As long as skillful gameplay can give someone a chance.

It depends. Balancing around 1v1 can be entertaining even when you can get hard countered if skill is still the determining factor.

@@HalIOfFamer absolutely, realistically you will not spend most of your time in a group in the game, sometimes you wanna do something different than your group or guildies or w.e, even just basic gathering. If you get jumped on 1v1, the game should be balanced around skill expression not class strength and any class can beat any class if the player is better

It doesn't have to, but it fluctuates due to a variety of things...more often than not it's content related

in eso pvp is very competitive, duels are a way to solve things out.and a good way to test your build

@@konkats-tg7pf good old eso it was the pvp game back in imperial city, sewers full of duelers with no aids sets

you multishotting on a hunter in a bg gave you a ego you were good but butthurt in a duel LMBO

I don't think we will see augments until the archetypes are showcased

Augment system is not planned for initial release of A2. I am not sure if this info is still valid but a couple years back intrepid said that augmentation is gonna be unlocked on lvl 25 and max lvl of A2 is planned to be 20 at 1st. Not sure how up to date this info is.

I never got to play it at its peak sadly

Yeah like a lot of single target abilities or damage mitigation but only from the front. Good for 1v1 and small groups but lacking in larger squads or guild battles.

A few more videos and I'll get you there

@@isth3reno1else I have doubts. Name one PvX game that's launched and survived as such? Either they fail, or they change. New World, DAoC, Warhammer- a few others long gone from memory. I get what this game is trying to sell, I'd love to buy in, but the base of players who would enjoy is too small. And what base there is, is already going to be divided by the short list of games that scratch the itch. Then asking for people to pay for both the game and a sub? New World going onto consoles will probably lead to it being more successful than AoC, and that is just not a fun thing to write. GW2 is reinvesting into PvP in this next expansion, and it makes me pessimistically optimistic- it's a fun game, the pvp feels fun, the wvw feels fun- and I don't need to any more money into it. I could go back to ESO if I wanted to pay a sub (because not having the crating bag is physically painful), but the Cyrodil and BG experience is just not fun to me. SWTOR's pvp is just absolute dog sh-t. Eve Online has pvp, but also feels like I'm playing Microsoft Excel the video game- nice graphics though, and cool ships. You have all the private servers for WoW, DAoC, CoH, Warhammer (bit painful install for this one) and SWG and other games. And if you really, truly hate yourself, you have any number of Korean torture driven MMOs to choose from. I really want you to be successful because I learned quite a bit from you in regards to ESO. When you quite playing, it kinda sucked. I want AoC to be a win if only for you to flourish by it. That said, I really don't have faith that it will.

@@isth3reno1else I wish you luck, but I have serious doubts. Can you name any PvX games that have been successful? I can't think of one. The most recent has been New World and its own team has said that the players want it to be more PvE-focused. Add to that, the market share for MMOs is tiny- the MMO genre is one of the smallest pieces of the pie chart of genres played. And players who do PvP already have their niches. ESO, GW2, SWTOR, Eve Online- a host of private servers for DAoC, Warhammer, SWG, Wow Asscension, Turtle Wow, and others. People who play those games aren't going to stop, and the people who jump from one MMO to the next will just keep jumping. Why pay for a game and then pay for a sub of that game in this day and age of buy once play forever, or buy once and sub because not having a crafting bag is the cruelest thing outside of SWTOR selling you your HUD piecemeal. I miss your ESO videos even though I can't stomach playing it anymore. And I do hope that AoC is not a flash in the pan experience- but I still think it probably will just flash, sputter, and die a slow death. It's just not in the cards.

I never played DAOC. How did that work out?

DAOC was fine. The pvp was amazing. It was also competing against other games that were just as amazing in other regards. If I could choose any game to have "current" and active, DAOC and SWG pre cu would be top two out of three

I'm not, that part of the video just explained why I like mmorpg pvp over fps pvp, build diversity. Not supposed to be a comparison, but why I like this genre more