The reason why pvp xp death should be removed is that it prevents you from doing, if that is your wish, stopping PVE altogether to focus entirely on pvp.
You are bored of PVE, and want to pvp for a month straight? No pvp exp loss will let you do that. You cannot stop PVE for a month to just have fun pvp for 1 or 2 months unless you want to delevel back to oblivion.
It is not true that you have no penalty on death if you remove pvp xp loss. You have to run back to your corpse if you cant bind, and if you can bind, then there is the already proposed fix of respawning low on health and with no mana.
I am convinced that the server would have taken off alot more if the server had been like Rallos, more action oriented. It would also been better if you had allowed 1 item loot, so then there would still be a need to farm low level items, and there would be an economy for it. Maybe you think people would have left because the grief would be too bad, but people would just have ran around naked and got some no drop pieces. Instead now, you got twinks that will never, ever lose any gear and will be harder and harder to kill (as they gear up yet again) with no actual prize if you finally get that twink down 3 naked noobs vs 1, so the grief is probably worse than if item loot was put in. One of the major rewards of starting on Rallos a year too late and incentive to pvp was to finally get a twink down 3 vs 1 and get a piece of loot i could sell in Gfay.
On top of that, with twinks getting harder and harder, new blood will get close to zero chances of killing them solo, the only thing in store for them, will be pvp xp loss if they attempt pvp. So my bet is, these people will not enjoy their experience and not pursue. If they have no xp loss, they can at least attempt to see what works and what doesnt without getting set back in PVE as well.
Just think it through and try not to take people's opinion who have vested interests in having pvp xp loss (the overwhelming numbers pve campers, the griefers) and instead think of how Rallos was back then and why it was so fun.
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