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Is there anyway to cover protection and flight as a gladiator?

@Magick I wouldn't go as far as to say that exactly. There's what, two of them? Out of all the times I located it or saw it, all but two were held by an Evil aligned character or Good aligned character. The two exceptions being Merchants, though I lump in Gubeda by himself and Panek/Manek together since I'm almost positive Panek gave it to Manek at one point to try and sell due to having a lot of extra rares on hand. It would give the edge to someone else if it were made with all of those restrictions above, but it also means that Neutrals couldn't stack resistances. Since most neutrals outside of Watcher wouldn't have built in enemies through vendettas, they'd need a good reason to PK anyways, especially if they intend to do so as a focus which leaves them with Syndicate or Tribunal. Or in other words outside of just getting things to become a target to ultimately just lure PKs to them, they may not ever need to use it at all. Where as a Good or Evil are more open in terms of PK so using it would be of greater use since they need less of a reason to kill one another and in terms of killing Neutral as a Good, you typically aren't going to see them getting killed by Goods left and right though the opposite may is true of Evil aligned characters.

As far as the dragon wings though @Manual Labour's thought process actually sounds the most logical in terms of reasoning since Dragons are large and have great sized wings, small races wouldn't be able to benefit from wearing them.

1 hour ago, Manual Labour said:

protection issue with gladiators and what I find odd is that there are still ways to get protection as an affect which is way stronger than consumable form since it cannot be dispelled.

You are right, although it comes at the cost of using a prime EQ slot. When I play a savant, my first looting priority is taking those protection items. Sure they can't be dispeled, but they can be taken and are hard to replace.

5 hours ago, Manual Labour said:

 The problem of fighting other goods will still be an issue for her if ever cabal warfare forced a good on good fight. The enemy will surely have protection from good and Mya will be a sitting duck.

Evil can use protection from evil. Everyone knows it.

Good can now use protection from good? News to me.

Only scenario where good vs good is possible is good adju vs good criminal and even then the adju should step back if at all possible and leave that fight to non-goods.

All other cabal wf excludes goods, aka they must only retrieve but should not try to take the standard if only a goody defender is on.

4 minutes ago, Fool_Hardy said:

Evil can use protection from evil. Everyone knows it.

Good can now use protection from good? News to me.

Pretty sure if a good quaffs a tribal potion they will get protection from good.

52 minutes ago, Manual Labour said:

1 hour ago, Fool_Hardy said:

Evil can use protection from evil. Everyone knows it.

Good can now use protection from good? News to me.

Pretty sure if a good quaffs a tribal potion they will get protection from good.

They can.  Why wouldn't they?

The thing is with the exceptions Anume outlined and challenges, they generally don't need to

Agreed, that's why I said a goodie gladiator is probably a little more viable than an evil one. But there are always edge cases where good on good combat can happen and the good gladiator will be at a disadvantage.