Could you PLEASE do something about sore losers in 1v1 arenas? It's very discouraging to go into an arena, ready to battle, when the other side gets salty and decides to teleport away and stealth for the entire duration of the arena. It's incredibly demoralizing because it discourages players from wanting to que. I play paladin (which isn't a common class), and there are plenty of people that see me and just backdrop/teleport/stealth/BEL/mirror warp etc and I have to just run around like an idiot until time runs out, I catch them and work them down eventually, or just give up and take a draw/loss/win. Sure, you can argue I play a cheese class. But Darkrunners are the most common types of people that do this to me, and DR is the biggest cheese class of them all.
I'm not entirely sure what should be done to avoid indirectly affecting classes.
- I know stealth duration is reduced in arena's, perhaps shortening it a bit more?
- Perhaps adding a timer that starts when players remain out of combat for at least x amount of time, and if they remain out of time for an x amount of time more, teleport both players back to the middle? Or perhaps teleport both into a cage, or something to that effect.
The arena was designed to be big to allow movement and utilization of skills, but I'd argue that intentional stalling and avoiding/afk is not something that should be part of the arena.
Please note that I'm not complaining about my class lacking mobility versus others, I'm merely asking for something to be done about these salty, immature players that waste my time (as well as others, I'm sure this doesn't happen to only me). I never saw a reason to bring this up as I thought since live admins didn't do anything, neither will AR admins. But because there's hope for your request, perhaps they'll look at this too. Thanks for raising this issue!