Guide:Norn Fighting Tournament

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 offence 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 do you by the enemies
    • This includes skills to block attacks, running skills to kite, and healing.

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, Deadly Riposte and Auspicious Parry

Rangers

Offence

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.

Direct Damage

• Sloth Hunter's Shot
• Glass Arrows
• Read the Wind
• Point Blank Shot
• Zojun's Shot

Spam high-damage, low recharge attacks in combination with preparations to quickly damage your opponent.

Monk

A 55 solo monk build with Spoil Victory can actually work quite well, although some enemies do have enchantment removal.

Necromancer

Offence

• Angorodon's Gaze
• Blood of the Aggressor
• Bitter Chill
• Defile Enchantments
• Desecrate Enchantments
• Discord
• Insidious Parasite
• Necrosis
• Price of Failure
• Spiteful Spirit
• Spoil Victor

Defence

• Enfeeble
• Faintheartedness

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 luring him in, it is possible to beat all the opponents extremely easily (with the possible exception of Razah who uses a similar strategy).