I am really not a big fan of pvp where something depends on anyone but yourself. Why is it hard for blizzard to make some dueling zone where people can just duel and hang out instead of city gates?
Put there an NPC that will reset your cooldowns, disable fly mounts and stuff like “sp-eye-glass”, make few achievements for winning duels that reward with small cosmetic things. Or even more, put an NPC where anyone can make a bet on who will win a duel, so people gonna come there to make some money and fun and even produce some drama around it and will engage people into dueling community.
What we have now is a lot of people hanging outside of cities and wait 3-5 minutes to play one single duel. And the quality of duels is very low, because people abuse fly mounts to start/escape duel and other stupid stuff.
Let the players who dont enjoy pvp with healers or team pvp to have their part of fun in the game.
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Simple, on retail they don’t care.
On early SL sketches of main hub there was area for duels - room with three pillars, that never made to the first alpha.
During DF people asked about this and blizz on NA forum replied that they can’t find a good spot in the dragon city for that.
And since in open world alot of PvP auras and modificators sometimes doesn’t work, I bet blizz doesn’t really care about open world pvp of any form.
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Seems like this. Well, what to expect from small indie company, here is your shuffle, here is your blitz with 1 hour queue times, here is your “open world” with 0 content in it, have fun playing with yourself. Sad that game degraded to this.
I doubt that duels right now even worth it, since some tier sets of classes in duels doesn’t have pvp modifiers so they do full PvE damage to you.
Thing is, even PvP dummy doesn’t apply PvP modifiers, since my damage to dummy from spell is 1.2m, even with ~30-35% vers damage reduction of target should be around 15-17%, yet in instanced PvP that spell only deals 180k damage.
With little balance patches we had right now and with AWC around the corner I doubt that any PvP changes will get to life servers till the end of october or november. And we will be lucky if we even had those, since 3rd season is last for TWW.
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Nobody cares about dueling anymore. Ret palas win 1on 1 anyway.
Even without Rets on the picture, 1v1 is just dead mode because there is too much wrong with classes.
It is not even that dead, there are a lot of players dueling outside of storm/orgri on outland/ravencrest/twisting nether/stormscale cluster every evening.
Sometimes there are even small dueling tournaments hosted by someone on arena.
And if duel zone exists it shouls be one shard for all realms. It can possibly gather duelists from all servers and engage people into it, because 1v1 is fun despite it is unbalanced.
Dalaran does that, but his PvP duels only highlight the ridiculousness of PvP balance in most cases.
I doubt that blizzard right now is even have events like this in their heads.
Official tournament must have rules like no tanks, healers for obvious reasons - and this will create precedent of Blizzard banning certain roles from the official tournament or event.
Duels as an idea is not bad, but it is not even good for idea because duel tournament on the official level would only highlight the meta classes and spark new waves of Meta fluids.
Before all of this, we need a concrete balance for the classes or concrete balance patch cycles where we won’t have long periods without balance patches.
Which the same few classes win every time. Go play Classic if you want to duel.
So, you are saying duels are bad because of lack of balance, and then you are sending me to play far worse balanced version of wow? Lol
No one is even playing duels outside of cities in classic versions
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But i never asked for any duel tournament. I know that small indie company cant do them properly. just duel zone where you can reset cd, have fun, make some drama and just hang out with pvp players from all servers.