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I think it is acceptable to use every single ability your class and race has in order to win a duel. I myself don't use potions / eat during a duel, but if someone would use that against me, I'll do the same.

If you allow everything, you can really learn from duels, such as expecting the unexpected.

And if you see someone win with the use of a 20 minute / 1 hour cooldown, either duel them again or congratulate them for being able to beat you once, every hour or so.

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I agree with the "all's fair" approach. If you aren't prepared, tough. In the end it's about who wins, and that ability could make the difference. If you want to set rules for special duels, fine. Underwater duel? ok. No healing when 2 pallys go at it? ok fine too. No killing of pets is another one I'm sure hunters would endorse. But when it comes to PvP, are you going to hold back in arenas? When winning means you're that much closer to a reward? No. So unless stated otherwise, all things should be allowed.

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i personally (and most 70s on the server) follow some basic guide lines
-come in unbuffed (or just self buffed)
-start >30 yards apart.
-no using pots or any kind of regent that you could not use in arena
-no using move that you cant use in arenas
-and this one people will argue about but some rouge will use no more then 3 major cool downs (50/50 in people who believe this)
-along with this Warriors start with 0 rage

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Everything goes. If I heal against a class that can't, then they should have used their abilities to DPS harder; so if I can't use say, Greater Heal, you can't use Pyroblast ok? And If I can use a pot, so can they.

To say some things aren't fair is the cry of the sore loser in my opinion.

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Most people I duel agree to use Arena rules: Use only things you can use in the arena; healthstones and any conjured items you can create, bandages, no long CDs, etc.

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You should duel according your own rules. Although i have one thing that i dont think is really fair. Thats bandaging. Healingclasses dont have an extra profession they can use in duels (arena's) so why letting other classes use em?

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Bandaging and eating are skills available to all characters with a material cost so negligible as to not exist. I can see banning potions to keep dueling from being a money sink, but you'd really have to make that rule ahead of time.

Arbitrarily banning certain skills, like healing or "long" cooldowns, just reeks of bad playing. If you can't beat that shaman because he can heal, well, you can't beat that shaman.

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No pots, only self-buffed, other than that pretty much anything goes - of course I'll heal (as I play a resto druid in pvp it would be stupid not to) and innervate and expect my oponent to bandage / eat if they manage to drop combat. Same with pally bubble, lock healthstone etc., anything that works in arenas I'll expect in a duel.

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condemner, as professions (primary and secondary) can give you an edge, why would that be unfair?

Healing classes can use first aid too, to preserve mana, and that might just buy them that extra heal that can make the difference between victory and defeat.

You could also pick up engineering as healer, to do some surprise damage (or frost-grenade to mimic a mage)

All is fair in (love and) war

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I used recklessness in a duel with a rogue once, and I still lost. I suck. Dueling sucks. Screw you guys, I'm going home.

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