(10-01-2014, 02:04 PM)Menace651 Wrote: (10-01-2014, 01:56 PM)demishock Wrote: What's dicing?
sarcasm?
Dicing is pretty much going into a BG battle and then having one person from each team using the /dice command. The person who gets the higher number gets to kill the opposite team without a fight.
Yes you could be an ass and just go in and kill the other team anyway like ChaosPrince pointed out. But then people will just leave BG or not key for you.
Dicing is only a system made by people who don't really care about the PVP aspect of BG and merely wish to get the points for the gears. It was kinda implemented by Boon so he could get himself geared quicker.
It's a bit of an honor system. If you go that route, the odds are stacked against you as you're never really certain if your teammates will have your back. There's a chance you can still win if you're destroyed in that 1 v 3 Matchup if your side still dices well, but meh.
Being an oldbie with no BG gears to my name, I am quite outmatched against all these new people with their BG weapons and gears. I'm lucky I have a thara, a marc, ED and a few other status armors, Noxious and raydric all at +7 or higher on fairly decent def armors, but I still get taken down like a fly. Maybe If I'm lucky, I'll fight a team of snipers on my Battle High priest with my arsenal of ranged resist gears (Pneuma and 80-ish% Ranged resist ftw).
I suppose this is a different take on the Old vrs new stance. I'm older than BG is on this server, but because I've not done BG a whole lot, the odds are increasingly stacked against people who also haven't done BG.
I don't mind working for my gears, but quite frankly, I worked my butt off for what I got and now it's obsolete. If there were more fun parts than just KVM, I may have less issues with BG. It's not fun, It's hope you get paired up with someone good or hope you get slaughtered quickly to get to the next match so you can have better luck with your point income.
I mean, I still try to put up a fight but when you're getting knocked out first time EVERY SINGLE TIME, it gets hard to develop any sort of feeling even close to love for PVP or BG.
I've always lacked the proper mindset for PVP and don't really see rushing in to the same people killing me in the same ways countless times fun in any way. Most of what I want in RO is to have fun, and when I'm in a guild that asks me to woe, get geared for that crap and try my best to help out.
Now that BG gears are glaringly dominant over most other gears in any sort of PVP/GVG engagement, I am forced with a decision. Dedicate Hours and hours and hours doing something I don't enjoy in the slightest to attempt to earn enough Points for gears, or do something else entirely and say "screw woe, screw pvp, I do what I want." At that point, I'd rather farm cards, gears and eluniums/oridecons from the wild than BG, but with a few notable exceptions, most of the stuff I'd be able to farm would be as obsolete as what I have now.
As such a raging alt-a-holic as I am, it'd be AMAZINGLY helpful for my vast arsenal of characters would have shared BG points so the times I do actually muster up my will to go in for a few rounds, it merely has to be on the same account as what I want to get stuff for.
Maybe we can add additional rules that have you go in with generic NPC gears instead.