Hello,

I just started playing Dungeons - The Dark Lord. I haven't played Dungeons or DK before. It's tough. I try to race to get my monster level up to the heroes but often lag behind and then the DLs get in trouble.

On Seperate path, I have two of them stuck off in the other part of the dungeon. I think I've found the scrolls but not sure. I can't figure out how to close the gates on that side of the dungeon, let alone have the DLs join up. Meanwhile, the heroes are closing on 18 and I'm @ 12. Arghh. I must be missing something basic and I can't figure out how to move forward with this quest.

Quest specifics and general pointers much appreciated.

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  [...] let alone have the DLs join up.

Your Dungeon Lords can't join up during this mission.
Pressing "n" to cycle through your Dungeon Lords can be quite handy in this map, though.

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  On Seperate path, I have two of them stuck off in the other part of the dungeon. I think I've found the scrolls but not sure. I can't figure out how to close the gates on that side of the dungeon

In order to close the 3 entrances, you have to find all 3 scrolls "Close entrance".

Both the location of the scrolls and the entrances themselves are marked on your map (press "m" to enlarge it).

In order to close an entrance, you have to
1) open your spellbook (press "b" to do so or use the icon next to your quick bar)
2) Left click the scroll "close entrance" (you can also drag it in your quick bar, but you can also activate it directl from your spell book) and you'll get a "select target" mouse cursor
3) Left click the open entrance you want to close

But beware: the spell is going to take some time and is interrupted if you're attacked in the meantime.

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  It's tough. I try to race to get my monster level up to the heroes but often lag behind and then the DLs get in trouble. [...] Meanwhile, the heroes are closing on 18 and I'm @ 12.

As you can only build your own dungeon with Calypso, you have to take care to build a dungeon such that many of the heroes in Calypso's dungeon are fully satisfied. This will give you an additional 100% of their maximum soul energy. Also make sure that you open as many hero entrances as possible as early as possible in Calypso's dungeon.

Another good advice is to learn Calypso's Roundhouse-Kick. This skill is very efficient in this level.

Last but not least: be quick about what you do. You can finish this map with a hero level of about 12 if you're real quick. But anyway the hero-level is capped at 20, so if you're almost surviving 18, then there is not much to go - more prestige gimmicks, more skills (e.g. roundhouse kick) and more strength/stamina will get you there ...

(03-05-2012 10:17 AM)benjamin@realmforge Wrote:  

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  [...] let alone have the DLs join up.

Your Dungeon Lords can't join up during this mission.
Pressing "n" to cycle through your Dungeon Lords can be quite handy in this map, though.

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  On Seperate path, I have two of them stuck off in the other part of the dungeon. I think I've found the scrolls but not sure. I can't figure out how to close the gates on that side of the dungeon

In order to close the 3 entrances, you have to find all 3 scrolls "Close entrance".

Both the location of the scrolls and the entrances themselves are marked on your map (press "m" to enlarge it).

In order to close an entrance, you have to
1) open your spellbook (press "b" to do so or use the icon next to your quick bar)
2) Left click the scroll "close entrance" (you can also drag it in your quick bar, but you can also activate it directl from your spell book) and you'll get a "select target" mouse cursor
3) Left click the open entrance you want to close

But beware: the spell is going to take some time and is interrupted if you're attacked in the meantime.

(02-05-2012 10:38 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  It's tough. I try to race to get my monster level up to the heroes but often lag behind and then the DLs get in trouble. [...] Meanwhile, the heroes are closing on 18 and I'm @ 12.

As you can only build your own dungeon with Calypso, you have to take care to build a dungeon such that many of the heroes in Calypso's dungeon are fully satisfied. This will give you an additional 100% of their maximum soul energy. Also make sure that you open as many hero entrances as possible as early as possible in Calypso's dungeon.

Another good advice is to learn Calypso's Roundhouse-Kick. This skill is very efficient in this level.

Last but not least: be quick about what you do. You can finish this map with a hero level of about 12 if you're real quick. But anyway the hero-level is capped at 20, so if you're almost surviving 18, then there is not much to go - more prestige gimmicks, more skills (e.g. roundhouse kick) and more strength/stamina will get you there ...

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Benjamin,

Thank you. A hero-level cap is great news.