How on earth it’s passed any QA? Someone with zero crystals can come and kill me when I’m cleansing. I have all at stake - he has nothing at stake. If I defend my self and win - I get NOTHING, and if he wins - he gets ALL of my crystals.
You know what’s even more stupid? That there are parties ganking solo cleansers. Like what chance you have vs 2-3 gankers?
Lastly I have no idea who balances this game? How druids can be running with permanent unstoppable, lol. This is not just problem in PVP but PVE too, where other classes sometimes cannot even get out of being chain CC’ed and even don’t have any good ways to get unstoppable, plus they fortify the hell out and you can’t do jack poo vs them.
And they can just go and grief all the hell they want.
If you bothered going extra effort to even dedicate two zones for this - at least go extra effort to make it fair. Solve problem of griefing gankers, remove unsotoppable in pvp (as if default 40% CC reduction wasn’t enough).
And if you really want ot make this a thing - make completely separate PVP damage balancing (aka ech skill has PVE values, and PVP values - just like basically all games) - otherwise there will never be any balance in the slightest.
Yep, very much this. Diablo has never been a series balanced for PvP, and it shouldn’t be, since that’s a whole different game from PvE.
You do what you’d do after running into 2-3 dudes who want to take your wallet: you either run, or you hope that you’ve brought a few buddies of yours along with you. The game is very true to life in that aspect.
What’s there to address? PvP was never meant to be balanced, and it isn’t, as this is not a PvP game. This is one of those few things that I’d say Blizz did not mess up with D4.
The Pvp in Diablo 2 wasn’t balanced either, but at least it was fun.
Diablo 4, has the worst pvp design I’ve seen in a new generation game, unbalanced, boring and a waste of time. Old games with 15, 20 years like, Runescape, Lineage 1 and 2, Wow and even Mu Online, has a much better and more fun pvp system than Diablo 4.
I simply decided to enjoy the other 90% of the game, for me, the pvp area in Diablo 4 simply does not exist, D4 has much more fun and profitable things to do than waste time in pvp.
Blizzard has been very clear that PvP is not balanced. It is not fair. It will never be balanced or fair. It will be difficult, brutal, unfair. You will be hunted and farmed. There are no protections for you besides those you make for yourself, or bring for yourself (friends).
This is intentional and they are well aware of it. Either adapt, or do not enter the PvP zones.
I am sorry to hear you did not know what to expect, but now that you know you can make better informed decisions about what aspects of the game you wish to play.
D2 had the same style PvP in that it was not balanced, not fair, not even really a game mode so much as an afterthought. Players ruthlessly PKed others if those others left the game unlocked. Such is the life of a Diablo player. Welcome to the franchise!
