
Remove damaging gear from arenas

This will probably be knocked as a stupid idea but if you disabled the damage feauture in arenas, or at least included decent pay people would participate in pvp more. As it stands the sides usually get stacked despite being randomized and some people get no luck and tend to lose in bad losing streaks to where their weapons and gear get completely destroyed beyond the point of repair. And when thats something like a golden eagle/ guardian/ berserker piece, thats about 30 gold + down the drain for little reward/effort in return. So this is where I propose leaving gear destruction to deaths in like instances/monsters/elites only and not in pvp, as it stands you are punishing players to participate in arena and it turns most of them away.
this has nothing to do with the topic, nor is it true. zerkers are actually nerfed compared to pallies or witchers. if you have an issue, CHANGE. not that hard to switch over, especially with your gear, you only have a couple of pieces.
if anything, zerkers gear is more expensive because there are more of us in the game it seems. I think removing all damage would be inconsiderate of the people selling the much needed items after they get new ones for the same price they bought them for. after all, we used them, we should pay a usage fee.
Tsenn, not sure if you have died against a npc or not, but it seems that half or more of your gear gets damaged, versus a few pieces in the arena. I dont think anything should change when it comes to arena.
To the dev's that will never read:
In 7 bridges, its really hard to get anything to drop, so maybe making it no loss of dura to items might be a good idea or maybe even a higher drop rate? 30g (30 usd) in the ah for an collection item is kinda high maybe? I dont see the fairness in this, as its only a luck factor, especially knowing someone that got a collection piece to drop on their second bridge, versus me never getting one in my 100+ times.
In Tourney's I would take dura loss completely out until the end, and then again if it has to stay there, maybe one piece per round, even two would be fine. I was so excited when I reached level 16 to join tourney's only to find out that the times that the tourneys were arranged to be abnormal of most everyones schedule, as well as damaging and even breaking items to be a big turn away.
To all others:
i hope this to be too long for those that could care less to not read, and long enough for those that would like to discuss or troll, not that it matters... because i feel that the makers of this game could care less about pvp, unless its dirty by bonecrushing.
but then again, maybe if someone keeps on bonecrushing me, i can just log off and go do other things... i dont think we will ever see a decent battle system here, since there is no rating system implemented when it comes to fighting in arena's, bridges, or tourney's.
If they want to do anything, maybe they will look into matching not only levels, but valor points as well. hmm... idea?
peace-
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i for one cant afford to keep repairing my armor everytime a zerk annihilates me :P
Also...might i suggest having more weapons to choose from. There seems to be large gaps in player lvls vs weapon lvls. A few more weapons to lessen the gaps would be appreciated... The new "professions" will help a lot in letting us aquire more currency to pay for the added items.
Lastly... Thanks very much for a great game!! We all can appreciate the hard work it is putting something like this together, and so far you guys/girls are doing a great job!
Gorrak.
For the record, that was one of my favorite changes of all time. It let me relax and have more reckless fun. I didn't have to worry about how long my purple gear would last.