I’m definitely not Bloodmarked. I’m just trying to explore the area, and I keep getting killed by randos. I thought that if you were not Bloodmarked, it means you were not PvP at all and couldn’t be killed? And then if you were Bloodmarked, then you could kill or be killed.
Bloodmarked players can kill anyone in the pvp zones, even people who are not flagged. whether or not you are flagged up for pvp is meaningless.
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That doesn’t make any sense. I thought PvP was optional in D4??
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It is, don’t go into the pvp zone and you won’t get pvped.
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I’m trying to explore and do quests, some of which are in those zones but I can’t get there before being killed. What’s the point of Bloodmarking if you can just be killed any time?
There are PVE objectives in the PVP zone.
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4 altars total, unless your talking about the tree of whisper bounty crap which is 100% optional and unlocks nothing. get over it.
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No, I don’t think I will.
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The problem here is that in the info for the Bloodmarked, it says that if you aren’t Bloodmarked, you don’t engage in PvP, but clearly you do. So it seems more of a bug than anything else.
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Yes, it was said exactly like that, on the videos with devs I´ve seen before and it seems devs doesn´t care to explain why.
Better system would be if you´re not marked you´re not dropping those things for red dust… if you´re marked you can get that things for red dust.
I like pvp in this game, but this mechanic of forced engaging should not be there. It just makes people ragequit if they just want to very peacefully kill those bad bad monsters lol.
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Yes, it should be my choice to engage PvP.
It is not just random people at higher levels than mine who kill me when I am trying to explore the region.
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if you dont blood mark you are indicating to other players that aren’t bloodmarked as well that you are ready to PVE in that area.
If they just made it like WoW where you turn PVP on or off, it would invalidate the danger of the fields of hatred.
So this is Blizzard’s half measure to throw a bone to passive PVE players. In a way it kind of resembles the playstyle of scavs in Tarkov
I agree that the bloodmarked mechanic is super weird. You should not be attackable if not bloodmarked, but you should also not gain shards or be able to turn them in at the same time. That would be fine. You need to be able to ride through the area and get the lilith shrines without being forced to engage in pvp, especially in hardcore.
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There is ONE frakking shrine per zone that takes 15 seconds to get to. Do it on horse, you will be fine.
Edit, ok 1 in first zone, 3 in second. Still you will do it in about a minute and on horse you will be perfectly fine and then you don’t have to go there never ever.
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You choose to engage in pvp when you enter the pvp zone.
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Yea I don’t get why the the Bloodmark exists either because if you enter the zone you are automatically flagged for PVP no matter what.
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aleast the pvp zone is on rotation so just wait some time and you will be abel to go there with no pvp problems
How it works is that if you bloodmark, you can get rewarded and such.
If you don’t bloodmark, you’re basically voluntarily becoming a prey animal. I mean, you won’t drop any shards, but a bloodmarked player is going to kill you first and see what you drop after 
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Honestly, I’d be fine if they can still kill me for the heal and their sick kicks if I didn’t drop the seeds. Otherwise there’s basically no difference between blood marking and not. Maybe at least make us only drop a certain amount so there’s still a point in bloodmarking, but as a necro minion build them halfing my minions life is kinda too big a handicap for me to do pvp.
I went in unmarked, had a lot of fun farming PvE with other randoms that were there as well. Then out of nowhere I get attacked. I ended up killing the person who attacked me even though I wasn’t blood marked.
About an hour later I was trying to get my resources out at one of the crystal locations and I was attacked by 3 other players who were grouped up. I died, of course. But then I went and turned blood mark on and started killing them off one by one (using strategy that I won’t share on a public forum).
I noticed that when you aren’t marked but are at a crystal trying to exfil your resources you will become marked while in the circle when the timer has been initiated. Pretty sure it goes away as soon as the timer is up.
So being unmarked is good for farming with other randoms since your AOE attacks won’t damage anyone around you. However, as you stated, you’re prey for anyone wanting to attack so you have to be on your toes. But you can seemingly attack anyone that is Marked, even if you aren’t. You just won’t damage another that isn’t marked, unless you’re marked.
I think it’s pretty damn fun to be honest.
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