Guide to the Norn Fighting Tournament

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[edit] Tactics

There are many melee attackers, so your build must contain defense against them:

• You can either use skills that give you a block chance. Guardian, Critical Defenses, and many of warriors' and rangers' defense stances are good for this job.
• You can also disable the enemy by Blinding them or disabling their attacks through hexes, such as Blurred Vision.

Next, you need to defend yourself against spell casters.

• You can use Protective Spirit, Spirit Bond, or Union to reduce damage you take and then equip healing skills to heal yourself again.
• You may as well make your enemy unable to use his powers through Daze or frequent/permanent knock down.

In both cases, offense can be the best defense. Kill your opponent quickly enough, for example with a strong dagger chain, that they can't even react.

To make fights easier, you should be able to disable enemy defenses and healing. For monks, this means you need to daze them or knock them down. Melee characters have block stances sometimes, you can get around those by attacking with spells, or removing them.
Of course, depending on your profession and build, you will need to defend yourself, too. For example, as a melee attacker, you will need something to remove Blind from yourself.

Now there's one last problem: Magni the Bison, or in rare cases Palawa Joko.

• For Magni, look at the counters for melee foes. Protective Spirit is also a good choice.
• To defeat Palawa Joko, you will need <insert here>

[edit] Notes

• Mhenlo is a 55 monk. To defeat him, you will need to remove his enchantments, counter his regeneration with degeneration or kill him with life steal (which ignores his Protective Spirit), use of the burning condition or poison can also finish him off quite quickly due to his low health.
• You can defeat most possible opponents with Ursan Blessing only.
• Any character can take Ritualist as their secondary class. Equip offensive spirits. When the match starts and the door opens, stay on the threshold so your opponent won't come near. Now lay down your spirits, move in and watch your enemy die.
• There are many more suggestions for builds on the talk page.
• See also The Norn Fighting Tournament.
• This location is considered Norn territory; as such, the health bonus of your character's Norn rank applies.
• The spectators surrounding the fighting area are allies, which counts for the paragon attribute of Leadership.