Arena? What is the Arena?

[rsolow]

What is the Arena? How do I find it? It is referenced in this post:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

[Nerfix]

Are is a magic site but The Arena is a commander vs commander deathmatch competition that occasionaly comes up in the game

[SafeKeeper]

The Arena is a site that gives you gold.

And the Arena Death Match is a fight to the death between two commanders, wherein the victor gets a magic artefact.

[CogDissident]

Let me be more specific on the death match. Most civilizations will send a hero, and then the arena match does a series of 1-on-1 battles, with the victor winning an artifact. You keep the artifact until the next arena, when you can either send another person and try to keep the artifact, or forefit it to the winning nation.

Usually its good to try to win the arena, if you have a powerful well equipped commander (and prophets make a good choice too), simply to kill the enemy commanders and make sure nobody else gets the weapon. Occasionally some empires will risk their god, and gods usually win, but theres always that chance that some Jountheim frost giant will show up with a midget masher and decimate your god.

[thejeff]

Actually if you win and have a hand slot (Two? The Trident is two-handed, right?), you get the prize.
It is cursed so the Champion has to keep it and when another death match happens, the Champion will automatically attend.
(Unless that's changed since Dom2. I don't think it has.)

The Champion is assumed to be the current holder of the trident, so I'd assume it's possible he could be killed and someone else pick it up on the battlefield.

In Dom2, the AI would often send their god in. I haven't seen that yet in Dom3.

[The_Tauren13]

thejeff said:
In Dom2, the AI would often send their god in. I haven't seen that yet in Dom3.

They still do.

[LeSquide]

I really, really dislike the Trident; it's a nifty weapon, and I like the idea that the Death Match champion goes to defend his title, but I'm not fond of losing both hand slots for the great honor of being automatically dragged back there.

[GamerMan12]

I think this is the one thing in Dom3 that is below par, if you send in a well equipped hero and he happens to win then you are forced to participate in the next competition and may lose him to a high level apell. Unless you keep upping his equipment dramatically you will eventually lose him. It is just not worth doing the prize does not make up for the fact that you will eventually lose that hero and all his goodies.

GM12

[NTJedi]

95% of the time it's best not to send anyone into the death match arena when the game consists of 3 or more opponents. First looking at the odds reveals that only one individual will win and all others will be dying and thus not worth the life of a good commander. Second the prize involves an artifact which will curse your commander to continously return to this event for all future matches. Third in games with human opponents many players will send 'screwers' into the death match which have a main purpose of giving cursed items, horror marks, cursed, blind and so on... thus even if you win, the commander will be screwed.

Ideally the death match should have a prize which would encourage players to send a good commander. The most enticing prize off the top of my head would be random gems equal to the current game turn multiplied by 1.5. Thus game turn_10 would provide 15 random gems and game turn_50 would provide 75 random gems.

The death match could really be a very interesting event if the prize was improved.

[ologm]

You also get +150 experience. Free heroic ability early in the game.