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PVP in Final Fantasy

danosadanosa Member Posts: 2
in Final Fantasy XI

After much personal debate i find myself drawn to changing from WoW to FF11. Only thing holding me back is the lack of any PVP in FF. Is there any plan to implement this in the future as either some sort of duelling areana or an area of mass pvp? It sort of fun tot ake a break from killing npc mobs and taking on the challenge of taking on an actual human player. Any feedback on this would be helpful.

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  • ThiefboyThiefboy Member Posts: 29
    Ballista is FFXI's PvP system. You can think of it as a violent game of soccer or rugby or something. You dig up petras from teh ground and try to score a goal, but in order to do that you have to kill someone to gain "Gate Breach" status. Basically it just becomes a small PvP war and people just runa round killing eachother.

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  • danosadanosa Member Posts: 2
    cool nvr heard about that guess its FF!! time phoenix here i come ^^
  • NoosebearNoosebear Member Posts: 3

    So there are no pks? :/

  • ChrisMatternChrisMattern Member Posts: 1,478

    Originally posted by Noosebear
    So there are no pks? :/

    Not very many, and none legally. It is possible to kill another player by training monsters on them. This is called MPK (Monster Player Kill). It's against the TOS and can get your account cancelled if the GMs have convincing evidence you engaged in it.

    The newest update (due to be put in place the day after tomorrow, as a matter of fact) makes MPK much more difficult by making a monster pulled to a different location disappear when the player that pulled it dies or zones out. It also changes the behavior of Bound monsters (Bind is a debuff that prevents the subject from moving) so that they no longer attack whatever is in range but restrict themselves to the players they were engaged with (and do nothing if those players are not in range).

    Chris Mattern

  • NoosebearNoosebear Member Posts: 3

    What is there to do in a game that doesnt have pvp??? :S

  • ChrisMatternChrisMattern Member Posts: 1,478

    Originally posted by Noosebear
    What is there to do in a game that doesnt have pvp??? :S

    Plenty, IMHO. If you're of the opinion that the only interesting thing in an MMORPG is PvP, that's your right, and FFXI probably isn't the game for you. But plenty of us enjoy crafting, PvE, questing and exploring with PvP relegated to scheduled matches.

    Chris Mattern

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