My first time in N RO was in group camping Derv 1. I was lvl 14 enc with a 13 druid, 13 cleric, and 3 lvl 13 tanks. We lost 2 the first fight because some dingbat had to pull him and a Derv, but after a Stratagy lecture, we took him easy with no losses! He is as resistant as hell even with Tash! The key is proper group strats ... the basics. Cleric heals, druid damage shield, i buffed and nuked. Killed 6 times without a loss all 13-14.
At lvl 25 he wiped me out in about 3minutes..I am a 27warrior now, but he still beat me. He conned green at the time. it was going smoothly until he went into a beserker frezy thingy and he started double attacking for 45..Ouch!
Me, a 12 rogue, and a full group, level 12 cleric, 12 enchanter, 12 wizzy, 14 necro and another rogue nuked this guy! once, no loot, then, he came again, and kicked our @$$
My level 20 warrior (with like at least 115 in every combat stat and 650 hps widleing the awesome 34/46 Felhammer) can bring him down to a bout half health before biting it. At level 17, me and an 18 cleric friend ganged up and handed his *** to him, she just kept smiting and i whacked away at him. He's not too tough if you have healers, or nukers, he deals mega damage but he has less hit points than his level would suggest. so the key is to get a high ac tank, and just nuke him with magic, because his AC is very high and it's hard to hit him with conventional weaponry.
Ive killed him many times he is definately an undercon, piece of cake with my 30 pally though did take a good 350 hp off of me.... if your camping him under lvl 20 I recommend a good group - good luck to you all
I was with a group camping dervs when he popped.since im not kos i thought i would try to talk to him.After saying Hail to him he asks if u r looking for shelter or are there to attend to business.You say "im here to attend to business" and he will say he does not reconize u and ask who sent u. Anyon know who to say sent u?
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Posted:Mar 08 2001 at 3:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Why is it that he cons about 16 but is more like 23? And why is he at a popular newbie hunting area? TO ANNOY US AND WASTE OUR TIME! dying=time=money for Verant.
Get over it.. no zone is completely safe. Griffins and HG's are in the commonlands, sand giants are in Oasis and S. Ro, and Tier Dal's and those irritating brownies are in lesser Fay. Snow orcs and ice giants are in Everfrost, undead cyclops is in S. Karana.. I could go on forever.
Dorn is pretty much like Gix in WC. He's underconned, very MR and annoying too.
the pic you have of dorn is really old -- he looks much cooler now and ive been enjoying exacting my revenge on his skull -- ill send a better pic later
Does this dude actually drop a Dragoon Dirk? It seems like this weapon would be a little high for his (the NPC's) level. But if this is merely an easy way to obtain the Dragoon Dirk, I ain't complaining. Does anyone know how often this drops off him. If anyone does, please post it here, and thanks for your time.
Yes he does drop the Dragoon Dirk, I got one off him, as did a friend. Not sure how frequent he does this, haven't stayed to kill him more than 5 times to tell.
I was wandering around one day and decided to check out the Dervish camp. I was standing in front of one of them when Dorn came charging up. He conned green to my 24 level barbarian warrior. I was suprised he agroed me. After he finished beating the snot out of me, I knew why. After running back from Highpass and recovering my corpse I tried him again (this time with Sow) to see if it was a fluke or something. This time I was able o run to a zone before he killed me. This guy is way under conned, at least to this barb warrior.
I was lvl 22 paladin. Having old scores to settle, I went after Dorn. Having SOW and using LoH, I was able to kill him, ( He coned green), When he spawn again he still coned green, but this time I was VERY close to die. When he spawn the next time, he coned BLUE. I went away. Be really carefull and con him every time. It's seems that his REAL lvl is between 22 and 27.
I just killed Dorn with my lvl 20 Wizard. I got very nice xp, and also the only item he looted was Cat's Eye Agate, a spell component for the Wizard spell Shieldskin. I thought that was rather odd considering he strictly a melee fighter =)
Of course, he must of thought that I was you because he got me instead. The guards don't interfere with his killing (well, at least of me), I trained him in and never saw him coming.
When me and 4 others were camping the derv camp where Don spawns, he popped up. We made short work of him, but then a Dark Elf Spy popped up.2 units of the group where killed while the others cut him down to size, though it took considerably longer than Dorn himself. After we thought our battle was over, a kind of spider (it's name escapes me), came and attacked us. He wasn't very hard, but seeing as we had just battled to tough guys in a row, he gave us a run for our money. This was a black spider with a red dot on it. Anyway, the moral of the story is, don't kill Dorn unless your are also ready to take on his friends.
One day i was wondering around north ro with my lvl 17 wizard. Dorn spawned and so i got the help of a lvl 16 paladin. We droped dorn no problem. He isnt as bad as people say. Another time when my wizard was lvl 14 i had a group of me, a 14 rogue, 15 shadow knight, and 15 warrior. We went there, killed dorn and the spy with no one getting killed.
i agree. i soloed him 4 times in a row with my 17th druid. sowed myself. dotted him. ran away. when dot ran out, i casted it again. so, it took 15 mins to kill him. it worked. but he didn't give me a single thing.
