Dhuum with heroes

Killed u man

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

24 Mar 2011 at 14:37 - 1

Decided not to post this in the hero section, as this is not directly related to heroes and their skill bars.

Ok, so I managed to make a 7 hero build with my warrior that can reach Dhuum in UW in a reasonable time. (Without cons)

However, once I get to Dhuum, how exactly should I play it? Neither one of the wiki's, nor any thread on guru (Unless one of those million page threads which I refuse to read through) explains how one exactly beats Dhuum, let alone with heroes.

All the information I found is rather ambigious, some read you only need to "survive" untill Dhuum's rest is complete, other reads you have to have his health down to 20% BEFORE Dhuum's Rest is complete or it resets, and other read even other things. I obviously know you need to kill the minions, and not use encase skeletal (Which is no problem since I don't die anyways)

So please read this carefully before replying to my post:

Assume I just enter Dhuum's Hall with my 7 heroes. What do I do, and how do I do it?

That's all I need an anwser to, I don't need: "Dhuum is very dangerous, so watch out", as that's merely stating the obvious, as is "Kill minions first". Where do I stand? Where do I flag my heroes? Do I need PI? Do I even need to damage dhuum?

Thanks!

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

24 Mar 2011 at 15:20 - 2

Your lose condition is:
1. Your party wiped, or
2. All the Reapers were killed

Your win condition is:
1. Rest bar filled, and
2. Dhuum under 20% hp

Now, the bare minimum for victory is actually pretty low. Given time, the reapers will slowly fill up the rest bar, and then slowly damage Dhuum down. And only the skeletons directly attack the reapers (and Dhuum's AoE is not enough to kill them). So, you can do nothing but not die and pick off skeletons promptly and eventually win.

If you want to speed this up, damage Dhuum down to 20% while the reapers fill the rest bar. Direct damage works fine. PI is suggested here by the same people who suggest it everywhere because they don't know how to prot or disrupt (or deal direct damage effectively).

If you want to speed it up more, you sacrifice some team members (let them die and enter ghost form) to help the reapers fill the rest bar faster while you do the damage and pick off the skeletons. It can be hard to have people selectively die w/ a hero healer though, so maybe skip this.

Seems you already understand the problems with encase, but for anyone else who's reading: Skeletons heal while encased and then eventually break free. The more you encase, the bigger pile of (fully healed) skeletons you're going to have when they break out. Encase is pretty much reserved for "there's a skeleton on the reaper and the reaper has one hit to live" situation.

[edit:]
I guess one other note is in order: The DP touch skill is a pain, and a worse pain for hero teams. You can either bring party DP removal cons, or deal with the fact that he's going to touch out your melee (that means you as a warrior) and maybe some other people. Once you get two ghosts, the DP removal skill is usually enough to counteract the touches. The problem is that the party members who get ghosted are probably not those you'd choose.

meheezen

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

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24 Mar 2011 at 15:27 - 3

well, you get a dhuum's rest bar, much like ab capture points, wich need to be filled out before you rape dhuum, all reapers will ocasionally add a few points to that bar, it can take a while b4 it is full.

while the bar is been filled, you need to try survive dhuum's attacks and his minions, dhuum will often summon some skeleton minions... unlike skeletons you encounter throughout UW, minins dhuum summon now does not have "defence-ignoring" attacks, they are just a noyance, but can be trouble if you let him summon too much minions.

dhuum will also use his dhuum's judgement, wich deals a lot of dmg separated in diferrent waves, if you have PI, using it right after he casts dhuum rest can drop around 1/5 of his health, but if you kill him b4 dhuum's rest bar is full, you'll be kicked out of UW, so watch out.

dhuum is just a lame melee attacker, he usually hides himself and appears somewhere else close, nothing to worry about, his touch skill however, adds +5% DP, once anyone gets +60% DP and is struck by that touch skill again, he will die.

if anyone happens to die, they will be teletransported in a spirit form to the vale area, next to a npc wich can teleport you back to dhuum's room.. heroes don't/can't speak with the npc, so they will be away forever of they die

if you die while in spirit form, you can no longer be rezzed while dhuum is alive, so your body will just lie on the floor forever.

once dhuum's rest is full, and you kill him, UW chest will appear and you can then rez anyone who died and get your reward.

good luck, hope this helps