Thursday, January 31, 2013

RuneScape's Dominion Tower

Wow, since the Desert tasks have come out I've been spending most of my time in the Dominion tower... It's been a great ride. I'm up to 350 kills. Some of "Achievements" in the Dominion tower are (the one's I've done are crossed out):

  • Reach floor 5 in climber mode
    •  Additional taunt
  • Reach floor 10 in climber mode
    • Another additional taunt
  • Reach floor 15 in climber mode
    • Help horn (this is worth having since, when used, drops 5 scorpion meat)
  • Reach floor 15 in endurance mode
    • Yet another additional taunt
  • Reach floor 20 in endurance mode
    • better Dominion medallion, larger bonus and more teles per day
  • Reach floor 25 in endurance mode
    • Dominion crossbow (Dom weapons are amazingly powerful, this only unlocks the chance of getting one)
  • Suffer each and every type of handicap
    • Dominion Sword (unlocks the chance of getting one... SO WORTH IT *read notes below though)
  • Find half of the journal pages
    •  Diminutive bomb - Apparently these are based on Dominion factor, the higher you get, the better chance you have at getting one of these pages (sometimes multiple pages at a time)
  • Find all of the journal pages
    •  Massive Bomb power up
  • Dominion Factor of 10,000 and all the journal pages
    • Colossal Bomb - Chances are, you'll get this and the massive bomb power up at the same time... by the time you get this you may well have over 2m Dominion Factor
  • Use the Help horn and all 3 types of bomb power-ups in the arena
    • Okay, so you can't do the special and get this done right away, which would had been super convenient... you have unlock the bombs first, then get them in the chest, then use them
  •  Kill 100 bosses
    • Dominion marker at stage 1 - Any creature you fight in the Dominion tower is a boss... This is great for slayer tasks... you get a boost... here's a link for the details... it's pretty slick.
  • Kill 200 bosses
    • Dominion marker at stage 2 - an upgraded version of the marker
  • Kill 300 bosses
    • Dominion marker at stage 3 - yet another upgraded version
  • Kill 400 bosses and fight all Special matches
    • Dominion mines - when you unlock these, you can buy them outright 10k for 10 mines... worth it? Up to you... If you can afford it, I'm sure they're worth it
  • Kill 450 bosses and spectate a match
    • Dreadnip - Well worth it
  • Kill 500 bosses
    • Ascendancy mines (not sure what this is about yet)
  • Kill all bosses in set 1 and 500 bosses
    • Goliath gloves
  • Kill all bosses in set 2 and 500 bosses
    • Spellcaster gloves
  • Kill all bosses in set 3 and 500 bosses
    • Swift gloves
  • Complete all other achievements
    • Dominion marker at stage 4 and ability to visit the top of the tower
I think I'm about halfway done *Edit: Completely done!!! YAY!!! with all of the requirements for the Desert task - Elite, and almost done for the Desert task - Hard... Man this is a pain to get... Seriously though... if you can, get your prayer up to 95... this helps SO MUCH! It's insane.

Just a few notes about some of the bosses, currently the Dagganoth mother 2 is glitched. She'll change colors and when you go to the corrosponding attack, it won't work. You'll have to mix it up to figure out what is what. Not even fair, but hope RuneScape fixes this. Also, Zeneviva, for me, was a huge pain to kill... took a bunch of food for me to knock her out... but all you need to do is remember to kick her when she's on the pedestal. She'll tell you you're rude, and then you can go about your business of smacking her around. Damis, Fareed, Kamil and Dessous... they were a pain until I started moving in a way where they line up... I make sure Fareed is somewhere in the middle or even the back of the line and I mage him, then I re-equip melee. In this group make sure you don't do an attack where you attack all, otherwise you'll get swarmed pretty quick. Karamel and Gelatinnoth I start attacking Karamel and when Gelatinnoth (wow, that's a mouthful) turns brown, I attack (melee) that gel creature, when it goes back to another color, go back to Karamel. Dagannoth sentinels... just go right between them and it's a little easier since they can't heal. Pest Queen... you don't need Korasi's sword to kill her... but when you do fight her, make sure you have a super high powered weapon, and when she rears back to charge her super attack, use the backhand ability. Sometimes this won't work, but most of the time it will.

My gear: (The following are equipped)Bandos plate, tassets, and boots, the Dominion medallion, Neitz helm, Vine Abyssal whip, DFS shield,  Warrior ring, (the following are in my inventory) Overload potion, SOL, fire, water, air, and earth runes, Dragon pickaxe, Dragon mace, and an inventory of scorpion meat with two slots open for the stake and hammer or the Balmung. If I can get away with it, I won't eat unless I get some serious bosses like the Pest Queen, Avatar, or, of course, Nomad... otherwise, everything resets... health and prayer. Also, I don't pot unless I have a serious boss.

The specials... wow, they're hell... man they're terrible. Sunfreet, I thought was the most difficult... but actually, if you can figure out the pattern of the flames, and you mage it with a shield, you're super set to go. I have Indigestion and Nomad No More to finish and I'm set for the specials. I think I can beat the Nomad No More with only 3 dominion swords, 1 Super prayer flask, 1 Overload potion, and pray... not even Saradomin brews. Of course, I'm going to go in with more than that... I'm chicken hehe. I'm really excited about the Dreadnips too. I've seen some videos and they're really helpful dealing non type damage, not melee, not mage, and not range... just good old pre-EOC damage.

Man I can't wait to finish the Desert achievement tasks...

Oh, and the disclaimer about the Dominion Tower weapons... they degrade super quick. I used him for Nomad and with one sword took out most of his Life points... he was down to berserker mode and my one and only Dominion sword disintegrated... how sad... but I learned what I needed to know.

If you have any questions about this, or anything else, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Happy Scaping!

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