PVP - Do you want it to be a major feature?Follow

Neither of those things will happen. Yoshi is an avid pvper, and thus understands how to keep pve seperate from pvp. My hope is he will choose one of the better methods for doing this (pvp gear cosmetic only so its not gear vs gear would be a step in the right direction).

As for pve taking a backseat to pvp, well that depends on how good the pvp content is and how much the playerbase actually wants pvp. Most legacy players i would wager have little interest.

Now it would be kind of funny if yoshi's pvp team made a great pvp game that players everywhere flocked to. No one would expect that.

Personally im not looking for much pvp in my final fantasy.

If they can learn from that PvP shouldn't be only team oriented, I'm ok with trying it out.

I believe he mentioned that PvP will not be forced and there will be designated seperate zones for it.

Regarding gear I hope it's like GW2 in that they are completely seperate. Actually it's kinda of refreshing playing both.

Each game has it's own pros/cons. One thing with GW2 is that your pvp/pve characters share the same model/name but levels/gear are completely different. PvP characters start off at level 80 with basic gear and you earn your gear in PvP.

They don't touch each other.

I kind of hope XIV will be like that in they keep it seperate; but even if they don't it will be nice to try the XvXvX castle raid he mentioned. He's not putting a maximum limit on participation so maybe the entire server will give it a try :)

I would like to see a PVP system that offers some trophy rewards, and some rewards that were functional. But for the most part was achievement driven, and potentially large scale (though like most things MMO, it would be hit hard at first, then fall back to diehard players for that style).

I'd almost like to see PvP in XIV allow for exp gain to some extent (win or lose)... just something to motivate people to make use of it. I have never been much for PvP, but it would be fun now and again to have a grudge match agains my wife :P

I agree with Louiscool... it needs ot be way more involved than FFXI's PvP... I played PvP a total or 2 times (Brenner and whatever the first thing was) and I decided it wasn't worth the time to organize and participate in.

Armor wise:
I guess another alternative would be to have PvP armor, be just that. Armor which can only be used in PvP area's, with stats that would in some way be PvP oriented. And yet not directly enchant effectiveness against other players. Also this way you will not get people coming to an event dressed in PvP armor, using the excuse it's better then my PvE.

Past armor, how to make PvP more "involving" is beyond me. I can give you 1001 ways to make PvE more involving. PvP i don't know, none of the MMO's i have every played, baked it fully.. and it was always a half ass job, and one sided as hell. Technically after the point were you can't kill 2 even pray monster's but can solo 3 player's beating on you, it's a sign something isn't right.

I had always found that funny to watch. I can get as much exp on 1-2 synths what people get in a single ifrit run. That has to be the most inefficient exploit ever (is it really an exploit, or does it just make people feel like they are actually getting something for nothing?).

It's not an exploit, it's just.. well we get exp for it and our battle class is max level. You can do it with any quests, and free exp is free exp.

Hopefully they're looking to GW2 for a lot of their reboot ideas. And if they do, then the WvW system would be a great fit in FFXIV, while leaving nobody to complain about anything (except of course for class balance).

pretty much this. if yoshi really is a pvp guy, he knows and appreciates what gw2 brings to the table. The best reward for pvp imo is badass looking cosmetic (ie no stats) gear, so everyone in town knows how leet you are. And of course exp/gil. PvP should be a viable means to level.

They're going to need to figure out a good way to level the playing field gearwise, so hardcore endgame raiders wont be able to just stroll in and steamroll everyone. Introducing balanced sets of pvp only gear, given to the player when they first enter the PvP map or whatever, might work. As long as it doesnt become a tiered thing, ie the more time you spend pvping, the better your gear; its not friendly to the noobs. Basically everyone just needs to be at the same level gearwise, so it becomes about skill and strategy. This will bother some players, but most avid pvpers agree that they'd prefer skill vs skill over gear vs gear.

If yoshi wants to get into some WvW down the road that'd be great, and i can see a lot of PvPvE opportunities as well. I know i'd prefer at the least a large scale perpetual PvP castle siege map ala GW2 (doesnt have to be server vs server...yet),with objectives and roaming NMs to fight over. I know i would not prefer 2-3 warzone maps with 15minute matches. Its great in GW2, and was fun for awhile in swtor, but for some reason i wouldnt want to see it in XIV.