akl77 wrote: »

Fighting players are easy, they don't have millions of health, and they don't have monstrous attacks, and they don't have never ending adds spawn non stop, and lastly pvp don't have stupid mechanics to learn like in dungeons. So PVE requires more skills imo.

Due to pvp in this game being really screwed up: a lot of players DO have monstrous attacks, and a LOT of players are made in such a way that literally groups of 8 can't kill them within a short amount of time.

PvP obviously. Beating PvE is just a matter of memorizing enemy attack patterns. Some might be a challenge at first, but everything is beatable.

That's not to say PvP is great in this game. It's a unbalanced mess, like PvP in every other MMO (if you want balance, you play MOBAs). But you're still playing against human opponents who will inherently be tougher than AI. With that said, I don't play PvP in MMOs because the lack of balance makes me angry, and that's not good for my blood pressure. I play competitive shooters and MOBAs for my PvP fix.

It's pretty simple: fighting an enemy that has real intelligence is harder than fighting an enemy with artificial intelligence.

There are obviously exceptions to this of course: some players in pvp are just terribad and are quite easy; and there are also bosses in some games that have ridiculous mechanics or just stupidly high health, so they could be harder than pvp.

But in general, pvp is harder due to you actually fighting something that thinks for itself and has better situational awareness.

In PVE you can learn what an enemy will do and work out your best plan of attack. In PVP an enemy will adapt to what you do and be less predictable.

That clearly means PVP takes more skill imo.

So far pvp is winning hands down. While even the hardest trial is super difficult. If you stack the proper gear with proper class skills and learn the mechanics you will win. Also pve is all group play for dungeons and trials. Where pvp you can run solo. Yes you can run zergs that are mindless but a solo pvp player against the server is a monster in itself. Fighting for yourself. Not relying on help from other players.

I do both pvp and pve, and pve bosses are relatively predictable. Once you learn mechanics, when and where things spawn, and whatnot, pve becomes not that hard to do. Pvp, however, requires a lot more than just how much damage you can crap out per decond. Players are unpredictable, and with this, it's hard to know what to do. For example, Nightblade NPCs have repetative actions and indicators, while a player may pop out at any time, no indicators or warning. You can't have a tank aggro all the players while the DPS burns em down. A healer can't just stand there and heal/buff. Most PvPers avoid tanky people (except for building resources and ulti), and usually go straight for the healer.

Veteran Maw of Lorkhaj comes to mind. Had the final boss at 0.6% and we wiped. I literally cried.