Arena mode - Phoenix Freeshard

What is this ? Cant seem to find any info on it

Sat 15 Sep 2018 4:26 PM by Anaethema

I know it's not a complete breakdown of how /arena works, but here are links to 2 of the patch notes with a brief explanation.

https://playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2196
https://playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2195

Sat 15 Sep 2018 5:17 PM by aso

wait wait wait! there is a arena?????????????
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Sat 15 Sep 2018 6:16 PM by Druth

Instances kills MMO's, or so I think. We'll see.

Sat 15 Sep 2018 7:06 PM by

Uthred

Please read the following thread for more infos about it:

https://playphoenix.online/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=2201

Sun 16 Sep 2018 8:36 AM by aso

Druth wrote: ↑
Sat 15 Sep 2018 6:16 PM
Instances kills MMO's, or so I think. We'll see.

true, see live and uthgard ^^
and see guild wars 2

hm wait, the numbers say something different

Sun 16 Sep 2018 10:29 AM by Druth

aso wrote: ↑
Sun 16 Sep 2018 8:36 AM
true, see live and uthgard ^^
and see guild wars 2

hm wait, the numbers say something different

lol, I know a 104 year old who smokes, so smoking is healthy.
Amazing logic...

Sun 16 Sep 2018 12:48 PM by vitu

As an event, sure. Give it a go.
I liked the events till now, please don't make it a permanent mode.

thanks

Sun 16 Sep 2018 1:09 PM by klaggorn

I've been playing beta religiously since launch and love it. Have not logged in since arena launch. Horrible idea. Put the game back to the way it was and let's focus on the bugs that are preventing i50 and launch instead of writing code for stupid events like this.

Just my 2 cents.

Sun 16 Sep 2018 3:17 PM by Zansobar

In my opinion, anything that satisfies the 8v8 pre-made group dueling mentality so they don't ruin the realm war play is good for the health and longevity of the game. However, I doubt the arena mode (unless it gives RPs) is going to accomplish that goal.

Sun 16 Sep 2018 7:51 PM by Dominus

personally, I think the staff is doing a great job of breathing life into a very old MMO. They're keeping me interested and thoroughly entertained with their "outside the box" thinking for bringing players together. This is the stuff that keeps games "alive". If Arena isn't for you, they've introduced personal and group PvE and RVR tasks making it very doable for anyone to remain competitive. Great job Phoenix Staff!

Mon 17 Sep 2018 2:52 AM by relvinian

The people that really hate it, prolly say nothing they just don't play.

Mon 17 Sep 2018 6:24 AM by Kaziera

I think this is a ingenious scheme by the devs to check 1v1 class balance.
All jokes aside, it was quite fun, and proved to me, that paly is subpar. Or im just a bad player. Or i need purge ip.

Mon 17 Sep 2018 9:16 AM by Nachtfee

I really do not know what i think about the Arena and CTF, but both a reason why I do not log in so often. The direction in which the server is developing is not mine.
I hope that Arena and CTF are in beta for testing purposes only and later appear as an event only. Otherwise throw out the level mode and give the players directly I50 and create an arcade server.

Tue 18 Sep 2018 3:42 PM by imissswg

I honestly don't see why they are wasting dev time on this arena. I'd rather them add Molvik, Leirvik and whatever the 45-49 BG was called.

Zansobar wrote: ↑
Sun 16 Sep 2018 3:17 PM
In my opinion, anything that satisfies the 8v8 pre-made group dueling mentality so they don't ruin the realm war play is good for the health and longevity of the game. However, I doubt the arena mode (unless it gives RPs) is going to accomplish that goal.

Does it?

Tue 18 Sep 2018 7:15 PM by Brokenstring

Fix the Alb frontier dungeon so it's playable and actually worthwhile to farm/fight there.

Tue 18 Sep 2018 8:00 PM by defiasbandit

Adding arena or low level battlegrounds is just not necessary. Leveling to 50 is fast. We need the frontier zones as busy as possible.

Wed 19 Sep 2018 1:06 PM by Warjon

In Rift, GW2 and DAOC with BGs or the Dreds I never saw the PvE modes. Add all BGs back to DAOC. The FZ is not necessary but can again be the playground for Uth1 players...

Wed 26 Sep 2018 11:18 AM by Nino

I personally love the arena mode it's a great way to have fair fight with out adds. No zerging and the fact that you can grp with other realms is just cool and interesting.

Maybe to not ruin the rvr in FZ make a tournament once or twice a day. Do some announcements for when it's starts. Also that will lead to a high participation in the arena tournament.

Wed 26 Sep 2018 5:37 PM by Exploder

Arena 1v1 mode as a whole doesn't make sense because like others have pointed out, there are way too many counter matchups in DAOC. For example, it's nearly impossible to beat an enchanter as a melee barring an egregious misplay. As far as RP gain goes, by sheer frequency of fights and the constant refreshment of RA's, you will quickly outpace anyone else that plays the traditional way. RP would need to be nerfed if you are to have this mode at all. The game is built for Realm vs Realm. Not some instanced combat.

That being said, if arena mode is truly something that is wanted as either an event or as a mainstay, I can't help but feel like it could have waited until after release to be tested/implemented. There are so many other things that need to be fixed that adding another game mode should be on the back burner.