Duels - new web game

[Peregrine]

I've been messing around with a new web game called Duels, it's very impressive so far, they've put a lot of work into it with graphics and so forth. Essentially the game is that you make a warrior with various stats, and duel other players and NPCs. As you do so, you get gold, experience, and tokens. There is also a lot of equipment you can buy. The equipment is set up a lot like World of Warcraft, there's various tiers that are color coded, and you need higher levels to be able to wield a lot of it. There's also a skill tree, also similar to WoW where you can advance your character each time he levels, and there are a few different trees to choose from.

The game is brand new and I really think they're going to put a lot of work into making it a great game. Their idea is to give you the character development of a MMORPG but without all the time invested. Up till now there has been tremendous lag on the servers but they've gotten rid of most of that as of today. There are still some bugs with their pack system (basically the tokens you earn from fighting you can use to buy packs, sort of like a CCG, that give you random, often good equipment, and scrolls to use during battles.)

It definitely looks like something people from FOFC could get into.

www.duels.com

[Peregrine]

Here's an example of one of the items in the game, there's a lot of detailed background and lore on a lot of the items. On the left you see my character, active challenges, how much gold I have, and so forth.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/krm123/duels.jpg

[lighthousekeeper]

http://www.duels.com/lighthousekeeper

[MJ4H]

http://www.duels.com/gorgonian

[Peregrine]

http://www.duels.com/anakh

[Peregrine]

You can avoid some rookie mistakes I made. You can only equip equipment with a total value of your current power or less, when you start you already have a knife equipped that costs 17, so at first you can only equip armor that costs 8 or less. Your power goes up when you level and starts ramping up fairly rapidly after level 5.

Make sure to do all the quests, you get a lot of easy experience and gold.

[Brillig]

Big downer I see is that it looks like you get a significant edge for paying them...

[KWhit]

I bought a couple of items and they never appeared on my loadout screen. The gold went away, but no items.

[KWhit]

http://www.duels.com/kwhit_i

[Brillig]

Heh, I at least read the instructions... but the armor I bought, while it should have been equipable, seems to have vanished into the ether...

[KWhit]

Same here, Brillig.

[Brillig]

KWhit - I can see the stuff I bought by going to the Avatar screen, then clicking the Equipment tab on the lower right. I just can't get it to show up on the loadout screen. Your stuff show up there?

[Brillig]

I'm getting annoyed by getting challenges from level 4 and 5 folks... F'in bottom feeders.

[KWhit]

KWhit - I can see the stuff I bought by going to the Avatar screen, then clicking the Equipment tab on the lower right. I just can't get it to show up on the loadout screen. Your stuff show up there?

Yep. Same deal.

[FrogMan]

I'm in and having the same kind of trouble as Kwhit and Brillig, bought some gloves for 6 gold, paid for them, see them in my equipment stuff in the avatar page but can't equip them in the loadout...

FM

[FrogMan]

hey guys, I logged out and logged back in and my gloves were there in the loadout...

FM

[Brillig]

Good tip. I also had to close my browser window...

[FrogMan]

You can avoid some rookie mistakes I made. You can only equip equipment with a total value of your current power or less, when you start you already have a knife equipped that costs 17, so at first you can only equip armor that costs 8 or less. Your power goes up when you level and starts ramping up fairly rapidly after level 5.

Make sure to do all the quests, you get a lot of easy experience and gold.

it's not only that costs up to your power, but you can't equip something with more power than your level...

See the gloves I bought only cost me 6 gold, but it's a 21 power. My little shitty sword is 17, so that would be 38, but I'm only allowed to equip to 30. Here's my first rookie mistake. :)

FM

[lighthousekeeper]

i'm logging in and out and still can't figure out how to see the equipment in my loadout...

[KWhit]

Me too.

[FrogMan]

log out, close the browser window, wait a few seconds, maybe a minute, then log back in a new window. Did it for me just now. I'm testing too many things without reading the rules though and I'm out of a usable weapon at the moment, oops. :)

FM

[Eaglesfan27]

I'm in as Eaglesfan27. I found my first piece of armor ok in my loadout screen and just equiped it. Doing the first quest now.

[CU Tiger]

as soon as you click the battle yyour rrecord changes yet you have to watch the stick man animation....

