Here's my idea:

Mercs cannot hit or be hit in PvP. The biggest annoyance in duels is mana. I get this is a 25 year old game and some annoyance is part of the charm, but for streamlining PvP, instead of pooling manas in the Moor, what if people could just have their mercs always? The big problem is that mercs hit and sometimes hit hard. So removing their ability to deal and take damage to/from players would solve that problem. They should also remove the merc revival cost if a player dies in PvP and add an option to kill the merc (like unsummon) for purists.

It would ruin some novelty builds, but they already did that by killing town bears and leap.

This post was edited by hoovi113 on Jul 12 2026 11:07pm

just ally with someone with an insight merc?

or just use mana pots lol

When the modern corporate culture sees 99% of it’s base playing PvM and 1% playing PvP, can you guess how much they care about that 1%?

Doesn't affect Asia server since we don't use mana pools in our duels usually.

Stay close and fight like a man.

need more bm less old cranky gm noobs

people would just run to cold plains to life rep after losing 200hp but i guess they do that anyway

gm duels got goofy once they started allowing 2000 mana pots. Now duels take 2-3 hours instead of 30 minutes because they spam and pray instead of using skill

This post was edited by KRR on Jul 13 2026 01:43am

word

mana pools should be disabled in GM duels for a start

Blizz could givr us a recipe to make a red portal thats a duel arena
An area where all skills cost 0 mana

most games use mana as resource...like in classic wow you couldnt spam skills nonstop you would run out fast same as in d2 classic idk who came up with this nonsense mana pots shouldnt be at vendors to begin with like on classic d2, you are basically asking for it to be a 'tarded missile spamfest of abilities
no. once you run out you run out, thats it. forced to autoattack/wait for mana to regen or die

This post was edited by Trickshottr on Jul 13 2026 02:51am

words of wisdom right there

fight like a man and you wont need more than a belt of mana pots



lol


This post was edited by NrZ on Jul 13 2026 05:19am