So tonight I spent a couple hours in PvP. I made sure to keep track of my Kills and Deaths as I wanted to try out a new strategy....
So for the first hour I did absolutely horrible! I had only 4 kills and 25 deaths. I kept getting mobbed by the other team, and it seemed like the teams I was on were just unorganized and did not fight together while the other teams did. But I kept pressing replay, and slowly my team and the other team changed as players left and new players joined.
Then about an hour into playing a warrior joined my team and it seemed that him and I made an awesome duo. He knew how to tank and block for me, and I was able to unleash terror from behind him. Over the course of the next hour we ruled. The other 3 players on our team kept changing, but in general they followed our lead. During this hour I had 42 kills and only 9 deaths.
Then I started thinking... I realized that your success or failure in PvP seems mostly predicated on how well your team plays together. It seems like most of the time you get killed it's because you are outnumbered by the other team, and most of the kills you get are when you have the other team outnumbered. If your team sticks together then you have numbers in battle. If your team does not stick together, then you tend to end up in battles where you are outnumbered while your teammates are scattered throughout the map.
I think this factor is more important than it really should be. I also never noticed this to be such an issue in CTF in PL. So I think the issue here is the 5-on-5 games. It should be changed to 3-on-3. I think 3-on-3 on a smaller map would mean individual play would matter more than what team you are on. I think this may be the real key to balancing.
Opinions??
Bookmarks