1vs1 Duel Battles

[Lorielle]

Black mages are complaining? Trying too hard. They can literally sprint and scathe all day. Sleep, fully buff, fire 3, equimity and go to town with fire. Chances are they will die faster than the blm.

[Vandril]

You clearly don't play BLM, then. It's basically an automatic loss. BLM only functions as a support to other people. It's like being in a real life battle and sending an archer to fight some cavalry point blank. It doesn't work out. Also, how casters work in FFXIV PvP is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. You're essentially useless unless you can get the rest of your team to constantly attack whoever is attacking you in particular. Good luck with that.

I've clearly never played BLM because...I said that most people bring up attack-interrupts as a balancing concern for 1v1 dueling? You realize I never agreed with nor disagreed with this concept, right? And that all I did was mention that it's often brought up as a concern in topics like this?

The very point of my previous post was that this imbalance in 1v1 for dueling shouldn't even begin to factor into the decision of whether or not duels are a good feature for the game. If it's an "automatic loss", then you don't have to 1v1 as a BLM against a Melee in a duel, should the feature exist. Dueling would be all about enjoyment and practice...and roleplay, I suppose.

[Atreus]

Black mages are complaining? Trying too hard. They can literally sprint and scathe all day. Sleep, fully buff, fire 3, equimity and go to town with fire. Chances are they will die faster than the blm.

And what people don't realize is casters can bust tanks pretty easily doing exactly that lol. It's melee that are designed to crush casters, and tanks tear through melee. It's a loose rock-paper-scissors deal, but it's still there.

[kpxmanifesto]

Black mages are complaining? Trying too hard. They can literally sprint and scathe all day. Sleep, fully buff, fire 3, equimity and go to town with fire. Chances are they will die faster than the blm.

Yeah I usually don't have a problem winning a 1v1 against melee. However, I'm very dependent on cooldowns and a majority of them need to be ready to use.

[SeleniaArgon]

Black mage or smn have no chance to win versus a good drg . Fortunately , Few drg are good in pvp ! x)
Otherwise , it will be cool to have duel system on this game . This option exist on all mmorpg's , why not here ...?



Sieghilde Schtauffen

[morerancor]

Not sure if it's been suggested,because I'm to lazy to read the whole post . I think 1v1 class specific duals would work. Tank vs tank .... Healer vs healers, melee vs melee... It's the only fair way of doing it. I main as a ninja and find fighting a healer or ranged more tedious then fun. Id be all about fighting a dragoon and monk !

[kpxmanifesto]

Black mage or smn have no chance to win versus a good drg . Fortunately , Few drg are good in pvp ! x)
Otherwise , it will be cool to have duel system on this game . This option exist on all mmorpg's , why not here ...?



Sieghilde Schtauffen

I'm gonna have to disagree with this. That's hell of a conclusion to jump to by theory-crafting alone and I'll continue to disagree with it until I see it in practice.

[zeopower6]

You can try it if you'd like. Just get 6 other people in Wolves' Den and duel away.

BLM will probably be dead against any of the melee. Somehow these theories are also assuming that the person the BLM is going against is doing literally nothing.

[kpxmanifesto]

You can try it if you'd like. Just get 6 other people in Wolves' Den and duel away.

BLM will probably be dead against any of the melee. Somehow these theories are also assuming that the person the BLM is going against is doing literally nothing.

Wait, who made that theory?

[Atreus]

Wait, who made that theory?

I think you're really not understanding the tools a melee has against casters... >_<