Usually, the more powerful a person was in World of Martial Arts, the more they liked turning their pain setting up. The highest setting was fifty percent, and that percentage can stimulate a person's pain senses very greatly, because the higher a person's pain scale was, the more they would feel as if they were truly in the world of martial artists as well as the sense of danger that would descend on them against their will. While they faced all sorts of fights, they would also instinctively dodge enemy attacks and not just attack while standing around like total newbs where they would exchange blows without caring about the damage on their bodies.
The pain scale could improve a person's fighting skills, and they could also work hard to figure out the essence within their martial arts.
Practically all top-class players had their pain setting set at fifty percent.