Rifting Nerf in 2.0

[Drex]

Surprised there weren't any threads on this, but in 2.0 you get a huge pvp defense buff for being in your home area. I know the idea is to cut down on ganking, but this seems pretty over-the-top:

Eltnen/Morheim: 80% damage reduction
Heiron/Beluslan: 40% damage reduction

I think using smaller numbers would have been an ok idea a few months ago, but appealing to the PvE crowd when most of them are gone or planning to leave for ff14 and TERA anyway seems silly to me. What do you all think?

[tonyg]

Fuckin retarded. Cut it down to 25% or some shit so normal geared players have a chance against twinks and keep the twinks that really stay for the pvp and not only to grief the shit out of others just for the sake of it.

[arus2001]

I see it more as encouraging rifters to go in groups. You're still more likely to find the solo or duo enemy, but the absence of a giant ally coming to help lowbies doesn't quite guarantee steamrolling.

[Ryuushin]

I'm not sure about other servers but when there are asmos in Eltnen or Heiron, it's plastered all over /3 and then a zerg comes.. How does this encourage rifting?

[arus2001]

Well, I'm used to Kaisinel's "don't give a fuck" attitude toward it.

[Pyree]

Well I was reading that they didn't actually intend rifting to be for PVP, but rather it was intended for doing the spy quests and game progression. It was meant for people to do these quests to get to the max level and then PVP at that point, not for people to twink and grief.

Also, doesn't the damage reduction work both ways? I mean, doesn't an asmo also take less damage from an elyos while in Eltnen/Heiron?

Of course it's these are just things I've read, I could be entirely wrong, I don't look at the KR Aion site myself at all, and I haven't done any PVP on the PTS yet, I'm in grind mode

[Grey Jorildyn]

What they really need to fix about rifting is rift-camping lol Glad I got outta this game when I did. It seems all downhill now

[Drex]

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Also, doesn't the damage reduction work both ways? I mean, doesn't an asmo also take less damage from an elyos while in Eltnen/Heiron?

Nah it's one way. The "home-field" faction gets the buff.

[altwight]

lol at temp/glads never dying outside abyss.

[Syntex]

Abyss or nothing it seems.

I was making a twink chanter for some solo action in eltnen but now someone 20 levels below me could kill me.

Games shit now because of this.