DEV REQUEST:DUEL/SPAR system

[Enkidoh]

How about that time in the MSQ where Hoary Boulder literally challenged us to a duel?

Still a boss fight, but the point is that the precedent has been set in the MSQ. People Duel in Eorzea.

Sorry to jump back to this, but this quest (and the level 5 FATE in Central Thanalan 'Something to Prove' where a failed adventurer challenges you to a 'duel'), actually do not prove one on one duelling can fit into ARR's lore - in fact, it proves the opposite. Hoary Boulder and Coultunet challenge you to that duel because you are more than just a lowly adventurer like they are, you are the Warrior of Light, the Champion of Eorzea - they aspire to be like you (like many npc adventurers) and want to test their mettle against you (and are soon put in their place), admitting they have a lot of training to get to your level. Unlike you, they are not special, they do not even have the Echo apparently, but have the resolve to make Eorzea a better place by following in your footsteps. Put simply, beating other adventurers up 'for the lulz' is simply beneath someone of your talents.

The FATE though is a little different - the npc in that was stated as being at the other end of the spectrum, a failed adventurer who had been constantly knocked back membership at various Guilds, and became so depressed, in a misguided attempt to rebuild her shatter sense of worth, she resorted to challenging other adventurers to duels, which was little more than picking fights with them, an act that the FATE description naturally didn't seem to treat too kindly. Meaning duelling between adventurers is actually regarded as being shameful in Eorzea.

Hence, for both these lore reasons, 1x1 PvP simply does not fit story wise - your character is too far up on the moral high ground to lower themselves to beating up more average adventurers simply to flout said strength. Or at least, that's what it seems to me.