Dozekar the Cursed  

I solo'd Doz today with the exception of a few buffs left over from last nights raid. Ranger level 80, 1530 or so aa's, max defensive, and many offensive aa's also. About 18.5 k hp and 3149 or so AC at the start of the fight, but I didn't notice what they were at the end. C8 faded as I was fighting my way in and was not present on engaging Doz. I had Temerity at the start of the fight, but not the end of the fight. Same with Spirtual Enlightenment. I parked the babies outside the room. I opened the door and was immediately summoned. I debuffed Doz, used Warders Wrath with the Demi plane 10% extension, Auspice of the Hunter, Rank IX, epic cliky a few times, three of the new Distillate of Celestial Healing XIII, and about 1/3 of my mana. I didn't use any clarity or haste pots, but did use my Dark Cloak of the Sky for spell haste. I didn't use mana for any damage spells, just to keep me healed and dispells. I cliked a few things as the fight went on to keep buffs up. I also had tribute and group leadership AA's: Health and Offensive Enhancements both at level one. It was a challenging fight. I got concerned about repops in the hallway outside of Doz's room towards the end of the fight, and moved the babies in. Even the necro with about 250 average resists started taking damage, so I moved them both out to the hall after healing the one who needed it the most. They remained safe out in the hall. It was during this part I almost died, but recovered for the win. Doz dropped three tears (including the one I wanted), and dragon meat. The room was a safe place to keep the babies for the rest of the fight. I then tried pulling the two nameds found directly to the east of Doz, and fighting outside of Doz's room but got an add, and irritating summoning between the three, so decided to bail out while I was ahead, and the wiz got me to the succor spot near zone in while I was in the hall and the wiz was in Doz's room. Overall the fight was ? 15 minutes long, and challenging. I will need to recheck his quests and see if I really need to engage him again. Maybe I can just get by with the other nameds. But the idea of a room with no pops and no roamers makes me think he will be the first named the next time. Maybe I will pull to Doz's room to avoid adds also.

Dropped Ruby, Runed, and SILVER (not listed) tears just now on Xegony. and 1 Dragon Meat.

Need to farm him for some quests. Anybody have info on spawn time?

4 boxed him a couple nights ago w/ 70 chanty, 69 rogue, 65 warrior, 67 cleric.
This was my 5th attempt at the ******* and I'd learned a few things on the previous 4 fights.

First, Don't back him into the corner if you have more than 1 melee. Why? Riposte for one, backstabs for another if you have any rogues.
I just kept the warrior and rogue switching sides from time to time as I ran doze up and down the side wall going from entrance to pit. I'd just cleared the wurms so I knew I was good on repops, but even if they are up, you can still run doze along the wall as long as you are DAMN careful not to get too close to the pit.
An interesting point is that when you hit a mob in melee, he gets pushed back in the direction you are facing, but from HIS point of origin. What does this mean? It means you can be fighting on his right corner (so that you can't see him since he's to your left, but you can still techically hit him), be facing angled right, and push him to the RIGHT. Your position makes no difference to which way he gets pushed. Only the direction you are facing has an effect on which way he goes.

Second, Slow. Slow alot. Cripple. Cripple alot.
Fortunately, I have the slow stick so it was easy to keep him slowed even without a shammy (mind you, he would resist about 10 slows in a row, which would have hurt if I didn't have the clicky).
Cripple is nice since it stops him from tripling all the damn time. My warrior is lv65 with all defensive AAs except hps, 7khp and 1400ac (yes, he has crappy gear). Even with that I was getting hit for 200-450 usually.

Third, conserve the cleric's mana!
The cleric is lv 67 with 8k mana pool and max ft (mix of time/qvic gear). I had him hide against the wall on the other side of the fork at entrance. He was able to reach everyone even with group heals like that.
I could keep warrior up fine with CH at 65%, and since the cleric wasn't getting hit by dispel, I had armor of the zealot and clairvoyance the whole fight (about 25 mins), and didn't even go below 90% mana until I got sloppy at the end, finishing fight at 65%.
I wasn't thinking much, and did a bunch of HoT spells on the rogue when she got low on health (yes, bloody stupid since it would get dispelled by the AOE, wasting 700 mana).
After that, I would just use divine arbitration right after the CH went off on warrior to keep the rogue's health up, with the occasional spot heal in between. If the rogue weren't there, I could have kept at 100% mana forever.

This could easily be 3-boxed, but I'm too impatient and would rather not have an hour long fight due to lack of dps.

Oh, also I have the clicky haste pants, which I just kept spamming on the 2 melees. That did wonders to the dps.

Killed him last night with 69 war (me), 65 cleric (me), 68 pal, 68 druid, 70 mage, 68 necro, and a 64 shaman being boxed for slows.

Fight took a little over 10min. Once slowed he hits for nothing. Since he dispells random slots I tanked him unbuffed with 7100hp and 1550ac. He hit for minimum mostly (218) and never once landed a max hit (900) on me during the whole fight. 1 cleric was enough to keep me up for the whole fight.

Getting slow to land was the hard part as we wiped twice before because slow wouldn't land and he ate me up pretty quick. Cripple helps as well.

He used these effects on me during the fight:

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=1492&source=Live

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=2080&source=Live

Been 2 months since my last post. After some practice, able to take him down with a cleric, warrior, shaman, and enchanter. Hell of a long fight, but he's a baby once you learn the encounter.

I do have to say though, I've killed him 8 times, and he has dropped everything BUT the ruby and emerald tears. (the only 2 I need). I don't know if these 2 are the rarest of the bunch, but this guy is being a stingy ******* on Veeshan.

Lastly, he can drop as much as 4 tears and as low as 2 tears, various each time. Good luck to you.

Maxium Duelblade

Edited, Mon Oct 11 15:19:31 2004

killed him this morning with 1 group real easy kill to do. long fight if you don't have the DPS. main thing is getting him slowed is all the rest is cake took about 15 minutes with cleric rogue monk shaman warrior and mage.

Was 3boxed by non-EP geared monk/sham/cleric all level 65, on 8/7/04. As all have said, fairly easy when slowed. Fight took approx 36 mins, if i recall correctly.


Edited, Mon Aug 9 21:25:33 2004

has anyone noticed that there is now a Guild on Bristlebane nmaed "Dozekar"? hmm wonder if they know theyre's a dragon named that....*ponders*

oops meant Flamed Kissed Tear, and you all saying about that 3boxing him ahaha, ahaha,"still laughing"

ahaha right.

We just did Doz and was about a 7-10 min fight with two groups anyone that said they did this guy with one group could be right but man it must of took 25mins to kill him
We had 10 people and i got Augmentation of Death and Flame Seered Tear

I've duoed Doze with myself (mage) boxing cleric and shaman, and a friend ( SK) boxing his cleric. Terribly easy with 2 clerics, just have to keep slow on. Fight was 45minutes or so maybe, guessing though, give or take the time it took to kill the pit first. We actually got him to 9% before we got 2 repops in the pit, which I fought off with my pet for a good ten minutes before before deaths were inevitable as slows wore. Fighting in his room, cornered, is likely more feasible to avoid repops, It's where I dou ( myself and a shaman bot) named drakes when Doze isnt up, as it's relatively add free if you know what you're doing. I guess I should add these are all very heavily Elementally equipped characters I play, just to put some perspective on the situation maybe. Could maybe be done with less, just take eons.
Anywho..