The truth is I am a duelist,
I am a field fighter...
And you know some of you dont care about dueling, But right now dueling is the only legit thing left in ultima online,
You cant script dueling. you cant run off screen while you duel, you cant use stupid gimp templates when you pure mage duel..
It is the last form of Pure skill left in this game, and you know seing how their are less than 5 of us left on pacific, I can tell you the people who do duel well are better field fighters than anyone you know.
Actually you are right but you are wrong at the sametime.
Dueling is the only legit way to tell who's better in UO ASSUMING that
1. both side has identical ping to the server (you will die like a noob if you were running 300+ ping).
2. Both sides are "legit" to begin with (you fail in this aspect before the duel even starts).
3. Identical suits and equipments (eg, dueling with 0 lmc 0sdi vs 40 lmc and 15sdi).
And a good duelers not necessary mean a good field fighter/team player. For example, KMS on his mage owned you in mixed mage dueling yet his mage blows in field fight. KMS's best PvP character ironcially is the character that takes the least amount of player skill (dismount all kill moving shot spam). Another example is YOU, you rarely saves your guildies from getting wiped (unless you have significantlly more people than the other team). By you inside R2D2's group we still didnt feel any difference fighting R2 compare to fighting say... COPs. The only difference is KMS would die with his zerg meatshields if he has to, while Calisto is always the first one to run/recall/faction rune.
So it's good for you, despite of real PvP, you do pretty good in duels. But until the day you can make your client "legit" most people wont take you seriously. As dueling isnt the only way to be productive in UO (its actually one of the least productive activity to do). If you look at COP, they have not much else but numbers and they are doing very well when they have everyone on. One examle if the destard fight. We fielded 6 people but COP has 15+ and was cycling character. We wiped and stated at least 15 characters and 30+ stat kills, but they just keeps coming back.
A zerg makes bouncha weak inviduals strong and they can actually accomplish sometime. One great duelist that can run thru crates will not save the other 5 that's fighting by your side that are much weaker than the average enemies even number, this has been proven many many times. :loser: