Am I dueling wrong?

[Kitiana Foxtail]

So, I go to duel someone. They can 2-3 hit kill me. I can take off maybe 3% of their health with a full combo. What am I doing wrong? I know there is gear that sends dmg back at them. I have it, yet I still loose 50% of the time.

With the gear on. They do a couple hits and are taken down to about 10%. I am also down to about 20%. They hit me once, it's a lose. So I have to try and dodge while taking a small hit to win or keep chipping down that 10% with out getting hit.

These towns folks are monsters. Hell send Elsie out alone to wipe out all the monster. She can do it. Hell, I at this rate. I wonder if I can even beat Pebble in a fight. You know I talk to him every day just to stay on his good side. I bet he is the secret Don of the Sandrock.

Anyway, what am I doing wrong?

[Ihateeverybody]

I mean, what weapon are you using first and foremost. What level are you and what level is the person you are fighting. what weapon are they using? If you are under 10 and trying to fight someone like Pen. maybe Justice or Unsuur then you will likely lose (especially if this is your first playthrough.

Honestly without watching you play I couldn't even begin to critique. To many variables.

Personally I use Daggers. Rolling in and attacking and rolling out when they start hitting me.

[Kitiana Foxtail]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

I mean, what weapon are you using first and foremost. What level are you and what level is the person you are fighting. what weapon are they using? If you are under 10 and trying to fight someone like Pen. maybe Justice or Unsuur then you will likely lose (especially if this is your first playthrough.

Honestly without watching you play I couldn't even begin to critique. To many variables.

Personally I use Daggers. Rolling in and attacking and rolling out when they start hitting me.

I am lv 45. They only give me the option of stone weapons. I fight everyone. It's the same. No matter who I fight. They all can beat me in 3 hits and I am like a baby trying to fight an adult. I can avoid them with no problems, but with as much dmg as I am doing. It's takes forever.

So with the dmg reflect gear on. I can reflect them down a bit, but that still puts me at a 1 hit and I am dead situation. So, if I time my dodge wrong or something. I am dead, while I still have to hit them many times before they go down.

This is Final Boss level bull with these duels. I usually don't do the duels because of this. I started to because I had the dmg reflect gear on. So there was a chance.

[Ihateeverybody]

Any extenutating Circumstances? Mods installed? Mods thought removed but leaving files?

Because that sounds really odd. I am 45ish myself and with reflect gear on Pen Kills himself. What are your HPs? I am over 7000.

[Ugoo687]

Duels are kinda the first surprise i had since i've played Portia by the past and no, i don't think you're doing something bad.... Basically we can't use our best weapon, we're just locked to get stone weapons and they're the weakest weapon in the game, plus every characters you wanna duel have legit more than 10 levels than yours... at this point,it's systemic...


Well, as you said, everyone at Sandrock are insanely strong but they aren't invicible... you need to get a whole Rare stuff with at least 50% of reflect damage each parts but it won't be enough, u need to dodge and study a little bit the npc battle mode and attack if possible when he isn't do....

u need to break as much you can their guard to combo them and they'll end up to fall off on the ground, u can still attack them when they're on the ground. once u think they lost enough of life , u can let them kick you (of course only if you're still full HP or at least 7/10 of your life), and you will win the duel (not always if you don't dodge enough attacks from them so be careful)

[Marmele]

I was suprised reading Kitanias post.
So i started another game now and got to level 7.
Mi-an was my testsubject. I used sword and shield. I broke her defence twice and she was defeated. I had no points anywhere and my char had a short trouser equipped.

Maybe repairing your game is in order.

[JVC]

How do you avoid taking incoming damage? You can click one of the mouse buttons to dodge roll and get away from immediate danger. Hit the enemy once or twice, if their defence breaks, keep hitting. If the defence doesn't break or the enemy is preparing a counter attack dodge roll to get out of his way, have him attack somewhere you aren't standing and repeat.

Pen is a very tough character. When you want to challenge him, get some clothes with damage reflect from Justice's store at the Civil Corps building.

Sparring limits you to fighting with stone weapons but you can still buff the character by using good clothes and by levelling the character up so you get better character stats.