Champion´s Trident
 

My Wraith Centurion won the Deatmatch. And the prize is the trident. This is ok. Is a good weapon, I´ve seen it gives him quickness. But does it have any other special powers?

In the MIQR it´s not listed, and this list is incredibly useful for any other item because they have special powers not mentioned in the item´s description (althrough I like that sense of mystery this game has, but i´m just curious).

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He'd have to go back to the arena to defend it in every other Deathmatch.

Also, despite being a trident, it has two attacks, like the flail.

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The Trident is also cursed, and you get 100 experience points by winning the Deathmatch. So you will need to fight again and again in the Deathmatches, unless/until the Centurion is killed (no Dominion in the Arena), or until it shapechanges into something unable of holding a weapon.

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Isnt a wraith centurion immortal?
In which case, you can simply get him killed in your dominion to make him lose the trident and he will respawn in the capital with all that precious expirience from winning the deathmatch http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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The solution is rather to *not* send anything valuable in the Arena http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Killing your (immortal) Centurion would work indeed.

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Or to send a prophet / battlemage. The Trident is wonderful on a smiting or fanaticizing prophet, and just as good on a battlemage. All the Vanheim and Abysian mages are exceptionally nice for the Champion's Trident, as are Assassins / Slayers.

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In a small game with few players sending a prophet is an okay risk.
In a large game with lots of players and/or computers sending almost any commander will almost guarantee certain death, horror mark, battle wounds, and/or cursed.
Currently the death match prize is really not worth risking the life of a good commander. Hopefully gems and/or some other additional prize will exist within Dominions3.

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Wrong way ...

No pretenders, undead and demons should be able to apply for becoming a peoples' hero, shoulnd't they?

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Anything a nation can recruit or its national mages could summon, or anything summoned with national sites, or anything their pretender summoned, could be hero. That is, almost anything and little more.
Ruling out pretenders and uniques, and possibly not allowing all the cheesy spells/items in Arena, might be enough.

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I'm not sure why the developers allow the AI opponents to send their pretenders to the arena death match. It's sad watching 3 or more AI pretenders die during a death match.

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I think it's more like they just didn't think of it originally, and then haven't bothered to change it.

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I am playing a strange game in Faerun with 2 AI and 2 other players. Only the 2 AI sent their prophets. It was OK but I think my champion has the standard ability ( not my favorite ).

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In my Faerun Atlantis game, I sent a water queen early on to win the trident. Because the water queens have so much inherent regeneration, the need for a life drain weapon is not that big a deal. The Champion's Trident is a nice weapon for a water queen, for I believe it stacks with the quickness spell.

It is now about Turn 120 in my game and my queen has defended her title numerous times. Nobody bothers to send a champion to challenge her anymore, so she gets a quick 100 experience every time a death match occurs. I was even thinking of wishing for a death match, but decided it is not worth the 100 pearls for a mere 100 experience.

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It does not.