1vs1 Duel Battles

[Cidel]

Or, you know, using them to practice in a way which doesn't negatively impact team based PvP, or just as something to do with friends while waiting between queues.

You can cherry-pick the good examples just as easily as I can find the negative. Either way, it's not a super-compelling argument.

Also, how would they bother people if there was a restriction on who you can send requests to? Seriously...

Seriously, I already covered that. Read again.

Players can balance matches themselves by not going into a obviously one sided Job match-up... How is that hard to understand? If you want a serious match, you're not going to go as something which is at a severe disadvantage to your opponent, not unless you're extremely confident. If you want a serious match you can very easily organize same verses same to see who is the better whatever.

Some people are going to die-hard one job and refuse to swap their job to give their opponent a handicap, and vice versa. You haven't played any competitive Fighting Games with people you don't know, have you? Oh, and same vs same really just works out if both players have the same job levelled.

I don't even know what your point is here.

That's fine, it shows me that you're not seeing the flaw in your own idea.

If someone is going to take duels so serious that they'd demand their opponent is at a disadvantage to them based on Job, well... They're a shithead. That isn't taking duels seriously, that's just giving yourself an advantage.

You're either missing the point here or trying to put words in my mouth.

Care to actually respond to the entirety of both my posts you quoted, rather than picking one sentence out and seemingly acting like the rest of the points I made aren't there? I've covered all this before...

Right back at you pal, your responses are incredibly idealistic and I can see you trying to dismiss my issues with simplistic answers with even more holes.

How would it be more cumbersome if they put in less work? No rewards means less work.

More cumbersome meaning the devs probably won't even put in the effort to do it if it gave no (worthwhile) rewards/ add systems just so people couldn't duel certain people. Come on, they haven't even given the community a lot of what we're asking for due to system limitations. I believe we already have a handful of things without worthwhile rewards in-game right now. And you know they probably won't add duels without some kind of ratio/achievement.

Why would people win trade duels if there is no rewards?

Now I know you're either not reading carefully or really misconstruing my points. I brought up WD win trades because it's not difficult for people not interested in PvP ranks to be over a certain rank (for your proposed rank restriction) simply getting free marks/points from the challenge log.

Heck, they could literally just slap Duels behind Friend Requests and I'd be fine with that

Literally the only reasonable thing I've gotten from you so far, since-

I only really want to 1v1 friends to pass the time anyway.