We need PVE servers here's why

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The whole point of the current flagging system is to prevent karma bombing. Aoes don't hit non-combatants. In order to hit a non-combatant you have to target them, hold down a button and then hit them. Same as it was in L2. You can't be karma bombed unless you decide to gain corruption.

The only way a lowbie could "karma bomb" someone is if they'll be able to wear high lvl gear w/o any penalties (slow movement and such) and if the "power stat" icon on players have 0 indication of how high a player's lvl is (I sure as fuck hope it at least hints at it).

But even then, the attacker would have to want to go red. And then the gear scaling, in the context of ttk, would have to be so out of whack that a high/top lvl player literally one-shots a lowbie in high lvl gear (because I see no point for them to attack a dude in low lvl gear). And that doesn't fit Intrepid's planned design for ttk.

So karma bombing in Ashes will be almost impossible.

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Yes, aoes don't dmg non-combatants. And it's not an issue. It's intended design to avoid exactly the exploit you were trying to use to argue against Dygz.

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It hasn't been mentioned because usually we like to assume that when someone suggests a change to the planned design, they know said design. This flagging system has been known since the very beginning afaik, because it was taken and improved from L2.

And what kind of disadvantage would you be in? If you're flagging on a person - you've made the first hit, unless that person has already flagged against you. And any lowbie won't kill you with just one hit, just as you shouldn't be able to do the same to them, so no disadvantage there either.

And if you're in a mass pvp where everyone is flagged, your aoes will be hitting all the flagged people.

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Nah, I misspoke, my bad.

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The only assumption here is "if you're talking about a mechanic - you can at least look up how it works". Especially when you blame someone else for not understanding said mechanic, like you did with Dygz. That's where the ego comes in.

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As I saw it, Dygz didn't even know what that phrase meant, which is why he didn't know what and how to explain. And unless I missed it, you didn't explain to him what you meant by it. I know of that phrase because I've heard about it from the BDO players and could reverse-logic it out from what was "flag bombing" in L2, but not everyone has that kind of experience/knowledge. Especially in the case of Dygz whose pvp experience is limited to event/goal-based things, which never have these kinds of interactions.