PvP?

[Nathanoj]

Does this game have pvp? Open world, battleground style or Arenas?

[Godkyra]

No, and likely never will. This game is entirely designed around PvE.

You can pit your characters against others in Tavern Brawls but there are no events, nor have there ever been events, based on PvP.

[Taebrythn]

yes there is some pvp as mentioned there are pvp brawls as well as you can challenge a party to a fight in an arena but as for normal pvp like other games as wow then no. there is no system for it nor xp or anything.

[Amity the wizard!!]

No unfortunatley. People did tavern brawls when there were more players but nobody played the dedicated BG maps so they never balanced around it. Like over a decade of not having pvp content. A shame because I thought it had some potential with DS like covenants.

[Soap]

PvP has never worked in DDO, and never will. DDO’s design in a nutshell is turn based rules with changes to force them to work in real-time. Additionally, player characters and NPC combative enemies don’t follow the same rules, it’s sort of simulated or faked. For example, enemies don’t actually carry items or wear armor, they just look like they do and have stats as if they do. On top of that, they’ve tried to balance PvE based on data from players playing within DDO’s system.

It’s thanks to DDO’s design choices that it’s the most accurate DnD real-time mmorpg. And also why it’s so fun. But these design choices just don’t work for PvP; leaving no way to balance for combat between two players without unbalancing PvE.

If you have friends who you know will all agree and abide to certain limitations for PvP that you make yourself, then you could probably have some fun with PvP in DDO. But you’d have to have extemely strict rules like limiting everyone to two classes, specific low levels, specific equipment, and even not allowing certain abilities.

Even with DDO having a good community, imo it’s just not worth doing all that work to arrange PvP when any one person can just switch to a different weapon to cheat and ruin all of it. You have to really rely on the people you PvP with to play fair. I’ve never even heard of anyone organizing PvP like that in DDO.

[Nathanoj]

Thanks for the replies appreciate it.

[Doug]

Balancing the various race/class combos is bad enough for PvE, to keep them more-or-less equally powerful. Add PvP and it becomes impossible... or at least prohibitively difficult.