-Okey, basically my idea, is that there in guild wars 2 should be some kind of dueling system. I have two different versions off the idea. I know there is this 1v1 thing you can do and thats fine, but my idea is a little different. It more reminds of the old wow system where you basically could duel anyone anywhere (except in the cities), and yes I know this game isn’t supposed to be like wow. So what I have come up with is that there could be like a certain place or territory where you could just simply challenge anyone on a duel, without having to do something or turn in tickets or whatever. Just a fun challenge between you and your friend. So the two versions is that you either could do it anywhere or in a specific country or area, aslong as you can use your noraml pve armor and do it in a “normal area”, not in the mists or any other arena related territory. There could even be events going on around and stuff like that so you could duel while waiting on a new event. Also with dueling anyone, I mean anyone so for example if I have a lvl 10 ranger I could duel a lvl 15 ranger, or a lvl 80 warrior or anything else.
-The rules in this dueling challenge could look something like this:
-The winner winns when the opponent reach 1 health in downed stance. (to prevent damaged armor, also after the duel both get like a invunerable buff for x seconds to prevent death)
-You are not allowed to run away to far from either the opponent or from where you started the duell. If you stay to far away for more than 5 seconds the duel will interrupt, and neither off them wins.
-There could be a surrender button to more quickly give up, or you could type /surrender to surrender.
-If a lower lvl character is about to duel with a higher lvl, the lower lvl character gets to choose whether he want to duel in his own lvl or do it in the same way as WvWvW works, that you both get to the higher lvled characters lvl and the lower lvled character gets some boosts in his/her stats. Traits, abilities and armor won’t be affected, so both still keep everything they got, which may cause the higher lvled character to get a slightly advantage, but thats fine.
-You can only participate in one duel at a time.
-Antispam, If somone want to duel with you and you decline there will be a cooldown before they can challenge you again. However if you decide to challenge him on a duel after that, the cooldown will then dissapear for him and he can challenge you again. -The duel will automatically get declined if the one that is getting challenged doesn’t respond in like 1 min, or lets say x min time. Getting declined in this way will cause the one that asked for the duel to get half the cooldown penalty.
-The cooldown penalty does only affect one player, so you are still able to challenge others on a duel while having cooldown penalty on an other player.
-Feel free to submit your own ideas on this part, and tell me if you think that I have missed some important rules or if you would like to change something.
-This is a very simple feature and does not require alot of work and changes to the game. I have waited on something like this since realise, and I know that I’m not alone about that. I have asked alot of people, some disagree but many atleast want some similar duel feature. I even asked a known streamer Dontain, that agreed and helped me to create this idea. However what can you loose on it, it’s not like you have to duel, it’s just a fun thing for the people who like that kind of pvp. There shouldn’t be any rewards or costs for doing this, except maybe achievement or something like that (It could also be like this, that both get some experience and that the one that wins gets like 2x more but still very small numbers, so you can’t boost in that way, for example the winner gets the same amount experience that he/she would have got if he/she would have killed a npc creature in his/her lvl, and the one that loose the duel get half the experience for a npc in his/her lvl). Well if u can even consider this idea I guess that last part is up to you. Also you could freely take ideas from this and put into something of your own, but this is what I came up with, and I hope that we can work something out.
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