Dominion Tower



The Dominion Tower is the largest building on Gielinor, located in the Kharidian Desert. It gives players the opportunity to fight over fifty different quest monsters. The rewards are combat experience, new consumable items, and dominion glove sets.

Getting There

 * 1) Use a Dominion medallion to teleport there (requires at least one previous trip).
 * 2) Go through Shantay Pass, run east to the River Elid, cross the bridge and go slightly north to reach the tower.
 * 3) Use the Eagle transport system to travel to the Uzer Hunter area and run south-west (after Eagles' Peak).
 * 4) Use a Pollnivneach tablet to get to the house portal and run east to the bridge then north (after Love Story).
 * 5) Go through the Shantay Pass, take the magic carpet to Uzer and run west to the tower.
 * 6) Use a Ring of Slayer and teleport to Pollnivneach, then run north-east, cross the bridge and go north.

Requirements

 * Minimum of level 110 combat.
 * Completion of at least 20 of the 38 following quests are required to start the activity. The more quests a player has completed, the more bosses are available to fight:

Modes

 * Climber allows the player to ascend through the levels of the tower, facing a randomly chosen boss scenario on each floor. After each victory, an effect will be applied and will persist through all subsequent fights in that attempt. While a few of these will be beneficial, most of them will be handicaps. Players will be able to replenish food and change equipment between fights.
 * Endurance restricts the player's access to the bank after each fight, so whatever they take in needs to last.
 * Special presents a range of challenging, treacherous and, often, strange encounters with which to test the player's skill and ingenuity.
 * Freestyle lets players fight on their own terms. There are no rewards for using this mode, but it’s a way to practice against monsters before fighting them under handicap conditions, or just to show off fighting a boss under the player's own crazily difficult rules.
 * Spectator allows players to view the fights of another player whom they’ve tagged with their dominion medallion.

Climber Mode
Climber mode allows you to fight random bosses and lets you use a bank to help you before each round. For each round you must also select a handicap (though some handicaps are beneficial). As you progress through the levels, the handicaps are cumulative. There are a total of 22 handicaps:

Handicaps (In Order)
Note: If your equipment is disabled, your equipment will be placed in your bank.
 * Disease - You will become diseased at the start of the match. The disease reduces stats by 14 per hit. You can cure yourself.
 * Reduced magic attack.
 * Slippery fingers - Occasionally your weapon will be unequipped. (Note: if your inventory is full, this handicap will do nothing.)
 * No prayer.
 * Monster stun - The boss will be unable to attack you for a few seconds at the beginning of the battle.
 * No familiar - Your familiar will be hidden during your battles.
 * Reduced Range Attack.
 * No body armour - You will be unable to wear anything in the body armour slot.
 * Halved hitpoints - Your starting health will be cut in half. You can heal back up to max.
 * Random freeze - Occasionally you will be frozen and unable to move.
 * Reduced Melee Defence.
 * No Food.
 * No shield - You will be unable to wear a shield.
 * Reduced Melee Attack.
 * Life saver - When you reach low health, you will be cured of status problems and healed to full health. (Note: it will only heal you one time per round.)
 * No Potions.
 * No powerups - You cannot use any Dominion Tower power ups (including dominion weapons) for the duration of your battles.
 * Reduced Ranged Defence.
 * Poison - You will be poisoned at the start of the match. The damage starts at 98 life points. You can cure yourself.
 * Random daze - Occasionally you will become dazed; auto-retaliate turns off and your combat will be interrupted.
 * Reduced Magic Defence.
 * No Special Attacks.

Endurance Mode
In Endurance Mode, players must battle through gauntlets of enemies similar to Climber Mode; however, instead of varying handicaps, players are instead not allowed to bank throughout the entirety of their run. Players must play this mode in order to unlock the Dominion Crossbow and Super dominion medallion. As most of the bosses players will encounter are relatively easy, with notable exceptions being the likes of Nomad and Pest Queen, many players feel that this mode is actually easier than Climber Mode. The maximum amount of rounds on endurance is 256.

Special Mode

 * Revenge of the Evil Chickens - The player must fight 15 Evil chickens without any prayer. The chickens use magic and are in a multicombat arena. Hint: align the chickens so there is only 1 attacking you.
 * Finish Him! - The player must fight Arrav, Koschei the deathless, General Khazard, Black Knight Guardian, The Kendal, The Black Golem, The White Golem and the Grey Golem. Each of the bosses only have 20% health. The player will be in multiway combat, and will have no prayer, reduced stats, poisoned, diseased, random daze, no special attack and no powerups.
 * Just Die Already - The player must fight six Dagannoth sentinels.
 * No More Nomad...No More! - The player must fight Nomad twice without using a bank or taking a breather.
 * I Eat Dagganoths for Breakfast - The player must fight the original Dagannoth mother, the second Dagannoth mother and two Dagannoth sentinels at once.
 * Indigestion - The player must fight all of the bosses from Recipe for Disaster at once. The player will have reduced defence, no shield, no body armour, no familiar, no powerups and no special attack.
 * You'll Never Defeat Me - The player must survive for five minutes with the Inadequacy, The Everlasting, The Illusive, and the Untouchable. The player will have reduced attack and defence, no shield or body armour, no potions, random daze, halved HP, no prayers, no food and no familiar. However, random food will spawn in the arena. Hint: Get every other enemy trapped behind the Inadequacy.
 * Hey! Eat Power-up - the player must defeat many boss monsters with only bomb powerups. The player will not be able to use armour or weapons.