[Brillig]

No, you don't have to watch, just click on Battle on the left menu and set up your next fight. :)

[CU Tiger]

ok this is clunky finally bought a pack and now its not showing up grrrhhhh

BTW tiger in game

[Brillig]

Once you have a level or two, mass-skirmish the lowbies to build up tokens and easy xp....

[Brillig]

The stuff in the packs - lol, 114 power, heh.

[Eaglesfan27]

Kind of annoying that the game gives away the fight result by updating your record before the flash plays.

[sachmo71]

http://duels.com/hairy

[FrogMan]

The stuff in the packs - lol, 114 power, heh.

dang was happy to get a 49 power axe, I'm only 14 from being able to use it :)

FM

[Brillig]

http://duels.com/quoth

btw

[CU Tiger]

that about does it.
i clicked on the path screen and it said I was path of staff, I intended to follow sword and I cant change that

[FrogMan]

yeah, did the same thing. Guess I'll learn the staff then...

FM

[Brillig]

weaksauce, lighthousekeeper :)

[Brillig]

Anyone got a clue on the badge thing?

nm - it's broken.

[CU Tiger]

its going to make you sign up a friend...

[Crim]

This is a pretty fun time waster... has a one-more-turn feel to it.



GAH!!! What time is it?!?!?!?!?!?!

:eek:

[thealmighty]

I'm in as thealmighty. Lvl 7 so far.


If you challenge people, will it only battle if you are online or can they play it out after you log (I was having trouble getting battles so I challenged about 30 people before I logged.)?

[thealmighty]

dola...

Do you buy the 15g packs or save up for the 100g ones?

[Brillig]

Just a heads up - dual wield is way overpowered, it seems.

[Peregrine]

Kind of annoying that the game gives away the fight result by updating your record before the flash plays.


Yeah this is something they've said is on their list to fix.

[Peregrine]

I've noticed the issues with the loadout screen too, it seems like if you refresh the page while you're in loadout a few times, the items will appear.

[CU Tiger]

Well I hjust saved up and bought a 100 pack, opened it and it said it was already open.

Then it never showed up, no scrolls no new equip nothing....

this is addicting and frustrating.
kinda like watching asian porn in a straight jacket.

[Peregrine]

Yeah they are still working out some bugs in the pack system, before they fixed the lag it was horrible, you could almost never successfully buy a pack. Now they're mostly working on the bug you (and I) have experienced, pack opening bug. They say they've logged all these things and reimbursement will be coming at some point once they've fixed the issue.

[sabotai]

http://www.duels.com/sabotai_bagatur

[Draft Dodger]

http://www.duels.com/garth_the_butcher

[Peregrine]

From what I've seen so far, strength and stamina are a lot better than all the other statistics, at least at low levels. Maybe the others like speed and precision get more useful later on, but I'd say up to level 10 or so put all the points into strength and stamina.

[Brillig]

In case no one's figured it out, you can sell the stuff you get from packs that you don't want. Just go to the armory and find the listing for the item under the duels set, then click the sell link. It'll let you specify a price and away you go. There's also a list of the last five transactions to help you figure out a good price.

Better than just vendoring the stuff.

[Peregrine]

In addition, if you find an item you want but no one is selling, you can enter a "want to buy" price and someone might sell it to you later on.

[sabotai]

Maybe the others like speed and precision get more useful later on

I sure hope so since those are the two I've been focusing on. I'm 21-20, but I've been losing a lot more than winning in my last dozen fights or so. I think I'm going to keep going this route, though, just to see where it's taking me. (Not like this game is costing me money, so I feel free to just experiment.)

[Richard Weed]

http://www.duels.com/grundarior (http://www.duels.com/grundarior)

Dammit, why did I have to make my guy look exactly like Street Sweeper Arias?

[Peregrine]

I sure hope so since those are the two I've been focusing on. I'm 21-20, but I've been losing a lot more than winning in my last dozen fights or so. I think I'm going to keep going this route, though, just to see where it's taking me. (Not like this game is costing me money, so I feel free to just experiment.)


Well my experience was my first guy Anakh I scattered my points around, put a lot into INT since he's a Staff guy, and he is getting completely owned, with a record of about 50-105. I made a new guy who did just strength and stamina, and it's been night and day, he has a 25-11 record so far.

