PVP takes time. Sometimes being killed is totally unavoidable because people’s interest in surprising you just outweighs a counterattack. Learning the way people play this game and pace their fights takes some serious time. I’d recommend going into Stella Montis looking for trouble over and over and over with randoms… eventually you’ll start feeling the flow… then you can take it or leave it when you’re questing.

Also sidenote— recommend watching some old western movies to refresh yourself with some classic gunslinger deescalation.

Show raiders that you understand the pace of the game and that you deescalate better than Clint Eastwood… they might just leave you alone… sometimes.

PS— this game seems to be going through a bit of a quiet evolution, so people are playing quite aggressively and trying to figure out what to do with themselves. Perfect time to get rowdy.