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Diablo III PvP Dueling

Fighting for bragging rights.

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In the latest patch preview notes on Battle.net, Blizzard has revealed details surrounding the PvP Dueling we can expect to see when the 1.0.7 patch finally lands.

To get dueling, you'll need to speak with Nek the Brawler at the inn in New Tristram, who'll take you and your party to a new zone called the Scorched Chapel. There are four different areas (the church, the graveyard, the river, and the lake), and they will support up to four players in FFA.

There's no permanent death in the dueling zone (even for Hardcore characters), and players won't incur any durability damage, and when you're done smashing the crap out of other players, you can simply portal back out to the main game.

The blog post explains: "Our intent is to provide players a safe, opt-in location where they can fight one another for bragging rights (or maybe science) without the potential for griefing as it existed in Diablo II." 

"The game doesn't keep score and there are no objectives. We wanted dueling to be as simple and straightforward as possible, so we created a minimalist system -- we know that even without rewards and objectives, some players just want to beat each other up. Some matchups may be one-sided, and we don't expect that battles will be necessarily balanced. But that's okay, because dueling in Diablo III is more about kicking ass and taking names in a no-holds-barred sort of way, and this design certainly allows you to accomplish that."

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