At the end of the day, it causes too many issues. Yet NONE of you have managed to say why taking XP is more important than PvP Rating. Why do you HAVE to take XP? So you can keep beating someone down? Unacceptable. That kind of behaviour drives people away. Doing it to gain rating still gives you the reason, risk and consequence, just without the ability to ruin someone's game time, and if that is why you want XP loss, to be able to negatively impact someone else's game, then there is something wrong.
I personally believe that - as it is worded by BG, not me - "taking XP is more important than PvP rating" is because almost everyone believes that XP has some relative "value" and PvP rating doesn't have relative value in comparison. XP designates a players level which determines what items they can use, determines what realms they can hunt which determines how much GXP they can gain per stamina when hunting, determines what levels they can reach for chests and relics - it determines so many things - not just for "levelers". Yet, PvP rating only has a chance to gain ladder tokens that honestly don't give items of "value" and PvP rating points also POOF after a couple days. BG, it is not about ruining experiences. It is about affecting "something" of value so that there is a point. If so many PvP rating points could be exchanged for XP as an example, PvP rating points would gain "value" and would be desired more. If PvP rating points could be exchanged for FSP, PvP rating points would have "value". If an attacking player gains only a few temporary PvP points that can be exchanged with ladder tokens for a resource item of little to no significance, some are saying that there is no point, because nothing of "value" is gained. At the minimum having a losing player lose XP is a result that has an impact and it is THAT impact which gives the victorious player energy and excitement, a thrill. That too is "value", especially in a game where many have lost that energy, excitement and thrill.
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