Warnings, Hints, and other knowledge about Doom

[kodoz]

Doom, so far the least known and in my opinion one of the two hardest dungeons in the game, has many many secrets. I hope to find and relay all of them to you as fast as i am able.

WARNINGS

1. If you keep your regs or other items in a bag inside your main bag, and you die, chances are your bag is gone. Through research i have found that 99% of the time when a monster loots you it will loot your bags first. One time when disorganization is helpful.

2. If you try to keep half of each reg in two bags, youre still in trouble. Age of Shadows ushered in the age of monster scavengers. Now monsters do not loot only one item from your corpse. Any time a monster loots you, he probably took 2 items.

3. Necromancers, if you havent noticed already, if you animate dead, and your animated critters kill something, you cannot loot it.

4. Always insure at least one nightsight item so you can see when youre rezzed.

5. In many areas in Doom there are the Kill tiles. These are what i call the tiles that get you killed horribly. In many corners of rooms in doom there are spots, that dont look anything out of the ordinary, and cannot be seen in any way. What they do is make you permanently paralyzed on that tile and you cant escape, except in one direction. So if you get stuck somewhere, try and run away from that spot in all directions.

6. Beware the Bone Daemon! Warriors, avoid it or be prepared to almost surely die! When fighting him, many fall because they forget to watch out for the patchwork skeletons, so dont make this mistake.

7. An odd but scary note is, While liches and lich lords can open doors, ravagers, flesh golems, gibberers, devourers of souls, rotting corpses, skeletal dragons and Bone daemons cannot. The problem is, for some idiotic reason, ZOMBIES CAN OPEN DOORS! IT IS SO INFURIATING TO DIE BECAUSE YOU WERE BEHIND A DOOR WITH A DEVOURER ON YOU AND A ZOMBIE OPENS THE DOOR! BEWARE THE ZOMBIES!

8. If you do not have the golden blessed skull, do not ring the bell of death! If Chyloth does come, and you dont give him the skull, YOU WILL DIE. He gives you about a minute to give him the skull. If you havent by then, A skeletal dragon will spawn on top of you no matter where you are inside Doom and kill you instantly. No, it doesnt hit you, it autokills you on spawning. Then if you get rezzed and its on someone else, but sees you, it goes straight after you even if the other person is attacking it. It is on an individual killing spree.

9. Be careful around the patchworks, they live to knock you off your mount.

HINTS

1. If you are doing the daemon bone quest, dont waste your time with stuff like patchworks or devourers. Go all the way to the top of the dungeon, hang a left, then turn right when the hall ends, and run through the sets of doors. The large room after the 3 sets of doors is the infamous poison gas room. It spawns Dark Guardians, a lich lookalike that drops 30 daemon bones apiece. Necros, summon horde minion for transport, others use a beetle or use bag of sending and carry all you can to her in increments.

2. Always carry a Silver weapon, and a non silver! youll need it! Greater heal and cure pots are highly reccomended!

3. In my opinion, if youre in Doom, and you see a guy fighting something but the guy is about to die, go heal them or stand in the way of his assailant. It always pays to have someone feel kindly towards you in a place of such death and chaos.

4. Its easy to forget, but always insure those bracelets and rings. they are worth it.

5. If you are in a party with guildmates only or with only people you know very well, allow them to help loot your corpse. If there is a single unknown in your party, set it so that they cannot loot you.

6. If you plan to go to the poison gas room, make sure you have the ability to hide or inviz, orange petals or a huge number of cure pots, and a fast connection. If you are outside the poison gas room, and the doors are locked, merely step back to the other set of doors and Telekinesis the locked gas room door. Open Sesame!

7. If you have a young player, or a friend who is a young player, get them to go with you to Doom. Doom hasnt been fixed yet to make it so that monsters will attack young players, because they forgot to institute the dungeon nullify young playerhood effect. Get the young player in a party with you, and they Have free reign to loot anything you kill and never get hurt! Young players are also unaffected by the Poison in the Poison gas room! USE YOUNG PLAYERHOOD TO THE FULL ADVANTAGE!

8. Even though most everything in Doom dispels, Energy Vortexes are the best defense and offense against all the following; Bone Daemon, Devourers, and skeletal dragons. Some things that are priority EV targets that cant dispel are the Rotting Corpses, and even though a dark guardian can cast magic like a lich, it cant dispel for some reason. Not that im complaining mind you...

9. If you are in and youre not solo, make sure you trust each others ability to crossheal. It will save you constantly.

10. Use full advantage of the fact that monsters cannot walk straight through you. If a monster is on someone else who just needs time to cast a spell, walk in the space that the monster would move to to get to the person fastest. that half second can mean the difference between energy vortex and death.

11. Never take your best items and equipments to Doom unless you have double checked that they are insured and that insure renewal is on. You will lose it.

12. If you helped kill a devourer, or a bone daemon or the like, and it looted someone, ask them what color bag they had looted. If they say the correct color and you looted it from monster, be courteous enough to give it back to them. Everyone is angry with those who keep the looted stuff from players off a monster. If noone had it looted, find someone who just died and if the bag is regs give it to them. It is insanely essential to have the regs to cast inviz if youre a mage.

13. Make sure you can run like the wind, and make sure you are confident in your ability to navigate the dungeon without a map. Learn the battlefield and take one advantage away from the monsters.

14. If you have chivalry, and someones pet is fighting something like a rotting corpse, and it gets super poisoned, use cleanse by fire. The more people left alive, the more people that can rez you and help you if you die.

If you have any advice/warnings/hints of your own, please feel free to post them

For if knowledge is power, who wants to be the 98 pound weakling?