Guild Wars 2

I don’t want it, I don’t want any part of it. Make sure there is an auto-decline option

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+1 here

Would love go toe to toe with some mates for kittens n giggles

agree and i support the idea sometimes i want to try my pvp skill against real players not some brainless npcs

So looking at all the complaining, most people say “WELL THEY’LL FLOOD MY CHAT BOX!!!” Ok, first there’s block, then there’s auto-decline. Next people say “THEY’LL BE FLOODING THE BANKS”, now I doubt anyone would want to duel in a bank, generally duelers duel in open areas but even so I doubt Arenanet if they were to add this, would allow it inside banks. Other than that you guys have no argument whatsoever. I think this could be a great addition to GW2, perhaps even add rewards/achievements from dueling. Maybe even add an arena pvp system in arena’s like this one I found in the black citadel. It would make a perfect place to just have dueling competitions. For rewards, achievements, and whatever else they may want to add.

I was rather surprised the game didn’t ship with one.

I add my desire to see this feature.

+1 I love dueling to try my hand with a new build.

totally agree this is a must.

cannibaljim.9315:

I was rather surprised the game didn’t ship with one.

I add my desire to see this feature.

I thought the same thing, I wondered why the game didn’t release with some kind of dueling option. Most people(complainers) are saying “ITS BECAUSE ARENANET DOESNT WANT DUELERS SPAMMING MY CHATBOX!!!” and I addressed this in another post above.

always… DUEL DUEL DUEL

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robinsiebler.3801:

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I don’t know what you mean. Lolz

Batlav.6318:

agree and i support the idea sometimes i want to try my pvp skill against real players not some brainless npcs

Yea another thing that this would add is not only for RPers this would be nice, but for PvPers I mean.. we all have to test our builds against dummy golems. Lol. Being able to actually test against real players would make it much better and much more fun.

The LZ.7891:

After that, see through white walls light up. Not high walls, just
ones that mark the area and these walls then make it so that players can’t be
pushed outside the arena and no one else can enter while the duel
is on. It MAY also balance things a little, if for example it’s a thief
vs some other class, as the thief won’t have been able to get too far
away with stealth. Needs some thought.

I’m afraid I must disagree with you there. Or they must at the least, cover a whole lot of ground. Please do consider the fact that not everyone focuses on melee combat. Take for example the ranger. One of their longbow abilities without a recharge, does more damage, the farther the target is away from you. So kiting an opponent and gaining a suitable distance is vital for such a person.

Alright so I’m going to do a little summary here based on the feedback that I have been given in this thread. People want this to not influence their story or the world around them, therefore it should be added in only particular area’s like this screenshot I posted. This to me solves all those issues everyone seems to have with an Ingame Dueling Option. There are arena’s like this outside Lionsarch, In the Black Citadel and I know there are more but I can’t name them at the moment. If I do find them I will screenshot them and post them here. Another thing that should be added if ingame dueling is to be added, is some kind of reward or achievement for dueling. Some people have posted about “wager matches” something like that would be cool, we don’t have to do that part of thinking for arenanet though. They will come up with something awesome I’m sure. Thank you for your support and your time reading my thread. Any further replies would be appreciated, we need all the support we can get.

Now think about the dueling option, and think about more possibilities. Instead of just “challenging for a duel” Arenanet could do so much more with this. Arena PvP is what I had in mind, where you do 1v1s, 2v2s, and 3v3s for like I said earlier, achievements and rewards. Right now I think that the game is kind of based off of whoever has the most people attacking you at once wins. Even sPvP you have to travel in groups or you die. Now that if you think about it in depth is not really adequate skill-based pvp. That’s where arena pvp would come in. There is the idea, Arenanet can think up the rest.

Agree this should be added in game ASAP. But instead of making it /duel or rightclick and request duel it should be meet me in X arena where we can duel 1v1 and have spectator mode.
OR
have it so in each major city there is a large pvp arena where you sign up to duel. the first group get in the ring while everyone can stand around to watch. after the winner the next two dualists can go 1v1.

Just release this feature please

scala.1670:

Agree this should be added in game ASAP. But instead of making it /duel or rightclick and request duel it should be meet me in X arena where we can duel 1v1 and have spectator mode.
OR
have it so in each major city there is a large pvp arena where you sign up to duel. the first group get in the ring while everyone can stand around to watch. after the winner the next two dualists can go 1v1.

Just release this feature please

I agree with you, I think it could be so much more if they had certain “zones” like I said above.. rewards and arena pvp etc.

any news from arenanet team?

Read reports from your in game log in screen they have already stated that they are adding in a dueling feature.

I’d love to see 1 vs 1 arena matches!
Anywhere EXCEPT Lion’s Arch actually: the other cities and lower level zones are pretty empty, everyone’s either in LA, WvW, PvP lobby or doing dungeons!
So give this honour to the Black Citadel (perhaps even Hoelbrak, Divinity’s Reach and Rata Sum?) and “hot spots” in lower level zones. This could encourage players to revisit those zones or cities!

