Duel Arena's

not a suggestion, i was just thinking about it, and i wonder what your opinions are. i think there should be a way to duel someone, 1 on 1, to see your true skills.

i think it would also be a good way of training ect...
maybe you could only go against people of your profession or something? hmm it would be intresting... whats your opinons on duels?

not a good idea, because it is a cooperative game and you don't see real capability of your character unless you are in a team.

maybe whould be good to have a duela arena for 2vs2 or 3vs3 but just in your guild hall where the team faced are only between players of your same guild just for trainin with no faction or experience for winners..

I think i've seen a similar post here somewhere anyway..so check "search button"

Has to be more than 1v1. Too easy to build a character that is unkillable by 99% of builds, resulting in a lame amount of stalemates/waiting matches.

so how about if you could only fight someone of your own prof?

Or a Duel arena that pits Profession vs Profession.
It would be irritating to go into a fight as an Elementalist and then find a Warrior/Monk charging at you with no teammates to help you out, so by having two people of the same Profession fighting, I think it would be fun.

*Imagines the wizard wars of two elementalists trying to outwit eachother*

Wow, imagine mesmer vs mesmer :\ that would be something i'd watch!

EDIT: Guy above beat me to it while i was typing

if you think farming griffons takes true skills... umm.... because thats the build thats going to dominate in a 1-1 duel type thing

farmin griffons isnt true skills, i know because i can do it, and its easy, plus i dont even have healing hands, and its still easy...

anyway i think a offensive w/mo would probally beat a defensive one.

I like the idea of 1vs1 arena. But as I've seen in other threads in other forums most of the community will poo pooh the idea. Most have preconceived notions of what this game should be. ignoring the fact that it is many things to many people.

I for one would enjoy the prospect of smacking the face of someone that is talking smack and challenge them to a duel. I disagree with the above poster that say's it would be too easy to build "one" build that would dominate others. I can see a myriad of builds that could "rock paper scissor" one another. I think it would be fun to wager money on such challenges.

I just honestly don't see how it could hurt to add the feature and I don't understand peoples desire to disallow it when they could accept it and simply not participate.

For example I think water ballet is a little whack. But I'm not trying to make a motion to disallow it from the summer olympics. Live and let Live.

Your Brother has Spoken.

I agree dueling would be super fun

I don't think dueling would work at all. Just think about the arenas. If there are two people left, there are only two possible results: one player dies almost instantly; an unbreakable stalemate is formed, either by one player constantly running, or by neither player being able to do enough damage to the other to end it.

And yes, this has been posted many many times, and normally, people are split about 50/50 on whether or not it would be good. I have a feeling that whatever people think, this isn't something that Anet is likely to put in place, because they have *never* put any emphasis on individual as opposed to group play.

Rico

What would be a better feature, and has been asked for for a very long time, is a section of a Guild Hall where you can fight your own guild - 1v1, 4v4, 8v8, whatever.

My Mo/W with holy wrath and an axe always duels 2 Palanoobs in the random arena and kills them, I only lose against 3 of them.

Yes i can be a Wa/Mo with holy wrath, but there barely is a monk to put it on to be the primary bait of the palanoobs.

Pointless as everyone's already said. It's impossible to make a damage oriented character that can outdamage monk healing, and if you make a shutdown character the damage ones will kill you.

It'd just be one big game of rock paper scissors, with no skill, just pure luck in hoping you get matched against the build you built yourself to beat.

Sigh.......................


No, I never want to see a 1 on 1 arena. The comp arena already breeds crap players who build for 1 on 1 matchups.

this topic has been discussed to death...

moderators, can you close this?

Sorry, meant to do something about this but was busy with other things.

There was a thread a few weeks ago discussing 1 v 1 Arenas in the Sardelac Sanitarium. The Sanitarium's not a bad place to discuss potential ideas. Here's the last thread:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=30883