Player vs Player Combat (PvP)
The Paradigm is not always a safe place. As you explore you need to be aware of different zones you may encounter.
- Safe Zone: Feel free to explore these areas in a care free manner, nobody can attack you.
- PvP Zone: Explorers need to be careful in there areas, as they can be attacked, potentially d'mezzed and event lose items in their Bracer.
Within PvP zones, players are susceptible to being attacked and can also initiate attacks on other characters. You don't want to just attack someone without understanding more about their character, its affinties and levels, and an understanding of how the outcome may affect your own character.
A character can initiate an attack once per block. Note: this is not a cooldown timer. If you attack 10 seconds before the block changes, you can attack again in 10 seconds with the new block.
Inspect a Character
You can see what characters are present at any location by using the Inspect button inside the location's chat in your bracer.
In addition to character/player name and class, this reveals the character's power tier. This will let you know if you are in the same "range" and that character might be an interesting target to attack.
Examine a Character
To get more information, you can use the Examine button. It will provide you with the character's level along with the level and base dice for each of their affinities. This detailed information will help you decide if you feel you can take on this character in PvP.
From this information, you can calculate the Energy Pools the character has.
Notes:
- This does not show the gear the character has equipped.
- There is a cost, the character will be notified you are checking them out!
Challenge
Once you find a character you think is comparable, you can attach them using the Challenge button. The Conflict Overview section provides all the details, the steps are:
- Pick an Affinity to challenge with. Your opponent's "opposite" Affinity will be used.
- Decide if you want to use a Fate Point.
- Challenge and see the results !
Results
After each challenge a summary of the results will be posted in chat for all to see. You can use the look button to get full details of the results.
The loser has one of their energy pools reduced by the Effect Value.
Gear
Equippables and consumables can be used to augment your characters during PvP. The Mod Type of the equipment defines how it will affect Success and Impact Bonuses.
Neither the Inspect or Examine features will tell you what gear an opponent is using!
There are also consumables that will regenerate one or more Energy Pools each block for a limited time.
D'mezz
There are two types of d'mezzing
- D'mezz: one of your characters energy pools is depleted (reduced to zero).
- Full D'mezz: all of your characters energy pools are depleted.
When either of these happen, your character the Phantom Protocol will take charge of your character where you must wait a defined set of blocks as a penalty.
You will leave the Phantom Protocol with a minimum of one point in each Energy Pool. It is up to you to wait for natural regeneration or use gear to get them back to max levels. You should be careful not to enter a PvP zone until your energy pools are restored.
If you are Full D'mezzed you will also (need to get deets about losing bracer equipment here)
PvP Leaderboard
Each time you challenge someone, you can gain or lose points on the PvP leaderboard. There are independent leaderboards for each Character Tier (i.e. Journeyman).
You gain a point for:
- Successful challenge with an opponent of the same or higher character tier.
- Successful defense with an opponent of any character tier.
- Feeding Squeakers 5x Perlin Noise.
You lose a point for:
- Failed challenge with an opponent of the same or higher character tier.
- Successful challenge with an opponent that is a lower character tier.
- Defending a challenge with an opponent of the same or lower tier and losing.
There are no points for:
- Failed defense with an opponent with a higher character tier.
PvP points translate into title and level. There are 5 leaderboard titles: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond. Each title has 9 levels: 1 through 9. You start at Iron 1 (1 PvP point) and the highest is Diamond 9 (59+ PvP points).
Your title and level can change with each PvP win or loss.
Wins is the total number of successful attacks or defenses.
You can then calculate losses: Wins minus PvP points (from tier and level). Example: You are Bronze 5 and have 17 wins. Bronze 5 translates into 15 PvP points, so you have 2 losses.
If your Character Tier changes, the PvP leaderboard for your previous tier will remain and you will start with zero PvP points and wins in the new tier.
When talking about a character's PvP prowess you usually say they are <title> > <tier> <class>. Example: Bronze Expert Leftover.