Why not the pvp lobby? First off, as I said, it’s one of things that contribute to emptier areas. Secondly putting it in the PvE world allows other people to watch, being spectators to the match. Maybe even add in a lil’ gamble system so you can bet on the player you think would win!

Brewergamer.8357:

A dueling option should indeed be added into the game.

That would be great, or even something to do by interacting with other players such as while waiting outside an dungeon, example;
Outside COF for example, people could also be duelling or some other type of interaction.
= Expand the interaction , → Think back of what knights did in their spare time.
So its like there,in the spare time you could go gather herbs or iron ore or whatever but then you have to go somewhere else and your doing something really new.

But with something like duelling your in the same spot and interacting with another live player, interacting with another live player is very fun.

Thank You.

i really wish i could just duel somebody tbh

lol at post

Pandemoniac.4739

If it does get added, I’d like to see it done in arenas like the one in the Black Citadel. That way the folks that are interested in dueling can find each other, and I don’t have to deal with folks dueling in the streets.

that just made me thank of Angery Gammer Joe’s Review of Sonic Free Riders
Joe: If I see one more person compare these boards to the sacred hover board from back to the future I will fight you in the streets

But the accept dual feature is the kea word I think

Ultramatum.5162:

I whole heartedly agree.

Thumbs up for dueling. And inspecting.

I see nothing against dueling, as long as one can turn off duel requests. And I would love for the home nations to have more activities like Rei Hino said in the Black Citadel Arena. However inspecting is a bit different. Some people, (especially those running high level Fractals Of The Mists runs) generally are asking for high quality armor and Agony resistance. Basically if they allowed inspecting many people would simply kick a person for not having good armor which is rude and uninviting to casual players.

Agreed.

Tired of people using sPvP for this.

YES! Pleaseeee add 1v1’s, 2v2’s, 3v3’s, and 4v4’s. That would make this game so much more fun.

Duelign in specified areas of the towns would not only increase populations in towns, but keep the chaos and spamming away from people trying to conduct commerce. Each town could have it’s own area:
Black Citadel- Arena Pit, I mean, c’mon….
Grove- Pick a spot on the bottom floor, it’s pretty open and not much to do down there, most of the commerce is on the 2nd (sub) floor plus you have water you could incoorporate
Holebrak- the Great Lodge, right around that big kitten tooth
Rata Sum- This one might be tricky due to limited space, might have to either do it in one of the labs on the ground outside the city or council chambers up top.
Divinity’s Reach- This clusterkitten of a city…welll…idk I hate the place myself, maybe someone else can think of a good spot in it to do it. Maybe around that gigantic automated orchestra
Lion’s Arch- The little red arena that we all know is a kickback to the Anet symbol (down on the beach behind the fort), would make for an interesting, close quarters combat arena and require some pretty intense tactics.

Yes dueling/party pvp and checking gear ftw!

So if I want to duel another player, I’m going to need to:

1. Find a person, go to the mists, then take them to a PvP server with 0 people in it
2. Create a private server (in the future) and then go through the same process as above
3. Organize with other servers on the forums to meet in WvW
4. Hope to find a group of random players dueling in WvW

This isn’t fair AT ALL. Add an option to block duel requests in the menu for the people who don’t like duels, and give us PvPers the option to duel where and when we want to!

Costume brawl was a big thing in Guild Wars 1, that was done every Christmas and it was quite popular. Guild Wars 1 never had “duels” although you could 1v1 people in your Guild Hall with a scrimmage.

I think Anet puts in stuff like this because it fits in better with the Guild Wars series. If you didn’t play Guild Wars 1, naturally, you wouldn’t know about the history of the costume brawl.

Does anyone seriously prefer having costume brawls over duels? Duels are a huge part of MMOs….

Actually yes. There are people who don’t like dueling at all. Every time you see a post about duels, there’s a bunch of people who like it and a bunch of people who don’t. I’m one of the people who wouldn’t personally care if there was ever a dueling option, but I recognize the fact that other people like it, so as long as it can be implemented where I don’t have to get continually interupted by dueling requests, I’d be happy.

On the other hand, I quite like the free for all that is the costume brawl. It’s meaningless, harmless fun that you don’t enter unless you choose to.

I didn’t like getting duel-spammed in Goldshire any more than anyone else, but a little pit people could fight in in Lion’s Arch or something would be cool.

RebelYell.7132:

I didn’t like getting duel-spammed in Goldshire any more than anyone else, but a little pit people could fight in in Lion’s Arch or something would be cool.

Would fit the lore more than costume brawls. I wouldn’t mind to go watch some duels in the fighting pits. Hey Anet!! there’s your esport.

Edit: Nevermind, I retract my earlier statements. Just seeing a couple of the pro duel replies reminded me of the types of players who want them.

No Walking.6349:

Costume Brawls (something that nobody does outside of when they have to for dailies) was added before duels…..

