Dain Frostreaver IV

Nomeregard solos Dain Frostreaver IV in Great Divide for the Conqueror of Velious credit. Dain banishes you into the well at the bottom of his throne room, so the trick is convincing him to follow you down there with pet aggro and DoT ticks.

July 30, 2025
Episode 33

Nomeregard the Shadowknight tackles Dain Frostreaver IV at level 65, working around the banish-into-the-well mechanic by tricking Dain into following the pet down the pit. 17-minute kill, drops the head, ring, two Frost Reavers, and a crown. One more Guda toward the Conqueror of Velious set.

Velious raid Banish cheese 8th Guda

Episode Summary

How the run goes.

  • Travel to Great Divide via the Plane of Knowledge book and the Agent of Change near the wall outside the city.
  • Clear the lower trash so they don't fight through walls during the main pull.
  • Get Dain on the extended target, then use pet aggro to kite him into the well at the bottom of the room.
  • Chain DoTs to keep summoning him back even after each banish, with Jane's Veil tanking the entire encounter.
  • 17 minute kill at level 65, ~21k HP, 873 AC. Drops the full set of Dain loot.

The Banish Mechanic

Why Dain is annoying to solo.

  • Banish: Dain banishes you down into the well at the bottom of his throne room every 30s to 1min.
  • Aggro wipe: The banish clears your hate list (and weirdly the mercenary's too).
  • The cheese: Get Dain on extended target, send your pet up to grab his attention, then back the pet off into the well so he summons you with the pet.
  • DoT trick: Once you have a DoT ticking on Dain, he keeps summoning you back even after the banish, which means you can stay down in the pit and burn him.
  • Drowning safety: Wear an Enduring Breath cloak so you don't drown if you take a swim.

Loot Table

Everything Dain drops.

  • Dain's Head: Required for the Conqueror of Velious credit.
  • Dome Guard: Helmet drop.
  • Two Frost Reavers: Lore, so only one can be looted. Solid in-era weapons.
  • Frost Reaver's Velium Crown: Tribute-worthy crown.
  • Ring of Winter: Not usable on the SK but high tribute value.
  • Necropotence card and a gown: Junk drops.

Raid tribute tip: Raid tribute now activates inside the Guild Hall (was previously zone-restricted). Worth turning on before the run for the bonus stat ticks.

What's Next

Plans for the rest of the week.

