A thought on dueling

[Kurogaea]

-snickers-
"Tank pops invincibiliy"
"DPS goes off to kill an innocent bystander DoH instead"
"DPS claims to have won the duel"

If that'd ever happen the dps is a clown. Its like a dps loses a fight to a whm and goes off to kill a monster and says he won the last victory. -_-

Also yes, as Griffin said, we find ways around it. Cant attack the tank, pop cooldowns to nullify stuns or slows and use sprint to keep a distance. Its pretty simple stuff.

[PArcher]

Please, you know there's going to be a ton of naked "dueling" on Balmung now...especially with Dragoons.



More on topic, I know several people who want to do this (myself included) just to BS around and have fun. Bets on matches will be had, some more balanced than others, some just for the heck of it. Another way to pass the time, do something different, and compete with friends.

If its popular enough, it could be expanded, for sure. Maybe an actual 1v1 tourney or something later on in the Colosseum (with proper 1v1 balancing) and stuff like that. But due to the way PvP skills work, it will only be available in designated areas, and currently that's only at the Pier.

[SaitoHajime]

If that'd ever happen the dps is a clown. Its like a dps loses a fight to a whm and goes off to kill a monster and says he won the last victory. -_-

Also yes, as Griffin said, we find ways around it. Cant attack the tank, pop cooldowns to nullify stuns or slows and use sprint to keep a distance. Its pretty simple stuff.

can just sprint after you or just start shield lobbing/axe throwing to keep dmg going. Even heal themselves up, minus drk.

[Ophie-Mio]

Hard to be a dueling healer when they've still taken away the cleric stance. >____> How fun is it to battle a healer or healer vs healer with no damage buffs?

[Evangela]

I want it to be available everywhere. Including sanctuary areas, residential areas, inside the estates and apartments, and during duty.

[aesteval]

I think you need to challenge a person to a duel and have that other person accept before both can fight. If so, open world PvP can be a thing and we won't have to worry about getting killed while crafting, gathering or afking.

Though whether or not such a system is possible for them, who knows, since the current system you have to be in the Dueling Square. Maybe they can expand it for more zones

We'd also need some sort of setting or system to prevent the option at times - ie: a way to block the pop up. The number of times I accidentally took a teleport because the pop up popped up while I was trying to do something else and accidentally clicked yes while trying to confirm something else. ;_;

[Kurogaea]

can just sprint after you or just start shield lobbing/axe throwing to keep dmg going. Even heal themselves up, minus drk.

Hmm...good point. I'm really not sure how Pld's healing spell works but hopefully they'll find some balances with dueling, thats if they actually care for PvP and not just throwing Dueling in from constant request.

[JumperX]

Duel 1vs1 is always about having fun more than the fight itself. Of course there are times that one will want to proof they Re better than other. In other games, healer did indeed got moments to shine. The excessive healing properties and the buffs they gave to themselves plus the 1-2 skills that wad mostly use to lure could kill in PvP if u knew how to gear/stats ur class.

[basketofseals]

I was hoping for the ability to duel for RP reasons, but limiting it to one spot way out of the way of everything kind of ruins that D:

[SaitoHajime]

Hmm...good point. I'm really not sure how Pld's healing spell works but hopefully they'll find some balances with dueling, thats if they actually care for PvP and not just throwing Dueling in from constant request.

you can get a good 2 off with full mp, a 3rd with Sheltron. with convi up you're looking at big heals, especially if even 1 crits