I think it's one of those things that's on their list, the stats need to be balanced at some point. Personally I haven't found it that bad to have a bad record, it means a lot of people challenge you and saves you the time to find so many people to challenge.

[Blade]

http://www.duels.com/torin

Having fun so far...definitely the one more turn feeling...

[Brillig]

Well my experience was my first guy Anakh I scattered my points around, put a lot into INT since he's a Staff guy, and he is getting completely owned, with a record of about 50-105. I made a new guy who did just strength and stamina, and it's been night and day, he has a 25-11 record so far.

I think it's one of those things that's on their list, the stats need to be balanced at some point. Personally I haven't found it that bad to have a bad record, it means a lot of people challenge you and saves you the time to find so many people to challenge.

How do you start a new duelist?

[Scoobz0202]

http://www.duels.com/buttercup

[Peregrine]

How do you start a new duelist?

Well you just have to register a different account with a different email address. I don't think they have it set up to run multiple guys on the same account.

[korme]

http://www.duels.com/sinister_vibes

[Peregrine]

By the way here are my other two guys, for ally lists or whatever.

http://www.duels.com/alain

http://www.duels.com/peregrine


Right now Alain is the top warrior in the 5-9 bracket.

[BYU 14]

this is addicting and frustrating.
kinda like watching asian porn in a straight jacket.

Classic

[Scoobz0202]

Somebody come and challege the almighty buttercup. Level 4.

[Schmidty]

I am Kelan.

[ntndeacon]

http://www.duels.com/deacon

[Eaglesfan27]

Well my experience was my first guy Anakh I scattered my points around, put a lot into INT since he's a Staff guy, and he is getting completely owned, with a record of about 50-105. I made a new guy who did just strength and stamina, and it's been night and day, he has a 25-11 record so far.

I think it's one of those things that's on their list, the stats need to be balanced at some point. Personally I haven't found it that bad to have a bad record, it means a lot of people challenge you and saves you the time to find so many people to challenge.

Maybe, I'm just lucky, but I've been doing well with a more balanced character. My speed and precision points seem to be helping me. Then again, I could be just getting lucky beating up guys with more HP's than me.

edit: http://www.duels.com/eaglesfan27

[Peregrine]

That's definitely possible. I think that the stats need balancing, but I think once that happens it's going to be really interesting to see what kind of different style fighters you can build.

[Eaglesfan27]

WOOT! My speed (or luck) just helped me beat a fellow level 3 guy who was 7-0 at that point :)

Edit: Just took out another guy who had 25 more HP's and was undefeated thanks to a critical! WOOT!

[Eaglesfan27]

Dola -

I remember someone in this thread ended up with path of the staff when they clicked on path of the sword. Has anyone managed to get path of the sword? I'm almost level 5 and I want to take the path of the sword, but I'll wait to level if this is a bug that they might fix soon.

[Peregrine]

Path of the Sword is no problem, I've gotten it fine on two characters. About 80% of the warriors in the game are Path of the Sword.

[Richard Weed]

I'm only level 3! I'll play the FOFC people but only if you put your screen name in the challenge like Shorty.

[CU Tiger]

heres a neat startegy piece.
just made level 11 it boosts your power up tp 200 (from like 140) So i pulled out the mamma hamma axe i got from a pack thats a 198 power, and put on some 2 power gloves...yeah I am undefeated so far with this strategy. usually takes 3 hits to kill level 10-11 opponents.

[Peregrine]

Yeah that definitely works, one of the balancing issues they will need to look at is at lower levels, the weapons are SO much better than the armor.

[NevStar]

www.duels.com/nevstar

I've spent way too long playing this today.

[Peregrine]

Heh Nevstar I've fought you a few times as Alain I think.

[Eaglesfan27]

Anyone else having trouble getting it to register the Luap Oaken quest as complete?

[Peregrine]

I didn't, did you actually skirmish him then duel him? If you just challenge him twice it doesn't work.

[Eaglesfan27]

Yeah, I skirmed him then did an official duel. Even cancelled and tried again. No dice. But, I just started getting all kinds of errors on there now. I'm guessing the servers are having issues again, so I just closed that window.

