Confused on incentive for open world PvP

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It should also be mentioned that server transfers are not planned currently, so those players would most definitely get farmed on a new server cause they would have even less stuff than on their previous one.

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I mean. This would work if the caster of that AoE spell chose to specifically flag for that attack, so it was able to hit you. You're more likely to eat death penalty from mobs, though.

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