Unspoken rules of dueling

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  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    My Golden Rules of Dueling:

    Do weird stuff. Use skills you don't normally use. Jump around. Generally, give the opponent every opportunity to easily win. I've never taken duels seriously. It's not PvP and doesn't really help much in learning how to PK.

    Duels don't matter. Do anything you want in them.

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  • GohRaL - Sanctuary
    GohRaL - Sanctuary Posts: 883 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Michael_Dark - Lost City wrote: »
    My Golden Rules of Dueling:

    Do weird stuff. Use skills you don't normally use. Jump around. Generally, give the opponent every opportunity to easily win. I've never taken duels seriously. It's not PvP and doesn't really help much in learning how to PK.

    Duels don't matter. Do anything you want in them.

    b:victory



    Yeah duels and pvp cant really be compared, especially if said rules (no heals nor genie) are stated.

    But you can learn from duels, you can learn your enemy strategy sometimes.



    If i duel a person and i managed to get used on how he rolls, next time we met on pvp ground ill have a lil advantage.

    This only applies to person using the character and not the class itself.
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  • Michael_Dark - Lost City
    Michael_Dark - Lost City Posts: 9,091 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    GohRaL - Sanctuary wrote: »
    But you can learn from duels, you can learn your enemy strategy sometimes.

    A duel is a lot like PvP with training wheels. I'll help you learn, but a lot of really good dueling tactics will leave you vulnerable and get you killed in PvP.
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  • _Perses_ - Lost City
    _Perses_ - Lost City Posts: 1,917 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Benefit of duels? To allow people to try out skills or gain chi in dungeons if they can't find a mob or NPC to punch

    Downside? They in no way represent PK of the current times :(
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  • GohRaL - Sanctuary
    GohRaL - Sanctuary Posts: 883 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Michael_Dark - Lost City wrote: »
    A duel is a lot like PvP with training wheels. I'll help you learn, but a lot of really good dueling tactics will leave you vulnerable and get you killed in PvP.


    But if you "harcore" duel the only difference from 1vs1 pk is the charm and some skills effect like reflects


    I know anyway that duels not rapresent much pvp, but im talking about strategy based on people, not charaters
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  • Enkrypted_ - Raging Tide
    Enkrypted_ - Raging Tide Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Kemonomimi - Momaganon wrote: »
    I use everything i have in duels: genies, pets, pots, skills. No rules for me, i duel to win.

    This

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  • WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary
    WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary Posts: 1,686 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I hate dueling because of all the arbitrary rules that I'm somehow supposed to know and keep track of.

    On the few occasions I've accepted a duel from a stranger my strategy is to run/jump/fly away and chuckle at all the complaining and trash-talking about my cowardice. Then when the timer runs out I insist it was because we're so evenly matched in skill.
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  • Yami_ - Dreamweaver
    Yami_ - Dreamweaver Posts: 225 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    The only rule for me about duel is, against sacer don't let him start the battle with 10.000 heals casted before, I think that this is cheat, but like Michael spoke: duels are for you have fun.
  • _Ink_ - Raging Tide
    _Ink_ - Raging Tide Posts: 400 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Kemonomimi - Momaganon wrote: »
    I use everything i have in duels: genies, pets, pots, skills. No rules for me, i duel to win.

    This. Some people go "LOL You used a pot!" after dueling me, using that as the reason why they lost against a veno. I have the pots for a reason, to keep me alive. I don't care what I'm doing, that's their job and it's what I will use them for. If other people are too stupid to use pots/genies/stuns/whatever then that's their problem. It's like sins QQing when they send me a random duel and I cast bramble then feral concentration and let them off their self against bramble. Not my fault they don't have the sense to wait for Feral to wear off.
  • X_Rays - Sanctuary
    X_Rays - Sanctuary Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    Dueling transcends winning and losing. I see beauty in a duel between two BMs with spears trying to avoid each other's stuns using leaps; whereas in PK, this beauty is lost to an epileptic seizure of fisting.
  • Yamiino - Heavens Tear
    Yamiino - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,031 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    I think the only thing that duels are usefull for is to plot against a pker, while in duel, the pker will not tick his charm aka fast death.

    /win b:chuckle

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  • Maiyr - Lost City
    Maiyr - Lost City Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    _Ink_ - Raging Tide wrote: »
    This. Some people go "LOL You used a pot!" after dueling me, using that as the reason why they lost against a veno. I have the pots for a reason, to keep me alive. I don't care what I'm doing, that's their job and it's what I will use them for. If other people are too stupid to use pots/genies/stuns/whatever then that's their problem. It's like sins QQing when they send me a random duel and I cast bramble then feral concentration and let them off their self against bramble. Not my fault they don't have the sense to wait for Feral to wear off.

    i feel pots and genies only delay the inevitable....and a waste of coins/time. if this person outclasses me, he will kill me regardless only takes abit longer.
  • Maiyr - Lost City
    Maiyr - Lost City Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited October 2011
    X_Rays - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Dueling transcends winning and losing. I see beauty in a duel between two BMs with spears trying to avoid each other's stuns using leaps; whereas in PK, this beauty is lost to an epileptic seizure of fisting.

    i kinda like your analogy, indeed dueling is all abt countering ur opponents moves and trying to get the upperhand. Pk is more brutal tho yet more realstic, as long as your target is dead everything goes...no waiting for chi to be full....cooldowns to be up etc.

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