[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zen:
And Quickness and Mind Duel on the Astral King will wipe out huge masses of small end Mind Duelers. In my Experience Astral 7+ on an Astral King can typically nullify anything with 3 and Below Astral and kill them all with very little actual threat to him (weird luck aside).

I recall that the safety margin for magic duelling was 6-over. If you're 6 over, always duel, otherwise, only duel if you killing him is more important than the survival of your mage.

Of course, the more duellers you face at once, the more likely they'll communion themselves into a large duelling array and gun you down anyway. The stronger their leading astral mages are, the fewer astral mages have to attend for this to happen.

It is, however, very true that the Celestial Master is particularly weak against duelling: He's only astral 1, which means you only need an astral 7 mage to kill him, and Pythium, R'lyeh, Arco, can all easily achieve that with a combination of items, communion, and/or randoms. The price tag of the CM being what it is, he can't quite be considered sufficiently expendable small-fry that nobody will bother, either.

[ March 18, 2004, 22:38: Message edited by: Norfleet ]