I'm curious why damaging AOE is typically not allowed in tournaments when many pro-stealthers tell us that is our defense against stealth. Why isn't the response to complaints about AOE, "train shield", much like the response to complaints about stealth is "train perception"? Not trying to start a GvG argument, but something's wrong when we are expected to use other guilds' tools (eg CV runes) while being disallowed our own in order to be on more equal footing against an opponent. Probably the wrong folder for this, but this issue is specific to tournaments.

If there is only one 1 v 1 fight going on then AOEs(any kind) are usually allowed to my knowledge. What you want to avoid is casting chain lightning in the room with the hopes of affecting one person in stealth, when 4 other people are in the room which you don't want to affect.

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<<Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the reason AOEs were disallowed because of it being the counter to stealth.

Not wanting to hit bystanders is part of it. The other part is that there has always been a War Mage capable of killing everyone else in a tourney with a single AOE. Which kind of defeats the purpose of having a tourney.

I honestly don't understand why people who want to spectate in a tournament don't have a moonie use shadewatch mirror. Its been a long time since I've been to one but I vaguely remember this being done.

You get to see all the action at a safe distance, course you miss out when you see people hide but thats about it.
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>And the mirror only covers one room. It's easier to move around and follow the action on your own.

It'd be nice to see some official way of being a spectator, maybe a function that could be tied to a seating area that allows you to follow someone's view.

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Leilond beat me to it, the Arena mechanics are wonderful!

<<As a side note, outside of that I'm reasonably sure a mirror follows a person, not a room, so you do get to watch a whole fight in it.

Correct, except to clarify that a few things don't appear in the mirror and the follow mechanic isn't immediate. It pulses every few seconds and if the person is in a different location at a pulse then the mirror moves its focus to their new location meaning that its possible to miss stuff if the fight is mobile. The focus also breaks if they move indoors, but that's not usually an issue in a tournament.