Ice Dome

I was wandering everywhere with henchman in search of secrets and I went into Icedome to find something cool. As soon as I got in, siege Ice Golems attacked us and a army of stone summit came in. It was crazy. If anyone has information on this place, please tell me.

The icedome? I am not sure where that is. Since you say there were summt, I assume you aren't talking about the mineral springs area where the IDS is. Is this out by where you do the Helping the Dwarves quest?

It's Southwest of copperhammer mines, Just go down killing stuff till u see a little bridge with some pinesouls and a griffon. Cross it and keep going Southwest, u'll probably encounter a small army of Stone Summit but u can run past em if henchies distract. Then just keep going till u see the entrance to the ice dome.

It's some kind of dwarven village, quiet easy to bump to it while doing Hero's Challenge and starting from Droknar's if I remember right.

Haven't managed to get through with henchies, haven't really tried tho. Reeaally nasty place.

Horrendous.

I tried fighting with henchies starting from Droknar's Forge to do Hero's Challenge to try to get to Copperhammer. Finally made it after two hours and 60% DP.

Next character I just went around from Rankor -> War Camp -> Citadel -> Copperhammer. Not worth the trouble to go through Ice Dome.

A very tough area, I have fought my way thru this area twice with henchies, first time
from Copperhammer, second time from Drok's.
I think it is a little easier from Drok's, the spawns are not quite as thick as when you
enter from Copperhammer, I did alot of pulling and running back making sure not to
aggro another patrol, I did not find anything special in there, but I was running and
fighting so fast I would have missed it anyway.

Yea, pulling does not work if you fight there from copperhammer. As soon as you enter, the gears of your death are set in motion. :P

A friend and I have been interested in Ice Dome recently. We both attempted to dual run through it, unlocking the area on our map, but ... heh. Whoever can run through all of that and make it out alive - I admire your skill.

As for the question of if there is anything special in Ice Dome? Good question ... I'll have to henchie fight it soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Star Alfur As for the question of if there is anything special in Ice Dome? Good question ... I'll have to henchie fight it soon. I don't remember anything special about Ice Dome other than it being a complete pain in the ass. Granted I have only traveled through there with henchmen. The biggest problem I found is that whatever skillset gets you to Ice Dome will not be the best skillset to get you through Ice Dome.

someone should try going with a group of people to see if the drops are good.

Found my first (and only) sup Abs from there I noticed that there are quite lot of shiverpeak chests too.. too bad that i didnt had a key.

There's rumor of another Lost Strongbox hidden in the zone someplace. Haven't had the desire to spend 5 hours clearing it to find out for sure.

We cleared the place with a guild party to look for the strongbox.. Unless we missed it with 7, there isn't one.. And even if there was one, it's pretty impossible farming it

Went through the Ice Dome with a guildie and henchies last night. Was going to Granite Citadel via Copperhammer mines. Don't recall anything special about the place...just armies of summit drawves. Drops weren't anything special to write home about, unless the henchies took all the good stuff.

Quote: unless the henchies took all the good stuff. Don't they always?

If there is indeed a strongbox there, I don't think it's worth getting to unless either u have some super anti elite mesmer, damage, degen build unless it drops insanely rare stuff.

But there is something very interesting. You can run trough it SOLO. When factions came out, i realised that Shadow Form is a very powerful running tool for hard areas. I tried to dual run it with my friend (dual-Shadow form-echo-mimicry) but we couldnt make it trough(dunno why realy,but now i think we could make it 80%). Then 1 month after i tried solo again because i was so bored. I ran to Icedome, thats easy. Then got killed in beginning of icedome. The result of diying was that i got resed at shrine ( you get rid of one big group of enemies). Then i just a.echo-Shadow formed through, and i found a small spot where i waited for Shadow and a.echo to recharge.Then i just ran to the end. I even gamecamed it . But in video you can only see the run trough Icedome (i made it to Molardune).
http://rapidshare.de/files/34160612/...erun4.wmv.html

(btw in video i have 30dp because i got killed just before Icedome area, reason? WC and i forgot that there are some Ice imps over there :P)

LuKa - "I'm using flesh of my flesh on old worthless post !"

this place is awful. i a m going for the exploere title, and i had to explore this todday . With henchman . ya. we cleared it, but it took about 1.5 hours and we all had 60 dp. i have a few maps of it. also, i did a little exploring in the frozen forest and i saw a gigantic group of rangers and monks.

i tried 2 run there with my R/A, but when Shadow form ends.......poof
like 20 arrows in my ass from the rangers