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[Unraveller]

Quarter-Final Match IV

Varick the Undying VS. Monty the Dark Gnome

Spoiler: Gladiators (click to show/hide)

-Varick the Undying- managed by variablenonsense
Kobold Round 1: 290 pts | Round 2: 328 pts | Round 3: 298 pts
[Equipment]
Platinum whip - 104 points
[Skills]
High Master Dodger - 404 points
Great Lasher - 330 points
Novice Swimmer - 2 points
---------------------VS.---------------------

-Monty the Dark Gnome- managed by FearsomeClarinet
360 + 360 + 372 Points
[Equipment]
112 Points: Steel Scourge
37.5 Points: Copper Buckler
15 Points: Copper Helm
24 Points: Copper Mail Shirt
7 Points: Leather Leggings
4 Points: Leather Gauntlets
5 Points: Leather High Boots
[Skills]
30 + 195 + 300 Points: Grand Master Lasher
89 + 107 + 45 Points: Accomplished Dodger
12 Points: Competent Armor User
24 + 16 Points: Skilled Shield User
27 Points Remain

Let's hope that we see some lovely drowning. I wanna see the light fade from a gladiator's eyes as they lose consciousness, being engulfed by the sea monster infested waters!

Varick the Undying, truly such. But only thanks to my surgery of course. I've put that little 'bold back together countless times! But still, the guy is truly a warrior, endless perseverance aids his fights through the tourney, but will it be enough?

Monty the Dark Gnome, now in the arena's possession due to the unfortunate passing of his manager, has been blasting through his fights excellently, well, maybe not so. After a match where the odds were stacked impossibly against him, he prevailed. Will we see such an outcome today?

Spoiler: Battle Gif (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Battle Log (click to show/hide)

I suppose not, looks like I'm going to have to revise water hazard, I must say, I'm a bit disappointing in its performance thus far. Not a single drowning! Ah well, congratulations to our semi-finalists!

[Arkansan]

A fine round of fights! Shame about Thud's match, I was hoping for a real slobber knocker. On a side note that damn snake is scary!

[foxtrot]

Curse ye poison resistance!

[Mavell_Duceau]

Some good fights there! Thud's shaping up to be a terrifying competitor. Pity sath lost though, i was banking on him after the eliminations.

[Immortal-D]

I muse that not only has every battle in Heat Stroke resulted in fiery death, every victim of the lava only fell in after having their hand attacked

[_italics_]

Sssath'sss time in the arena wasss ssso brief, but ssso tasssty!

[_italics_]

A fine round of fights! Shame about Thud's match, I was hoping for a real slobber knocker. On a side note that damn snake is scary!

I was a bit surprised at the sad performance of the serpent men in the previous round. They seemed to have a lot more potential. Now that damn scary snake King Tuticane has certainly redeemed them.

So, after devouring a few hundred practice elves and humans, he has decided on the following build, continuing on Master xub313's Armor-Serpent idea. He doesn't have legs, but he does indeed have arms, so some diamond adorned steel gauntlets are in order.

I present:

King Tuticane, the slayer of Uric of Battlefailed, devourer of Flakshed the Macebird and decloaker of Sath the Cloakbearer!

-King Tuticane- managed by _italics_
Serpent Man (250 points)
[Equipment]
Steel helm
Steel mail shirt
Steel breastplate
Steel leggings
Steel gauntlet [2]
[Skills]
Competent Dodger
Accomplished Biter
Grand Master Armor user

Remaining 211.4 points

Spoiler: Update info (click to show/hide)

(In round 3 he actually had 259 starting points from the remaining 4.5 points of round 2, so in this round he should have 250+(23.7*2) = 297.4 points, I believe.)

R1: 250
R2: 250 (4.5 left)
R3: 259 (9+14.7 = 23.7 left)
R4: 297.4

Steel Gauntlets [2] - 32 points
Accomplished -> Grand Master Biter - 200 points
Master -> Grand Master Armor User - 54 points
Remaining: 211.4 points

Good luck to Thud the Mad, hopefully his insanity shields him from understanding what will happen to him!

edit: Save points for finals instead of Grand Master Biter

[Arkansan]

Ok so for this round Thud has 270 due to leftover points.

So I'm going to upgrade his Sword skill to Grandmasters and his Dodge to Professional. Leaving him 36 points.

[DS]

Whoa, what an upset! Cerol, noooooooooo!

[Unraveller]

Alright, just need Varick and Klackon's updates. And then the semi-finals.

[Tesseract]

All right, here it is for Princess Klackon-Ktsss-Ktss:

points left from last level-up : 3

3* 2 + 250 = 256 (gotta love a nice round number)

high master dodger -> grand master dodger (70)
adept lasher -> accomplished lasher (135)

points left : 51

[Tesseract]

I have an idea for balancing smaller and bigger creatures. I think that Mavell was onto something with giving the bonus only on the first fight and afterwards keeping the amount of level-up points the same for everyone. A thing that we could do is give points to smaller creatures that can only be spent for equipment, and cannot be banked. The bonus value could be a function of weight, something like nbEquipmentPts = maxValue - (weight * coefficient). That way, smaller creatures dont end up with incredibly high skills and bankable points, yet keep an ongoing advantage.

I don't know what the exact formula should be. Logically, the biggest creature available should have near 0 bonus equipment points, and the smallest creature would have close to the max value. The amount of points given to every gladiator at each level should be around 250 I think. I believe that 500 points for a max value could work, but maybe it's too much.

[_italics_]

Interesting suggestion, Tesseract. Though, I think there is a lot of charm in having to balance equipment versus skills. Unarmored skilled gladiators vs. fully clad ones etc.

[variablenonsense]

ahm, please someone update varick with idk lasher and then fighter skills. I am on mobile briefly but typing is seriously not fun with my arm right now so I'd appreciate it  a lot.

  Sorry for any delay again. still loving reading the matches but sitting at my desktop to update hurts.

edit he should have 290+28 so 318 i believe

[Azhf]

Vari, you defeated me waaay back in round 1. Now go be a champion. I'd rather be a stepping stone to victory than a side character.

Also, a shame Cerol lost. I was rooting for him.