So a friend and I wanted to meet up and duel one another in-game to get used to dueling a person from another class, with breaks in between to explain to each other how to watch out for our cc's, refine our feats, and such, since we're both really new/bad at PvP. However, we're in a low-rank guild, have no interest in going to a high rank guild just for dueling when we're happy in all other aspects with our guild. This means no Khemi dueling arena.
So we go to Stygian Border Kingdoms. But unfortunately there's no way that I know of to be able to fight someone within your own guild, even in the Border Kingdoms. So I voluntarily left the guild so we could duel for a bit. When that was done, I wanted to rejoin the guild. Guess what? 48 hour cooldown between leaving and rejoining same guild.
On top of that, dueling in Border Kingdoms isn't optimal. I remember in the older days trying to duel non-guildies in the Border Kingdoms, and having high-level PvPers jumping us and camping us at the pad until we logged or something. It's demeaning and rubs it in our faces that we're just bad PvPers who have no place being in PvP.
Funcom, unless there's going to be an easier way for us non-PvPers with any mild interest in PvP to be able to practice in a friendly manner, your PvP is gonna keep dying. Not all of us players want to involve ourselves in Fury, subject ourselves to Minis against high-levels 24/7, or risk being stuck in the Border Kingdoms at rez pads just to be able to dabble a bit in a little friendly dueling and try to get better.
At LEAST open up some dueling zone like Khemi arena somewhere where all players can set up and have some practice without being restricted by the need to be in a big guild.