Request: City Dueling Areas with Aetherial Wells, No Bounties, and Seats

tsaescishoeshiner · November 15

Just a request for a dueling area in some cities. It would take a few features to draw people:

An open, mostly flat area with no or few line-of-sight obstacles.
No witnesses so that Necros and Vampires can duel.
Convenient location within sight of wayshrines/traders/Undaunted Enclaves so that people wander over and naturally gather.
A recovery resource like Aetherial Wells from housing, or potions on a table that fill or drain your ult and resources. It's not so much that this is NEEDED for duels, just that it'll draw people in if the spot is good anyway.
A slight boundary between dueling area and a place to watch (doesn't need much, since current dueling spots have no special furniture).

On PC NA, this could just be an improvement to existing duel areas like outside Stormhaven Undaunted Enclave. I'd say it could be near the Battlegrounds daily quest, but I think those are too far away in many towns (and the witnesses would have to be disabled).

IMO, it really does have to be hyper-convenient to where people already chill, otherwise I think people just won't show up, like with Hammerdeath Arena (which is otherwise cool, just too far). For example, people duel in Rimmen near the wayshrine and traders most days, and it's a spontaneous spot where new people join in and meet one another, but there are witnesses there, so the guards usually get involved.

An official spot would be nice because in Vivec City, I've had to duel on these random islands lol:

For example, maybe the area behind the Battlegrounds tent could be nice.

Erickson9610 · November 15

It'd be cool to get some dedicated spots for dueling, especially if Aetherial Wells are provided! It would give more options, rather than taking existing options away.

I'd like to see a larger dueling format too, like a free for all between all the grouped players, to make better use of a larger arena. Of course, there's nothing wrong with two or three separate pairs of players dueling in those arenas.

kevkj · November 15

Adding Aetherial Wells to an overland location will be devastating for the game's finances, and they will only be able to afford to add 5 world bosses and 5 delves in the next chapter.

Metafae · November 15

When they released dueling, they also added an area in Stormhaven that was intended for people to use as a dueling space.

Unfortunately, they forgot to add a wayshrine and it's not exactly close to any existing ones. Ironically, it's not too far from the unofficial dueling spot outside the stormhaven undaunted enclave.

As a result of this, no one is ever there, and no one will be, but they at least put some NPC's there to cheer at the non-existant duels.

ApoAlaia · November 15

An aetherial well within convenient distance of a wayshrine?

I don't see that happening within my lifetime.

'Back in my day school was uphill... both ways!' seems to be integral to the design philosophy of the current development team.