1v1 Arena With MMR Leaderboard

SundarahFr3akinrican · May 21

They need to make a 1v1 and 2v2 arena.

Dueling is cool and community driven which is nice, but it also has issues. Like people switching all their skills and items just to fight specifically you. Also many players will stop dueling you if they dont like your build, so it just devolves into only DKs accepting duels against eachother so they can do their 15 min whip fests on eachother.

Arenas would also add a timer to the fights, making the super tanky builds less viable, if they make ties have no rewards or count as a loss.

CameraBeardThePirate · May 21

You'd need to limit builds somehow with limits to queue (think New World's stat based queue system) if you had a duel arena or you'd get people queueing in with troll tanks/with no intention to actually win a duel. It's the entire reason the dueling community places so many self restrictions on builds, and it's why most duel tournaments have rules out the wazoo.

Duels in ESO kinda stink 90% of the time. The game is balanced around group play, so most duels either stretch on endlessly or are over in 20 seconds or less.

Urzigurumash · May 21

But with a functioning MMR they wouldn't get far versus someone trying to win right? Troll Tanks would stay in the 0 win bracket.

SundarahFr3akinrican · May 21

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

You'd need to limit builds somehow with limits to queue (think New World's stat based queue system) if you had a duel arena or you'd get people queueing in with troll tanks/with no intention to actually win a duel. It's the entire reason the dueling community places so many self restrictions on builds, and it's why most duel tournaments have rules out the wazoo.

Duels in ESO kinda stink 90% of the time. The game is balanced around group play, so most duels either stretch on endlessly or are over in 20 seconds or less.

Yeah that's what i was trying to get at with adding a timer and giving no rewards for draws. Just examples. There's prolly better ideas, as long as the issue gets tackled.

SundarahFr3akinrican · May 21

Urzigurumash wrote: »

But with a functioning MMR they wouldn't get far versus someone trying to win right? Troll Tanks would stay in the 0 win bracket.

Please read the entire post. I mention that issue and give just a few examples of how to combat it. It would definitely be an issue that would need to be addressed. But adding a timer and making ties a loss would help push people a little bit more towards damage to secure a kill.

Edit: oh gotcha I misunderstood your message

Urzigurumash · May 21

SundarahFr3akinrican wrote: »

Urzigurumash wrote: »

But with a functioning MMR they wouldn't get far versus someone trying to win right? Troll Tanks would stay in the 0 win bracket.

Please read the entire post. I mention that issue and give just a few examples of how to combat it. It would definitely be an issue that would need to be addressed. But adding a timer and making ties a loss would help push people a little bit more towards damage to secure a kill.

Yeah I was responding to the second post. Troll Tanks would stay in the 0 win bracket in line with what you described.

Usureki · May 21

I think ESO PvP is in such a miserable state that adding anything PvP-related before fixing the (sub)class balancing would make zero sense. I wouldn't want to do 1v1 if some sweats are playing by a different ruleset, and currently the situation is similar with the DK nonsense. I've logged in after taking a 2 weeks break and played different games, only to be greeted with a whipspammer sweatlord in my first BG ereasing my arcanist with 34k hp, 30k armor holding block w/ 3 HoTs, burst heal and potion under 4 seconds. This is a very bad excuse of a game, 1v1 would be just another form of to represent how bad state the game is in as of now and how are DEVs ignoring or unable to balance the thing. Class Mastery is supposed to be the salvation until they take their 2 years of rewamping all classes one by one (bruh) but from what I saw on PTS, its like applying a cute medical plaster sticker on an arterial bleeding wound.

Urzigurumash · May 21

There's no MMR in Dueling hence the need for rules