Woody's Diablo Asylum
Muscle Mages!

by Charles Warren and Gyrefalcon

Requirements for a Muscle Mage:

You must create a new mage and designate him with an (MM) to indicate that you're playing the muscle mage subtype.

Weapons: A Muscle Mage (or MM for short) shows off their massive muscles by refusing to use any non-unique weapon without a strength requirement. If the weapon is a spell stave, it must be drained of all charges before being used.

Only the following unique weapons may be used by a Muscle Mage:

Bloodslayer
Hellslayer
Sharp Beak
The Cranium Basher
The Bonesaw
The Grizzly
Storm Spire
Staff of Shadows
Doombringer
Stonecleaver
Hammer of Jholm
Gryphon's Claw

Armor: Any armor used by a Muscle Mage must have a strength requirement, and the requirement 3 * clvl or 90, whichever is lower (so you can always wear full plate).

Helms: A Muscle Mage can wear any helm with a strength requirement.

Shields: A Muscle Mage can wear any shield with a strength requirement.

Jewelry: All jewelry worn by a Muscle Mage must make him either stronger or tougher. One of the following must be the suffix for the jewelry: strength, might, power, giants, titans, vitality, zest, vim, vigor, life, sky, moon, stars, heavens, zodiac, fox, jaguar, eagle, wolf, tiger, lion, mammoth, or whale. As long as the item has one of the approved suffixes, any prefix is allowed.

Spells: A Muscle Mage may use a scroll at any time to cast a spell. The following spells are permissible to cast at any time from memory: Healing, Telekinesis, Stone Curse, Teleport, Phasing, Town Portal, Golem, and Heal Other. Mana Shield is allowed to be cast only in Nightmare or Hell difficulties. Should a Muscle Mage perish in an attempt to clear the dungeon, he may use any spell to clear away the monsters surrounding his gear. Once the gear is retrieved, the limitations go back in force.

Items 'of Corruption': Much like a Beyond Naked Mage, the Muscle Mage places great value on items of Corruption. There are two things that a Muscle Mage can do with an item of Corruption: streaking and conquering. Streaking is performed much in the same way as a Beyond Naked Mage. The Muscle Mage takes all of their items off except for the item of Corruption. They then enter the dungeon and attempt to run as far into the dungeon as possible before dying. If they retrieve their item, they become Streakers of the nth Order, where n is the dungeon level that they reached. Conquering is the ultimate goal for a muscle mage. To Conquer, a Muscle Mage must equip the item of Corruption along with their regular gear and enter the dungeon using the crack behind Pepin's house. The goal is then to defeat Diablo without dying. If the Muscle Mage dies, they must retrieve their gear and start over from scratch. While conquering, the mage may return to town as often as he likes.

Trading: Mucle Mages may accept any legit items that they can use except items of Corruption.