Imma just say it, would make me get into pvp honestly if they introduced a 1v1, would also be great for learning the toolkits of each class as you could focus solely on that.
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Yeah, it would. For two weeks.
1v1 doesn’t exist because classes such as Rogue, Monk and Druid will run behind pillars and reset the fight over and over again while slowly healing back to full HP.
This would be extremely toxic and infuriating.
There goes Coffee through my nose
Why not separate ladders for each class? 1v1 but its queue that matching only Hunter vs Hunter, Rogue vs Rogue, Lock vs Lock, etc. And maybe some system which makes the two guys even in gear and everything. They should just fight and see which one is more skillful.
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That normally happens in Goldshire, not duels.
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It’s called duels. And it was in the gameworld, usually outside Orgrimmar, Stormwind and Ironforge.
It was super fun and social until Blizzard tore server communities asunder.
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People would expect it to be balanced, which is impossible even for small scale arena based PvP, let alone 1v1.
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Yup duels also were way to learn own class or certain matchups by dueling friends or ppl of class you wanted practise against, all that is history atleast for me. Every class has been made into almost same now anyway so all do same thing, and all specs have so much cc and cds now that would find 1v1 tedious. I cant bother do 20min 1v1s x vs y or x vs dh that heal himself effortlessly through leech for 10min straight and the fight is just pointless. The game were never for 1v1 but now it would be even worse Im afraid. Well subjectionally boring atleast. I like when I press buttons and I see they have effect instead cd trade into pve dmg and then finding that gap when other has run out cd and you can do more dmg than he can, it would be boring in 1v1 for me.
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That’s true - even if the server community hadn’t been smashed into a thousand tiny rocks, it still wouldn’t be much fun for the simple reason that the classes aren’t that much fun to fight right now, which is of course why all types of PvP are failing, and it doesn’t fail to amuse me that Blizzard thinks that adding a new BG and doing solo rated BG’s will fix it.
And it’s exactly like you say. it doesn’t feel like there’s much strategy - cooldowns are massively impactful while resource management is completely out the window, and controls are super short but super easy to use, and always on CD’s, so you just weave them into the PvE’ing for truly horrendously annoying micro-CC.
Though to be fair to them, solo rated BG’s should’ve arrived before arenas did, so there’s that.
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Yeah, entire df pvp has felt like endless cd trade and stacking modifiers and there are too many imo. The impact of cds is rly noticeable in SS when you have that “0-6 guy” in your team that keep die every round who doesnt press buttons in correct time. It can be that he doesnt disrupt go’s with his dozen cc or that doesnt pre defensives when some dmg is telegraphed. I would not even try play the current design without auras and addons and the games really hard for me to read even with them but thats another topic, theres just too much everything and 1v1 would become tedious cause of it Im afraid.
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So just add rewards and rating to dueling then ?
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What about healing or tanking classes
You can already duel somebody to heart content outside orgrimmar or stormwind .why do you need a mode for it in game ?
For ranking and rewards.
And to skip the long search for 2v2 partner in LFG. Also to avoid toxic behavior 
cuz in 1v1 its all your faulth if you lose.
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Wasn’t there a 1v1 duellers guild in BFA? I kind of remember there being even an achievement with it.
Healers and tanks in 1v1 has always been frowned upon really, because they’ve largely been considered unfair and/or boring to fight. In the case of tanks they just couldn’t die and so inevitably whittled you down, while healers … well, same thing really.
Of course this doesn’t have to be a problem. If tanks couldn’t heal practically as much as a healer and healers could run OOM even in a 1v1 and DPS couldn’t heal themselves enough to offset all healer damage without themselves going OOM, all of this would clear up and all specs could participate without issue while retaining the unique qualities afforded by their role within the holy trinity.
But that way it is not, and that way it never has been - unfortunately. There have been exceptions. For example a Disc priest was really fun to fight in tBC, but yeah.
Gotta give that HAWK TUAH!
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Kinky, but why rouges specifically, you like being flexible or suprised?
The only way I can see a 1v1 scenario is that it works similar to plunderstorm, no levels, only a few skills, same hp and damage.
I would love rated 1v1 PVP. Don’t care about balancing. Nothing is balanced in Warcraft anyway.
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