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Please Introduce Duelling

RazorgirlRazorgirl Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
edited March 2020 in Feature Requests #1 latest comment 14 March, 2020, 12:17 am.

I know the Devs have stated that they will never introduce Duelling, but perhaps due to the pandemic and players in some areas living under lockdown conditions, maybe they could reconsider this. I know I'm not the first person to ask for this, but I'm creating a new thread because of how the current pandemic is affecting how players can and should be interacting.


PoGo allows us to battle against people we physically meet and with other players in our Friends List. It requires us both being online at the same time, which usually means coordinating the battle via some other means and then going into the game at the same time.


Portkey Games introduced duelling in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery... we went to the Duelling Areana and got to play against other player's characters that were controlled by an AI, it also revealed the FB photo of our opponents. 


Being able to "practice battling against Dark Forces" would be perfectly in theme with this game, and would allow for another aspect of the game to exist for people that are forced into isolation and cannot go out into the world.

- Much love to all the Italian players!


This would also open up a new aspect to participate for people living in rural areas that lack the same abundance of Points of Interest that metropolitan players do.


I've seen many, many statements from the Devs saying that it will never happen and that they want WU to remain collaborative. Maybe tying in a House Cup would be way to do that. Though I guess the problem with that idea is folks with multiple accounts could just do multiple duels against their secondary account to up the score for their own house; they are the reason why we can't have nice things, but I don't think it's impossible to design a system that will account for players farming dead accounts. Here are some of my thoughts, off the top of my head without any real thought into developing the ideas...


  • Players are locked into the House membership on the 1st of each month (personally I think it should be longer, but let's start with this)
  • Players can only battle against other players +/- X levels of their Wizarding Level, or perhaps make it based on their profession level?
  • Only the first duel against someone in your Friends list each week will count towards a House Cup
  • Players can only see the info displayed on a Ministry ID, much like how we can in our Friends List
  • Players that win get an ELO rating, like what is used in Chess. The more you win, the more your ELO rating goes up. The more you lose, the lower your ELO rating goes. If your ELO rating drops below a certain level, people can still duel against you but the points don't contribute towards a House Cup
  • Duels are like battles against Oddities... one person gets a chance to attack, then the other person gets a chance
  • Avatars are similar to the generic Avatars we have now, showing our house colour
  • Potions can be used during a duel

I think that's enough for now.

If the Devs did allow for this to happen, allowing people to create their own avatar for duelling could be a whole new element of the game. With new outfits being tied to Special Assignments and Bonus Tasks for Events, and/or locked to spending Gold Coins in the Shop.

Hopefully unlike PoGo, they allow us to have a fat... excuse me... "portly" wizard. After all, some witches and wizards in HP films have the figure of those that love cheese. 😜👍

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