Dread Horn

Dread Horn	Dread Horn (Enhanced Client \| EC)

Dread Horn is a corrupted unicorn, the Peerless boss of the Twisted Weald dungeon. He is the easiest peerless for a Sampire. In a group any template would do as long as you have a tank and one player focuses on curing. Once you have some experience, you will find that getting the keys is more difficult than the fight itself. Occasionally, Dread Horn teleports people to himself and poisons them. A fast Arch Cure caster or a crate of greater cure potions will come in handy, since Dread loves to poison everyone. Orange petals do not work -- Dread's poison is too strong (level 6?). He also has a special ability which will reduce all your stats (strength, dexterity, intelligence) by 20, which can be difficult in combination with his magic attacks. This lasts 60 seconds. Having Resisting Spells is a boon in this instance.

Dread Horn's lair is in the Twisted Weald dungeon, past the twisty quicksand maze near Swoop.

Statistics

Basic Information

Property	Value
Spawn Locations	Twisted Weald
Fame	Level 5
Karma	Level 5
Alignment	Evil
First Seen

Loot

Property	Value
Gold	~7000
Magic Items	16
Special Loot	Artifacts (Peerless), [[Peerless Reagents, Dread Horn Mane, Dread Horn Tainted Mushroom, Crimson Cincture, Robe of the Equinox
Cut Up Loot	5 Cut of Raw Ribs, 16 Hides, 8 Dragon's Blood

Attributes

Property	Value
Strength	878 - 993
Hit Points	50,000
Dexterity	581 - 683
Stamina	581 - 683
Intelligence	1223 - 1275
Mana	1223 - 1275

Combat Stats

Property	Value
Base Damage	21 - 28
Barding Difficulty	160.0
Preferred Foods	Meat

Skills

Property	Value
Wrestling	130.0
Tactics	90.0
Magic Resist	110.0
Anatomy	0.0
Magery	110.0
Eval Int	110.0
Meditation	110.0
Poisoning	120.0

Special Abilities

Teleports players to itself, AE Poison Attack, stats -20

Resistances

Property	Value
Physical	40 - 55%
Fire	50 - 65%
Cold	50 - 65%
Poison	65 - 75%
Energy	60 - 75%

Damage Output

Property	Value
Physical	40%
Poison	60%

Strategies

For groups of mages, pumping out endless Earth Elementals is a simple but effective way to beat Dread Horn. He will dispel some, but the elementals deal/take OK damage because of the armor/damage types, and their aggressive AI will usually keep Dread Horn from targeting the mages. Two mages with lots of Mana Regeneration should be able to cast enough elementals to take him down. Tamers will want to take pets with excellent poison resistance and good physical resistance, so as to reduce the amount of pet healing required. The constant poisoning can make it difficult to heal pets before they die. The Cu Sidhe's ability to sometimes cure itself of poison can be helpful in this regard. Arctic Ogre Lords are also quite popular since they have 100% poison resist (this eliminates 60% of Dread Horn's melee damage).

Notes

His special ability that reduces your stats by 20 for 60 seconds does stack with curse, weaken, and feeblemind, which Dread Horn also sometimes uses. (Your stats will never be reduced below the minimum of 10 points, however.) Resisting Spells helps with the stat loss from curse but not with the special ability.

Keys

Main article: Dreadhorn (Quest)

Six keys are required: Blighted Cotton, Thorny Briar, Gnaw's Fang, Irk's Brain, Lissith's Silk, and Sabrix's Eye. All the keys spawn with a 7 day countdown timer, which should be plenty of time to collect them all.
Drop the keys on the small statue called "The Statue of the Fey" in the southeast corner of the Twisted Weald dungeon (i.e. the swamp area past the desert).
When you have done that, three Essence of the Wind will spawn in your back pack. These keys come with a 10-minute countdown timer, giving you a limited time to prepare your party for the final battle. Double click the master key to send you and your party to Dread Horn's island (located just to the west of the swamp area).
Once Dread Horn spawns, your party has 2 hours to defeat Dread Horn, after which he will just disappear if you haven't killed him. You can depart the island by walking to the boat on the left-hand side.

Resources & Loot

Name	Description	Frequency of Drop
Pristine_Dread_Horn.png	Pristine Dread Horn
Dread horn tainted mushroom.png	Dread Horn Tainted Mushroom
Mangled head of dread horn.png	Mangled Head of Dread Horn
Horn of dread horn.png	Horn of Dread Horn
Dreads revenge.png	Dread's Revenge (Kryss)
Dread_flute.png	Dread Flute
Dread_Horn_Mane.png	Dread Horn Mane

Each Mondain's Legacy peerless will drop 8 mixed items (total) from the following group:

Corruption.png Corruption	Taint.png Taint	Blight.png Blight
Putrefaction.png Putrefaction	Muculent.png Muculent	Scourge.png Scourge