  • Total Gudas: 8 of the Velious raid set complete.
  • Tomorrow: All-in-one Kael run instead of splitting it into multiple short videos.
  • End goal: Full Velious raid Guda set unlocks an Omens of War armor set when complete.
YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to Gnome Regards a Journey. Today we’re going to be doing Dane and uh we’re here in Great Divide. I didn’t I don’t think I shown how to get here yet, but you take the book in plain of knowledge. Pretty much follow the wall. You come down here right outside the city. Here’s the agent of change. Aail him. You say one and then you wait a few seconds. And uh everybody should get flagged or not flagged because they’re all these are all freetoplay characters that I’m using to uh spawn this up. And there we go. Only one guy flagged. And we can say ready. And then we can say the place. And then we can wait. and then say place. And then we’re zoning it. All right. So, the concept on Dne is that he banishes you into this well at the bottom of his uh of his uh little area here. Now, that makes it tricky cuz there is a meimler involved in that. What we need to do is get Dane down the well. Now, how are we going to get Dane down the well? Um, that is the good question, you might ask. And I think I can use my pet. That is the uh that is the concept I’m gonna try because once I get him on my aggro list, I can send the pet on him and do that. So, we can kind of like go up here. So, this is how you get to the room. Now, there’s a bunch of mobs here. We’re going to kill these ones because I’ve had issues where they fight through the wall and uh it just becomes a whole ordeal of uh trying to get some of this stuff done. So, we’re going to clear all this stuff down here real quick and then uh go upstairs. But this room over here, they I’ve had them attack me through the wall. So, I don’t want to deal with that right now. Uh nothing here. None of these things are useful. So, you can just mark them all none and uh ignore them. all this armor. You can you could probably sell it to a vendor for like one platinum maybe, but you’re gonna get so much of it, it’s just not really worth the effort. Uh, but we’re going to grab all these guys down here. Kind of clear this whole area out. If you kind of see where we’re at here, the pit is right here in the center. Uh, we’re going to want to uh probably jump down there um and try to get him down there. There’s a bunch of mobs. I think I can take them all at the same time. So, I’m not too concerned about that. It’s more or less getting getting him to follow us and get him down there so that we can uh we can fight him without having to worry about being banished to the water every few seconds. Um I do have my during breath cloak on so if he can get if he knocks us in the water um we won’t have to worry about drowning or anything. All right, we’re going to come back here. Kill all these guys back here. See how they like summon me the instantly? Instantly, you know, that’s like really annoying. So, uh that happens quite a bit. So, we’re just going to kind of flack them all down. I’m uh I’m fully buffed. Like I I went to my uh Guild Hall, got all buffs from all my boxes, and uh we’re kind of like raid buffed, ready to go. give us the best advantage we can when fighting this stuff here. So definitely uh I highly recommend you always get buffed. See, they just like summon me. Summon me all over. And it’s just like, all right, I’m done. This terrible mechanic that uh you know isn’t that bad. We have a 405 point damage shield. Uh we have the uh ranger buff this time. Uh, for some reason it wasn’t sticking before. It stuck this time. I don’t know. I don’t know if I missed something else when I was buffing. But, uh, that gives us a little bit more damage that we, you know, don’t have to worry about. And, uh, eventually, uh, should be a nice one. Yeah. More of this junk sword stuff. Now, you can loot them and sell them, but, uh, it’s just not worth worth my time. Plus, my bags are getting getting to that full point. I’m already full on trade skill material stuff. I should have dropped those in the bank. I pretty much keep every single trade skill material item. It’s like it’s an addiction really. There we go. All right. So, all those are dead. All that’s dead. There should be one more guy in here. I guess he’s not here right now. So, we can kind of just look around, go up the stairs. Oh, jeez. The council’s in council’s in session. Uh oh, he’s out. All right, this is going to be tricky. Can we just grab you? Yeah, there you go. See? Uh let’s target him. current target. Put him down here. Oh, put him right there. There we go. All right. So, now he’s on our extended target. And he banished us down here. Now, you can see our pet is uh doing stuff. Now, we’re banished again. This is going to be an absolute joke, right? Like, this is Now I think I’m uh yeah, he escaped us from combat. So okay, we have him still on uh extended target. That’s really kind of what I wanted to do because we want to clear this stuff down here and I’m going to send my pet up there again uh once I resummon him in a second. We kind of cheese it that way, I think. There we go. Die, please. A flawed defined shield. Nice. We’ll take that. Let’s get this avalanche golem. Now, this one here, we need to set that back to auto. But now that we have a target, we can, I think, send our pet back up there. If not, uh, we’ll have to, uh, try it again. I should have got a dot on him, but I was getting summoned around too much and didn’t really think about it too much at the time. Okay, let’s get this guy taunted. Definitely it’s it’s a tricky thing to solo because of the banish because it clears your aggro. It for some reason cleared the mercenaries acro too. So which is uh do what you got to do. All right, let’s make sure there’s nothing over here. All right, I think we’re good. Now, what I’m going to do is resummon my pet and we’re going to send him up there and then as