Guild Wars 2

Never, ever have actually got to face a single player head on without someone interrupting. This is wvw in smaller groups. Not only that, I almost never see warriors, necros or guardians. You know what I see? Either nothing, or clones. Yeah, I’m talking about horse kitten thieves and mesmers. How is this even fair? As a warrior myself I can never kill a mesmer and if I can, it takes me WAY too long. Clones EVERYWHERE, when they’re down they make even more clones of themselves? Not fun whatsoever, in fact, it’s a very poor class implementation. Aside from the support skills they have, the massive amount of images they can produce is broken. Thieves? I’d fight one of these any day over a mesmer…but still..almost 100% invisible in fights. Pop-attack-invis repeat. Oh and they can finish you when you’re down while being invisible, that’s fair.
Don’t get me wrong, whenever I can find a thief alone, his kitten is gone but when he’s in a pack? Yeah. Anyway, I hope others understand where I’m coming from. At least make a game setting that balances the class ratio so we don’t have full mesmer/thief team vs necro and war team-just happened and we got murdered. And for the love of padre, put in duels.

rant over/

Not sure if topic = duels, or topic = thief and mesmer rant.

Wait until you see how much fun it is to 1v1 triple cantrip eles, any good engineer, and trap rangers – my warrior friend. Thieves and Mesmers will just be another worry.

If we’re talking about adding a ‘duel’ option on portrait in the mists only, hell-to-the-yeah. That’s just going to bring people into the mists – WvW players, an occasional PvE player and sPvP players galore.

Structured 1v1 game content though, please god no.

Structured 1v1 content.. shudderr.. never.. please..
Duel option might be fun for a while..
Seems like you only play hotjoins friend, may I suggest queing up for a free tournament alone or with some friends?

Hotjoins shouldn’t be considered pvp.. they should disable 8v8 after rank 10.

People want to 1v1 outside spvp, forget about structured duels, that doesnt even make sense in WoW where they do allow you to duel your friends.

I see alot of players, and even devs (J sharp) talking about how pvp is actually better than people think in terms of balance, but the playerbase is just lacking in skill/understanding of how to deal with specific classes and specs. The shorthand for this is “L2P”.

Allowing duels would go A LONG way towards educating the playerbase. “Hey, guild, I was wondering if there are any theives free to dual with me and help me figure out how to deal with theives in spvp. Point out to me what to look for in animations and common tactics I should learn to anticipate.”

Trying to L2P from hotjoin is like trying to learn to drive from destruction derby.