My druid solo'd this POS at 16, but it was close. Just SOW, DOT, run, med around entrance to FP. Don't waste mana on snare cuz it won't work. Save that last bit of mana for shield of thistles and let him impale himself (you should be at full health if you've kited him successfully to this point). The worst part is following and medding for the last few nukes to finish him off, cuz he's so hard to hit with melee. Fun to do, but not worth the effort.
me and my group were camping the devs and he popped. Witha pally tanking me (rogue) and the sk killed him after a small fight while a high lvl shaman like 40 or something whatched. Then the spy spawned luckily the shaman killed him. then the mite attacked me while the shaman hit it with some king of a dd. during all this the corpse of this bad a$$ **** disapeared. So what does he drop?Man he hit me for 37 !ouch at 15.
Hello, Well ive heard much info about dorn and ill share with you what i know for sure ... since when i was 15 in a full group in share wolfform by a very nice druid 39 passing near :-) i killed him with my group (full kills i mean ..youll read later) time has passed and since im an iksar monk i decided to see whats this mysterious book he drops... so azurescale monk 28 decided to kill dorn by itself ... hum hum result: dorn 1 me 0 ... Feign death saved my life once again :-) so i wanted to do it again and COOL i suceeded : fought dorn at half life he turns to flee i killed him - - -> poof a dark elf spy spawn (a necro) with protected skin from blows like some rune or some kind ... after some blows i managed to kill him and lived through 2 DOT on my face POOF a widow mite spawned ! since i had only 1 bub left and 2 dot i decided to sit ... and lived with only 40 hp (the widow mite ran towards north)
today im 31 and i decided to claim revenge ! poof in 30 secs dorn is dismembered after 30 other sec the dark elf spy is slain too and finally killed the widow mite !!!
loot it and find : The Charrasis Tome a book that dont speak of ... this broodlin has reached age oof rebirth and so and so and master glox like i read in some post !!! nope ! the bok has about 10 pages and tell the story of one of the iksar tribes that rules kunark with an interesting story of Venril Sathir , his wife reposing in a crypt in the plains of the Overthere and his son... and a cult of some kind that kept the key to her wife guarded by i dont remember who ...
i believe the crypt the book is talking about is Howling Stones in the overthere which key is in kaesora the book is lore no drop i can make screenshots and post them.
that is one of the way of killing Dorn ... now sneak... hail him ... tell him you are here to "attend to business" he will say he doesnt know you and who has send you ! "tell him that zimbittle has sent you and thats where all changes !!! he tells you that hes not sure to thrust you if you come from grobb (or oggok i dont remember anywhay trolls / ogres its the same from me :-pp)
and he ASKS FOR A PASSWORD !!! if ANYONE has a clue of the password he could drop me a tell im in terris-thule and my name is azurescale
or post a message all of this was done in sneaking mode sneak get behind him ask ... he turns towards you then go again behind ask the next ... he turns again ... then go behind him again as so on till you come to the password it is possible if your amiable with him that he dont need password but if your high lvl enough you can still do this if hes green and dont attack you :-)
okies see ya and i hope i shedd some light in the dark room of this inkies life
Azurescale 31st season scally monk in terris-thule
Well.. my level 10 druid was looking for the usual solo fare for that level in N. Ro the other night (scarabs, snakes, tarantulas, etc)... when this dude appeared out of nowhere and started attacking me. I died in very short order and was annoyed because it took me a while to find my corpse in the middle of the desert. When my rl friend logged on and we began to chat(she's a level 53 druid), I started whining to her about this guy. She just laughed, buffed me up with skin like nature, chloroplast, SOW and some high level strength spell and told me to go get him. We camped him for a while and I rode his sorry *** all the way to level 11. It was sweet.. and I can't wait until I can do it on my own.. because he and I have another date coming :)
This guy is really getting on my nerves. I conned him 3 times with my Lvl 18 pally, blue to me every time. Using my Lay on Hands I can get him down half way on life... he is way underestimated.
(Sorry about that last one. Not sure what I hit to make it post suddenly, before I even finished the subject line.)
I was in N. Ro with my level 16 magician one day, when I saw Dorn. I conned him. Blue, meaning he was no more than level 15 at the time. (He varies, of course.)
A paladin came up to him and attacked. I did a /who on the paladin. Level 34. So I expect him to swat Dorn like a fly, and I figure it couldn't happen to a more deserving sob .. uh ... mob.
I keep waiting for the swatting and they keep trading blows. The pally is NINETEEN levels higher than Dorn, and they keep trading blows and keep trading blows ...
Dorn finally ran. Not a Stately Walk of Death, but a fleet run. The paladin chased him down and finally killed him. But it took him a long time and a chase.
Now ... suppose a level 15 warrior fought a level 34 cyclops or griffon. A 19 level difference. Six seconds, maybe, then LOADING, PLEASE WAIT ...
My point is, don't be taken in by the /con on Dorn, or D'Vinn, or any dark elf dragoon. They fight like ten levels higher than they con.
Me (lev 12 rogue)and friend ( lev 12 CLR ) joined a group at derv 1. When dorn came we found that the others in group just us as shields against Dorn, not helping in any way. We we both died they finished him off. We were both bound in Freeport and not very happy. So dont be taken in by people camping Derv 1 wanting u to join. If you dont know them i would both.. The Swines..