[ntndeacon]

I cant get the Luap Oaken quest completed either. I also lost a pack I won in a challenge that vanished into the ether

[Eaglesfan27]

I only planned on playing for 5 minutes tonight while I was watching the end of a show.. now I've been playing for 2 hours when I meant to play Civ 4 tonight. This game does have a nice one more turn feel to it, even though the challenges are slow right now. This is going to make slow days at work go much quicker if it works there. :)

[Eaglesfan27]

Is there a way to have people list you as a referral source when they join? I got a quest to earn a bronze badge of leadership and I'm not sure how to earn it, but it talks about bringing new fighters into the arena.

[Peregrine]

The badges aren't working yet, so just ignore that quest.

[Crim]

(Not like this game is costing me money, so I feel free to just experiment.)

OMG YOU HAVEN'"T BEEN BUYING NOBLESTONES???//??

[CU Tiger]

BTW another tip I just found the hard way.
If you challenge someeone to a duel and elect to use a scroll on them if they decline you lose the scroll and dont get it back.

[Schmidty]

17 - 42.

I think I might not be good at this game.

[Brillig]

Ah, found confirmation on the game forums. It seems that dual wield (presumably includes wands) is in fact seriously broken. Instead of getting 1/2 chance to hit and 1/2 damage, it seems the off hand is hitting for full rates.

So either get the dual wield ASAP, or get pwned a lot :)

[Eaglesfan27]

Ah, found confirmation on the game forums. It seems that dual wield (presumably includes wands) is in fact seriously broken. Instead of getting 1/2 chance to hit and 1/2 damage, it seems the off hand is hitting for full rates.

So either get the dual wield ASAP, or get pwned a lot :)

1 more level and I'll have it :)

[Mustang]

My character -

http://www.duels.com/gungalunga

[Izulde]

http://www.duels.com/izulde

[Izulde]

What does it mean when it says "Your avatar does not have the skill needed to use this item"?

I have more than enough power to use the damn thing.

[Brillig]

Certain items are skill restricted, like shields and wands.

[Mustang]

Just a note (everyone probably already knew this but me). Challenges stay active once you leave so, if you aren't going to be around for a few days, you might want to cancel them. That 6-30 5th level guy you just challenged could be a 15th level guy by the time he accepts your challenge.

[CU Tiger]

Just a note (everyone probably already knew this but me). Challenges stay active once you leave so, if you aren't going to be around for a few days, you might want to cancel them. That 6-30 5th level guy you just challenged could be a 15th level guy by the time he accepts your challenge.
\
yep and you outdfit the way you challenged him, even if you upgrade armor and weapons.

[korme]

My dumbass skirmished like 150 guys just to get 100 tokens and buy a noble set. Well it was not worth it all, IMO. I got two things I could have easily gotten for the 15 token set, and another I can't use until I am a LEVEL 30 - level 9 right now and I've seen one guy logged in that's a 30 or higher. Sheesh.

[Peregrine]

Well you can always sell the level 30 stuff for gold, though right now hardly anyone is that high. I'm just storing all my high level junk for now.

Also, once the trading feature is put in, I think it will be nice since all of us can trade items to each other, I have a ton of stuff I don't need but don't really want to sell (since I don't need the gold.)

[Peregrine]

This is going to be one sweet weapon to use in a level or two:

http://www.duels.com/items/view/817

[korme]

These packs are so faulty. I bought 3 in a row and they all disappeared and I got nothing for my 45 tokens. That's shitty.

Not to mention I was 44-23 and in my last nine stand at 1-8.

[Peregrine]

Wow that's bad luck Shorty, I've had few problems with packs lately, I think in my last 8 or 9 I've only lost 1.

[Peregrine]

Wow, found my first purple item in a core pack I won in a fight.

http://www.duels.com/items/view/220

[Mustang]

Had the pack issue to. Wouldn't even buy a pack if there are alot of people on. Seems to be something where the purchase gets lost in the traffic.

[Eaglesfan27]

Odd. I have 1 point in offensive power and I'm now level 10 with 5 extra skill points, but it won't let me take dual wield.

[Peregrine]

You can't access any of the tier 2 skills until you've spent 5 points somewhere in the first tier.

[Eaglesfan27]

You can't access any of the tier 2 skills until you've spent 5 points somewhere in the first tier.


Ahh. How am I fighting level 10 guys with dual wield? Do the noble stones that people can buy give skill points? If so, that is a fairly big advantage for those who are paying.

