ugh theres already a addon's that spam invite people to guilds. Now people wanna spam duels in major cities sigh get lv 10 press L go to cyrodil and go "Practice" on stragglers.

Duels, yes, yes please!!!

My brother and I wanted to duel, adn when we find out it was not possible, I think it was the last nail in the coffin for him and he signed off. Too bad as the game is really nice, but perhaps he wasn't so much into ESO anyways.

I say no to duels. It doesn't add anything to the game, and, like 20-40 man raids which I also don't want ingame, breeds elitism. I also tire of constant invites in games with duels. And no I don't want to turn those invites off as that option is usually tied with other types of invites that I would like to receive, like quest grouping.

If you want to duel, find someone on another faction, agree to meet in an isolated place in Cyrodil, then duel.

Options and choices... They are very important in an mmo. I say add the duals, add the arenas, and add some raids. If people don't want to do them, then they should have plenty of other content to choose from in the game.

I don't think it's "critical to the longevity and well-being of the game." That's a little overboard.

I don't mind if they have it though.

No.

As fun as it might sound, it only leads to problems. The classes in this game are balanced around "complimenting" each other and not "competing" with each other. As soon as you introduce dueling, you introduce complaints and calls for nerfs and/or buffs. Just imagine having duels and discovering that no other class could beat a sorcerer, for example. Or, that DK's were severely gimped versus the other classes. You don't think people would be crying all over the message boards.

So, one of 2 things would happen. 1) Classes would be rebalanced for duels, impacting the rest of the game, or 2) people would stop playing the "weak" classes and start playing the "strong" classes.

You mean like in every MMO released since the beginning of the internet ?! We certainly wouldn't want that to happen.

and look at the biblical flood of complaints that washed over their forums whining about how one class isn't perfectably able to outmatch another. we don't need or want that.

I'd rather have more content than pointless fixes to soothe crybabies.

Na its def not needed, not need to waist devtime. Its far more importand thing to work on.

Doesn't matter.

Instead of seeing whines like "So I was dueling this and he totally owned me. Nerf!", you will see "So I was in Cyrodiil and I attacked this and he totally wrecked me. Nerf!".

Lack of duels will not put a dent in the whines, it will just be one less basic MMO feature, and we know what happens to MMOs who think they are too cool for school. *cough*swtor*cough*

I'm really scared of balance too. I'd rather the community live in ignorance because someone might post on a forum somewhere.

I'm also going to need a citation for "the classes in this game are not designed to compete against each other".

"dur"

I don't see any long term point in duels.

From what I've witnessed in other MMO's, it's just something extra for people to wave their epeens in your face, or to burn time when there's nothing to do.

You could argue that it's 'practice', but there's no better practice than getting stuck into the war in Cyrodiil, where you'll be facing 100's of people anyway - except in cases where you might want to go hunting loners. Then you'll get your 'duel'.

Agreed(lol), some guys just can't see the whole picture.

Add Duels, yes. I don't care if it's before launch... Just add it in a near future that's all.

its almost impossible to get a balanced fight in cyrodiil. so I highly doubt that will happen, and when it does people will tell them to stop whining.

Arena's will ruin AVAVA and Cyrodiil I hope and pray they never add small group instanced PVP. As for duels they are a waste. People claim they are to test when in reality they are used to taunt and belittle players while puffing up someones online ego or persona. They have no practical value or use in a game. You have all of cyrodiil to find someone to fight why do you need to fight your own alliance? Because you can't taunt and smack talk the people in cyrodiil when/if you beat them.

Some people, myself included, will go out of their way to find small scale fights, preferably lots of 1v1s. So there will be plenty of situations that can cause whines.

I would also say "stop whining" to people whining about actual duels, as pvp is never based on 1v1 so your "stop whining" solution is very much applicable to duelists as well as people in mass fights.