Quote Originally Posted by Sanghelios View Post
Its not hard, its simply not possible to balance 1:1 without nerfing every class to hell and beyond.
Okay, see, that's just thinking too narrowly.
To say it's not possible to balance it without just making the classes unplayable is just silly.
Here's what I propose, instead of being ridiculous and limiting duels to people of the same class:
Put out whatever nerfs/buffs would be needed to properly balance 1 v 1 combat so that each class is on somewhat equal footing. You know, whatever it takes to make it fair and fun against each class.
Then, instead of putting out the adjustments like you normally would, put them in a status effect.
Whenever two people accept a duel, have the game give them this status effect, which will properly adjust their class to the specified stats to make it fair.
Also make it so that if somebody clicks off their status effect, they immediately forfeit the duel, just so people can't click it off and go to their normal stats mid-fight.
Once the duel is over, the status effect will vanish and their stats will return to normal.
This will let them rework the jobs and make 1 v 1 combat fair and enjoyable without affecting any other aspects of the game.
This lets people who don't want to duel keep their stats the way they like by keeping SE from having to roll out stat changes just to accommodate duels.
People who want duels get their duels, and people who don't want to duel are left wholly unaffected.