Are these still the most accurate rules for tpk and or pub dueling gm?
Consumables:
- No consumables other than mana potions, arrows, and bolts.
- No prebuffing. (Inventory/cube buff allowed.)
- You may stack arrows in the Blood Moor before starting a duel.
- You may stack mana potions before starting a duel.
Items:
- No item charges are allowed with the exception of Oak Sage, Enchant, Teleport, and Heart of Wolverine.
- Doom is banned.
- Slow is capped at 10%.
- Max resistance is 85%. (Exceptions are listed under class allowances)
- No more than 450 total cold resistance (Bonus displayed on character screen) or 420 total cold resistance with raven frost.
- Max absorb is 20%.
- Cannot use flat absorb in combination with % absorb to the same element
- When using absorb (% or flat) do not exceed 80% max resistance to the same element.
- Life rep is capped at 40, NOT including + rep from CTA.
- No more than one poison damage small charm is allowed.
- Only one item that grants CtC Life Tap can be worn at a time.
- When using Phoenix, all monsters must be redeemed before dueling.
Amazon Specific Rules:
- More than one point into strafe is not allowed.
- SM is not allowed
- 2x Raven Frosts allowed (Can not have more than 325 total cold resistances (Bonus displayed on character screen).
- No poison items allowed on amazon such as (Raimbow facets, bramble, death web…)
- 1 point plague allowed
Assassin Specific Rules:
- Dual Claw Assassins with more than 1 hard skill point in any trap cannot use absorb or + max resist. Those without may use +5 max resist or 20 absorb but not both.
- Dragon claw is banned.
- Dragon tail is banned.
- Dragon Flight is banned against sorceress.
- No more than 66% open wounds. Chaos+Fury is ok since only main hand %OW is applied. (due to broken block/dodge mechanics)
Barbarian Specific Rules:
- 2x Raven Frosts allowed (Can not have more than 325 total cold resistances (Bonus displayed on character screen).
- Dual Hoto is not allowed ( for leap purpose).
- Combat Skillers are banned.
Druid Specific Rules:
- Poison Creeper and Carrion Vine are banned. (due to frame rate issues)
- Tgods is gm on druid if ur using 163 FCR
Necromancer Specific Rules:
- Bone Spirit and Teeth are banned for NvN (1v1 only)
- Bone Wall is banned
- More than 1 hard skill point in lower resist or poison nova is banned
- Bone Prison is allowed only versus characters that can teleport
- All curses are allowed except Iron Maiden, Decrepify, and Life Tap
- Corpse skills are banned
- May use +15% max fire resist
Paladin Specific Rules:
- Holy Freeze is allowed only versus characters than can teleport
- When skilling resist auras do not pass the allowed absorb limit (85 or 80/20)
- Hammerdins may use +15% max fire resist (Must be true hammerdin build)
- Activating a resist aura is banned (Exception: Salvation)
- Meditation, Prayer, Holy Bolt, and Redemption are banned
- More than 1 hard skill point in Prayer is banned
- Cleansing is not banned however using it other than the purpose of removing curses or reducing poison duration is not allowed
Sorceress Specific Rules:
- No max resist or absorb gear when using Energy Shield (Exception: Nightwing's Veil)
- Non-Energy shield sorcs may use +15% max fire resist
- All damage reduced by integer (MDR + PDR) is capped at 20 (ES only)
- Energy shield sorcs (any percent) may not use mana potions
- Energy shield sorcs (any percent) may not use oak sage
- No stash precast allowed.
This post was edited by Nataraja on Jan 12 2026 12:28pm
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