I haven't seen such a problem with one-sided wars or player harassment before.
In fact, sometimes something could happen, but these were isolated cases.
Declaring war was one thing that could help with the griffers.
From now on, people enter spots and destroy your rotations and you can't do anything to them.
And adding marni realm does not help because it is not available all the time and the space is sometimes not enough.

PA change these changes. The change did more harm than good.

This games become vastly more boring since this change, def thinking of quitting and just trying out gw2. Legit cannot find any decent pvp on this game anymore, arsha dead asf.

"Any decent pvp" was, then, declaring on gearlets? You won't find decent pvp in gw2 either, then. As there's no such thing there (or wasn't, last time I played). You'll have to settle for rather consensual butt-boinking if you go gw2. Other than that, hey! Hoping for you that the grass is greener on the other side!

Well, one-sided war decs are one of those tactics, imo. My point being that, if you enjoy being challenged during your grind time, you can just swap to Arsha, no need for war decs, cus there's no karma penalty for flagging up there, right? Unless the intention is to gear check your opponents. On the topic of Arsha, there are a lot of voices complaining that it's dead af and the only joy of pvp to be found is on normal channels. These changes can fix that too.

You can't enjoy the vast open world's beautiful visuals for two reasons. First, they've been constantly optimized into potato mode to compensate for more content and 2nd, you can't enjoy them if you're constantly deaded either, cus, you know, the revive screen isn't allowing for more scenery take-in.

I'd go as far as to add that back in 2017, the gearscore difference wasn't that impactful. The skills' damage was a bit lower too, making the fights a bit more interesting. Not much joy, nor fun in being jumped on and 1-comboed by someone 50-100 GS above you. Hell, even on relatively equal gear, the fights are not duels at times, but rather a 1-grab-1-death thing. Way back when, back when tri Kzarka was BiS gear, the average players were having fun fighting, because... well, you could still stand up after a graple or 3, after a kd or 3. Now?

All good memberberrying the 2017 times, but a lot has changed. Not just players' attitude towards each other. Maybe a good change that could come on the heels of this new environment would be a loot and exp scaling for party grinding in all spots. I mean, seeing how you can't enter Marni with your party members...
 

GG

LOL, you are showing how players opposed to the recent changes try to make others miserable? Even though they try to sell their position as a resistance to griefers, they use the exact same griefing to make their point? What sense does that make?

This reminds me of a real story: In my country, a terrorist was sentenced to 10 years is prison. This old guy was afraid that migrant terrorists may come here that he tried to raise the fear of them by sabotaging a passenger train. There was no other terrorist attack, only this guy.

Or is this a fabricated story? The way the B guy feels the need to explain the situation - very explicitly to everyone possibly reading this - do you think this comes off as natural exchange? Moreover, the B guy knows grinding over someone is griefing (as he refers to the recent changes), but he asks "what griefing"?

Oh boy. You guys need to get better in this... Play less, study more or something...

It happens all the times now. I've had it myself too.

And this morning a friend of mine got a guy incoming on his rotation, saying nothing. My mate proposed him "DFS?" and the guy just answered "Fuck you" twice.

Those are not isolated cases: in his guild too, in mine also, over different discords, we can hear about people just taking advantage of the last update and discard all respect by saying "Fuck you!", even not a "Hello" or anything else. Just the polite expression FY...

I say it again: I'm not again the one side gvg IF there's also a way to defend against griefers with no penalties. (I'm only talking about guys coming over a rotation already taken, not bullies who wanna take over and call the first guy on place the griefer).

If a rotation is taken, there should be some protection, a flag or something, that allows for 1 hour to fight anyone who comes after, during this hour, without losing karma. You're just defending in your zone, normal. Such a system should have been put in the first place, instead of all those instanced Marnis...

Doesnt even need to be. I guess some peoples are so mad about the changes, that they became now self griefers to prove that changes were bad. I mean, how long we have now the season server? And why everythings is going fine there? I mean 3 servers for almost all players that do season. And i did at least 6 or 7 seasons. Never met any griefer there. And with that fast respawn times....  So if griefing is raising up, than its maybe because some mad players want to prove that changes where bad. I still love this game, even i am not happy with all changes. But GvG was a good one. Because real griefers that are griefing intentionally arent in a guild, just to do as much harm as possible. All others dont know it better, are new or just mad. I mean how easy is it, to send a friend to another guild for spy them, just to declare a war on them, as the friend can tell them on what server the members are. How much a one sided war declaration can be misused a lot peoples didnt saw. It never happened to me, but i bet it happened to others. Because one of my members was scared of a war dec. But why he was scared? Because it seems in a guild before they got hunted down, but for that they need to know the server. Isnt it strange, when the one and same opponent always knows what server they are? I know the Velia Tavern Guy to find out where a player is, but for that they need to be on same server. But even that wasnt needed if a spy was placed in that guild. And again, to prevent get griefed, there is Marnis and even on normal Map, respawn times are that fast, that peoples dont need to grind half of the map anymore. On seasons at least for me was always fine and never had any problems there, but on normal servers neither, but maybe i am just lucky.

Well, yeah, I am perfectly fine with reinforcing the first-come first-served system. I guess this has been, in fact, how this works in KR. However, we Europeans seem to be quite creative when it comes to developing diverse forms of griefing from generic game mechanics.

We found him boys, the man who invented griefing. Don't fall over congratulating yourself there bud, from what I've seen from you Eu people griefing, you don't even know how to. Step aside, I'm a true professional at my craft. And what're they gonna do about it? Dec me? LOL