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I'm not sure it's correct to say they are completely different. In many ways the supplied event gear is like a simplified version of the normal PvP - less choice of scrolls, pots and no poison on your weapon, less management of resources and no need to worry about gear differences. My personal feeling is that if you are going to invest a lot of time in mastering one or the other it's the real world, your-own-gear PvP that matters more, the supplied event gear is almost a training version. Like I said, just personal feeling though. Doubtlessly there is a lot of overlap between the skills required in both instances.

Think of it as the difference between jousting in a tournament and actually charging the enemy on a battlefield.

uhh I'm sorry but the poison changes the way the pvp is completely on it's own and the scrolls are just beneficial it's not a huge change. what it is, is constant hitting and poison so when your out of mana you can't even heal with bandages because your poisoned. That's why is so difficult and different if you watch every duel in the duel stones or self supplied tours you'll notice they don't last longer than 5 mins because every time someone gets a crit while poisoned they dump because the poison does enough damage to kill someone with a big crit..