Why does any thread with PvP in the title always descend into this?
I always try and view this type of scenario from both sides. I am not in any way a PvPer but I enjoy the competition aspect of combat and thus enjoy the ladder and bounty hunting. But I do get the purely level based player's viewpoint on this. I get that players who invest their game play into gaining levels don't want to lose them because of a competition they have little interest in. They feel subjected to an event rather than a participant in it. I get that PvP players don't wish that side of the game to be watered down any further. They want it to remain pure PvP with risk attached to every hit.
Ultimately we are never going to appease both sides as one solution is a kick in the teeth for the other. Some form of compromise can be reached surely? Take the combat system from PvP which in my opinion is the heart of everything PvP is and remove the XP loss and attract a larger number of participants to this global event. Or don't remove the XP loss but make it opt in only. A much smaller number of participants but all having agreed to opt in knowing what the event entails it can have more risk attached and include XP loss.
Either it becomes a new global more people might take part in or a more specialised global event for those interested in PvP. As an event it won't satisfy many but there are composing XP events for composers and double XP events for those who choose to level so an event for more PvP minded people isn't a bad thing either IMO.
I appreciate PvP has been changed multiple times and there is a huge amount of disagreement about some of those changes. And I think the people who love that part of the game are fearful of further damage. But I see no valid reason why we couldn't at least try an opt in based system for some variation of seasons. However it works in the end with XP loss etc it has to be worth a shot. If it is the PvP in the title of the global that amounts to no risk that bothers you then lets not call it that. Combat global anyone? I know I would love it.
Try viewing this as something separate from PvP. This is a global event of a different variation. Doesn't have to define what PvP is.
That's my two. Be nice boys and girls. ![]()

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