All Level's Guide: Dark Shadow / DS

DS Hunting: Guide/Tips & Tricks
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Preface:
Curious to see what your friends are talking about … this DS thingy?
Need a good way to make money, guaranteed?
If so, read below ^^
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Introduction:
-DS = Dark Shadow = Vice Boss = Snowfield/SF/Karden/Carden Boss
-Located in SF in the Ice Palace (Big palace with icy blue walkways)
-Once in Ice Palace, go to a room with a circle of verial guardians
-DS spawns randomly here every server and 100% drops Ori or Lak Powder
-That’s right! 100% - will always drop a powder
-If the DS spawns randomly and is not hit, it will disappear after around 15 seconds
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Ingredients and Recipe:
-1 BM Summon
- Keeps the DS away from the killer and possibly assists with killing
- If the summoner’s tigers can take 2 hits from the DS to kill (critical or not critical), use the tigers, otherwise use condor summons
-1 Lure
- Hits the DS to keep DS from disappearing (ranged weapon or spell)
- Lures DS out of the circle of verials (hitting it and making DS follow you)
- Makes sure DS starts attacking summons
- Can also be the killer
-1 Killer
- Kills the DS
- Can also be the lure
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Tips and Tricks:
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-DS will go after anyone, but once it stops to hit something (summons or player), the party leader will be targeted.
-If the party leader is in 3 range of the DS, the leader will be hit
-So, an ideal party leader would be a ranged killer/lure
-If necessary, the summoner could be the leader, but beware, stay away from the DS
-Sometimes, the DS will go after party members that are close to it
-If that happens, just move far out of the DS sight and come back, it shouldn’t target that person again
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-If a verial is accidentally lured in along with a DS, keep calm, you can:
- Lure away, leaving party as you do to reparty later
- Pull away using TK “Attract†skill
- Kill him fast (last and most dangerous option)
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-If the DS is trap-summoned in an unfavorable space, (possibly near verids), do in order:
- Stop attacking DS
- Move to spot where you want DS to go
- Signal summoner to stop summoning
- When one summon left, commence attacking
- When DS charges, summoner does summon and lure runs away
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-If someone tries to KS, first try to talk them out of it
-Then, if it fails, bring guild mates/ friends or PK them yourself right before DS is killed
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-Cheapest ways to kill DS:
- Build a black-foema with 200-255 black mastery and all stat points in INT
- Equip him with 10 map (12 for helm) grade A armor, +6 from training grounds
- Get a wand with the highest MAP possible, possible an eye of carbuncle or kery
- With ice skills in bar, you should hit a reasonable amount of damage ^^
- Or,
- Build a summon BM with 255 summon mastery (skill mastery boost equips)
- Equip him with a cheap mount like a pig or dragon puppy so he can move faster
- Offer yourself to help those in need of a summoner for some share in the loot
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Warnings:
WARNING: Should not try to take the spot away by PK, chances are if you are reading this, you are low leveled ^^
WARNING: Stay out of arguments – there are 2 “spots†in every DS room – both sides can hunt peacefully
WARNING: Go outside and exercise after long DS hunting – it’s bad for your health @.@
WARNING: DS has around 5,000,000 HP or so I’ve heard (never counted), plan with mana pots and a really long time clicking
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I hope this guide helped you with sharing my knowledge on the DS - remember, GM’s think about taking this boss away because of all the KS and PK problems, so try not to KS.

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