Skill Based System.

[Slamz]

Right but unless you are going to have on the fly skill point adjustments it wont matter because you wont know your enemy team has no shields until the fight starts.

In our "living world" concept, at least, you'll tend to know who you're fighting well ahead of time. Your nation borders another nation. The neighboring nation is rich in metal but poor in forests, so they tend to all have chain/plate and swords/shields. Your nation is rich in forests. Since the enemy tends to have a lot of shields, you won't get a lot of use out of your bows, but you can get a lot of use out of large wooden mauls, cudgels and wooden polearms good for keeping sword users at bay, especially when you're going to be more nimble due to your lighter armor.


If it were WOW battlegrounds, I would agree that the system makes little sense, since you're always going against a random mishmash of people, but in the "living world" you're going to know your enemies.