You're kidding me right? In native duels to wear cloth and die in basicly 1 hit. This is VERY far from that, but i supose that it is very different, from what you usually wear, since you're a complete tincan. If you have the skills however, then the gear should not matter much, since you should depend on your skill making sure you survive and don't get hit, instead of counting on the armor to soak it all up.
PS: Agiwhore duels is by far more fun than str duels, and that especially counts for c-rpg, since the combat is alrdy pretty slow. A strwhore duel would be an endurance test more than anything, not much skill involved to block at that phase.
Yeah I don't expect an agi bundle of sticks like you who relies on fast hiltslashes and lolstab-backpeddle-explode-your-nose-with-my-op-thrusts to understand what I meant. I won't even bother to explain why I think this is a bad rule, not to you, because you don't even deserve enough of my attention for that.
PS: sorry for using this thread as such, I will leave it to the organisers to judge whether it should be changed or not. I can detail my opinion if that's necessary.