Please also drop potions buffs (even if untested, I can imagine that there is something forgotten..)

I am going to say that Dueling in Towns should be disabled.

There are plenty of good places to congregate just outside City Gates. You don't need to stand at the Wayshrine or Kiosks and do your Duels. In fact, ZOS could add some things to an area to encourage it. Like say a merchant for repairs. And some statics.

Just keep it out of the towns.

Nestor wrote: »

I am going to say that Dueling in Towns should be disabled.

There are plenty of good places to congregate just outside City Gates. You don't need to stand at the Wayshrine or Kiosks and do your Duels. In fact, ZOS could add some things to an area to encourage it. Like say a merchant for repairs. And some statics.

Just keep it out of the towns.

I disagree. Disallowing certain player interactions based on because "there's 'better' places to duel" or because "you don't need to duel where you want to duel" hardly counts as an argument.

I personally like the ability to duel anywhere in the game. It adds a whole new level of liveliness to the game and makes my game much more immersive.

Dominoid wrote: »

Dueling in towns should not be allowed or illegal incurring a high bounty and making guards attack you instantly.

Participating in duels in towns should be a requirement. If you don't, you should be permabanned. Why? Because I say so. These arguments for wanting to restrict game features such as dueling within cities are petty at best or in most cases...lacking entirely.

Morbash wrote: »

I disagree. Disallowing certain player interactions based on because "there's 'better' places to duel" or because "you don't need to duel where you want to duel" hardly counts as an argument.

I personally like the ability to duel anywhere in the game. It adds a whole new level of liveliness to the game and makes my game much more immersive.

I was not stating an argument, I was stating a conclusion and offering an alternative.

Here is my argument.

I will have to wade through a bunch of players dueling to conduct business or craft or turn in quests. So my Immersion goes out the Window? The Immersion I have had for the last 3 years? I am just saying, walk a few steps before you wack each other over the head.

And, I never said there are better places, I said there are plenty of good places just outside of city gates. You can't use your own words and attribute them to me to make your argument.

JR_Returns wrote: »

OK so dueling isn't my thing but I respect that for other people it's an important addition to the game,

Dueling Requests
I've set my character to auto decline however I'm constantly getting "Request Declined" popping up in the top left of my screen. It's really annoying, could you please do something about this, any of the following be acceptable.
1. Stop it popping up.
2. Block other players from making the request in the first place.
3. Allow a player to decline with a suitably gracious message, such as "Thank you, but I'm not interested" or in my case
"NO, F*** Off".

Dueling Locations
At the moment I'm by the wayshrine in Belkarth, Craglorn and it's like the 3rd world war. You can't even go into the enchanters and make glyphs without fireballs flying past your ear. I know dueling is a new thing and people are excited but dueling shouldn't be allowed in towns. This will certainly ruin the game for me if it isn't changed, after all there is a big open world out there for them to duel in..

I agree with JR, I enjoyed the duelling today so so much, but Craglorn was insane, and I could not even walk to the bank without people asking me to duel, which would have been fine if I were not busy and set up to heal because I was getting ready to try out a new dungeon with my friends, it was pretty annoying.... I don't think that duelling in towns was the best idea. There are many places in game that would be far more suitable for this. And @JR_Returns may not wish to duel, but he accepted my duel request, and beat me Such a fun night, despite the chaos

Is it too much to ask that duels load into a short phased mode so ppl can duel whenever and wherever they want without potentially disrupting others?

It's just a small radius for a few secs. Maybe that can phase them out of our sights.

It's not an issue on PTS but on live in certain places, I can see this being a benefit to all.

Make it fun with random locations like sitting atop those platforms we can reach in the starter town of Ald Dominion.

Fighting with constellations in the background
Even an anchor background, Cyrodil, etc.

My point in all this is this load would also reset ultimates, etc without messing with what was pending pre-the duel. It prevents buffs from being applied that shouldn't and prevents ppl from hitting NPCs by accident. Even perhaps in front of each king or queue in their castle courtyards like Street fighter or something.


I know this is a lot but hey why not. A lot of ppl want duels and a lot of others don't want to see them in towns. Have fun with this idea....maybe even do some DLC add-on for dueling and arena locations when you as that. And a duel spot in housing and for guilds.

flintstone wrote: »

I watched a bit of it going on in town.....fun to watch. It strikes me as very one sided though, pvp players with pvp armor and skills looking for a sucker pve build to destroy (pve builds don't stand a chance). Probably a good ego booster for people with pvp builds that aren't very good at pvp (-:

Of course it's early, and this is something new and fun. It will be interesting to watch how it plays out (I like it so far!)

I don't expect it will last in towns?

The difference between PvP and PvE builds is crazy in dueling! I've noticed a lot of high Alliance ranked players sporting Volunteer title lol.

SantieClaws wrote: »

Ah a duelling thread. Good good.

Khajiit will link the videos she took earlier for those who have not yet been able to experience these in the game.



This one she found them most entertaining to watch but wonders if they might be disruptive to the activities of others?

Perhaps an arena or two in the wilderness where people may go if they choose - perhaps even a scenic ruin of the right shape - and where Khajiit can find a ready supply of popcorn and booze yes?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Edit: This one would also note that it is not uncommon for the game to freeze and for this one to get booted out of Tamriel whist she is watching the duels. A couple of the videos they show this. Especially the 5th one which this one is uploading now.

My name is Wrecking Blow Spam but damn those people took it to a whole new level. There's more than 1 skill move lol.

I don't PVP much but watching two tank/heal builds duelling each other was the most hilarious (and sad) thing to watch. Neither could get the other's health below 50% or so.

May I suggest a time limit for duels? Like 5 minutes or so? If the time runs out it's a draw. So as to prevent any infinitely long fights.

Mojmir wrote: »

but see it goes both ways, maybe I don't want to see rp emoting when I'm doing what I want to do? BTW it isn't just pvp'rs dueling. Dueling can be just as much a part of rp if you incorporate it. People have been spamming skills since day one,that's not going to stop anytime soon, lag wont stop either if your already experiencing it.

So you're comparing a silent 2seconds emote with a noisy 15meter wide and possibly 15 minutes long duel ???
If it isn't PvPers duelling, who is it then ? Butterflies ?
Spamming skills has drastically reduced since the introduction of guards who could be hit.
And last but not least, RPers don't need and never needed a duelling system to mimic a duel.