[Peregrine]

You can get dual wield at level 10, just spend 5 points in the first tier, then your 6th point on dual wield.

[Eaglesfan27]

You can get dual wield at level 10, just spend 5 points in the first tier, then your 6th point on dual wield.

I thought the 1st point of dual wield costs 5, now I realize my mistake. I wish I hadn't been hogging these skill points all of this time ;)

[damnMikeBrown]

Up to level 13 so far. The web site is keeping me down though...working so slowly.

[Schmidty]

I really wish I knew why I am so horrible at this game.

I'm like 28-72 at this point. :eek:

[Peregrine]

Schmidty, my first guy was that bad too, because I was scattering my points all over, and also he went the Staff path, which is somewhat weak at first. But lately he's improved a bit since I've been investing in more stamina, and the Staff path gets better later on.

[Peregrine]

Apparently they think they've fixed the pack issues with the update last night, they said that once they've confirmed that it's resolved they'll start issuing token refunds to people who lost packs.

[Bee]

Apparently they think they've fixed the pack issues with the update last night, they said that once they've confirmed that it's resolved they'll start issuing token refunds to people who lost packs.

Will they be able to determine how many packs you lost? I didn't keep count, but I lost quite a few.

[Peregrine]

They've said in the past that they can keep track, though I'm not sure how. There was a thread where people were posting when they lost packs but I'm sure that was only the tip of the iceberg.

[Bee]

Well I love the concept of the game, but I really wish it were a little more important to actually win. As it is right now, there's really very little incentive to win other than having a decent record. The game economy needs a major tweak as well. I think tokens are too easy to get and that results in flooding the market with high quality items. Hopefully those things can be worked out because like I said the concept is very cool.

[Draft Dodger]

Well I love the concept of the game, but I really wish it were a little more important to actually win. As it is right now, there's really very little incentive to win other than having a decent record. The game economy needs a major tweak as well. I think tokens are too easy to get and that results in flooding the market with high quality items. Hopefully those things can be worked out because like I said the concept is very cool.

I agree. not really much incentive at all to win.

[Peregrine]

I've noticed the economy for high end items really tightening up lately, all the purple items sell for hundreds or even thousands of gold now, and a lot of the good blue items sell for more than they used to. I think this will continue as more people develop higher level characters and need those nice items.

I agree about there being incentive to win though.

[Peregrine]

By the way, Loki posted on the forums that they have made a change to correct the dual wielding issue (where it was working too well.) I've already noticed my defensive guy doing a lot better against DWers.

[BrianD]

Can you sell basic items when you are done with them? I haven't seen a way to sell my early stuff.

[Peregrine]

Sure, go to the loadout screen and click on an item, at the bottom it will give you options to sell to vendor or go to the item details screen. On that screen you can sell to the vendor or you can sell to the marketplace, sometimes people are willing to pay more than the vendor, especially for good items.

[BrianD]

Thanks, that helped.

While I am at it...

http://www.duels.com/uuk

[Neon_Chaos]

Oh so you're Uuk!

:)

I'm Soahc Noen (http://www.duels.com/avatars/)

http://www.duels.com/soahc_noen

[Coffee Warlord]

http://www.duels.com/coffee_warlord

[RendeR]

http://www.duels.com/render


level 8 and slowly growing.

[BrianD]

Oh so you're Uuk!

:)

I'm Soahc Noen (http://www.duels.com/avatars/)

http://www.duels.com/soahc_noen

Yeah, didn't realize that was you. :)

[RendeR]

hrm, looks like server problems at this time....

[RendeR]

Hrm, so....hrm..seems like duels has slowed down a bit, not getting many challenges.

[Mustang]

Hrm, so....hrm..seems like duels has slowed down a bit, not getting many challenges.

Figuratively and Literally. I've found the site pretty much unusable the last few nights. Eh... oh well.

[thealmighty]

I don't know if anyone else has done this but we went out for dinner and I just left my internet on with the Duels site open. When I got back I had 20 or so challenges waiting for me. (It's getting too boring to me so I leave it open for a bit after I challenge 50 or so players to a duel that are online at the time- or I do when the site isn't slower than pre-global warming glacier movement).

