PvP

ARK is played offline, so PvP is asynchronous: you share your hero as a code, and anyone can import it and fight it. Both sides are driven by the same duel AI, using the skills on your bar. Fallen heroes come back the same way: they roam your dungeons as roaming dead.

• What a snapshot holds: class, level, skills and skill bar, your gear and your charms. Not your mercenary.
• Imports are checked: every skill must be a real class skill within its limits, and every item must be one the game could have made (every roll inside its range) and wearable by that hero.
• Damage between players is 35% of normal (like D2's PvP penalty), so duels last more than one hit.
• A match is best of 3 rounds with fixed seeds: the same two heroes always give the same result.
• Your wins and losses against each opponent are kept on this device.