Level locking a sign that players want battlegrounds?

[Derrickr]

<p>Though I have been one of the most vocal people against level locking, I rolled twink so I could PvP with my guild.  And during this time I 've come to realize a few things:</p><p>1. Most of the lockers <i>only </i>want to PvP; no quests, crafting, etc.</p><p>2. They want to PvP in the shortest time possible.  That's why you see so many people locking in T2; you can get there quickly and have a decent amount of spells. </p><p>Based on these two things it seems that battlegrounds would be good for these people.  This way you can keep them away from true newbies and they still get what they want.  Of course, there will still be people who target newbies but I think most people lock to PvP and don't have any malacious intent.</p><p>My biggest concern with battlegrounds would be the lack of PvP in regular zones but with groups grinding/questing opposing sides are bound to run into eachother.</p><p>So what do you think?  If you disagree do it respectfully please.</p>

[Norrsken]

I dont want instanced battlegrounds. What I want is keeps that can be tanken and held with pvp. and they should give your side some benefit for doing so. Put em square in the middle of existing zones, far away from revive points, and let people get to fightingwith actual meaning to the fighting.

[Acaneo]

<cite>Derrickray wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Though I have been one of the most vocal people against level locking, I rolled twink so I could PvP with my guild.  And during this time I 've come to realize a few things:</p><p>1. Most of the lockers <i>only </i>want to PvP; no quests, crafting, etc.</p><p>2. They want to PvP in the shortest time possible.  That's why you see so many people locking in T2; you can get there quickly and have a decent amount of spells. </p><p>Based on these two things it seems that battlegrounds would be good for these people.  This way you can keep them away from true newbies and they still get what they want.  Of course, there will still be people who target newbies but I think most people lock to PvP and don't have any malacious intent.</p><p>My biggest concern with battlegrounds would be the lack of PvP in regular zones but with groups grinding/questing opposing sides are bound to run into eachother.</p><p>So what do you think?  If you disagree do it respectfully please.</p></blockquote><p>1.  no i just want to kill people and get my status before im 70.  questing is fun too.  crafting can be too if your into that kind of thing.</p><p>2.  i pvp with my 70, my 30, and my teen toons.  its fun at all lvls.  though there will always be toons in ant, cl and dlw.  thats why people go there</p><p>3.  battlegrounds was invented by wow.  lets be original and not copy them.  are so called battle grounds is the world of norrath.  anything goes as long as your in the pvp range.  this means more surprises and more opportunities.  and you dont need to worry about a dang flag.  it would be a mistake to have a battlegrounds.  we have an arena but it is highly non popular in pvp servers. because... well theres pvp.  if you want to quest and do arena type fighting go to a pve server, because thats not what pvp is.  plus if you want one on one fights go to pve because there you can duel and no one can mess that up.</p><p>good morning pvpers</p><p>onan</p>

[Bozidar]

if you put instance pvp into this game it will die.  sorry.  open-zone pvp is what makes this game awesome, imo.

[kreepr]

<span style="color: #ff0000">Making the starting faction with your city 0 instead of -10,000 will help to start moving the lockers into other tiers. It's a simple solution to a big problem. This does not have the huge effects of the nerfs they have put in that people thought where going to fix the problems. Some will stay and beat on the noobs but you will always have some that do that it's just how it is. Change the Faction and save the world.........</span>

[Izzypop]

Add more pvp gear to tiers 4 5 and 6.  If you add eof style pvp set gear in the mid tiers the lockers will leave t2/t3 to go to t4/t5 and do their level locked battles against their fellow lockers there. Moving starting faction to 0 instead of neg 10k just dumbs the game down and makes everything easier.

[Armironhead]

<cite>Derrickray wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Though I have been one of the most vocal people against level locking, I rolled twink so I could PvP with my guild.  And during this time I 've come to realize a few things:</p><p>1. Most of the lockers <i>only </i>want to PvP; no quests, crafting, etc.</p><p>2. They want to PvP in the shortest time possible.  That's why you see so many people locking in T2; you can get there quickly and have a decent amount of spells. </p><p>Based on these two things it seems that battlegrounds would be good for these people.  This way you can keep them away from true newbies and they still get what they want.  Of course, there will still be people who target newbies but I think most people lock to PvP and don't have any malacious intent.</p><p>My biggest concern with battlegrounds would be the lack of PvP in regular zones but with groups grinding/questing opposing sides are bound to run into eachother.</p><p>So what do you think?  If you disagree do it respectfully please.</p></blockquote>I dont know about "battle grounds" -- but I think SOE should give us a reason to use the arenas -- gambling, Tournaments, etc... Could be like "Gladiator" -- Hoohaa! 

[wutru]

They already have battlegrounds, it's called Arenas, but guess what?  Nobody uses them because you need an xpac or adv. pack.  <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Tae]

<cite>wutru wrote:</cite><blockquote>They already have battlegrounds, it's called Arenas, but guess what?  Nobody uses them because you need an xpac or adv. pack.  <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></blockquote>I don't think I've run into anyone in the game who hasn't got all the expansion packs. Nobody uses them because it's dumb and meaningless, plus Arenas don't use the proper PvP rules. I can dispatch for 3080 mitigation and insta kill people there.

[Gagla]

Taear@Venekor wrote: <blockquote><p>I don't think I've run into anyone in the game who hasn't got all the expansion packs. Nobody uses them because it's dumb and meaningless, plus Arenas don't use the proper PvP rules. I can dispatch for 3080 mitigation and insta kill people there. </p></blockquote> Omg, I'm wearing paper?!?