Will 'real' PvP ever be implemented?

[smokes]

One thing I would really like to see from this game is a real PvP aspect. Sorry if the term 'real' seems a bit insulting to the game, it's not meant to be, just that in a game such as this, it's pretty much impossible to have fair balanced PvP with the current status of players damage vs hitpoints etc. I mean its basically who instagibs who first

Personally PvP has always been an awesome aspect of games like this to me, and I'm sure there are at least some others here who would really like to see true PvP available in TQ.

I'm sure it would be hard to balance it out, I mean I was thinking you could just dump all players with 1000% HP however buffs like Heart of Oak would kind of destroy that idea
At least one thing is for sure, PvP should be done on entirely different maps to the main quest, since serious balance changes would need to be implemented within 'PvP mode' and this would either make bosses way too easy or way too hard, either way it would be abused or whined about.

I'd really like to hear what other players and the devs have to say on this matter. Again, not to insult the game in any way, but games of this nature will always have a limited lifespan, theres only so many classes you can level to 75 and deck out in full legendaries (although that really is SO many in this game)! Personally I'm a fresh face to this game and it's still nice and new to me, but I'm certain a serious PvP aspect of the game would renew a lot of the 'old guys' interest in playing.

If PvP could be implemented in a future patch it would make me insanely happy. Please post your own comments/ideas

PS - Sorry if this has been discussed before, the unfortunate search engine on these forums lacks the ability to search on a three letter word so I couldn't get any results

[partyboy]

i imagine the developers don't want the additional headache of trying to balance pvp, even if it's 'separate' from the game proper. and it would have to be separate from the main game, it would be quite a difficult task to try and work a pvp system into it at this stage. and at that point, why bother? so many things would have to be removed or stripped back.

[chooch709]

It is extremely unlikely that TQ will ever be rebalanced for PvP. We included the PvP option in Custom Maps in Immortal Throne so that if the community wanted to do it, they had the option. Without secure servers, the time and effort going into PvP would be wasted - there would be people who would join PvP games with a character hacked through the roof and slaughter everyone, no matter how well the game was balanced.