They work in a sense that if they own scapes, they have a window to be saved with a moon, which does not consume the scape. Same for normal players who die and have scapes, yet get mooned and do not consume them.
I'm contemplating using a MMO mouse and gamepad left stick for FOing. otherwise xb360 pad is fine for me. Really depends on which keyboard you use. certain gaming keyboards give that edge in precision, that an analog stick may not offer.
The primary reason for the damage tests is to figure out what thematic objective-based pvp i could get away with. Perhaps something consistent, repeatable with multiple levels of skill.
I'm not trying to interfere with your purpose for PK mode. I'm just trying to give it more purpose than stat...
Only except there is less control in battle mode over many aspects of the game. Doing the same in normal mode gives more control over equipment, level and other criteria, and also might make way for objective based pvp.