nah, I don’t think so.
I’m a PVP player, the kind that goes around Ravenna killing everyone in sight. A PVP server would be fun for someone like me since pretty much everyone else wants to fight as well, but there are a few problems.
First off, if both PVP and PVE servers have grindable items like getting boss drops or treasure charts, that literally makes PVP servers completely obsolete for any kind of grinding. Why try leveling up or progressing your build in a PVP server when you can skip half the trouble of a usual progression in a PVE server?
Then there’s the leaderboard problem. Most leaderboards are scumbags that dodge 1v1s or only play Arcane Odyssey in groups of 3+, keeping tons of gels and potions to keep their position. Meaning, they aren’t actually good at PVP. A lot of other players I’ve met(interested in the PVP as well) agree on the fact that being an LB doesn’t mean you’re good at the game.
Now that I’ve established that, I’d like to say that if an update like this were to occur, TONS of balance changes would have to be made. If a leaderboard player wants to keep their position but still enjoy Arcane Odyssey’s PVE features (most of em are PVE demons anyway), they will camp in PVE servers and the leaderboard will stay stagnant, unless someone else manages to get more renown (but this is sort of a loop as well).
If renown is reset, like it was before, it’s the same problem. Leaderboard players will do what they did before to get back to the top (which was teaming, jumping, spamming potions, etc) and then camp in PVE servers like a retired war criminal.
A few more things. In PVE servers, if you can still hunt NPC bounties, that makes being in PVP servers even less useless for ambitious goals like making it to leaderboard. PVP servers would only be used by people like me that play the game for its combat. Leaderboard would become a farmers’ market, whoever can grind their rivals the fastest is the winner.
We don’t need separated servers. We need instanced PVP servers.
Oh wait, we already have one. It’s called Elysium, but apparently it’s “only for tourneys and future raidbosses”. Sounds pretty bullshit to me, but whatever.
Until Elysium becomes public, this is how it’ll be. When it does become public, though, I can bet 1 galleon that half of the Ravenna gankers will literally disappear.