Gravity never meant to make High Rate servers and make Assassins this overpowered.
Sins used to have low SP and were only able to backslide a few times.
Berries and SP recovering items were hard to obtain and thus it was cloaking instead of backslide spamming during events.
They end quick and bloody, perhaps in a draw, as you said, it all depends on gears.
But what I was saying is, people just berry too much unneccessary.
I don't care they are wasting their money, time, effort in something like this,
but their ego is too much boosted if they are able to kill a certain person
(with help of 5 others and then laughing and talking in their own language).
And for the option you gave me to explain a Sniper, Paladin duel, I could say what to do instead,
which is, use the unused skills more.
GR+Devilings+Usakoring, Coma, Holy Cross, Grand Cross, people have kiels right?
About recovering HP, they got a boosted skill called heal.
Snipers on the other hand will have to rely on trapping(which most people fail to do so),
it takes time to master these traps and to position and use them right.
Fights without berries don't last as long as you'd like to see them,
but people are analysing, trying different things and improvising during fights a lot more.
This makes people better at playing their class, use their HP/SP well and don't go in fights
without thinking what the enemy could do next.
This would raise the level of skilled players significant and make fights during events
a lot better and more interesting.
Ofcourse, you will reply with a counter argument, which is fine.
But I just said my point of view and that was all I intented to do.
P.S. Stay on topic.