How will you handle this situation?

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I would lose time, first and foremost. Maybe I'm deep in a dungeon that I spent 30 minutes getting to. Why would I waste those 30 mins again just because some dude thought he deserves the right to farm that room. And depending on the class balancing, I might win the RPS matchup and his first strike doesn't mean shit.

But in my case, I'd usually be Han Solo, because if I see someone walking towards my farming spot - I shoot first. Now I have the upper hand, I've let them know that I'm ready to fight and I'll lose less stuff even if I die.

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Your enemy won't know your HP values. They'll only see rough estimates through the decay stage of your nameplate. So they might think that they brought you down real low because your nameplate is in its lowest stage, but you could be super fat and still have a ton of HP or you could have several defensive/evasive abilities that would prevent you from dying to mobs/hazards.

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Only the one who did the finishing blow gets the corruption.

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If I won - I get to continue enjoying my pre-pvp activity. That's enough of a reward for me.

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The risk is the corruption. The penalties related to it are quite harsh. And if the target defends itself, the risk is your time, because you might have to run back to wherever you were previously.


All of those answers are just talking about 1v1 pvp, which I personally doubt will happen all that often. Yes, some people might PK lowbies/casuals, but corruption will punish them more than enough to limit (or at least decrease the amount of) such actions in the future.

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Planned "time to kill" is 30 secs to 1 minute. I'd assume the speed of combat is higher than 3-5 hits a minute, so most likely that first hit won't matter too much, unless the difference in character strength is so damn high that the attacker can in fact 3-shot their target. But at that point, they'll get so much corruption that they'll never do that again (well unless they're a troll, then just good luck to them).

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Very true. Have had coooountless times where I'd win in pvp against some dude and literally a second later another dude enters the room and kills me. And this wasn't even the case of "I got baited into flagging and 2 dudes killed me", it was usually just people trying to farm the same location and their timings just being too perfect.

And dungeon/location design in ashes will gave a huge impact on this interaction. If I can turn my camera in one room just enough to take a peek into the next room and see a flagged dude there - I just might go there to take him out, because the chances are - he's just got done fighting and is at lower hp. And he knew I was in the neighboring room and could see him, so he took the risk of not only going red, but also going purple and dying even in the case of him winning his initial fight.