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i, currently a lvl 19 warrior, and a lvl 24 warrior took Dvinn out quickly and very efficiently with me still at 3/4 health and my buddy at almost full health. he was hitting for about 20-45 dmg per hit (without dirk) but after about 30seconds we got him to run away and he was still at about 1/2 health. i beleive this guy is just sometimes a miss-con and sometimes almost correct.

I agree with Craka and Akhbar. For those of you 13-15 saying you can group and kill Dvinn you're full of **** or don't even have a 13-15 or experience with Dvinn. For those of you over lvl 25 that can't solo Dvinn I feel sorry for you, that's kind of sad unless you're a meleer with poor equipment. However, agreeing with Craka about ruke & nuke - I am a lvl 20 high elf wiz and I have a lvl 19 high elf enchanter friend and our strat to beating him is simple- and it works well. The only tricky part is initiating the fight the right way. First make sure there aren't any other major aggro mobs in the room. Get enchanter to start casting a tashan type spell to lower Dvinn's magic resistance, while half a second after he starts casting you start casting root. This works about 99% of the time. If it doesn't the enchanter should get hit first anyway and he has a pet to hold off Dvinn till you can make that combo cast effective. Once this is done, simply nuke dvinn and burn his a$$ to the ground. I was using force shock and this AE spell that hits more than once. The enchanter was casting his choke type spells. You don't even have to root Dvinn a second time he goes down quick with his low hp. Thus, two good casters around Dvinn's level can take him out succesfully. We both had full health too. Dvinn had the dirk too, which made it a good loot. This should make you fellow casters more confident; and for all you BSers out there, this is the truth.

No way a group of 6 level 13-15 characters take down Dvvin unless it is like 3 warriors 2 clerics and a shaman (to buff warriors). Even the aforementioned group would have their hands full. He may be low 20's but he fights and resists magic like a mid 20's. Best taken by full groups of level 17-20 smaller parties of 20-24 types (2 to 4) or soloed by the over 26 crowd. If you listen too some of the tall tales told above it will get you killed.

He is level 19 to 22. My lvl 20 SK has fought him 7 times. I have killed him 4. He killed me twice and I got away the rest. I have yet to get the dirk. He is one of those MOBs that hits MUCH harder than his level indicates...just like the Griffawn/Griffene/Griffin MOBs and Dorn in N Ro.

I, lvl 13 warrior, a 14 druid, 14 warrior, and 14 monk took him out. He had no dirk and I was almost dead except for healing from druid. Dvinn is not as scary as people make him out to be. Granted I was using LOTW

As far as soloing him, I soloed him as a Ranger level 25 with no problem, hardly any damage taken whatsoever. However, when I got to level 34 I went back for a Dragoon Dirk, and he nearly killed me. Beat me so bad I had to run to zone. He did have the dirk and was AVERaging 44 damage a hit. He was also getting off 3 hits to my 2 and I'm a Ranger. I get tons of attacks. My probem was, I kept missing continuously, something I rarely do. So he can be very unpredictable.

Ok listen up. He does NOT hit hard for his lvl at all. Its the just how often he hits for his max. At lvl 24 he would hit me ( tank ) for about 36, 25, miss, 42, 35, miss, 42, etc. 42 damage is by all means normal for a mob around lvl 20. The Black Heart and Dark Elf meat are common drops. His rare is Dragoon Dirk. This item used to be easy, but a patch a few months back made Dvinn himself an uncommon spawn. Placeholder is that friggin Centurion. The smurf himself spawn about once every 4 or 5 times ( if you're lucky you'll get him twice in a row ). To make it worse Verant made his dirk rare too! I spent 3 hours in his friggin tower to get one dirk. Also, if you are a tank, by all means don't even attempt to solo this guy until lvl 27 ( you'll have to be twinked even then, AND lucky ). I seen lvl 29 ogre warrior wearing full crafted, hero bracer, FBSS, Mith two hander, Exe hood, DWB, the works, and he was taken down by this guy. After dying the smurf still had about 35% hp left ( that's when i finished him off heh ). That's about it.

Yesterday on Povar about 7 of us levels 13-18 decided to gang up on him, not grouped, no cleric, dead in no time, no casualties, and me a 13th war did most damage and so got exp :)made me up to 14 too. Unfortunatley no dirk or heart, and only a few silver :(

Sounds to me like he hits about as hard as the orcs in HHP. I am currently a lvl 19 warrior and can solo most of the orcs(one on one) in HHP(non- named). This would lead me to believe that he is not as hard as most are describing. If I am wrong in this, please let me know, but that is what it sounds like.