You have obviously never played Age of Conan. A well-geared, somewhat higher lvl potato cannot beat a poorly-geared, but skilled vet in that game. Foregone conclusion. If you whiff combos in AoC, you lose. One caveat: casters have no combos, so have advantages, tho a combo-based class played well can still clean house vs them, so long as its player can manage to use the environs to block LoS and close distance: again, SKILL.thullonse wrote: a game that has gear progression in pvp will never need skill to be good at it.
Any game w/insta max lvl and no gear progression will have a staying power equivalent to a Jar-Jar Binks comedy marathon. Ppl fight for rewards. Remove tangible rewards and ppl lose interest.