Dominion Tower



The Dominion Tower was released on 1 November 2011 for members only, and gives players the opportunity to fight over fifty different quest monsters. The rewards are combat experience, new consumable items, and dominion glove sets.

Requirements

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


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 * A Void Dance
 * Between a Rock...
 * Blood Runs Deep
 * The Chosen Commander
 * Contact!
 * The Curse of Arrav
 * Demon Slayer
 * Do No Evil
 * Desert Treasure
 * Dealing with Scabaras
 * Dragon Slayer
 * Dream Mentor
 * The Family Crest
 * Fight Arena
 * The Fremennik Trials
 * Haunted Mine
 * The Holy Grail
 * Horror from the Deep
 * Legends' Quest
 * Lost City
 * Love Story
 * Missing My Mummy
 * Monkey Madness
 * Mountain Daughter
 * My Arm's Big Adventure
 * Nomad's Requiem
 * Recipe For Disaster
 * Shadow of the Storm
 * Spirits of the Elid
 * The Great Brain Robbery
 * The Temple at Senntisten
 * The Void Stares Back
 * Toktz-Ket-Dill
 * Troll Romance
 * Troll Stronghold
 * Vampyre Slayer
 * Wanted!
 * While Guthix Sleeps
 * }
 * The Temple at Senntisten
 * The Void Stares Back
 * Toktz-Ket-Dill
 * Troll Romance
 * Troll Stronghold
 * Vampyre Slayer
 * Wanted!
 * While Guthix Sleeps
 * }
 * Wanted!
 * While Guthix Sleeps
 * }

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 a Pollnivneach tablet to get to the house portal and run east to the bridge then north (after Love Story).
 * 4) Go through the Shantay Pass, take the magic carpet to Uzer and run west to the tower.
 * 5) Use a Ring of Slayer and teleport to Pollnivneach, then run north-east, cross the bridge and go north.

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 talisman.

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).

Handicaps
Note: If your inventory is full and equipment is disabled, your equipment will be placed in your bank.
 * Reduced range attack
 * Reduced range defence
 * Reduced melee attack
 * Reduced melee defence
 * Reduced magic attack
 * Reduced magic defence
 * No body armour - You will be unable to wear anything in the body armour slot.
 * No shield - You will be unable to wear a shield.
 * No familiar - Your familiar will be hidden during your battles.
 * No prayers
 * Life saver - When you reach low health, you will be cured of status problems and healed to full health.
 * Slippery fingers - Occasionally your weapon will be unequipped.
 * Random freeze - Occasionally you will be frozen and unable to move.
 * Disease - You will become diseased at the start of the match. The disease reduces stats by 14 per hit. You can cure yourself.
 * No special attacks
 * No powerups - You cannot use any Dominion Tower power ups for the duration of your battles.
 * Monster stun - The boss will be unable to attack you for a few seconds at the beginning of the battle.
 * Random daze - Occasionally you will become dazed; auto-retaliate turns off and your combat will be interrupted.
 * No food
 * Poison - You will be poisoned at the start of the match. The damage starts at 98 life points. You can cure yourself.
 * Halved hitpoints - Your health will be cut in half. You can heal back up to max.
 * No potions

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 thoughout 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.

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: allign 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.
 * 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.

Other Information

 * A player's own equipment and items are used in the Dominion Tower.
 * The Dominion Tower Face is alive, speaks, and gives Rewards.
 * 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.)
 * Freestyle Mode has 8 classes of bosses (A-H).
 * Large LifePoint meters are used in the upwards right and left parts of the screen.
 * There's a Decide Your Handicap feature.
 * The tower is located west of the ruins of Uzer.
 * You may select your taunt.
 * You may allow spectators.
 * If you drop any items in the arena they will be lost upon dying.
 * Most of the bosses have full voice track unlike their real counterparts.

Rewards

 * Combat XP
 * New consumable items to use on the surface world
 * Dominion glove sets (Goliath gloves, Spellcaster gloves, and Swift gloves)
 * The dreadnip; "a new ally to help you in your hardest and toughest fights yet to come."
 * Dominion Sword, Dominion Staff , and Dominion Crossbow with better stats than Chaotic, but can only used in the Tower.

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.
 * 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
 * When reaching beating 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.".

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.
 * also in "No potions" if a player drinks a dose of anti-poison they will not be poisoned next round, even with the poison handicap.

Gallery
Torre do Domínio