Editing Kronik's Colosseum Guide (section)

=== Spell Duration/Sticky Buffs ===
:The colosseum run is for 60 minutes.  This means if you have level 7 only buffs with no augmentation for longer spells it is not possible to make it through the colosseum on your buffs.  You will either have to have someone else buff you, your armor, and your weapons that have more than 1 hour buffs.  Since level 8 spells last longer than level 7 you can buff yourself with 8's with no augmentation and be ok.  My suggestion is to get the longer buffs because it will help you with more than the colosseum.  The other thing to consider is when you die in the colosseum you don't lose items but, you do lose your buffs.  Keep in mind I did say when and not if you die in the colosseum.  It is going to happen on a run at some point no matter how careful you are.  It has happened to me on more than one run where we did win.  If you have people dying left and right that is not going to work but, 1 person dying on the run is not going to cause a catastrophic failure.  It will slow you down some but, you can recover or survive it.  With this being said when you die the most important thing is to get your butt back in the room as fast as possible as you will have to run into each and every room you came through when you died.  This sucks if you are in later rooms like 15 and beyond like 18.  If you don't have sticky buffs then you are going to have to rebuff life and creature buffs as the items will still be on.  This is 2 to 3 minutes of time that you just don't have in the colosseum.  Am I saying sticky buffs are a must, no.  I am saying without them you can cause a run to fail.  Be aware of that as your fight so you can watch your health closely and don't die.  If you do die and have vite it is not like you can go run and kill a bunch of stuff to work it off.  I would suggest to have your lifestone at the Dark Island and have a Dark Island trophy to hand in or have a colosseum miniboss token on you to hand in for instant experience points.  I myself have a few colosseum tokens on me, so when I die I portal recall, give my token, and run the doors as fast as possible.  I like that better then the Dark Island trophies.

* {{Icon|Archmage's Endurance}} [[Archmage's Endurance]] (at least 1)
* {{Icon|Enduring Enchantment}} [[Enduring Enchantment]]