Asuryan's Flames

Zone domination is the new way to cap zones starting in 1.2 it is going to put the focus of zone control not on PQ's or Scenarios, but actually controlling the zone. In the current system, aka the one we are all using right now, you build victory points by killing people in oRVR, completing PQ's, winning scenarios, and capping the BO's and Keeps. Each of the aforementioned items represents a numerical value. So X is your base VP in a zone and Y is the value that is added by each object so, a keep worth 15 VP would be a huge item to grab and so on until you reach the magic number 100.

Now with the domination system everything is about zone control, and holding positions for X amount of time. You have to hold a BO for 30min consecutively, and hold a keep for, I believe I can not confirm it and if I am wrong I will change this information later, 1 or 2 hours. So the incentive will be for people to defend the battle field objectives to change the tide of a war.

This changes the whole dynamic of how oRVR should play out; in fact things might even go quicker. Instead of grinding VP's you get to have just and just hold objectives for their set amount of time to flip a zone. Additionally, there will be tool tips, map data and so on that will show the status of each objective so that both sides know the status of them.

Things that I think will need a bit of changing; BO's need some type of defensive positioning. Most are open and hard to defend because you can essentially line of sight everyone instead of being able to fortify a position. That would mean a sweeping change to BO's, but it would also make them more player/defender friendly. Drop the ability for people to zone into keeps where the war is currently not taking place. This will prevent people from stacking warbands into the keep once a zone reverts back to the hot spot. More specifically keeps where the ownership will change based on zone dynamics.

Overall, I think that this will be a positive change to the way oRVR will work. It will force people to come out and actually defend and play PVP instead of being lemmings playing see who can RVE the fastest.