Make a simple PvP Town map

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biyte wrote:

edit: it was a few months https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716228#p13603337

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ACGIFT wrote:

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biyte wrote:

edit: it was a few months https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1716228#p13603337

Ah, good catch; I missed it when they patched it out; I just recall it working at first.

The fact that GGG did disable it for PvP does show some good signs, recognizing that perhaps Ascendancy powers aren't quite suited for it. I do hope they'll go the rest of the way and either outright disable them, or at least remove a lot for PvP purposes.

I mean, it does draw back to what I saw was a fundamental balance issue of letting players of differing levels compete, since not everyone likes the level 28 point. I'd contemplated the prospect of capping players, (e.g, you could use a level 100 but they'd be scaled down to, say, level 80) but the way the skilldrassil works makes that kinda hard to handle. However, ascendancy passives are entirely separate, so they could easily just be disabled for that purpose.

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k1rage wrote:

This game has PvP???

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

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ocd_xana wrote:

Expert PVPer here.




We have Sarn Arena. All we need is damage nerfs, unkillable characters impossible to make, reduce AOE overlap/shotgunning, and bam. Fixed PVP. Sarn Arena will be fun again. PVP community will do its own tournaments without having to blacklist 90% of the content added since 2.0.


Also any expansion that further dedicates itself to PVP will need to focus on HLD, not LLD (eff Greendude).

inb4 casuals saying "there's PVP in this game?" and the like.

As someone way more experienced with PvP than me, do you think PvP could be made balanced (or at least to within reasonable limits) by just numerical adjustments? Or do some skills/items require fundamental mechanical changes to be balanced for PvP?