Game Mechanics PvP Damage Scaling

[The1DarkLord]

I think that damage done to players should be different than damage done to mobs or bosses. Think of it this way.

• Bosses have thousands upon thousands of hitpoints. I mean they have tens and hundreds of thousands of hitpoints. Players don't even have 1,000.
• PvP battles mostly come down to whose weapon is more OP.
• Players generally last mere seconds (usually less than 10) against these weapons that take minutes to kill bosses.
• Better armor doesn't help much against these weapons.

My proposal is this: in PvP, have one of the following things happen:

• Scale down damage done by players to players at a flat rate, regardless of armor or other factors.
• Scale down damage done to other players based on that player's armor tier (wood armor=very little scaling, chlorophyte armor=scaled down quite a bit)
  • You can also think of this as the Armor tier exponentially decreasing damage taken from player weapons.

(Yes, I realize there is such a thing as defense, but even with defense, endgame weapons trump endgame armor EVERY TIME.)
Basically, I want PvP fights to have a little more strategy to them than the bombardment we see now. I want to be able to trade blows for more than 10 seconds without having to use like... a copper shortsword.