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I think it was in the five champions' pregame or the out of the barrier in TFL, it talks about an armor, that if you wear it you are tireless in battle.

is this the armor Balor wears? Do we know who made it and if so, when it was made?

(trying to gather info for my project)

and how about the Balmung?

Alric was out looking for armour, then when captured Balor him Balor seemed to get lovely armour for himself. There's some debate over why the head sent Alric looking - check Myth.Bungie.org. Goes on for ages.

There's no reason to assume that Balor is wearing that particular suit of armor, or that it exists at all. The Head was treacherous. The one journal entry that mentions the armor already starts to give hints that The Head was a lying bastard.

A-Red wrote:There's no reason to assume that Balor is wearing that particular suit of armor, or that it exists at all. The Head was treacherous. The one journal entry that mentions the armor already starts to give hints that The Head was a lying bastard.

I think Balor did find the armor, but it's mostly circumstantial.

Did the berserks who lopped off Balor's head attack his neck soley because it was the one gap in the armor that they could get to, or because it was part of Alric's plan, or both?

Woulda been hard to throw the whole thing in the Devoid. Especially since apparently only Dwarves can carry Balor-bits.

haha only dwarves can carry balor bits.

hmm but that kinda sucks. its more than likely that balor's armor isnt the one the head sent alric to look for, and that the armor might not have existed in the first place

It does say that Alric was told the armor would make its wearer 'invulnerable to attack,' which Balor obviously wasn't - unless of course the Eblis Stone counteracted the armor's power.

The Heads dishonesty notwithstanding, it's totally possible Balor had 'that' suit of armour. It's really a non-issue - one can either dismiss the entire thing as a ploy to fool Alric into a trap, or one can use it as a basis for a map (like, ya know.... race Balor to the suit or something.... I dunno!).

Nice armor that's not resistant vs berserk swords. ^^

Not resistant?

Why does it take them 45 secs of non-stop hacking to kill him then?

cuz zerk blades are dull as falk!

My guess is the Eblis Stone immobilized him, and counteracted the magics at work protecting Balor, and the Armor.

Cobalt 7 wrote:My guess is the Eblis Stone immobilized him, and counteracted the magics at work protecting Balor, and the Armor.

But then, how are you able to damage him alot just before (or after) he destroys the Standard in The Last Battle? If it wasn't for his powerful lightning attacks he could be killed before the final confrontation.

Perhaps.

But if you also recall, in Beta, Myth:TFL, even on Timid, was significantly harder than it's present incarnation. I doubt Bungie expected Players to cause any significant damage to Balor on any difficulty. Players were expected to sit down, and shut up while Alric and Balor talked. That would then make the impact of the Eblis stone all the greater.

But then they nerfed it a wee bit. So players who planned ahead, and knew the unit locations, etc, could Ambush Balor.

But you know as well as I do that doing so crashes the level, so to speak, as it breaks almost all of the scripting, and there's no way to end the level.

Cobalt, I've always wondered about the origin of "Okay, Okay, DON'T Frogblast the ventcore." (your sig).
Oni's Comguys (also voiced by Doug "Voice of BoB" Zartman) happen to say that exact phrase sometimes.
I assumed that Easter egg was referring either (indirectly) to Marathon or (directly) to some other Bungie stuff.
If it indeed occurred elsewhere, could I have more info on the references please? It's for our Oni Galore wiki

Interestingly, Balor also makes a cameo appearance in Oni
And there's some ambient music from TFL and SB, too.