What was anet thinking exactly?

I hate duels. I hate the duel system in most MMOs. I have blocked so many annoying “duelists” in other MMOs just for this.

Costume brawls are voluntary. You “suit” up and go. It’s a blast to me because it’s not a bunch of little morons running around asking for duals to ppl that just don’t care to. Almost irritates me as much as the old gold moochers did.

I’m not a big “dueler.” Usually only used it in other games to maybe test out something with a friend. And personally I really enjoy Costume Brawl, though I also enjoyed it in GW1 as well. Mostly because it is meaningless and pretty much pure no-harm fun.

As far as the option. I think it should exist. Should be an option in the Mists or something. They have plenty of ways to implement it I would imagine though. Just put it somewhere where we don’t see ppl dueling all the time in the streets.

killcannon.2576:

RebelYell.7132:

I didn’t like getting duel-spammed in Goldshire any more than anyone else, but a little pit people could fight in in Lion’s Arch or something would be cool.

Would fit the lore more than costume brawls.

never mind…I see the point

Vayne.8563:

Costume brawl was a big thing in Guild Wars 1, that was done every Christmas and it was quite popular. Guild Wars 1 never had “duels” although you could 1v1 people in your Guild Hall with a scrimmage.

I think Anet puts in stuff like this because it fits in better with the Guild Wars series. If you didn’t play Guild Wars 1, naturally, you wouldn’t know about the history of the costume brawl.

EYEROLL so you think some costume brawls are more important that duels? Guild wars 2 is nothing like Guild wars 1 from what ive heard and hoesnt dont we have enough “fun” things in game. Duels are accualy something, costum brawls are just joke imo…

BadHabitZz.1856:

Vayne.8563:

Costume brawl was a big thing in Guild Wars 1, that was done every Christmas and it was quite popular. Guild Wars 1 never had “duels” although you could 1v1 people in your Guild Hall with a scrimmage.

I think Anet puts in stuff like this because it fits in better with the Guild Wars series. If you didn’t play Guild Wars 1, naturally, you wouldn’t know about the history of the costume brawl.

EYEROLL so you think some costume brawls are more important that duels? Guild wars 2 is nothing like Guild wars 1 from what ive heard and hoesnt dont we have enough “fun” things in game. Duels are accualy something, costum brawls are just joke imo…

Actually no, I didn’t say that costume brawls were more important than duels. Nor can you find any place where I even implied it. I simply said that the costume brawl existed in Guild Wars 1, and it was very popular.

Duels are actually something? The Costume Brawl is a joke?

I guess that’s one way of looking at it.

When the custom servers in the mists get added you will be able to make a 1v1 probably.

I see spontaneous costume brawls often and as soon as one starts many people join in. Someone throws a cauldron and next thing you know it is a free for all dance party, fireworks, box of fun BRAWL with people zooming around naked on broomsticks.
It is always great fun and people love it.

I have yet to see anyone in game saying at a costume brawl- oh this is silly I wish we had duels. Or anywhere else but these boards for that matter.

Costume Brawl in GW1 was awesome. I don’t get the appeal of it in GW2…

Costume brawl is pretty fun and entirely non-competitive. It makes those silly town clothes worth something too. It’s also not dependent on duel requests which are an annoyance first and foremost.

Let’s face it, we never getting duels, or any other highly requested feature for that matter…

Arcanorum Ignis.9218:

Let’s face it, we never getting duels, or any other highly requested feature for that matter…

We’ve gotten several highly requested features, including a trading post preview for armor and dyes, and weapons..even drawn weapons. That was a highly requested feature that we got. Some people also requested some kind of gear progression and we got ascended gear and the fractals.

Hell, Anet wasn’t even going to launch with a walk feature, they said so, and because people complained about it they put it in. Same with eye color, which couldn’t be chosen in the original betas.

Saying that we’ll never get a highly requested feature isn’t really the truth. And we might not get dueling in the forum you like but I’m pretty sure that once the custom arenas come out, dueling with be available in them.

No Walking.6349:

Duels are a huge part of MMOs….

Naw, not really.

I don’t care for dueling, at all. I do put out a feast sometimes, even when it isn’t required for a daily, and people always join in, even if I am not partaking. I am pretty sure not everyone ‘hates’ costume brawls, and prefers dueling.

Most important thing they have to think of, if they ever implement duels, is an option to automatically deny them cause i don’t like duels, and i hate duel-spammers.

Added before duels!?!
We are not sure they want to add duels AT ALL.

And i think that is fine

Ok those of you who think this is the same system as in gw1 you’re wrong. gw1 brawling was proper pvp where all professions had a fixed builds it was a lot more fun the brawling system here make no sense you press 1 then it say boom , so what? its boring and no rewards its basically nothing like costume brawl in gw1. You had costumes like npcs and it was a own instance i loved the costume brawl there i hate it here its not the same thing not even close.