11:03 am, February 5, 2017
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3v3 Teams: Solution to lack of EQ gear
3v3 Teams
Currently there is a reasonable amount of people who would be willing to play 3v3 teams if it was equalized. Despite being the most skilled based (and fun imo) BG tera has to offer it is mostly dead, and when it is active its 2-3 BiS parties with +15. Furthermore even if players do have the gear, currently there are some serious balance issues with non eq gear (by no means is the current 3v3 solo eq gear ideal either) for 3v3. For one the stacking of CDR. It makes rounds long and boring; mystics have almost perma thrall of life, and priest have almost perma kaia. This has brought 3v3 team to that point that in 3v3 team it is BM for a healer to attempt resurrecting a dead ally only because it is so incredibly difficult to get the first **** and even more difficult to prevent priests from resurrecting due to short kaia CD. You get the idea~the list of issues goes on and on and on.
The solution I propose goes as follows:
A large enough number of people agree to q 3v3 teams within a given time frame. All players agree to q only in slaughter* (or conflate/guile it doesn't really matter). The idea behind this is that if we all agree to only q in a specific gear set it will eliminate the issue of gear that makes 3v3 teams unappealing. Note that the easier to the gear set agreed upon is to obtain the more active 3v3 teams is likely to be.
To avoid the problem of landing against a team in full +15 either by accident (this would be unlikely considering how dead 3v3 teams is) or because some pr!ck decides it would be fun to get free rating from the rest of us in slaughter* we would q out side of event times and to prevent troll the q time frame would be announced on a private ts/discord. Any player who breaks the gear restrictions
, is toxic salty or otherwise annoying would be kicked and thereby prevented from knowing future q time frames. 
Gear restrictions I currently have in mind:
Gear set: slaughter* its really easy to get and enchant.
Weapon: maximum 1 CDR roll to prevent issues with healer balance (applies to healers only, if the problem persists then healers will not be allowed to have cdr rolls)
Jewelry: any jewelry (not PVP sets as they give extra pvp def and are rather expensive)
Etchings: Maximum tier 2, makes it cheaper for every one
Crystals: no dyads, if you p2w enough and get perfect dyads you dont need salivating or glistening crystals this is a huge increase in flexibility of your crystals and as such is a reasonably significant advantage over others.
*: the gear set is subject to change if we feel we die too fast we can allow for conflate chest/boots, if we feel damage is too low we can use a conflate weapon etc, but keep in mind that the idea is to make the gear requirements easy to fulfill so that anyone interested in Tera's pvp can avoid the pve and grind and jump right in.
I am fully aware that regardless of the precautions we take to avoid getting matched with a full +15 party it is impossible to make sure it never happens~unfortunately. Anyways you just lose some rating... so what it's fine.
I just want to see how many people would be interested to see if this would be possible. All are welcome to suggest anything. And please do try to keep suggestions critical and/or constructive.
If there is sufficient interest (9 ppl atleast for some variety) I or someone else can put together a discord etc and manage it.
Currently there is a reasonable amount of people who would be willing to play 3v3 teams if it was equalized. Despite being the most skilled based (and fun imo) BG tera has to offer it is mostly dead, and when it is active its 2-3 BiS parties with +15. Furthermore even if players do have the gear, currently there are some serious balance issues with non eq gear (by no means is the current 3v3 solo eq gear ideal either) for 3v3. For one the stacking of CDR. It makes rounds long and boring; mystics have almost perma thrall of life, and priest have almost perma kaia. This has brought 3v3 team to that point that in 3v3 team it is BM for a healer to attempt resurrecting a dead ally only because it is so incredibly difficult to get the first **** and even more difficult to prevent priests from resurrecting due to short kaia CD. You get the idea~the list of issues goes on and on and on.
The solution I propose goes as follows:
A large enough number of people agree to q 3v3 teams within a given time frame. All players agree to q only in slaughter* (or conflate/guile it doesn't really matter). The idea behind this is that if we all agree to only q in a specific gear set it will eliminate the issue of gear that makes 3v3 teams unappealing. Note that the easier to the gear set agreed upon is to obtain the more active 3v3 teams is likely to be.
To avoid the problem of landing against a team in full +15 either by accident (this would be unlikely considering how dead 3v3 teams is) or because some pr!ck decides it would be fun to get free rating from the rest of us in slaughter* we would q out side of event times and to prevent troll the q time frame would be announced on a private ts/discord. Any player who breaks the gear restrictions
, is toxic salty or otherwise annoying would be kicked and thereby prevented from knowing future q time frames. Gear restrictions I currently have in mind:
Gear set: slaughter* its really easy to get and enchant.
Weapon: maximum 1 CDR roll to prevent issues with healer balance (applies to healers only, if the problem persists then healers will not be allowed to have cdr rolls)
Jewelry: any jewelry (not PVP sets as they give extra pvp def and are rather expensive)
Etchings: Maximum tier 2, makes it cheaper for every one
Crystals: no dyads, if you p2w enough and get perfect dyads you dont need salivating or glistening crystals this is a huge increase in flexibility of your crystals and as such is a reasonably significant advantage over others.
*: the gear set is subject to change if we feel we die too fast we can allow for conflate chest/boots, if we feel damage is too low we can use a conflate weapon etc, but keep in mind that the idea is to make the gear requirements easy to fulfill so that anyone interested in Tera's pvp can avoid the pve and grind and jump right in.
I am fully aware that regardless of the precautions we take to avoid getting matched with a full +15 party it is impossible to make sure it never happens~unfortunately. Anyways you just lose some rating... so what it's fine.
I just want to see how many people would be interested to see if this would be possible. All are welcome to suggest anything. And please do try to keep suggestions critical and/or constructive.
If there is sufficient interest (9 ppl atleast for some variety) I or someone else can put together a discord etc and manage it.
