I'm not a pvp specialist, but it's especially in Kunark-Velious-Luclin era where a mage would have a disadvantage in pvp because of pet level gap. Remember, pets are level 48, epic pet is level 49, good luck for them to resist magic based spells cast by level 60 players in a pvp environment, considering none of the mage pets shine in the magic resistance department (for other resists, it's another story).
In PVP, Pet resists are based entirely on the owner's level and resists, not on the pet's level or gear. At least unless they've changed it again in the last 10 years since I stopped playing pvp, which is quite possible.
EQ PVP was great for many years. But having to have gear to survive high end PVP made the game even more of a time vampire. Which was perfectly fine till they stopped supporting PVP servers and fixing balance issues that arose from New expacs, spells, and abilities. But there were many golden years for EQ PVP. The most notable times of unbalanced problems were Death Touch when it could do 75% of your life, Mana Burn, and Life Burn... But even then if you had friends and gear you could work around losing with strategy. A few Era's with epic mage pets but real imbalances were patched fairly quickly during the golden years. PVP now is not the same. Even in a classic .... PPL hump the zone lines hard. Always have instant gate potions, or instant burn items (Trak tooth, Ivy hoop etc) and Zek is just 5 dudes one shotting eachother all day over and over. To make good PVP again you need; **Resist check and abilities balanced **No instant gate or instant Gib items **No zone lines. Seemless zoning (This one isn't impossible but would never happen)
It would work if players feel the fun enough to ignore the pain. Or enjoy some pain with their fun...
Oldschool Rallos Zek was the funnest game experience of my life Mages seem op at first then you get HT'd to death by shadowknights or you deal with a rogue with full MR whom you can/t stop from pillaging you with backstabs from the random ambush. The mage can't do crap to folks with MR who snare you and a mage box? try getting aoe stunned by an enchanter and dumpstered. Everyone came up with so many clever strategies from spamming coins in your face so you can't see whats going on to paying a large race to block the door to the bank so the guy who just bought something from you can't run to the banker (or just shooting the banker and running off). The blind mechanic was terrifying and trying to throw your coveted gear in a bag before dieing or hitting the guard at the right time so the npc got the last hit was intense! Oh the well timed HP ring pulls. Hilarious good times
All of the new members posting clearly have not attempted to duel a mage. Even with bard song pet root lands, water nuke lands, air stun lands. This game will never have pvp again. They gave up on balancing the game a long time ago. In closing. Magequest crushes any and all dreams of all you tryhard pvpers of ever having pvp back. If you want pvp go play a game designed for it.
What about a series of Dueling competitions on Phinny? I'd be willing to put up some prizes and host a tournament in Commonlands, or at some Arena. A bit into the server life at any rate. Open world PvP I think won't work, but some level of PvP especially organized and centralized would be a good community builder.
This account is a new member but I played hardcore from 1999-2003. When you have appropriate MR you basically can't get rooted by a mage pet and the mages are super squishy themselves. I have literally killed 1000's of mages with rogues/sks so I am not sure what you are talking about.
The entire pet system was changed sometime after 2005. It is not nearly the same. Mage right now could 2 v 1 pretty easy.
I'd support another pvp server, but I'd like to see the looted item death penalty reinstalled. Make sure that people can't cheese and coward from this penalty with no trade gear, too. One item of choice should be able to be looted from corpse regardless if it's no trade or not. A team based pvp server would be fun, but only if they made it so cross teaming couldn't happen. At some point this might slow raiding down a bit, but raiding shouldn't be the priority of a pvp game. I wish the people clamoring for fake pvp "competition" would man up and flag discord already.
I flagged PVP for 3 weeks on Ragefire and ran around and dumped on people in the Hole. Nobody had the balls to flag and stop me... Flagging on the PVE server totally screws all your buffing/grouping/porting. I don't even know what the rules are but I couldn't cast on anyone/get ported by people who weren't flagged. It was a sad time
Without a doubt, this will be the next "gimmick" server from DBG after the phinny cashflow starts to slow down. Predict roughly 9 month till Rosen announce something like this You can't trust this company.
actually and yes this is my opion EQ is very much a pvp mmo when i started EQ in 1999 i was on prexus then when sullon zek came i went to sullon why no idea but when the pvp servers were merged and zek came alive it was a bunch of love a bunch of exp raids and pvp. honestly and again my opinion they should come with a new pvp server and do not allow for mercs or anything like that bring back EQ of old when lvl 50 went to lvl 65 then the max was lvl 75 at that point they should stop add nothing take nothing away and get back to what the original developers wanted from EQ because it really was created for gamer by gamer. i know a company needs to make a profit and to do that the membership needs to stay up but doing that also sent a lot of the gamer away. not sure if anyone remembers but wasn't the sleeper killed? oh yeah the sleeper was killed on a pvp server but the top pvp guild on the server so in a world of war one guild brought temporary peace to kill what was said could not be killed.
this really is never going to end, before we know it live servers will be merged into one server and the entire suggested server list will be 1) TLP TIME LOCKED NO VOTE ONLY RABIES FAYDARK IS MISSING SERVER 2) TLP TIME LOCKED VOTE ONLY RANGERS PVP 3) TLP NO VOTE OPEN IMMEDIATELY TEAM BASED PVE PROGRESSION BASED ON VERTICAL HEIGHT
