Blood and Glory - The lights and shadows of this idea

Back after a hard week of study for university exams and going to discuss about the new idea thrown in by Sil on forums about the new ruleset temporarily called "The Blood and Glory".
My reaction about this new went through 2 different phases, i switched from an excited feeling to a more critical overview of the thing.
Truth be said, I believe that the idea behind this proposal it's quite good and can represent a great mean to satisfy (partially) the PvP needs of the AoC community which have been lately frustrated and twisted, especially with the latest revamps and the introduction of the Shrines of Bori, Bori is a game mechanics that i personally don't like, but I'm doing that every now and then, and not on a regular basis because it represent the only way to obtain easily and fast what you won't obtain easily and fast with all the other PvP mechanics.
This is a truth.
Creating a reserved ruleset for a PvP only server without guards is a good idea, will prevent the chicken run to guards in the pvp zones and should at least on the paper give a boost to the "Group PvP", it will allow you to finally GROUP UP WITH YOUR FRIENDS feature, this one, that has been removed with the latest patch, choice that one that I consider honestly unbelievable.
Many sarcastic posts proposed to remove grouping from PvE as well, and even if it is obviously absurd, the sarcasm behind these posts clearly draws how much this choice has been unfamous.
Back on topic anyway, this idea could work, thinking about it I really believe it would be a serious challenge to live in a world where only your friends and your effective skill will be your shield against the deaths, even though there are some indents that are in need to be consdiered.

On a general point, the hardest concerns are related to the class balance, the class system as it is now is impronted to a great advantage of some classes against some other, developing a new pvp reserved enviroment without providing everybody with the same tools it's a foulish idea, classes gimped to oblivion will never have the upper hand against a zerg of godmodes classes.
I can foresee a server full of Guardian, Rangers and Assassins and Necros with pets.
Who's gonna roll an healer or a HoX or a Demo in a server where the vast majority of the classes can shot you with a simple 1 click combo?
This point should not be underestimated.
Another big issue is related with the AA system, this new ruleset is supposed to be PvP oriented, so Prowess and Expertise should be our bread, how can we manage to obtain enough points to be on pair with all the time spent, since one year till today, on the live server to boost our perks?
How many will be available to redo the grind from 0?
How are they going to address this issue?
These are all big questions.

The gear is another issue, on this server, I personally expect to not be forced to do PvE to get enough gear to do PvP, so how am I supposed to gather enough equipment to be competitive?
How will gear effect the Blood and Glory ruleset?
Simply if it stays as it is now, it will be a big no-no, AoC is actually too much gear dependent, you can be skilled as you want, if your enemy has a better equip than you do, you are dead. Period and full stop.

Bori chapter. FunCom did a great thing here, they opened a poll asking their players to expose their opinion on Bori, should it be available or not?
Bori has been declared as one of the better introduction of this game, it was surprising for me to see the partial results of the votes.
Last time I checked, on a basis of 300 voting guys 290 voted "No, it should not be present" only 10 voted "Yes it should be present".
What does it mean?
It means that the community dislikes Bori, and that the community is aiming at a REAL pvp content, which Bori clearly isn't.
This means of course from my point of view that the community is acting to prevent the creation of 1 big guild that will own the zone forever completely preventing all the others to go there.
Fury is an example of this, according with my information.

As Silirrion said, this will be a fresh start, you'll be able to have only one character there and no transfers will be allowed.
This is partially a good idea.
Partially why? Because rerolling from 0 means that you will lose all the progression you earned in one year of expansion, specifically all the perks, this is good on the other side because it will bring you back on pair with all the rest (who exploited the AA and who is far behind the others) of the players, but... how many will really consider an option to be forced to develop the AA from 0 again?
Many are honestly not willing, and Sil said that AA system won't be removed from the game, so this is almost a dead end road, but it should not be ignored.

Beside all these points I think the idea behind this proposal is good, what will make the difference for it being a huge success or the epic and ultimate fail for this game is the development that there will be behind it.
They should boost the actual content (read sieges and world objectives in general) before releasing this new content, they should work on balance and revamp all those classes that are now far beyond all the others (no i'm not exclusively referring at the HoX, we're not alone even if we are probably in the worst position), and address all the game related issues of lag, bugs, exploits.

Only after all those measures they will be ready to release this new content, hopefully they will seriously listen to the playerbase opinion on this matter.

We will see what will happen, for sure i will test it on TestLive servers if and when it will be released.

Stay tuned!


Arcalimon