I was thinking this as well, great idea. One format i thought of is the 1m gold challenge - each player chooses a character and gears him/herself for 1m gold, then duels away (best of 5?). There are thousands of fun formats to be honest (white weapons only, blue weapons only, naked, same char duels, etc.), so maybe every week can be a different format as well.

I enjoy the contests, I'd really like to see something unique that gives everyone a shot. Level 1 duels? Blue items only?

Im looking forward to bashing all your Heads in ! DUELL!LL!LL!!11

EDIT: Sorry for that. :)
I was just getting exited as I´ve waited for simple Duels in D3 since the game was announced.
The amount of PVP usable stuff I posess is less than I would like it to be, but I´d like a challenge once in a while. Im sure to join a tournament when there is one. Tournament over two weeks sounds good to me. Im already dusting off my Shields. MaxBlock on Shield is what? :)

All sorts of things to do.

Capping equip money is tough and annoying.

I say bring your best and 4 man freeforall it.

Also 4 4 man freeforalls for big money.

I would love to watch good fights if the fighting were intense and intelligent like SC2.

Posted by DHAdmin at 01/12/2013 04:32 PM

It just sucks you can't spectate, would make watching a 2v2 hard to do. Where as 1v1 I could easily enter and watch them fight.

2v2 would be really interesting since you will damage your team mate...

It just sucks you can't spectate, would make watching a 2v2 hard to do. Where as 1v1 I could easily enter and watch them fight.

I agree, I guess it comes down to trusting the players to report match results. IMO, 4 player free for all doesn't seem viable for tournaments due to teaming up and stuff like that.

Well its possible to have 4 player FFA work for tournament matches. Basically you have two from one bracket and two people from another bracket enter and one team battles while the other watches to ensure accurate reporting of the winner. Then the winner of that first match and observe the second.

Hopefully they actually add a native way to create tournament ladders and set rules like no friendly damage.

We could start off with a 4 week tournament.
1v1 BUT in a 2v2 arena. The contestants battle while the "witnesses" stay in a corner. They don't need to watch they just need to verify who won.

Prior to ladder starting, all participants put in a set amount of money and then the ladder is locked. Everyday 1 match according to a ladder set up by this site's admins with people advancing and being eliminated accordingly. The only prize is for the last match in which the winner gets 80% of the prize and the loser gets 20%.

Screen shot also would serve as proof for victory. Winners post SS when match completed.

Oh and I'd suggest not stretching it out over 4 week period. I'd say play and report when you can and give people a day to play their match. Longer a tourney drags on the less interest.

+1 on the 1 million gold challenge.

takes more skill vs the regular "who has larger e-penis" FFA with your current gear

I am thinking FFA for 4 person =) ... the one recording and streaming will be in there too and he can intervened as well as be killed : D , he is sorta a sudden death factor lol ....

I'm down. Hopefully Blizzard does some damage scaling or these duels could be pretty dumb.

Imagine a guy who hits for 200k dps. 4000 armor and 400 resist will give you about 82% resistance from damage, so you take 18% of 200k. So you still take about 36k damage per second. A 200k dps monk with 4 seconds of invincibility and seven sided strike would be very difficult to beat.

one thing we gotta take into account is the time difference for some folks who are overseas (@eastdragon and @gnawol, did i get that one right?) come to mind

did they announce any more details about pvp?

Posted by DHAdmin at 01/12/2013 04:32 PM

It just sucks you can't spectate, would make watching a 2v2 hard to do. Where as 1v1 I could easily enter and watch them fight.

Honor System, or Ears depending on how that works.

I think that you could have the tournament fights change from month to month, and have different rules and restrictions to them.

Thanks Koj! Very much looking forward to it!!

Posted by shniggies at 01/14/2013 12:49 PM

one thing we gotta take into account is the time difference for some folks who are overseas (@eastdragon and @gnawol, did i get that one right?) come to mind

did they announce any more details about pvp?

Looks good to me ;-) I won't be participating in PvP, i cashed out on my monk right after i quit, all i currently have on my account is a terrible Barb, also PvP isn't very interesting to me, would rather have some new content :-(

Either way, i will without a doubt be following the ladders/pvp duels here though, i'd like to see @Baldy get teabagged by @Khan .. (or vice versa) er, in the game of course...

Assuming there's a message when someone is killed, a 2v2 tournament could turn into a 1v1 2 per team. When the first player is KO'd the second player joins the action. A tag-team format seems like something Blizzard might be able to officially support via the use of portals.

I'm not sure @Metta is completely right, because 200k dps usually includes a boatload of CD. dps is nearly useless as a measure of damage in a dueling environment. A Monk with 200k dps is probably doing 80k about 50% of the time and 320k 50% of the time. Half of the hits are 57k damage (1-hit KO) and the other half are only 14k damage (3-4 hit KO). I think dueling is going to be First To Crit, not necessarily First To Hit.

Don't forget that Dodging avoids 100% of the damage. Every class has its own Invincibility skill, right? That may help balance.

That said, the metagame always seems to adjust itself. If everyone is doing 36k damage, then everyone gears up to 75k HP which will mean compromising dps output for most people lowering damage to 30k. Lower dps means life totals can go back down to 65k. But when life totals go down it will be advantageous to increase damage to 36k for 2-hit KOs. etc etc etc

@ecocd Tag team or huge battle royale action would be awesome! If blizz did that, it would make the game very appealing.

It would be sweet if they could somehow allow 8+ players per game, alluding to what @Khan posted above^, for a sweet ass battle royal.

@gnawol Hehehe. Teabag! Honestly, I can see a lot simultaneous deaths occurring until people get a lot of their defensive skills down pat. I'm going to assume the HC players will be more savvy regarding keeping themselves alive on PvP.

@Khan i'm not sure anyone would want to face this guy or this guy

These battles would be lengthy!

Blackthorne set, Stormshields, and Doombringers for the win!