New Melee Only PvP game - USwest

[)BoNes(]

Well, nearly all the people that I've talked to say that they miss the old Palapk, Drupk, etc. games. After trying (unscuccessfully) to create a druid only dueling league/game, I've thought it might be nice to start up a melee only dueling game. This is a joint idea that me and Aok_TekmInIbI thought of, as an alternative to all the bm games out there. The rules that we have so far proposed are:

Rules
-No Lifetap, Amp, Lower Resist, etc. % chance to cast items.
-No Lifetap, Amp, Lower Resist, etc. charges.
-No use of Exile
-No more then 1 absorb or +max res item per element on at a time *,**
-No use of CtA
-No use of Oak sage from HotO
-No use of Doom
-No use of HoW from Wisp projector
-No Enchant from Demon Limb ***
-No overly defenisive play ****
-No use of poison damage charms
-No use of Necromancer Summons (sorry no commandos ^^)

*Gaurdian Angel counts as all 3 elements, Rising Sun is banned.
**Two Raven Frosts ARE allowed,
***This is a rule niether me nor Tek could decide upon. If the majority of people wish to allow this, then it will be changed...but I do not think its necessary and all it would accompish is forcing everyone to have one.
****This could qualify as running away in order to replenish life, etc.

What qualifies as melee?
After much thought, we think that anything that requires you to be beside your opponent in order to hit them qualifies as melee. HOWEVER, the following skills are not allowed:
-Whirlwind
-Smite
-Rabies
-Charged Strike


As you can see, the rules are pretty simple, and rather similiar to the rules upheld in temple (but more melee oriented).

The proposed game will be

CHmelee / duel

Although this is up for change if people find it unfit.

That pretty much covers everything. Were hoping to find a way to keep this game up at all times, if anyone would like to help us with this it would be much appreciated. This should be up by the end of this week, although we don't expect it to have much interest at the start.

Thanks and hope to see you guys there :clap:

[TeKmInIbI]

Looks good Bones, we need someone to either help AFK in their when it's not made or someone to run a bot for us that will just sit in the room.
We would like this to be open to the public 24/7.


This will still need some input and some thought before we actually do set this up.

TeKmInIbI


Edit: I have already created a Fury Druid which i believe will do quite well, i encourage everyone to create a zealot, zeal-sorc, fury druid... anything considered melee and to come duel.

[Asheron]

Nice idea,hun this is gonna be fun!

[Div]

I'm 100% behind it. I can't wait.

[Buliarios]

I'm only 90% behind this, it needs to have ww allowd.
I really don't see why ww isn't counted as a melee attack.

[xtc_sazabi]

i made a conc barb, so i'm ready to rock. And if WW becomes legal, i'll bring that one too.

[)BoNes(]

Builarious please tell me how ww is a melee attack, other then the fact that you have to actually hit someone.

DoD owns every other melee build out there with the exception of a very well built smiter. Therefore it is not allowed, as this game would just turn into a barb vs barb competiton. Even the game sees whirlwind as a ranged attack (technically).

[Buliarios]

This is why its melee, It requires AR, it requires u to be near your target to hit them and it can be affected by Iron Maiden and thorns and stuff of that sort. Thats why it's melee the only difference it really has to other melee attacks is u move while doing it. Big dead!

[)BoNes(]

Refer to my above statement. Whirlind is the king of melee, seeing as how we want this to be fun it IS banned. This is not up for any arguement so consider this matter closed.