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What happens if I defend myself?
I am still trying to learn about this game and how it works. Perhaps the answer has already been given and I missed it. So here is a scenario and few questions.
I saw somewhere that if a player attacks you but you do NOT fight back and you die.. The player that has attacked you gets flagged and if that attacking PvPer keeps targeting people for the heck of it but players do not fight back and die.. that attacker will eventually be flagged so much that they will lose abilities and/or even items, etc... something to this effect.
Question is what if I am attacked but I decide to defend myself and I kill the attacker? would I be flagged because I killed him/her? Or not? Or would I get a reward for defending myself and winning?
I mean it really wouldn't be fair for me to be attacked then respond back by defending myself and kill the attacker - only to find out that I was flagged for killing someone in self defence! LOL
I hope we can defend ourselves and even be rewarded for successfully defending ourselves. 'cause being attacked and just stand there not do anything because you don't want to be flagged is a bit harsh.. I for one am not going to stand there and let someone kill me for the heck of it LOL
So can someone clear this one for me please? as how this plays out in Ashes?
Comments
http://aocwiki.net/PvP
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/comment/151817#Comment_151817
Visual link for reference:
http://www.aocwiki.net/images/thumb/f/fb/Corruption_system.png/640px-Corruption_system.png
- How diverse is Action-Combat going to be ( including if Action-Combat will be more prominent over tab-target )
- If its even planned to have defensive-spells/ defensive-abilities of each Element in the game ... both Magic & Non-Magic Abilities ... for all Archetypes
An example of the last bulletin ...But i personally think its best to keep Wind & Water separate from each other - as two separate types of Magic
But this kinda relates to ALL of the other Elements too
Fortunately though ... Non-Magic-Defensive abilties are more straightforward via Sword Blocking ... but which weapon blocking what ?
All-in-all , it'll be based on how technical / in-depth Intrepid wants combat to be. But just having some sort of Action-Combat opens new possibilities for combat as a whole
However, if you are attacked by a Red (already corrupt) you can be Green/Purple and kill them without being corrupted.
I suppose blocking via adventurer class abilities might be construed as defense.
But, defense really means attacking back - it's not vague.
Attacking back will flag you as a combatant.
You will be rewarded by only receiving half the normal death penalties if you die.
You will be rewarded by being able to loot resources from your attacker(s) if you kill them.
You both would be combatants, so killing your combatant foe(s) would mean they receive half the normal death penalties, even though they initiated the combat.
However if you don't want to fight but also don't want to suffer the penalties of dying green, then yeah take a swing and die and only suffer the penalties of dying as a combatant. <<<Although the only reason i can think of that you wouldn't want to fight back is "I'm not in the mood to deal with this shit". So i really can't understand why you wouldnt fight back because winning is as mentioned, your best case scenario.
I also don't expect people to attack at random. The devs want open pvp to be meaningful. I expect attacks only when contesting some rare resource. So if you're gathering something rare, you cant just be like "not in the mood to deal with pvpers" you should always expect an assault in that type of situation.
If you have resources you want to keep, your best option is to become a combatant and lose minimal resources.
If you're more interested in minimizing non-consensual PvP combat, you stay green and punish the attacker with Corruption.
Looting resources is not an example of meaningful combat.
Meaningful combat will have more impact on the rest of the world beyond just the resources one person is able to carry in character inventory.
Thanks everyone and a /Bow. Much appreciated for the responses. I am learning a lot from each response.
This is a very helpful community, which makes me more excited about Ashes of Creation. Healthy community is very important to keep population growing. So keep it up..
I fixed it for you.