Guild Wars 2

Had this idea after hearing reasonable complaints when a duel or even a friendly convo between 2 enemies was interrupted by other players or even a zerg.

What if you could select the enemy, right click on his portrait and pick “Challenge for duel”. You get a red flag next to you (like the evon / kiel icon), the enemy gets a yellow flag. If he does the same to you, he gets a red flag too. It means you both agreed to a duel. It could be hotbindable, to quickly press a key and challenge one enemy among a group. Everyone would see the red and yellow icons and it would be clear who is challenging who.

This is seen by all around. It gives no benefits, it’s purely visual, and is removed once you go past certain range, like 1500 from one another.

This would give people a visual indication that these people are in a duel and don’t wish to be interrupted. You can still ignore it and zerg them of course.

One could also add another option to ‘Converse with enemy’. It would give white flags to both of you as long as you stay close to each other. Again, it’s just a visual indicator you two are talking cross server, while standing in the field – for whatever reason. It happens sometimes.

This shouldn’t be hard to implement, can’t be abused in any way, and has no disadvantages to speak of, yet would be very handy.

man, i read that too fast and thought it said evel knievel icon, and ended up with the mental image of an asura wearing a jumpsuit with a flag cape jumping a motorcycle over one of the walls of SM and crashing in a ball of flame, and was gonna say WE NEED THIS!

then i reread it and saw that it was about icons for dueling, and am less enthusiastic. however, if it gave them jumpsuits, flag capes and there were balls of flames, then my overly enthusiastic response would stand. as it stands, it’s in the “it could be fun and handy for some people” category. so i guess i’m for it.

conversing would be less likely though, because they wouldn’t want it used for trolling/griefing, which already happens a lot as it is.

A lot of duelers I know find people on the forums or guest to other server to find people who are up for dueling. They have a ton of people on their friends list who are willing and able duelers from many different servers and just /w them and invite them to a party. that way you can track them down in WVW really easy, and you don’t have to rely on the “known” dueling spots that are frequently interrupted by other players/zergs.

Another option would be to have a private SPVP lobby where you can duel to your heart’s content without fear of interruption. That way, you can either use party chat (unless that was “fixed”) or /w to communicate if you need/want to.

The options you laid out just simply aren’t that great for people who are looking to duel. It essentially flags you for griefers, and you would probably see more interruptions than you do now just for that reason.