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Seen but again with afk system its so fast u really wouldn't notice ur there for less then 2seconds. Some lag shits ur longer there then that for legit reasons

Wait is this against the rules? Shit. There goes my flawless win record

Lld has brought me a lot of fun this season, I think we all enjoy it. Let's just try to find common ground and have a consistent ruling and understanding of the rules in place. It's inevitable some kids are gonna find ways to use mana pots. Especially since a few llders have openly expressed "this is ladder I'm not going to have the charms to duel without using mana pots" but in my experience in lld diff chars have diff rules. As it is true Druids necros and assn can prebuff at Lvl 18 zons and pallies really can't. So maybe this could be a class exception? But I guess that would make it unfair if only 2 chars can change gear. Just needs to be a clear ruling on it, If I had a resist shield vs a max dmg shield I would change it out myself in situations if it was allowed as a pally. I don't think anyone is upset just wanting confirmation

All very true
I put my thoughts and concerns out on the table and you all have valid points im just looking for overall fairness and trying to eliminate possible bm situations is all

Everyone who participated in the last set of duels can make a group decision whether or not to re-run the ft5.

From now on, there will be no gear swapping after the first match has begun.

It is now set in stone as a rule, from here on out.

As for those duels, you all can decide what you want to do.

God has spoken.

my view on all of this:

we all dueled prior to the official ft5. it isnt like it was a surprise what kind of set up we had going on. raz could have swapped a dmg shield for a res shield long before the first official duel.
this wasnt a random duel that came about from a dick measuring contest. everything has been posted for the duel for over a week now.

Yes but I was expecting to be dueling 1x trapper 1x blade fury not 2x fire trappers with next of no blade fury ..

This is fine now its known ... The duel should be redone tho as before there was no such rule / reason I could swap