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'''''A Worthy Foe''''' is the {{EEC|Magician}} silver [[Class Challenges|challenge]].  In this challenge, you must take on the second part of the Grand Wizardry tournament and defeat the Illusionist.

== Preparations ==
You can bring a [[Mage Tower]] prep.

== Resources Available ==
This dungeon has a standard assortment of glyphs, boosters, potions, and gold.  {{g|BLUDTUPOWA}} is guaranteed to spawn, along with the usual {{g|BURNDAYRAZ}}.  There are only two altars, and they are always either {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}}, {{g|The Earthmother}}, or {{g|Mystera Annur}}.  There are no shops.

==Special Rules==

In additional to their usual traits, all enemies have {{t|Corrosive}}, {{t|Poisonous}}, {{t|Mana Burn}}, and {{t|Weakening}}.

==Monsters==

{{m|Druid}}, {{m|Acid Blob}}, {{m|Warlock}}, {{m|Dragon Spawn}}, {{m|Djinn}}, {{m|Slime Blob}} are all guaranteed to appear.

Monster difficulty is 130%.

==Bosses==

'''The Illusionist''' (South): {{GoSo}} icon, 77 attack, 206 health, {{t|Magical Attack}}, {{t|Physical Immune}}, {{t|First Strike}}

'''The Illusionist''' (Southwest): {{GoSo}} icon, 77 attack, 206 health, {{t|Magical Attack}}, {{t|Physical Immune}}, {{t|Weakening}}

'''The Illusionist''' (Southeast): {{GoSo}} icon, 77 attack, 206 health, {{t|Magical Attack}}, {{t|Physical Immune}}, {{t|Corrosive}}

'''The Illusionist''' (Northwest): {{GoSo}} icon, 77 attack, 206 health, {{t|Magical Attack}}, {{t|Physical Immune}}, {{t|Poisonous}}

'''The Illusionist''' (Northeast): {{GoSo}} icon, 77 attack, 206 health, {{t|Magical Attack}}, {{t|Physical Immune}}, {{t|Mana Burn}}

Defeating any illusionist will grant its unique trait to the others, and all Illusionists drop a {{EEI|Bag o' Tricks}}.  When damaged, the Illusionist swaps between {{t|Physical Immune}} and {{t|Magic Immune}}.

== Strategy ==
This challenge can be pretty intimidating, with 5 bosses to fight and every enemy having nasty traits.  Fortunately, you do have a lot of advantages you can use.  As a {{EEC|Magician}}, you are well suited to enemies with nasty traits - you can avoid them by fireballing them down and slowing them to avoid getting hit, or you can strip debuffs off a bunch of enemies using Smoke and Mirrors.  You also have access to {{s|BLUDTUPOWA}} to help you take out enemies without getting hit.  Additionally, while there are only two altars, they are guaranteed to be devoted to gods that synergize well with your class.

This dungeon favors {{r|Gnome}} and {{r|Elf}} Magicians due to how difficult it can be to physically fight the enemies here.  Both races have their advantages - {{r|Elf}} can help you get off the ground and get higher level kills, and {{r|Gnome}} has more spiking power for the boss.  You can either save glyphs to slow the bosses or convert them early after positioning enemies to create good targets with no debuffing traits - as an {{r|Elf}}, the second approach is generally better since it lets you get a big mana pool early.

Any of the gods can work here.  Try to find one early to help you get going - {{g|Jehora Jeheyu}} and {{g|The Earthmother}} are especially helpful at low levels.

You should use gods to reach level 6 or 7, then set up a catapult to take on the first boss.  Try to pick the one with the least damaging trait, since all other bosses will get it afterwards.  Generally, this is the boss with {{t|First Strike}}.  {{t|Mana Burn}} is the generally nastiest trait on the bosses and should probably be saved for last.  Once you get some bosses down, you can use the {{EEI|Bag O' Tricks}} they drop to help you spike the other bosses.