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So, I resub to WoW yesterday out of boredom. Never played for longer than a month or two so I really can't say I know what is going on at any given point of time in this game. I log on, poke around with a quest or two and call it a day. Don't really care about battlegrounds, loot, instances, nor the games pvp system. WoW's a casual thing for me. Something to pass time.
Anyway, I reroll a n00b elf druid and set about my business of wasting a few hours. An hour or so passes before I start getting these duel requests from seemmingly the entire hive of elf-land. After the eighth or ninth one I give up and accept. A little bit into it the other guy runs off. I laugh and mosey off. To my misfortune, the same dude spots me again and pulls out another duel. *sigh*. So off we go again, except this time he starts yapping halfway through about how I'm a puss becuase I'm healing myself, and I'm a bad player... yadda yadda. Whatever. I defeat the guy and run off to continue my excursion into the log of quests I have.
So, before I go any further into WoW, what is standard etiquette for these goofy duels that everyone is so keen on throwing at me? Am I naughty for healing in a duel? And what puprose do these duels in WoW have other than whats appears to be just another form of weiner wavings and pissing contests?
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the etiquette is that it is considered rude to /duel somebody without even a small introduction like "hi! wanna duel?" before. same as for party invitation.
The good news is you must have hit a particularly bas streaks because in my experience i do get challenged sometimes, especially in lowbie areas, but after a decline or two, the guy just wander off.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
There is an auto-decline mod somewhere by the way
Dueling to me is just for fun. I've had my 52 rogue duel a 60 tier 2 warrior before. I knew full well that I was gonna get creamed but I had fun whittling him down to about 70% health.
If they spam duel requests that is actually a reportable offense. Usually though I would just put them on ignore if they wouldn't stop when I asked.