Editing Kronik's Colosseum Guide (section)

=== Armor/Shields ===
:At this point you will be asking what kind of armor do I need.  At first impression one would think you need fully tinked armor.  This is a tricky answer.  The better your armor you have on the better your chances of taking less damage is.  It is possible to do the colosseum with fully untinked armor.  I have done it on more than occasion.  I also have melee defense that is over 540 buffed.  I would suggest for inexperienced colosseum players to have fully tinked armor.  Down the road you can experiment with untinked armor.  Keep in mind I have only run in untinked armor cause I am working on making sets of armor and don't want to tink anything until it is 100% ready.  As far as shields go, I am not really sure what the best is to bring because I have yet to play a melee through the colosseum.  I can say from what I have seen from people they always have high armor level on it.  A few have used some quested shields but, they are the ones that have some sort of magic defense built in.