PVP Rewards? Yes? No? Hell No?

So I am sure everyone is down for leaderboards but do you want to see rewards for playing pvp? I don't really have much of an opinion on this myself, just want to see if there are any good ideas out there.

Should you be able to earn gear/currency rewards for your achievements in pvp sort of like race rewards?

I'm a big fan of items are that are cool/rare/unique as rewards.

No so sure about items that are powerful, since those tend to have rich get richer effects as well as making PvP some kind of gear grinding requirement.

I'm not even sure how currency would work. I do like the idea of betting currency on match outcomes though ^ ^

We need cutthroat... we wait too long for it GGG ! Please!

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iamstryker wrote:

So I am sure everyone is down for leaderboards but do you want to see rewards for playing pvp? I don't really have much of an opinion on this myself, just want to see if there are any good ideas out there.

Should you be able to earn gear/currency rewards for your achievements in pvp sort of like race rewards?

Honestly, i think the whole pvp arena style with leaderboards just doesn't work well in this kind of game. From a competitive stand point leaderboards based of random pvp matches always seemed kind of lame over all. Same goes for rewards. Alot of people would just focus on stomping newbs to better the stats.. Or cheese their way by multiboxing boosting their stats.

Id personally reather see a wide open map where free for all pvp can take place. No timed rounds, no random match ups and all that jazz. With a stash and safe area so people can tweak their gear per duel instead of having to be stuck in a duel for best out of five.


That way people can could make private games, form their own rules and start their own leagues. Kind of like old skool D2 was. Also, this would a be a good place to practice pvp OR open it to the public for a Free for All duels.


I already tried to start a thread wanting FFA area for pvp. but, there as hasn't been many people posting on that.

We are all waiting for cuthroat, but I am a bit afraid it will not be very popular cause big groups of twinked gangers will just completely crush everyone like it was always on Ultima Online. Only another big skilled gang could have had some chances. But in PoE, it will be worse because if you die and loose, lets say, lvl 15 explosive arrow gem, then what yu gonna do? How you gonna play? So, people will use those skill gems that are easy to repeatedly get in early game + requeres no leveling. It will limit build variety a lot.
Unless, GGG will make a vendor where you can buy most kinds of gems + leveled ones.
And it would be nice to hear some clear plans from GGG about pvp, so we could know if there is any point waiting for something or it's just better to divert time and energy somewhere else.

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