Quote Originally Posted by Vaeria View Post
Thats EXACTLY WHY duelings been needed for so long..to find out said weaknesses of unbeatable job. Jobs only as good as the person playing it, and when youre able to observe patterns and actions of a given job more intimately under less intense conditions, you have a greater chance to pick up something useful against it. heaven knows healers can make use of this to get a feel for things under pressure. Melees can tighten up burst speed, etc. No I dont think itll be HUGELY popular (least not on NA/EU servers) but it definitely will have its uses training/researchwise.
I absolutely agree with your mindset and that it does present a good opportunity for learning/research (omg I can finally test blind? yay! yeah I know, maybe thats not what you meant xP). Thing is, 1v1 dueling is going to be radically different from 4v4. 4v4 Balance in this game, in my opinion, is actually pretty good (at least its a LOT better than people commonly make it out to be). But theres always gonna be people who, instead of learning, focus on blaming their failures on everything under the sun, not the least of which being "class xyz is overpowered". So now we have 1v1, which WILL be unbalanced (because no sane mmo developer would balance their pvp around 1v1) and people will just use that to further reinforce their beliefs.

Not saying that every complaint about class balance is without justification, by the way

Im just trying to point out the negative side xD And really all it amounts to is more QQ on the forums and bad players being bad. That aside, Im very excited for dueling \o/