Ninja Edit: moving anecdote below the main talking point.

Just beat a level 32 as a level 17 3-1, where the third round consisted entirely of them running away and me getting the odd donkey punch off for 5-10 minutes. After awhile they learned to dodge when I slid, making them almost impossible to catch and me have to play timing mindgames. The worst part is I was actually enjoying the fight up until then, but at least it exposed an easily abused mechanic to be addressed early.

Ninja Edit 2: after viewing the videos, it seems that when I used the heal shard after they gave me plenty of room they took offense to it because I broke some unspoken honor rule that they made up, never told me of, and I wouldn't follow anyway. I'm not the most experienced in PvP (again, only L17) but I'm pretty sure I've seen videos of other shards countering the buff, use them.

Edit 3: I will be more than happy to upload and share the videos or some gifs assuming the mods are OK with our player names showing (or privately if they're not :p), I'm not proficient enough with editing to do anything else.