Duel to the Death is more immersive and needs to be added in retail

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Much to my excitement I discovered that players in Classic Hardcore are now able to settle their scores permanently, in the good old-fashioned way. And while in Hardcore this adds an additional sense of finality considering that you only get one chance per character, it would still be a pretty good feature in retail despite the more casual state of the current game. Three main reasons for this:

  1. Immersion. Friendly duels are always welcome but some people feel a greater sense of completion when the duels are actually lethal.
  2. Roleplay. RP isn’t all about writing long emotes or sitting on a bench in Stormwind and /ignoring everyone who attempts to communicate with you. RP can be creative, RP can be unpredictable and most importantly, RP can be fun. RP servers will become much more alive and exciting if bypassers can get to witness two feuding noblemen settling their scores in a fencing/pistol duel.
  3. Fun. The most important reason of all, and the only thing we should be looking for in-game. I really want duels, after all I’m quite literally dressed to kill.

Duels are fun. Except if you’re the Marquis de Gramont.

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Nah. The place to kill people is the arena. Duels are meant as practice, sparring.

If anything, your change would make dueling outside of Orgrimmar/Stormwind very annoying, having to run back there as a ghost every time.

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Well it is a bit of a drag to kindly ask your rival to accompany you to the other end of the map now isn’t it?

And as I said, friendly duels are always welcome, nobody would force you into a deadly duel. If you don’t want it just hit “Decline”.

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It could be fun in a “PvP Brawler’s Guild” setting where spectators could bet on the survivor.

But then it would be forbidden in Belgium because of gambling laws.

Belgium is an annoying country.

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You only get this with Hardcore where death is the end.

On Retail all death adds is a minor irritation and a repair bill. You ghost run back to your corpse and you’re back to where you were.

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your haircut is very bad, please change

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I don’t see the appeal of perma death myself. I’m not sure there would be much point in Retail u less it got hardcore version too.

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Lost me when you said that.

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You would thrive on a hardcore PVP server in Everquest …
You even be able to loot the corpse of the other player to take his gold and items…
I only played on those servers once…never again…/shiver
They might have change the perma death but i think the loot hold and items still exsists

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I got that reference.

But no, keep the Duel to Death to Hardcore Classic.

Imagine the BS experience of a new player not knowing that is meant literal and engaging with another (potentially higher geared) player in one, only to learn they can never play their char ever again…

UNLESS…

Blizzard changes the formula and it isn’t a “Duel to the Death” but rather a “Duel of Superiority”.

If you lose, you can never again engage with that person in a duel and are bound forever to have lost to that person. And all players around you will see and hear it due to text/audio-cues.

That would be a fair way to implement it without too much gameplay downsides.

Blizzard could also add a bet-system for that which requires both players to bet a custom amount of gold (it has to be 1:1 the same as the other participants bet). Whoever wins, gets all the money.

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leave hardcore in crapstic where it belongs

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Reminds me of duels back in the day. People that claim to love them were the kind of players that stood all day in Durotar spamming everyone with duel requests.

Not everyone actually. Rather mostly classes and specs they had the upper hand on or lower-geared players.

Have your fun is classic with it, i don’t mind. But retail is not tailored with perma-death in mind, so it would not work, imho.

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