The Norn Fighting Tournament is a minigame introduced in Eye of the North. It involves facing varoius oppponents by yourself in an arena. To access the tournament, speak to Magni the Bison and Gellir Frostshield in Gunnar's Hold.
Purpose[]
Obviously, the key is to have a good solo build. This guide will outline the skills and tactics needed to beat the opponents you will face in the Norn Fighting Tournament.
Tactics[]
- Your build must have:
- Enough offense to win the fight (note that the enemies do not need to be completely killed, but simply reduced to about 10% of their HP)
- This can be accomplished through direct damage or health degeneration.
- Enough defense to survive the damage dealt to you by the enemies
- This includes skills to block attacks, running skills to kite, and healing.
- Enough offense to win the fight (note that the enemies do not need to be completely killed, but simply reduced to about 10% of their HP)
The type of builds that work are entirely self-sufficient, and include builds originally designed to gank in GvGs and solo farming builds.
Attribute Selection[]
Note that the Paragon primary attribute Leadership is actually still useful in the Tournament, even though it is a solo battle. This is because the spectators watching you fight count as allies.
Skill Selection[]
Warriors[]
A warrior solo build involving skills like Riposte to cause damage while defending yourself.
Offense[]
Defense[]
Rangers[]
Offense[]
Degeneration[]
Burning Arrow- Poison Arrow
- Screaming Shot
- Hunter's Shot
- Apply Poison
- Barbed Arrows
- Poison Tip Signet
- By keeping constant degeneration on your opponent, most enemies will be defeated quite quickly.
Interrupts[]
- Broad Head Arrow
- Concussion Shot can be coupled with high expertise to act as BHA.
- Distracting Shot
- Disrupting Shot
- Savage Shot
Direct Damage[]
- Glass Arrows
- Read the Wind
- Crippling Shot can be used to snare enemies while taking them from a distance.
- Pin Down can be used in place of Crippling Shot to take a different elite.
- Keen Arrow
- Sloth Hunter's Shot
- Point Blank Shot
- Zojun's Shot
- Marauder's Shot
- Spam high-damage, low recharge attacks in combination with preparations to quickly damage your opponent.
Traps[]
- Dust Trap can be echoed and coupled with QZ and EW.
- Barbed Trap
- Flame Trap
- Piercing Trap should be coupled with Shell Shock for a great damage output.
- Snare
- Tripwire can be placed for a KD.
- Black Powder Mine can replace dust trap.
- Weakness Trap
Defense[]
Monk[]
A 55 solo monk build with Spoil Victor can actually work quite well, although some enemies do have enchantment removal.
Offense[]
Defense[]
Necromancer[]
Offense[]
- Angorodon's Gaze
- Blood of the Aggressor
- Bitter Chill
- Defile Enchantments
- Desecrate Enchantments
- Discord
- Grenth's Balance can also be used on a warrior to enhance survivability and cause large amounts of damage.
- Rend Enchantments very useful agains Brother Mhenlo, who uses a 55 monk build
- Insidious Parasite
- Necrosis can also be used on elementalists coupled with blind, weakness or CA for continous armor ignoring damage.
- Price of Failure
- Spiteful Spirit
- Spoil Victor can also be used on 55 monks to take down enemies with great ease.
Defense[]
Mesmer[]
Offense[]
- Empathy can be used, especially when paired with Signet of Midnight
- Backfire can be used against casters
- Echo can be combined with Arcane Echo and Ebon Vanguard Assassin Support and knockdowns/slows from other profession for easy wins in the tournament
Defense[]
- Signet of Midnight can be used to prevent damage from attacks
- Ignorance can be used to prevent Magni the Bison from using Purge Signet
- Spirit of Failure can be used with Signet of Midnight for energy management
- Spirit Shackles can be used for energy denial
- Ether Feast
- Drain Enchantment can be used as a self-heal
Elementalist[]
Offense[]
Defense[]
Assassin[]
Offense[]
- Moebius Strike
- Death Blossom can be coupled with MS.
- Disrupting Dagger
Defense[]
- Critical Eye can be coupled with Critical Agility, Critical Defenses and Way of Perfection.
- Critical Agility
- Critical Defenses
- Way of Perfection
- Crippling Dagger
- Blinding Powder
- Feigned Neutrality
- Shadow Sanctuary
- Signet of Malice can be coupled with Shadow Sanctuary.
- Heart of Shadow
- Shadow Refuge
- Shroud of Distress
- Smoke Powder Defense
- Viper's Defense
- Flashing Blades
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Ritualist[]
Ritualist binding rituals can actually be used to win the tournament very easily. By placing spirits in the doorway of the Arena, where the enemy will not attack you, and then using longbow (or similar range weapon) with luring him/her in, it is possible to beat all the opponents extremely easily (with the possible exception of Razah--who uses a similar strategy--but even he can be exploited if you understand the inherent flaws of basic spirits' mechanics). Beware Gwen's Spiritual Pain.
Offense[]
- Wanderlust
- Signet of Spirits
- Pain
- Bloodsong
- Disenchantment
- Shadowsong
- Dissonance
- Anguish
- Painful Bond
- Vampirism
