Guild Wars 2

It really bothered me in Swtor and it bothers me in this game as well. For some reason an easy feature like /duel is being taken out of MMOs.

I can’t get into PvP in these games because this is how I learned to fight other classes. In WoW you could go out and fight the same person over and over again and figure out how to get better at fight each class.

Now when you join a game and are fighting 4 or 5 people at the same time. I have no idea what any of the classes are doing or how to fight any of them which makes the learning curve much steeper and alot more frustrating IMO.

Yeah I wish they would put in a dueling colosseum in lions arch, where you can battle and spectate.

The problem is that people WILL demand 1v1 balance, which would require changing up the entire game.
The mesmer for example is a duelist by definition. They basically never lose 1 on 1 battles in sPvP. If dueling was introduced, people would complain, and we would have quite the mess on our hands.

Arenanet choose to balance for a group PvP game, so that’s what we get.

Yes please add dueling that would be so much more fun.

Flimzy.1837:

The problem is that people WILL demand 1v1 balance, which would require changing up the entire game.
The mesmer for example is a duelist by definition. They basically never lose 1 on 1 battles in sPvP. If dueling was introduced, people would complain, and we would have quite the mess on our hands.

Arenanet choose to balance for a group PvP game, so that’s what we get.

it’s the same with WoW. You can duel there so that is not the best reason IMO.

I would LOVE to be able to duel. The RP implications are fantastic.

And the quest to turn this game into wow continues.

Don’t feel bad for asking – it is probably on the cards. along with raids, inspect , gear score and add ons. Then everyone return to panda land happy that the threat of a game doing something different has been killed off.

It’s one of those things coming _Soon_™

It’ll be in the form of private pvp arenas where you can 1v1 or 2v2 or 1v3 or whatever, so a lot less constrained and contrived than /duel is in most games.

Swtor with no duels? what game did you play?

Flimzy.1837:

The problem is that people WILL demand 1v1 balance, which would require changing up the entire game.
The mesmer for example is a duelist by definition. They basically never lose 1 on 1 battles in sPvP. If dueling was introduced, people would complain, and we would have quite the mess on our hands.

Arenanet choose to balance for a group PvP game, so that’s what we get.

Thats just stupid, all characters are good, all have strength and weakness and i have beaten heaps of mesmers with a guardian, ranger, thief and engineer. people crying about balance just need to play better

Their is no reason this game can’t have duels out side cities/towns and in selected areas in cities.

Back when there was a stat plateau and exotics/legendaries were equivalent in strength, making exotics BiS, I was really hoping they would add dueling. Now that they have begun to add the gear treadmill, however, not so much.

As higher stats come out, it will become less about individual skill and more about who has the biggest numbers. That will imbalance dueling something terrible, and you’ll just end up with a bunch of well geared but unskilled players lording their victories over the less geared players.

Tolmos.8395:

Back when there was a stat plateau and exotics/legendaries were equivalent in strength, making exotics BiS, I was really hoping they would add dueling. Now that they have begun to add the gear treadmill, however, not so much.

As higher stats come out, it will become less about individual skill and more about who has the biggest numbers. That will imbalance dueling something terrible, and you’ll just end up with a bunch of well geared but unskilled players lording their victories over the less geared players.

you never have to worry about gear in GW2 pvp, and neither can you use gear as an excuse for losing

we all use the same vendors for gear and everything is free

we will have dueling (1v1, 2v2, or whatever you like) when they get private arenas into the game.

Like a gladiator match, people will Q while they spactate others fight 1v1 in a arena or just duels in every map

Luchifer.8026:

Like a gladiator match, people will Q while they spactate others fight 1v1 in a arena or just duels in every map

Yeah, spectator mode is another thing in the “iceberg” still in development along with private dueling arenas.

It’s a shame, but it seems they released about 6 months too soon.

mulch.2586:

Tolmos.8395:

Back when there was a stat plateau and exotics/legendaries were equivalent in strength, making exotics BiS, I was really hoping they would add dueling. Now that they have begun to add the gear treadmill, however, not so much.

As higher stats come out, it will become less about individual skill and more about who has the biggest numbers. That will imbalance dueling something terrible, and you’ll just end up with a bunch of well geared but unskilled players lording their victories over the less geared players.

you never have to worry about gear in GW2 pvp, and neither can you use gear as an excuse for losing

we all use the same vendors for gear and everything is free

we will have dueling (1v1, 2v2, or whatever you like) when they get private arenas into the game.

Oh, I thought he meant open world Dueling, as in like I see Bob the Ranger in Divinity’s Reach, click him and type /duel and proceed to beat the crap out of him.

Because then people will cry about 1v1 balance. Just my guess.

Funset.7893:

Because then people will cry about 1v1 balance. Just my guess.

People already do this, you must not play a thief

Gwartham Haldane.8459:

Funset.7893:

Because then people will cry about 1v1 balance. Just my guess.

People already do this, you must not play a thief

Yes, I am aware, but if they introduce duels in any form, the cry on the forums will be x100.

The answer to the OP question is quite simple.
Because luckily, this game, unlike other MMOs, isnt balanced around 1v1