
Ask Stags and Crixes1 about countering, sometime.
Last general reply post, ev, since you seem to have ignored the fact that retribution is already available in a vastly disproportionate form, and your suggestion would make truly unreasonable amounts of level damage possible.
And again, I have to say, if you are going to hit someone for whatever reason, you had better be able to pay the price. Not hide behind being on the BB already. I am simply saying, if you hit me, I want the option to use the BB for what it was intended. To use hoof's very own words, "retribution". Be that 1 time, or 8 times, or 20 times. Right now, a PvPer could hit a target as many times as they want, every hour on the hour for 24 hours, for 100 stam, and as long as that player has a bounty up on that PvPer, then he cannot be bountied again. That is the plain and simple truth of it.
And how many players are going to be online 24 hours? And be able to hit multiple players with 4800 stamina in that time frame (over twice their gain?) How many times are they deflected? Two percented? Beaten because the target came online, swapped to a suicide suit, got force shield, DC, and last ditch, and managed to get a piercing strike?
You make it sound like the ultimate evil and simultaneously the easiest thing to do in the world, neither one of which is true.