[Neon_Chaos]

I keep getting a 502 proxy error whenever i try to process duels or skirmishes. yeesh.

[KWhit]

I don't know if anyone else has done this but we went out for dinner and I just left my internet on with the Duels site open. When I got back I had 20 or so challenges waiting for me. (It's getting too boring to me so I leave it open for a bit after I challenge 50 or so players to a duel that are online at the time- or I do when the site isn't slower than pre-global warming glacier movement).

I just wish there was a way to clear out all the old duels. When I have 10-15 completed, I don't want to watch through them all.

[Peregrine]

I hardly watch any duels anymore, since your record updates as you get to the "view details of your battle screen" I just don't bother viewing it, and move on to the next fight.

[Bee]

I hardly watch any duels anymore, since your record updates as you get to the "view details of your battle screen" I just don't bother viewing it, and move on to the next fight.


Same here, the only time I watch fights is when I'm trying out new loadouts.

[Coffee Warlord]

God I suck. 46-80

[Eaglesfan27]

Is there a way to challenge multiple people at once, rather than going through each individually?

[Bee]

Is there a way to challenge multiple people at once, rather than going through each individually?


I don't know of any, but what I do is after challenging someone it returns you to their page. I'll then challenge someone they fought in their last 5 fights and just cycle through like that (keeping an eye on the green indicator showing they are still online). That keeps you from having to reload the battle list and cycle through it which for me takes forever.

[BrianD]

I don't know if anyone else has done this but we went out for dinner and I just left my internet on with the Duels site open. When I got back I had 20 or so challenges waiting for me. (It's getting too boring to me so I leave it open for a bit after I challenge 50 or so players to a duel that are online at the time- or I do when the site isn't slower than pre-global warming glacier movement).

I did the same thing when I went to bed last night. I woke up with 3 pages for duel requests. I'm going through them and cherry-picking the easy fights as I gain levels. Nice that I don't have to bother with requesting all of the duels.

[Peregrine]

One advantage of having a bad record is that you get challenged a lot more, which makes it easier to level.

[Chubby]

http://www.duels.com/chubby3434

[BrianD]

One advantage of having a bad record is that you get challenged a lot more, which makes it easier to level.

I can't get it in my mind that having a bad record is OK. There is nothing wrong with a bad record since the goal seems to be to grow, but I can't get myself to sacrifice my record at the same time. Is it just me or does that sound really silly?

[thealmighty]

Don't worry too much about your record early on though, you will have the opportunity to wipe it clean.

I read this in the 'Help' file. Don't know at what point you can do this but no need, it seems, to worry about your record as you get going.

[Coffee Warlord]

And no fighting game is complete with....

Fighting out of the Neither Here Nor There....

http://www.duels.com/erik_flamebeard

[Coffee Warlord]

Btw...I went ultra high perception, speed, with a little str and stamina thrown in with Coffee Warlord, and he sucks.

Erik Flamebeard is pure Strength and Stamina. And he's 22-4.

[Brillig]

Meh. Personally, I think you *should* worry about your won loss record.

If you lose a lot of duels, then your opponents get stronger faster than you do. More xp, (which you can catch up on, admittedly), but also more gold, tokens and packs.

Since, in the long run, the goal is to be better than the others, doing things that advance your opponents faster than they advance you makes no sense.

[Peregrine]

I agree that in the long run some things, especially gold, will accumulate a lot faster if you win. I don't mind losing, but I would never deliberately tank my character. I just have one long-term loser that I keep plowing away with, in the hope that he will be good one day.

[fflix]

Have the devs mentioned what their stance on multiple characters per person is?

I created a path of the sword character wanting to create a warrior type, but realized after looking into the talents some more that my character is more suited to be an assassin with his current spec.

[Peregrine]

Well I have multiple characters, I don't think that's a problem. But you have to create separate accounts for each one.

[NevStar]

Btw...I went ultra high perception, speed, with a little str and stamina thrown in with Coffee Warlord, and he sucks.

Erik Flamebeard is pure Strength and Stamina. And he's 22-4.

Woo! Duels has made it to the big time.


It seems that record has no use other than for your own ego... but maybe that may change in the future.

[Coffee Warlord]

Nope, looks like a total ego trip for record.

