Why I don't RP fightThe first stand is that I am a believer that level matters. I put in the time to level up my character, learn abilities, and gear up. It isn't so much the level or the gear that matters. My time matters. My character's time matters. While other people are talking in a tavern  my character will be out fighting and getting stronger. A level 2 that tries to take on my maxed level character will not be acknowledged by me. Unless they whisper me ahead of time saying they want a beat down.

Going off of the fact that level matters, I believe that class matters as well. For example, I don't think it would be possible for a level 30 conjurer should be able to beat up a level 15 gladiator in a hand to hand fight with no magic. I have seen the reverse of this happen enough to make my head hurt. If people want to RP that that their character works out and is super buff, then they need to make sure it is seen by other RPers and have it known before they try to pull that card in a fight.

Most of the people that RP fight are brats. Sorry, but that is what I have seen. Over the years I have lost track of the amount of times some new person joins a guild and they get into the face of the guild leader and mouth off and use abuse RP fighting to constantly be superior to the person in charge of the guild.

Lastly, everyone is Neo. No one will take the hit. stumbles, or even breaks a sweat. They will all just happen to dodge at just the last moment or do some retarded move that is physically impossible to do. 

Example: So-n-so ducks below the punch, turning his body to watch the punch sail over his uninjured head with a smirk.

I am not making that one up. That was an actual emote that I saw to a past guild leader and I had to get up and try to copy it just to see how it looked and it just didn't work. A lot of people that do RP fighting don't or haven't actually fought in real life. Because, if they did, they would know how half the things they emote don't happen even in a fantasy world and just how many openings it leaves.