Tricks

 * While in Climber, Freestyle, or Special mode, whilst having the handicap 'No special attacks' on, players may use the Enhanced excalibur special attack before the duel to restore their lifepoints after entering.
 * If the handicap 'No potions' is in play, players may use a Super antifire or Antifire potion before the duel to have the reduced dragonfire effect. They may also use a Prayer Renewal potion prior to the round to gain prayer regeneration; however, drinking an Overload potion will have no effect in the round, as the players stats will be reset.
 * Similarly, in "No potions" if a player drinks a dose of anti-poison they will not be poisoned next round, even with the poison handicap.
 * Having a full inventory with the "Slippery Fingers" handicap will prevent your weapon from being unequipped. Bring a Coal bag or pies to eat that will fill inventory space as necessary.
 * Even though the opponent screen will tell you that the jungle demon will change its attack according to what protection prayer you're using, if you don't move from your start position it will only use mage.

Rewards
The rewards available vary in use. Perhaps the most significant rewards are the three Dominion gloves (Goliath gloves, Spellcaster gloves, and Swift gloves) - gloves providing decent combat bonuses available for use in all of RuneScape.

Other rewards, such as the dominion weapons, can only be used within the Dominion Tower, providing useful boosts for use in fights within the tower.

Reward box
By winning a fight players will receive Dominion Factor, the amount determined by the particular fight and the mode being played. After a game has finished, players can look in the reward box to receive item rewards based on their current Dominion Factor (only that which was received in the most recent game). The interface allows players to directly bank these items, take them into the inventory, or discard them (the effect of which is dropping them on the floor next to the box). Possible items received from the box include:
 * Scorpion meat - can be used as food in Dominion Tower games.
 * Xp book - gives experience in a combat skill of the players choosing, based on the current Dominion Factor when the book was received.
 * Dom super restore - A super restore potion for use only in Dominion Tower games.
 * Dom saradomin brew - A saradomin brew for use only in Dominion Tower games.
 * Dom super antipoison - A super antipoison for use only in Dominion Tower games.
 * Dom super prayer - A super prayer potion for use only in Dominion Tower games.
 * A journal page - Part of a journal telling the story of the tower. A requirement for three achievements (below).
 * Power-ups after they have been unlocked through achievements (such as Dominion sword and helping horn)
 * Blood runes
 * Soul runes
 * Death runes
 * Nature runes
 * Rune arrows
 * Adamant arrows
 * Rune bolts
 * Adamant bolts
 * Big bones
 * Dragon bones
 * Dagganoth bones

Achievement Rewards
Additional rewards are received for achievements within the Dominion Tower. (Note: after unlocking a powerup, you must still receive it as a reward from the reward box.)

Pre-release
Attendees of RuneFest 2011 were given the chance to play-test Dominion Tower using Jagex test servers and Jmod test accounts. These attendees gave feedback and found glitches that delayed the release of Dominion Tower from the original 31 October date to the eventual 1 November date:

Trivia

 * In the quote by Mod Mark, he says "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one". This is a reference to the song "Imagine" by John Lennon.
 * On the day of release the Knowledge base read "The rewards were stored somewhere in the tower and the face can't find them. Come back tomorrow when he's managed to have a look around." about possible rewards from this minigame.
 * The tower can be seen from a Clan Citadel of any tier. Topdomtower.png
 * There is currently a glitch when fighting Treus Dayth, once fighting him and and when he is almost near death if you're using a Dragon dagger (p++) and he dies from poison he will disappear and the fight will remain but you will not be able to defeat the boss
 * Upon completion of floor 29 on endurance mode, you get a message saying :" The tower is impressed with your progress and deems it far enough. You can continue but your dominion factor will be at a reduced rate from this floor onwards.".
 * Upon the day of its release, players are beginning to experience huge lag from the tower. Other players have reported that as soon as they log in, they log out. Jagex is currently aware of this and will try to fix it as soon as they can.
 * If you do not have the 20 quest requirement or 110 combat requirement for the Dominion Tower and you try to access the bank or other facilities, the Strange Face will still growl at you even if your in-game sound has been turned off.
 * After a fight that supplies Silverlight to finish off the boss, Silverlight is removed from your character. If you have an aura activated, the aura's sword outline will still be there even though you have no weapon in your hands. The same is true for Korasi's Sword.
 * Do NOT take your own Korasi's Sword to a fight against the Pest Queen. It will still use the special attack it uses after the quest: only the one in the arena will stop the Queen from charging her special. The same is true of using Balmung on the Daggonoth Mother v2.
 * When in the arena, if you use the Dance emote, it gives you the message, "Someone likes to party!" The same is with the Blow Kiss emote, which gives, "Flattery ain't going to help you here!" And the Think emote, which gives the message, "Now's not the time to think!"
 * It is still possible to cast spells even if the elemental staff providing the runes for them is unequipped by the Slippery Fingers handicap. It is unknown if this is a glitch.
 * Upon receiving 1,000,000 Dominion Factors in a single run, you receive the message "You've reached the maximum Dominion Factor you can get so should spend it!" This is grammatically incorrect as it should say "...so you should spend it!"
 * Killing Dagannoth mothers in Dominion Tower does not count towards a dagannoth slayer task.
 * Lowest floor you can acheive a class "A" boss is floor 6.
 * A bank chest is located in the west portion of the lobby area (you can't use it if you aren't level 110+ and have completed 20 of the required quests).
 * If you drop any items in the arena they will be lost upon dying.
 * Large LifePoint meters are used in the upwards right and left parts of the screen.
 * Most of the bosses have a full voice track unlike their real counterparts.
 * The maximum amount of Dominion Factor you can get in a single run is 1,000,000 (though the game will tell you that you can gain more).
 * You may select your taunt.
 * You may allow spectators.

Gallery
Torre do Domínio