But I like Flamebeard's record way more than CW's. :)

[Coffee Warlord]

By the by, the hordes of people who really think you can get away with nothing but a big sword and no armor are sooooooo fun to massacre.

[Neon_Chaos]

Created a new character. He's on a tear.

Keeping his record a bit safe. I just skirmish the hell out of him.

Skirmishing is a great way to grab tokens and level up.

I created him at around 1:00 PM. 9 hours later.... he's only had 35 duels, but is already Level 10.

[Neon_Chaos]

http://www.duels.com/bruticus

[Neon_Chaos]

I tend to be completely picky with the duels this time around. :)

Pure strength/stamina guy.

Two loadouts, a 1 weapon, plated armor setup and a 2 weapon 1 armor setup.

[Coffee Warlord]

Yep. Flamebeard is the man. 78-28, level 11 right now. Sword and Board is proving quite potent.

[Coffee Warlord]

Erik does not understand why Uuk fall down without Erik's sword smashing Uuk.

http://www.duels.com/fights/animate/1136974

[Neon_Chaos]

bloody hell. :D

[Arles]

Just created my guy - he's 37-6 and I've tried to stay at or above my level in duels.

http://www.duels.com/ghengis_rahn

[Arles]

This guy tried to pick on my guy with someone 2 levels above - he didn't count on my 102 damage fireball scroll ;)

http://www.duels.com/fights/animate/1147400

[fflix]

Has anyone put points into a high path yet? I was reading the game guide and had some questions.

"Anytime after Level 20, you can choose to specialize further. This is not required. When you choose a High Path, you do not lose your previous skills but you can no longer advance them." Does this mean once I choose increase high path skills I can no longer increase normal path skills?

"Requires: 5 Ranks of the Path of the Sword, Level 20" Does this mean that after 5 points into Path of the sword, I can save remaining points to use once I reach 20? For example to get to ambush faster than if I had spent points every level up to 20.

[RendeR]

Yes, you can hoarde your skill points and use them all at the changeover to level 20+ skills. You'll need the minimums as you noted to be able to use something higher, but yes, you can end up with an ambush attack that is 9X normal if you do it right.

They're working on ideas to help control that a bit.

[fflix]

http://duels.com/azazel

How do you trade items? Through the item selling system?

[Peregrine]

Yeah the hoarding points and spending them only on level 20 skills is a major bug they're trying to fix. Fflix, I have points in the high path and you can definitely keep spending points in the lower path, so don't worry about that.

[BrianD]

Aren't there skill point respec options in the game? Couldn't you get the same ambush result without hoarding?

[Peregrine]

Yeah that's part of the same bug, people are respecing to get high level abilities way before they should be able to get them.

[BrianD]

Hopefully that will all get balanced out eventually. I'm also hoping the improve the armor ratings in the game. I'd love to see an equally fair fight between someone who spends all their points on the weapon and someone who spends all their points on armor. Armor seems somewhat useful now, but it could be better.

[fflix]

Do the duel core and noble set packs contain different items? Or does the noble set just have the possibility for orange items and better percentages on the other colors?

[Bee]

Do the duel core and noble set packs contain different items? Or does the noble set just have the possibility for orange items and better percentages on the other colors?

Different items. If you go to the armory and look at a specific item group it will show them in 3 sections. First section, those you can buy from the vendor. Second section, those that come in the core packs. Third section, those that come in the noble packs.

[Peregrine]

Yes the sets contain different items. The noble set generally contains more powerful items geared for higher levels. You can see all the different items when you go to the armory, for each type of weapon and armor you can scroll down to see what's in the core set and what's in the noble set for that equipment type.

[Mustang]

Anyone here the character - Trout?

[thealmighty]

Anyone still playing this game that has made it to/past level 20? I just got there but am unsure of what seems to be the way to go with high path stuff (I am sword path, btw).

Any advice or comments (I saved up some points so I have 5 to use at lvl 20)?

[chinaski]

Missed this thread, but ive been playing Duels for quite some time. Please sign up via my referral link if youre interested in joining up. Seems like the browser based games are capturing alot of attention lately and Duels is one of the best, imo. Theyre adding guilds soon and im sure ill have more than enough gold to start up a FOFC guild if anyones interested.

Sign up! - http://duels.com/users/register/dang

[Neon_Chaos]

*image of thread flying over shark*