Dominus Guide - Explaining his Abilities

DOMINUS GUIDE FOR ALL OF YOU QQers

Phase 1:

Lightning Insects: Channels for ~ 3 Seconds on 1 player. Easily dodgable by environment or just simply by running a circle around Dominus. Deals some Damage.
LIGHTNING DAMAGE.

Lightning Ground / Teleport: Dominus will teleport to your position sometimes shocking the ground at that position. Standing in that ground will increase the damage you receive, move out of it.

The Touch of God: Announced by Dominus before he starts the ability. He casts for ~1,5 seconds and raises his fist then slams the ground which causes a lightning AoE around him. Just run away from him when he raises his fist / announces the attack. Deals very high damage.
LIGHTNING DAMAGE / PHYSICAL DAMAGE

The Mark. You get marked by Dominus (Red rune-visuals around your character and a debuff.) Minions that spawned during the fight will run to you and explode. Deals high damage. Can be easily dodged by killing the minions / running away when they explode.
FIRE DAMAGE

Ice Totems: The Beams that connect the Totems Chill you and deal very little dmg. Just run / Lightning Warp / Leap Slam / Smoke Mine out of the area so you are not slowed when he casts one of his other abilities you need to dodge.
COLD DAMAGE

With moderate reactions and good mechanics this phase is EASY. If you fail it's your own fault.

Phase 2:

The Rain: It rains blood. When standing outside of Dominus yellow bubble a debuff will stack on you and kill you. Deals high damage when stacked up. Use 'Removes Bleeding'-Pots or simply just stand in his bubble.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE

Adds: If those adds he spawns are a problem for you, just pull Dominus down the stairs to the entrance. Adds can't attack you there. Else just ignore or kill them, whatever.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE (Melee Adds) / PHYSICAL + FIRE DAMAGE (Tittie Bitches)

Bleeding hit: Dominus sometimes hits you with a bleeding. Can stack a few times. Deals good damage. Use Pots to counter this attack.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE

Blood Hand: If you are out of range of Dominus and not moving he might grab you to his position. If you keep running he can not grab you.

Corpse Throw: If you are standing out of Melee Range of Dominus he might throw corpses at you. Deals some damage, easily avoidable by moving or standing in Melee Range.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE

Jump: When not standing in Melee Range he might also choose to jump on you dealing some damage. This can also be dodged or avoided by standing in his Melee Range.
PHYSICAL DAMAGE

Depending on your Life / Regeneration / Potions you might need to tp out sometimes. Still easy though. Armour Pot aswell as a Staunching Pot is recommended, not required.

Touch of God is half lightning half physical. Counts as an attack. Blocked with regular shield + block, not spell block. Ghost wave blocked by spell block.

wants to act tough and educate, shows things ppl already know + even fails at touch of god, because its 50/50 light / phys

lol

oh ... no wonder you are on Probation. I've seen you QQ on too many threads. Please leave. Thx.

Thanks I didn't know about the bleeding hit, was kind of puzzled by having bleeding on me since I was in melee range the whole time.

it isnt bleeding hit, when he hits you you get whats called corrupting blood, they are charges that make you degen, im not sure if that classed as bleeding but if you look at the debuff in top corner of the screen it says corrupting blood :)

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DiiSTURB3D_KIWI wrote:

it isnt bleeding hit, when he hits you you get whats called corrupting blood, they are charges that make you degen, im not sure if that classed as bleeding but if you look at the debuff in top corner of the screen it says corrupting blood :)

it is a bleed, because you can remove it with a "removes bleeding" flask (which, if you are farming dominus, should have one).

It's a good guide, I've killed him like over 200 times on merciless so after awhile you just get used to his abilities. If I had any tips for new players who want to farm him I would just say use 1 bleeding flask, 2 shock removal flasks. In the last phase, theres a certain animation he does that will put the bleed on you, as soon as you see the animation just use your bleeding flask and remove it.

Nice guide OP, I learned a few things. You could improve it by removing condescending comments such as "it's easy" and "if you fail it's your own fault".

Its not easy if you have multistrike on; the animation lock makes it practically impossible to dodge touch of god if it catches you near the start of an attack rather than near the end of one.

You might say "just don't use multistrike", but every melee in the game who has one uses it. You may as well say "don't use LMP or GMP"

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Thalandor wrote:

You could improve it by removing condescending comments such as "it's easy" and "if you fail it's your own fault".

This. It can sound patronising to some.