A thought on dueling

[Masquerade]

I'm not against dueling, but I myself never really saw the appeal to it.
In DC Universe Online dueling was a big deal to a lot of people. It was more for bragging rights than anything else.
Most of it happened in the Hall Of Doom which was the safe-space HQ.
Some duelers would get tricky. If they sent you a duel invite, and you declined, he/she would follow you around tell you started using the broker, bank or mailbox and then send the invite again, with the hopes that you will accidentally hit accept while you are distracted thinking you are clicking on something in your bank or w/e.

I never partook. Kept my game settings to an automatic ignore dueling invites. When reading the chatbox, the same people who were always in there doing nothing but dueling, seemed to be keeping a list of who they have fought and beat. So every now and then I would get followed around and taunted by someone trying to get me to duel them. My level was maxed, good gear, good mods, lot of Achievement Points. If they ever raided with me they knew I almost always topped the DPS chart. Taunting just never really got me heated. If anything I thought it was funny. Lot of conversations went like...

Dueler: Why won't you duel me? You scared?
Me: Terrified.
Dueler: Thought so, Because you know I will win.
Me: I know you will. I'm thinking about switching to World Of Warcraft just so I don't run into you again. Your just too strong.
Dueler: Your a noob.
Me: Even less. I am more of "noo" iv not even earned the letter "b" at the end of the word yet.

lol it really annoyed them they could not scratch my name off their victory list. And by instead of me getting upset by their taunts, I was laughing at them. So by not dueling, I was winning. XD