Originally Posted by
DamnOriginal
The "gear level" argument is silly, as if the retail population that would actually divert time to raid/infiltrate cities was wearing duct taped cardboard. What's even funnier is the ***-backwards fact that this inconveniences people in bad/regular gear far more than the BiS population, since they can't just one shot guards with their purple jizz powers.
The only real effect this nonsensical, custom tweak has is discouraging small scale PvP in cities, which is just unfortunate considering that's the kind of PvP a lot of PvP-ers enjoy and a lot of non-participants enjoy seeing, as opposed to a gigantic ball of nameplates consuming every NPC and PvP-tagged player alike, like some sort of dysfunctional katamari.
I don't know what kind of misguided logic led to the fruition of this anomaly but so far it has done nothing but alienate good PvPers and make 2-button spamming mongoloid herds feel right at home.