Champion of the Arena thread

[DGDobrev]

Hmm... so it is random. Well, in that case, it pays off to save the game and try doing the no-money trick from time to time and see what you get. I'm positive anyone can get a positive outcome.

[Jaedar]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

Hmm... so it is random. Well, in that case, it pays off to save the game and try doing the no-money trick from time to time and see what you get. I'm positive anyone can get a positive outcome.

Yup, I just did it and got +2 defense. Same save file to, so it seems you can just save right before talking to him and then retry until you get the bonus you want.

[mare911]

I gathered some info on available companions:

1. Sirius Dark [+3 attack/+1 morale of undead]
   
2. Lucius [+100% attack and defense of dryads, feries, demonesses]
   
3. Almaran [double crit chance against demons and undead]
   
4. Kulukhan [+1 initiative and speed of orcs]
   
5. Captain Kidd [+300 leadership/+1 speed and morale of pirates,sea dogs, marauders, robbers, devilfish]
   
6. Torburn [+20% crit chance for archers]
   
7. Illiar [+4 intellect/mana restoration after battle]
   
8. Artang [+3 defense and +1 initiative and speed of humans/summons orc stack equal 1/2 hero's leadership]
   
9. Hagrid [+50% health and 10% resistance of thorns and ents/summons plant stack]
   
10. Amber [+1 initiative and +50% dmg of assassins/+10% crit chance/attacks enemy during battle]
    
11. Torre [+50% lightning damage/+5 defense of mages/summons magic sword for 9 rounds]

I hope I didnt missed someone

[DGDobrev]

BTW, all you need in the fight with the metamorph is a single stack of black knights, stone skin, magic spring and Eviln. 200 of your knights (even as a mage) will own 5000 of his

Get to the edge of the arena where only 2 enemy units can hack at you, kill them, port away so that you always have 2 fresh corpses for eviln, get to another edge of the arena, kill some more, use magic spring and calm rage to recover mana and the metamorph goes down easily.

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

BTW, all you need in the fight with the metamorph is a single stack of black knights, stone skin, magic spring and Eviln. 200 of your knights (even as a mage) will own 5000 of his

Get to the edge of the arena where only 2 enemy units can hack at you, kill them, port away so that you always have 2 fresh corpses for eviln, get to another edge of the arena, kill some more, use magic spring and calm rage to recover mana and the metamorph goes down easily.

That's still gonna be a long boring fight, just use like a stack of fairies. You'll have 5000 or something, and he'll have 2000. Battle ends in 30 to 40 seconds .

[DGDobrev]

That is absolutely right, Zechno, and I coudn't agree more with your assessment, but it guarantees a no-loss fight

[b1274506]

No one here seems to talk about doing the first quest (school of gloom ) :
4 boss battles without joining any guild

well i managed to defeat 3 bossed (turtle was easy , spider was hard , frog very easy) but K'tahu or the lord lizzard is driving me insane i really don't know how to beat him , i've tried every strategy i can think of but he still kills me with that summoning of his t-rexes

i play with the mage on normal dificulty. (level 26)


the troups i can select are rather limited : snakes , demons , wolves , tanks ,barbarians. (remeber i have to get by without joining any guild )

i've lost like 10 battles against the lord lizzard and nothing seems to do the trick. help

[DGDobrev]

Well, since the quests do not count in this campaign, you may as well skip that. I have never tried doing that "task" (in champion of the arena, there are tasks, not quests) because in my opinion it looks impossible to beat the game using only those units provided by the school of gloom, especially on higher difficulty.

Maybe one can try to play with a tough tank unit and use the stone skin + magic spring + healing + teleport in k'tahu's weak spot tactic. However, once some gorguanas appear, you're bound to take some losses, and if they are not quickly disposed of, the game will surely be lost.

Another tactic might be - put your tough tank unit in a corner, stone skin, magic spring, healing and flame arrow at K'tahu.

Problem is, there are few to no decent physical resistance units in the main area.

[Kings Bounty Hunter]

Originally Posted by b1274506

No one here seems to talk about doing the first quest (school of gloom ) :
4 boss battles without joining any guild

well i managed to defeat 3 bossed (turtle was easy , spider was hard , frog very easy) but K'tahu or the lord lizzard is driving me insane i really don't know how to beat him , i've tried every strategy i can think of but he still kills me with that summoning of his t-rexes

i play with the mage on normal dificulty. (level 26)


the troups i can select are rather limited : snakes , demons , wolves , tanks ,barbarians. (remeber i have to get by without joining any guild )

i've lost like 10 battles against the lord lizzard and nothing seems to do the trick. help

I've given up after the turtle lol this mission may be possible on easiest level I suppose. I'll get back to you.

Same problem really regarding units without joining the mercenaries guild I dont see how it's possible.

EDIT

Just keep getting overpowered with spiders and starting to really piss me off tbh

[plin500]

Originally Posted by b1274506

No one here seems to talk about doing the first quest (school of gloom ) :
4 boss battles without joining any guild

well i managed to defeat 3 bossed (turtle was easy , spider was hard , frog very easy) but K'tahu or the lord lizzard is driving me insane i really don't know how to beat him , i've tried every strategy i can think of but he still kills me with that summoning of his t-rexes

i play with the mage on normal dificulty. (level 26)


the troups i can select are rather limited : snakes , demons , wolves , tanks ,barbarians. (remeber i have to get by without joining any guild )

i've lost like 10 battles against the lord lizzard and nothing seems to do the trick. help

I'm struggeling with the same problem. Mage/impossible, 639 Thorn Warriors + Hagrid. Turtle, Spider and Frog were easy and so far no loss. Lizard lord however is truly impossible I have only 13% phys res. so although i'm hiding my thorns in the corner, T-rexes are doing more damage than hagrid can ress. Not to mention gorguanas with their mark of blood Plus i haven't got even stone skin in my existing game.

Maybe the solution is to start over, get both thorn hunter and warriors in main arena or prefebly Royal thorns and with luck, some psyh res items. I guess it would be foolish to hope the crown would spawn in main arena

So basicly i need thorns, phys res item(s), crown to get things going and they must all spawn in 2 places - what are the odds


EDIT!

DG post got me thinking that maybe it would be possible to use Trolls and their self-healing ability at night. They've got tons of HP and should survive T-rexes, while i'd flame arrow Lizard lord. Again, has anybody seen Trolls in main arena..?