On the other hand though, it's pushing my hand towards the reskill button way easier, leaving us with 1 less fort fighting tank just to be able to defend myself and do what I want to do. I would prefer it if someone could reassure me that fort fights won't suffer because of this. I will be terribly pissed off the moment I hear people saying: I will be offline, I won't come because if I survive I will get duelled.
Help me find a solution to this and I'm all with you about the 48h ko.
I have a simple solution: give it a chance.
It takes a lot of duels to put a sizeable dent in any decent fort fighter's max HP. With the amount of regen boosting gear in the game these days it takes a maximum of two hours in a barracks to make up for any damage done by duellers, even if you've been hit two or three times. If you're really unlucky or you're a non-soldier and you manage to find yourself with 1 or 2k HP remaining (I'm not saying it never happens), strip off all your clothes and KO yourself legitimately without exploiting a flawed mechanic.
Job KOs only became a major part of the game a couple of years ago. Before that, people used to intentionally KO themselves in a duel against an alliance member. It takes a very small amount of effort to achieve the same result without defying all logic in the process. Take into account the fact that there are half as many duellers now as there were back then as well as the presence of HP boosting buffs in the bond shop and there really is no reason why fort fighters should be any worse off now than they have been in the past. The only conclusion that I can come to here is that they've all grown lazy and complacent.
This thread so far is reminiscent of the 0 mot duellers whining after the duel motivation split because they had to put in a small amount of effort to gain the same results. People wonder why the game seems to make little progress in the way of updates. Part of that is because every time Inno try and do something good, it's met with flaming by the party who considers themselves to be disadvantaged without pausing to think about whether or not the changes are actually as bad as they automatically assume.
For once I'd like to see players think about what's good for the game as a whole and what makes sense rather than what suits their own personal style of play. There hasn't been a single update in years that has catered to duellers in a positive way. The first time it happens, the non-duellers who have had it easy during that time are seeing red.
Try and remember that you haven't lost the ability to remain under KO protection if you don't want to be duelled. This update has only removed a bug.
I have a lot more to say on the matter, but I figure there'll be plenty more chances to argue over the coming pages.
And I dont mean be affected in 1-2 weeks time, I know people will complain to start with.