Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Mark of Valor - Simon Bloodbane

As you step onto the shores of Irda Isle from the reef surrounding the island.

2E, 1NE, 1E, 2NE, 3N, 3E, 1N, 4E, 2N, 2W, 1N, 8W, 15N, 3E, 7N, Up
3W, 4S

You should find yourself Standing in the Massive Throne Room. Lord Bloodbane should be in this room unless he's been recently killed. (This room is an NPK room so be aware of who is in the area if you're concerned about being PK'd.)

Dispel him until his sanctuary spell is gone at least. Once he no longer has the sanctuary spell affect go ahead and poison, plague, curse, weaken, and faerie fire him if you can. You may need to use flash bombs to blind him, after he's blinded you will probably want to web him as well to prevent him from throwing bombs. Unless you also silence him he will almost immediately start summoning elementals that will form with him. If you are psionic or have one in formation they can spook the elementals out of the room until his form is full, or you can blind them with magic or a flash bomb. (*Note, that using a flash bomb on the elementals is quickest, but doing this will generally make it so that during combat all the elementals will lose the blindness affect at once and join combat at the same time.) You can try to use energy drain spell to drain away Lord Bloodbane's spell points, but it can take a while to accomplish this. When Lord Bloodbane is close to death he will almost always cast momentary darkness if he has the spell points to be able to so and isn't silenced. You will want to make sure he's definitely poisoned and plagued near the end of combat so that he doesn't regenerate too much while the room is darkened. (*Note, that having an item to dispel the darkness such as the negation orb can be very useful if/when Lord Bloodbane casts momentary darkness. Also note that due to the very high level of his momentary darkness spell it can be hard to dispel by means of casting the dispel area spell. As a final note, keep in mind that if Lord Bloodbane is able to see you then he can randomly cast high level spells such as energy orb, ice/firebolt, etc. If you aren't prepared for these spells to hit you they can kill you very quickly.) After Lord Bloodbane dies you can loot the following possible items: a bloodbane family ring, a bracer of destruction, a diamond gemstone, a set of overlord armor, a summoning pentagram, a waxed piceous scroll, the Bloodbane combat gloves, the mighty sword of Bloodbane, the Overlord's helm, the Overlords necklace of protection, and a skull of Riga.

To obtain the mark, you will need 18 courage

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