Guild Wars 2

I wonder, when are we going to get an option to challenge another player to a duel without cumbersome process of going into an empty battleground?
There are a lot of folks hanging around in the Mists, I bet a lot of them would enjoy some battle in such a casual setting. Apart from that duels were always the best way to learn to fight another class, apart from playing that class of course. Please, Anet, make it happen, the game has being around for some time, what is worse though it was hailed as PvP oriented too, and well… where is it?

Why do you assume PvP oriented means there will be dueling? How familiar with GW1 are you? Because a lot of people come here thinking theres some generic template for PvP because they’ve never broken away from WoW. Its not gw1, its not WoW. If you’re upset at the pvp because theres no duel button you are in the wrong place.

You want to duel? Go into an empty server.

EaGrimdarK.7849:

Why do you assume PvP oriented means there will be dueling? How familiar with GW1 are you? Because a lot of people come here thinking theres some generic template for PvP because they’ve never broken away from WoW. Its not gw1, its not WoW. If you’re upset at the pvp because theres no duel button you are in the wrong place.

You want to duel? Go into an empty server.

^^^Fanboy. True, I come from WoW background and I still think duels were fun and good way to spend time and socialize, they foster community feel, give us duels.

Duels should have shipped with this game. How can you learn to counter in a 1v1 if you can’t practice? Hell, if they aren’t going to give us a LFG tool they could at least let us duel in the meantime.

You can practice by joining empty 5v5 rooms together. Once in awhile you get other people in the game with you, but it’s not really that frequent.

spvp maps are the only way but its frustrating having our duels interrupted by people that want to play conquest

plus im sure they dont like being yelled at for joining a dueling server and killing someone in the middle of a fight

also I for one would like to fight my friends in the open world too, with my hard-earned exotic skins and using my racial abilities, thats not possible in spvp

we need a proper dueling system

EaGrimdarK.7849:

Why do you assume PvP oriented means there will be dueling? How familiar with GW1 are you? Because a lot of people come here thinking theres some generic template for PvP because they’ve never broken away from WoW. Its not gw1, its not WoW. If you’re upset at the pvp because theres no duel button you are in the wrong place.

You want to duel? Go into an empty server.

My favorite game lacks a vital feature common in other mmorpgs… and that’s a good thing because it makes my game unique!

That’s so horrible, it’s like saying “this is not dota2, if you want to have replays in this game then use LoLreplay!” So we have to settle with the lack of a feature and use a non optimal, temporary fix to the problem because this is not “some other game”. And you seem to be proud of that too.

It just doesn’t make any sense.

you can’t call this a pvp game without dueling. its a joke.

Duels would be nice for training and for having fun, because everytime there are ppl joining your server and interrupting you.

+1 for duel system in an arena

I personally don’t feel that duels should be introduced mostly because of kids and angry people wanting to duel all the time when you might have a build that supports or works with your team to do more dps or heals. like in wow you will get people thinking there pro because they can 1vs1 a support guardian. things like that don’t happen as much in gw2 which I think makes it a better game.

exoutlaw.8106:

I personally don’t feel that duels should be introduced mostly because of kids and angry people wanting to duel all the time when you might have a build that supports or works with your team to do more dps or heals. like in wow you will get people thinking there pro because they can 1vs1 a support guardian. things like that don’t happen as much in gw2 which I think makes it a better game.

What? they happen all the time the ego is central to human progression we all have one how we flaunt it is up to the person. I know gaurdians, mesmers, rangers, engis and tons of other classes that flaunt their skills like no other from the sheer fact that they had a semi good Spvp game, that they aren’t dying in WvW, that they went threw a dungeon without a death, that they spammed the 2 button and killed somebody, etc.

Dueling will just add a simple layer of fun that doesn’t even need much work. It will add to the social experience of running into a random player around the world and due to scaling will allow 80s to duel 10s even though they will definitely be outmatched. Its that feeling of running into a random he throws down a duel flag you accept. The fight goes threw and the winner is declared then a convo is started you socialize with the person you just dueled and maybe make a friend out if it. See it’s adding to the social experience this will also allow you to pick off those annoying players who you don’t like and block them on the spot making a better social experience for the player again.

Dueling is a feature tons of mmo players have grown fond of and it just feels right in an mmo setting. So much so that people have taken it up to change how dueling works or to add to the dueling concept by making special duels, party duels(party vs party), dueling spectating, etc they know players love to duel and they want to give them more options on how they do it. They know that it adds to the social experience so the want to bring more players around to the duel to watch or participate in the fun. They also know that players like the open world it, in a lot of cases, is more interesting to the player than the small pvp maps provided. Firefall is the perfect case it allows Party dueling yet still has small enclosed pvp maps for players who want a map designed around 5v5 combat(and a more competitive environment for pvp) or if players just want to fight in the open world(and who are more about just having fun and blowing up their friends).

People run lots of builds that don’t specialize in 1v1 as it’s primarily a team oriented game. I can see that a lot of these people do not want to be harrassed with duel requests. That being said, I don’t see any reason not to add dueling – maybe in certain areas only, maybe with a per-player option to turn off the ability for other players to attempt to duel you. It’s annoying when you actually want to join a server and play conquest only to find the server being taken up by people dueling…. I’m sure it’s annoying on the other end too.

Ayestes.1273:

You can practice by joining empty 5v5 rooms together. Once in awhile you get other people in the game with you, but it’s not really that frequent.

This is a hassle. Right click → duel is what the people want.

Leadfoot.9071:

People run lots of builds that don’t specialize in 1v1 as it’s primarily a team oriented game. I can see that a lot of these people do not want to be harrassed with duel requests. That being said, I don’t see any reason not to add dueling – maybe in certain areas only, maybe with a per-player option to turn off the ability for other players to attempt to duel you. It’s annoying when you actually want to join a server and play conquest only to find the server being taken up by people dueling…. I’m sure it’s annoying on the other end too.

Give an option to block duel requests from non-party members and you’re set.

kodesh.2851:

Ayestes.1273:

You can practice by joining empty 5v5 rooms together. Once in awhile you get other people in the game with you, but it’s not really that frequent.

This is a hassle. Right click -> duel is what the people want.

I never said it wasn’t a hassle. I’m saying there is a work around in the meantime. It’s been said before by the devs that this is on their agenda. It’s only a matter of time.