Is it possible to mod the arena challenge out?

[Sir_Dr_D]

I think priests should be banned from the arena. It is always a priest casting smite that seems to win. And smite battles just don't hold the same appeal as one on one combat.

[sum1lost]

Preists only win if you don't have other decent fighters. Fliers with some mr wipe the floor with preists, as do decent mages.

[darkchampion3d]

Is the only award from the arena that 2h weapon? I won it for kicks once just to see and found that it forced my arch devil to unequip his lucky coin and weapon.... for a 2h spear that really wasn't that great.

He was doomed to killing everyone every arena event thereafter with no chance of unequipping the weapon

[Burnsaber]

darkchampion3d said:
Is the only award from the arena that 2h weapon? I won it for kicks once just to see and found that it forced my arch devil to unequip his lucky coin and weapon.... for a 2h spear that really wasn't that great.

He was doomed to killing everyone every arena event thereafter with no chance of unequipping the weapon

You get freakishly large amount of exp. IIRC a guy with no stars gets to three stars just by winning the Arena. The trident isn't bad actually. Many people just don't realize that it gives quickness (two actions per turn, +3 to att & def).

[Lingchih]

Yeah, the Trident is actually a kick-*** weapon. It does great damage and I think (with quickeness) 3 attacks a turn. If you have a good blessed Prophet, you can really turn him into a killing machine if you win it.

[darkchampion3d]

Yeah I know in the future to try and get it put on somebody who's primary role isn't casting firestorm

[NTJedi]

The death arena was a great feature, yet it's current state makes provides little interest in MP and provides pain in SP.

In singleplayer it's painful watching many AI blindly send their pretenders to the deathmatch.
In multiplayer the prize of 100 experience and the Trident is not worth risking the life of a good unit... especially not worth risking the life of a prophet. In multiplayer ususally one or more humans will enter opponents to cast curse, horror_mark, blindness and/or give cursed items such as slave collars. The trident and experience have little value for the winner when he/she/it is cursed and blind with a slave collar.

**Ideally the death match arena prize should provide winnings which would be worth risking the life of a good commander. During the days of Dominions_2 I suggested the prize provide gold and gems based on the current game turn since a fixed prize would make the death match arena less and less valuable as the game proceeds. Thus the winner on turn_10 would recieve 200_gold and 10_random_gems whereas the winner on turn_100 would recieve 2000_gold and 100_random_gems. (Few games reach 100 turns)

I really do like the idea of the death match arena... unfortunately the prize sucks.