Dozekar the Cursed  

He is in Hall of Testing

Thunderblast is a *****. As main shaman (level 62, while the other two shamans were level 60), I got smacked with the thunderblast early on due to the monk's invuln disc not working. After he was slowed, I went OOM fairly fast, making me completely useless. Additionally, the other shamans couldn't overwrite my slow, so it had to wear off before it was reslowed. Thunderblast lasted for about 6-8 minutes I'd estimate.

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Tallon Zek

Edited, Wed Dec 4 00:42:09 2002

You CAN gate out. My guild had a failed Doz raid the other night. I watched the melee's get taken out and then of course, Doz started systematically taking out the casters. It was late - about 1 or 2 am -- and I didn't have time for a long CR. So I got quick permission from my guildies and gated outta there.

So yes, it's possible.

Smartweed Jackson, 58th Defiler, Druzzil Ro

Yeah, I know his model has been changed to the newer Velious dragon model...

...but noone's sent me an update!! :) feel free.

Yup, you pretty much hit the nail on the head strategy wise. Really the most important things needed for Dozer are teamwork, levels and keeping your Main Assists alive. I can't stress that enough. When your dealing with a MOB that AE's the way he does you can't afford to lose your main tank and have agro bounce around reaming casters till the next tank has agro. Agro management is by far one of the most important aspects of this and many fights like these. 60 warriors with Epics or Primal are pretty much a must for him. His damage output is pretty high although other tank classes can keep him agro its not recommended. Defensive disc is a must, in fact we often find ourselves rotating 60 warriors that tank him in order to preserve mana by keeping a defensive tank on him at all times. This fight can be as short as 10 minutes or as long as 25 depending on your damage output and mana needs to be saved anyway possible. Although, we've had a 60 Epic Pally in Full SS tank him for over 8 minutes of a fight before but it was not by choice. Our two Main Warriors died early, the pally managed to get agro and our clerics found him with heals in time to keep the fight going. We kept him tanking while we buffed up our Warriors to finish the fight and re-establish agro. The pally ate up a ton of cleric mana and it was one our closest encounters with Dozer to date.

He's a pretty tough dragon and if your taking your first crack at him you will most likely lose a few times trying. Especially, if this is your first type of encounter like this. It takes a pretty good guild teamwork wise thats played together for a while to do a dragon like Dozer on a regular basis and effectively.

Suggested classes are:
Bards
Wizards (dragonsbane works)
Necros -clerics and wizards need twitches often this fight. They can also liftap him effectively and might even be able to disease him. I don't play a necro so I don't know for sure but I think I recall our Warlock saying he did land effectively on him. Necros are often overlooked on mobs like this but speaking from experience if your necros are good they can make the difference for you on fights like these.

20+ melee consisting of 2-4 level 60 Warriors min and focus on damage dealers for the rest.

Clerics out the ***
Shammys for buffs//debuffs

Pretty much every class is useful but these stand out a bit with this fight.


Attacks =
AE is 400 ice based Lure which debuffs one slot.
(I've never resisted it with resists well over 250 and bard in group)

High output melee, I don't recall his max off the top of my head and it might actually be higher than 600s.

I would not attempt him for the first time with anything less than 30 and even that is cutting it a bit low. It depends on the levels of your given group and what classes it consists of. Once you kill em a few times you will have a better idea of what exactly is best for your group.

We usually average around 35 per kill but have done it with less and more. All depends on turnouts and classes.

Drops: Tears required for ToV quests.
Usually 3 or 4 tears will drop off each kill.

These quests are a royal pain in the butt but they do produce some nice items. We've completed a few bracers of speed quests, shields, cloaks, neck pieces and I forget what else. The rewards are nice but they take lots of effort not just by an individual but an entire guild which involves many kills over time. His spawn time does produce somewhat of a bottleneck for these quests on servers as well. Hopefully verant will one day realize this and increase his respawn along with named mobs required for symbols.


Best of Luck,

www.thunderwalkers.net
Morell-Thule Server

I don't know either. I've never been on something that grand scale though I've had quite a lot of friends who have. I mean, just LOOKING at that picture honestly made me get a tad scared. Not because I thought "Oh my, the dragon is real and will snap me up." but because I'm like "Daaaamn that thing is phat! Imagine fighting it!". Anyway, I'd think that something that powerful, you'd have to honestly just have people in the 58 to 60 levels, and major uber guild actions. But wow.. wouldn't it be great to just be sitting in the back and watching it all? That'd be very cool.