Doomshade  

This has been confirmed as broken as seen here in the Bug Reports section on the EQ forums.

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/umbral-plains-sol-triggered-named-not-spawing.281463/

There doesn't seem to be one post in this thread that completely covers spawning Doomshade and what to expect, so here goes:

First, Doomshade is only poppable for brief periods of time, and the only way to know when those periods are is to be in the zone when they begin: There will be a zonewide emote saying something like "The Dark Masters begin to chant for the coming of Doom". At that point, the clock begins, and you have a short time to engage the Dark Masters to spawn Doomshade. The exact amount of time within which the masters must be engaged is unverified, but assume that it's less than 10 minutes.

Once you engage the Dark Masters, you have 20 minutes to kill all four of them. If you take longer than 20 minutes, it's been reported that you can just wait for them to respawn (respawn time on the masters is 16 minutes, so at least one should already have respawned) and try again.

After all four masters have been killed, there's a delay (for me, it was one minute and 20 seconds), and then Doomshade will pop.

There's a post below that suggests that the zonewide emote which accompanies Doomshade popping no longer happens, but that's either not true or not entirely true, because when Doomshade popped for me, it was accompanied by the emote, "A totured scream echoes throughout the plains as a tormented spirit is released upon the land"

The fight was no issue at all for an 87 paladin; it took awhile just because Doomshade has a lot of HP, but he landed almost zero hits on me.

Hope this helps someone...


Edited, Nov 2nd 2017 6:42am by Ironic

Since no one has said where this guy is, I'll now tell you. Not that it's a huge zone, but trying to look for something in this zone can be tough due to all the roaming mobs.

Look towards the center of the zone for what appears to be an unfinished house with 4 robed undead Dark Masters, one facing out in each direction. These Masters are KoS, and seem to always get adds once you pull them. Once you kill the 4 Masters, Doomshade will spawn from the center on the building. Note: Some people have said he can take some time to spawn. For me, he spawned immediately.

I'm a 92 Cleric and with a DPS merc, he went down with no problem in only 2-3 minutes. He is undead, so I blasted away with my undead nukes until he fell.

He dropped a sword, a dagger, a bracelet, and a bunch of spells, all of which are on his loot table.

I wouldn't recommend coming here alone unless you're of a higher level, simply due to the many roaming mobs that always seem to add onto whatever you're fighting.

This is definitely a Cleric/Paladin zone due to all of the undead.

Edited, Jun 22nd 2012 3:39pm by Kenrocks

82 warrior and 82 shaman 10 min to kill fun for oldy.

I kill doomshade on a regular basis, and here is how it is done.

1. First you want to try to clear as many possible adds as you can. What I usually do is gather a train of dark assassins and just obliterate them with either a riposte disc on the monk or a few barrage of arrows on the ranger. This wipes them out quick.

2. Next, you want to kill the dark masters. They have a sufficient amount of hp compared to the assassins. Be prepared for adds that you did not kill to agro you. I usually get all of the dark masters to about 20% then start killing them off one by one.

3. When all dark masters are dead, wait around in their house for at least five minutes. I have seen doomshade take anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes to pop, and he DOES NOT give off an emote anymore, nor do the masters. First thing you will see is him swinging at you.

4. Pull doomshade to the entrance by Maiden's eye and engage. I like to kill off any adds first then pound him into the ground. Whatever floats your boat is fine.

5. Loot up and enjoy! I use this technique to gear out level 1 characters.

EDIT - Bow of Doom, Pebble Crusher, and Darkblood Sword are by far his most common drops. Be prepared to kill him a lot to find the earring of endless speed.

Edited, Mar 11th 2009 6:33pm by TheDankins

Killed Doomshade quite a few times. How I usualy do it is pull all the 4 Dark Masters at the same time (try to dodge as many adds as possible on the way back) and kill them. Know that you can take 4 Harm Touches before you go there, anyone 70+ should resist or have HPs to take it, so not bid deal. - Think it's a 20 min timer since you kill your 1st dark master, so you have plenty of time to kill the remaining 3.

When lvl 70 was max, me and friend killed Doomshade fairly easy, using shaman / beastlord tank and druid heal some and dps. Has a fair ammount of hp, but not a very tough fight. Just be carefull, he can flurry a lot, so don't feel safe and let tanks hp go really far down before healing (un less you want to keep warrior enraged for more dps :p)

-vid

Zoned to UP today,
I play war/dru combo, i zone with Druid second, i switch back to War and hes getting pounded. I immediately think "PVP!" since i play on Zek
But lo and behold, it's Doomshade, so i think "neat! I'll kill him"


Came out of that fight with all my damn discs down, epic clicked 3 times and druid OOM.
Lol, anguish geared tank and qvic/1.5 geared druid with 8.5k mana.

dropped bow, stave, rod, and brellsx3

bout 10-15 min fight

Well we decided to have a go at Doomshade last night. 1st attempt we had 2 groups, and cleric ditched us right before we got to the dark masters. 70 Warrior was main tank, also had 70 shammy (boxed by war), 70 mage, my 68 SK, a 68 wiz, 61 rogue plus a slew of DPS.

The dark masters part was a pain because of all the adds, and not having a true healer tends to make some people nervous. I pulled the 1st 3 one at a time, then took a med break before getting last one. Killed all 4 in about 15 mins.

About a minute later, Doomshade popped right in the middle of where the masters were. We got her down to about 40%, then all the dark masters popped again and we were wiped soon there after.

Set up raid again, Doomshade was still up but this time we only had about a group and a half and still no cleric. By this point the few of us there from the 1st round are just after revenge on this thing, nothing more. Pulled her to ME zoneline, and killed there. Took a long time, but didn't lose anyone.

Droppped the Haste earring which I won in a roll, rod of virtue, petrified rod, Bracelet of Comprehension spell: KEI and a song: Warsong of the Vah Shir.

Note of advice...don't try to kill in the middle where she spawns...learned that one the hard way :-)

hits for 600,s flurrys allot has around 250k hp high ac like all luclin mobs need about 1 12k hp tank with 1 cleric or 10k tank with cleric and druid etc

Doomshade is spawned bye killing the 4 dark masters within 20mins so clock starts tickign after u kill the first Dark master doomshade is UNSLOWABLE and can best be pulled bye rangers or druid with the instand camou aa

also 1 grouped him easy GL with it

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