User:Raine Valen/Guild Events/Epic Swordfight 102708

The Epic Swordfight
September 27, 2008

Entry Conditions

 * Entrants must not have Warrior as a primary profession.
 * All entrants must at all times be wielding a sword, though the other equipment is optional.

Combat Rules

 * The sword must be the primary source of damage, or be necessary to cause the primary source of damage.
 * For example, speccing 0 in swordsmanship but using the sword to activate Barbs or using the sword to do damage via Illusionary Weaponry would be allowed.
 * Using a caster sword to nuke things, however, does not qualify.
 * Direct Healing is not allowed.
 * Anything that causes unconditional health gain or regeneration or that can meet its own condition to cause healing, such as Mending, Word of Healing, Healing Signet, Meditation, and Troll Unguent, is prohibited.
 * Conditional healing is allowed, such as Mystic Vigor, Order of the Vampire, Reap Impurities, and Nightmare Weapon.
 * Direct offensive spells are prohibited.
 * Any spell that causes unconditional damage or degeneration or that meets its own condition to cause damage, such as Searing Flames, Power Spike, or Vampiric Gaze, is prohibited.
 * Spells that bolster offensive power without causing damage on their own, like Order of the Vampire, Brutal Weapon, Barbs, Conjure Flame, Heart of Fury, and Spirit's Strength, are allowed.
 * Non-Spell damage-dealing skills such as Headbutt are exempt from this rule, with the exception of Necromancer touch skills.
 * Empathy, Insidious Parasite, and Dervish Avatars are prohibited.
 * No blinding.
 * That's just not cool.

Advancement

 * The matches will be 1v1, conducted simultaneously at each tier.
 * If you die, you will be considered to have lost.
 * This includes deaths after the opponent has died, in which case, both of you will be considered to have lost.
 * If you do not lose, you are considered to have won.
 * Winners will advance, non-winners will not.

Discrepancies

 * Any matters of controversy will be ruled in Observe mode. If a verdict cannot be reached by this means, the battle will be re-staged.