soon as he gets aggro, we’re going to back him off, right? So, it’s going to be tricky. Uh but theoretically, it should work and it should bring him down here. We don’t want him to damage Dne, right? Uh we just want him to uh to do that. So, we’re going to pet buff him real quick. or not. There we go. Looks like you’re like not you taking a day off today, uh, mercenary. All right, let’s see if this works. So, we’re going to send the pet. All I guess it does. They they nerfed it. I can’t send the pet that way, I guess. There we go. I couldn’t back him off in time. Oh, there we go. We got him down here. All right, that worked. All right, let’s uh Okay, we got to kill this other crap first. So, let’s kill. It worked somehow. Don’t ask me. Don’t. Oh, and he banished me again. Oh my god, I lost him. Oh, wait. Oh my gosh. All right, see if I can dot him up. We’re just going to kill him first. We We’re not taking any damage cuz of Jane’s Veil. So, uh this isn’t going to be too big a deal. But I want to get him dotted up cuz he’s going to keep banishing us, right? My god, he’s up here now. I mean, see how summoning mechanic is stupid. Yeah, that’s that’s how how dumb this is. All right, red dot him now. He should keep reummoning us as long as I can keep dots on, right? Theoretically, I’m just I’m just making up stuff, honestly. I have no idea how this is going to go. Oh my gosh. Mercenary still. Let’s see if we can kill this one. Uh, we don’t want that. Velium dagger. I don’t know why set a greed. Uh, let’s get ignite blood back on there. Go ignite blood. Let’s get these dots back on before this I mess this up. >> All right, we’re not going to kill those. I think I think they’re summoning me back. I think that’s kind of the what’s actually happening here. So, we got that. Roll that. I can’t tell who is actually summoning us. But we’re not taking any damage. He’s he’s he’s a lower end raid mob for for uh Prevelius. We probably could have took him at at uh what you call it uh at 60. But uh we just didn’t try. Oh my gosh, he’s level 70. Come on. There we go. Got him dotted. Eyes at 54%. Not too bad. Trying to drop as absolute much damage as I possibly can on him via life taps and stuff. just like perma stunned in all honesty. Go 46% 43%. Oh, we get pretty far down there, right? Like the fall is is is pretty far. Can I move these guys like over here? >> Nope. Come on. >> Bond to death. Looking bored there. Mercenary just staring at nothing. Oh my gosh. 33%. Definitely a challenging fight. >> Just like I don’t He’s He regenerates a little bit of health when we he banishes us, but I guess the DOT summons us back. As long as we don’t get these other two dead, I think we’ll have enough up here to summon us back because it looks like like these they’re all summoning me. So, yeah, perfect. And then the banish is like a uh like probably like a 30 second to one minute reuse. So, As long as we keep that on there >> and these other guys don’t forget us. I think only Dane Banish gets forgotten, right? Well, no, never mind. They all forget us. But uh but uh for some reason they summon us back. It’s another weird mechanic. I hate this summoning mechanic so much. >> There we go. And then they hit us in the back, of course. 9%. We might be able to knock this out in this this one. You know what I’m going to do? Uh, I’m going to harm touch him. Oh my god, it did nothing. How did that do no damage? It’s like 7,000 damage. There we go. Dane’s down. We know the summoning junk will be done. The summoning junk is over. Oh my gosh, that was terrible. Let’s move these guys over here so I can get a clear screenshot of that body. So, what did he drop? He dropped the head, the ring, two swords, and a crown. Wow, he dropped a lot of stuff. We’ll do that here in a second. That was a That was a Guda worthy fight. I would say that. That was actually challenging. We did it in 17 minutes, though, so not too bad. I’ve had quicker kills, but uh it’s 65 with 21,000 hit points. 873 AC. I think that was pretty good. Pretty good myself. All right, so here we go. Let’s get a screenshot of this this guy. There we go. Oh my gosh. There we go. Done. All right. That is Dne. So, let’s see what we got here. We got Dne’s head. Uh, dome guard. We got two Frost Reavers. They’re lore, so we can’t loot them uh or loot both of them, but they’re pretty nice little weapons in era, so definitely nice there. Uh, Frost Reavers Veium Crown. Another nice item. And we got the ring of winter, which we can’t use, which is a nice ring. But you notice the tribute value on there is pretty nice. And I uh so I actually got the raid tribute to work. I I was able to activate it while inside of my guild hall for some reason that it just randomly worked. Uh this one has a nice tribute on it, too. So we’ll get that one. Number card. And then a gown. Not really worth anything. tribute wise. Tribute’s like kind of where we’re going with this stuff part. But, uh, there we go. That is a Guda. So, we need to go buy our Guda. Let’s give one more screenshot just in case I messed that up. All right. Cuz I you’d be surprised. I have messed up screenshots before where they didn’t actually take. So, let’s uh let’s head off to get our Guda and then uh next up. So, that was 19 minutes. Now, it’s kind of short, but I show that I’m going to be also having another video today. So, what I’m going to do is tomorrow is going to be kale and we’ll do all the kale stuff in one video and then I’ll have to think of something else for Friday cuz that was avatar. I had them broken up into separate ones, but I think one long kale is probably more than anybody can stomach anyway. So, there we go. But we got our Guda for that. Putting us at a total of eight Gudas. Um definitely uh that is a full set of armor when we get to uh Omen’s War. So that’ll probably be what we do with it. But there we go. Uh that is Dne Frost Reaver IV and his uh annoying encounter solo. But thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.