Since launch there have been a total of 3 PVP updates: The one giving us Novare Coast, the one giving us Ancient Hypergates, and this one. How is that 'always giving to the pvp crowd'?

Topic #2: World PvP – What happened to making Ilum better? What is going on with Open World PvP?
Answer: We have not forgotten Ilum! I think you will see (fairly soon) the answer to this question in the game itself - something big is coming to the Western Ice Shelf, but it’s quite a departure from what was there before. As for pure Open World PvP…well, that’s a more difficult proposition. We are dedicated to providing excellent PvP experiences to our players, but we intend to focus our energy on PvP Seasons and new Warzones. We will be experimenting with a different approach to Open World PvP, something that encourages organic PvP in contested areas in a new and interesting way, but do not look for massive new Open World PvP this year (outside of what I mentioned above). It is still on our design wall, but is taking a back seat to other forms of PvP.

This FFA PVP area is garbage.

The griefing going on by guilds is astounding. Hours to do a daily is ridiculous.

Problem is, the PvP flagging, the way it works, spreads like a desease. Last night I pugged a 12-14 man operation for the WBs. Before we start going to the cave only 2 people were flagged. By the time we got to first boss, half the group was flagged. I think for the 2nd boss only 2 or 3 were not flagged.

You can't really say PvP doesn't disrupt the PvE questing. Yesterday was a ganking and griefing fest on Ilum, regardless of what you were doing.

The PvP guys, like myself, have been asking for long-term sustainable world pvp since Ilum Mark I failed.

What we have been given is a two week long FFA pvp event.

So, nobody asked for this at all. The pvp isnt sustainable: there is no incentive, no rewards, no valor, no objectives plus the event will finish in two weeks time. I realise that making it FFA is the devs way of dealing with faction imbalance but it is a pretty lazy way to do it. NPCs, faction-wide buffs, limiting numbers in the pvp zone etc are all better ways to deal with faction imbalance.

I just dont get it tbh. The designers of this game are crap, as evidenced by the continuing short-sightedness of all content updates and the quitting of millions of players.

lets check out what they done so far, two new warzones for pvp, closed illlium quests, and opened a pvp event for two weeks. pve have gotten new raids, repetation system (no effect for pvpers), section x, new companion,

PVE have gotton far more than pvpers hav ever gotton, two warzones is hardly a massive jump in a year. so really u think u pve players been that hard done to compared to pvpers? and theres far more people that actually do some pvp than there is that dont ever touch any pvp. dont recall last time i saw a level 50 on my pve server that had 0 valar.

Same faction PVP combined with far increased repair bills is going to bring nothing but an extended **** storm until BW does something to correct it.

Hell, you want stupid? My friend and I were on Ilum in the PVP area and we sat in the center across from like 20 other Imps and at least 30 Republics and nobody attacked anybody else. There simply was no PVP. It's just too expensive and too time consuming, everyone just wanted to complete their quests and leave.

This didn't solve anything for open world PVP BW, it just made things worse.

Gotta say, I'm enjoying the heck out of this event. Sure, generally my group cooperated with Imperials, but we still killed Republic troops on sight.

Never occurred to you to:

a) switch instance
b) get a group of 4 yourself
c) come back an hour later maybe they aren't there
d) maybe there's a day you can't actually do it? For shame!


Seriously, the only thing that's astounding in this post above, is the tears.
Consider these organic additions as a CHALLENGE. Stop complaining, do better.

So many complainers, complaining about anything new Bioware does. This is Ilum, put on your big boy pants, arm yourself, and kill some enemies.

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