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[COLOR="#FF0000"]As an example I can see that you XUO guys still grasp the idea that running an opponent out of mana is one of the primary ways to win a duel.

That's fine, but I don't want it to be the #1 way, with good timing, spell selection and strategy it should be possible to actually kill someone through just outplaying them and not having to run them to zero mana.[/COLOR] That doesn't mean that people should be able to cast endlessly with no thought, people will still go out of mana pretty fast if they cast too much and if this proves not to be the case the regen rate may be reduced. Things like FS and GH scrolling still take quite a significant chunk of mana.

But if you want to win by bottoming out your opponent's mana you need to fight that way, you need to learn to use mana drain and mind blast at the right time, you can't just out conserve them. There needs to be more than one style to the fighting, out conserving your opponent and only casting the same 2-3 spells is the reason why a lot of people who came here see our PvP as slow, boring and unvaried, and they were right, I hope with the changes those issues have been addressed though.

You should still be able to approach fights in a similar way to before, you just need to adopt some of the new tools and/or adapt to a different pace of fighting. It's been live on the server for literally only a few hours, I really think you need to try and be a bit more empirical and impartial and give things an honest try rather than prejudging everything and refusing to come out of the relatively narrow comfort zone of the old PvP.

Exactly, those are your standards like I said not everyone is going to agree with your point of view of how the pvp should be..