Leveling Only PvP

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L2 had people fighting each other literally from lvl 1. No one's stopping you from fighting others. But in order to be better at pvp you gotta do pve. Wanna know why? Because this is a PvX game and not a purely pvp one (neither it's a purely pve one).

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Feels like a PvX design. Simple.

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And if Intrepid designs their farming locations/quests correctly there'll be a ton of pvp for that pve. I couldn't go an hour of farming in L2 w/o fighting someone for it. And unless you're literally the pioneer of all the content or the very last person to start leveling up on your server - you'll probably run into other people and try to fight for your right to party farm.

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If pvp gave XP (and/or even gear) - some people would be able to go through the game by just pvping. And that is not the goal of a PvX game. Just as PvErs won't be able to completely avoid pvp in their leveling process, the pvpers will have to pve too. That's pvx.

You'll have enough pvp progression in the game. There'll be seasonal ladders in arenas, node/castle sieges, bounty hunting and caravan raiding - all of those will have some form of reward and will progress your character and its reputation on the server.

There's also the open seas, guild/node wars and general flagging rules around boss fights, so in a way there's way more pvp features in the game, but they will all be interconnected with pve in some way.