Guild Wars 2

Dear a-net, I have no idea if this has been requested before, so I’m just hoping I’m not posting a duplicate thread.
Me & several friends would very much like to duel eachother, which at the moment is terribly hard to do. We’ll ask nicely in map chat in the pvp maps, go to lobbys that have no players in them,.. but every time, people will join a map that has only 2 players in them… and we’ll have to try again elsewhere.

Would it be possible to allow us to duel in the Heart of the Mists? That would be a large area with very few players in it currently, where we could duel without bothering anyone.

here is a few topics on the subject

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Just-add-Dueling-already
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Duels-The-reason-why

there have been many more that I cant find..

many many people want this..

the band aide fix the community came up with to use the empty servers creates a problem from people entering..
I know for a fact these people do not intend to go into a room with only 2 people in.. all they are doing is hitting the “play now” button and that will take them to the “dueling servers” every time..

I had to stop using “play now” after getting ported to the same dueling server 4 times in a row you tend to just give up on it.. and just manually join one..

so as it stands our band aide annoys the people dueling and the people looking for spvp rooms..

please add this vital feature…

This game is not balanced enough for dueling, this is not a vital feature at all. Classes still have bugs that render many builds useless. It would not be fair to the community to implement dueling before they fix the necessities.

King James.2659:

This game is not balanced enough for dueling, this is not a vital feature at all. Classes still have bugs that render many builds useless. It would not be fair to the community to implement dueling before they fix the necessities.

balance has nothing to do with training against professions you have problems with..

when the bunker ele build first showed itself I had all kinds of problems beating them..

then i went into a dueling server with 3 ele’s by chance.. stuck around abit dueled them all.. and by the end of it.. I could beat them..

so your “This game is not balanced enough for dueling” comment does not hold for me..

this would help people learn their profession and teach them to take down others..

not to mention the quality of life fix it would create by not having “dueling servers” that I get ported to every time I hit the play now button..

King James.2659:

This game is not balanced enough for dueling, this is not a vital feature at all. Classes still have bugs that render many builds useless. It would not be fair to the community to implement dueling before they fix the necessities.

Nobody puts a gun to your head and force you to duel. Also, every class can make a few dueling specs, which aren’t “underpowered” (at least from my experience). Many builds might be considered useless, because they are about supporting team. It’s like, you want to eat soup, but you don’t want to give up your fork.