Dominus Farm Group Guide - How to Farm Dominus

The 'culler' uses 'culling strike', high 'item quantity'(IQ), high 'item rarity' (IR). When dominus is ~10% life or less, it is your job to get the final hit. Your survival is important. If you die, the run is spoiled. Do not die. Consider distancing yourself from Dominus for most of the fight. Successful culling on a boss benefits from VERY rapid attacks as well as high DPS.

Kill Dominus quickly. When Dominus is about 10% life, slow down and or stop hitting. The culler needs to get the final hit. It may be beneficial to switch out to lower DPS attacks.

The culler or group leader is usually the 'anchor'.

How to Anchor:
1. Travel to 'The Sceptre of God' by waypoint.
2. Go to the stairs
3. Cast teleport (open a portal, AKA 'TP')
4. Announce that you are the anchor and your portal is set.
5. [Important] Do not create any new portals. Other group members will use yours repeatedly as part of their routine. They will take your TP to the stairs, then hold CTRL while clicking the stairs to create a new instance. This saves time for the group.

If anchoring, it may be helpful to disable your portal spell except when it is needed. This will avoid the accidental creation of new portals by accident. I.e. if you normally create a TP after each kill, but now it's suddenly a bad idea. That habit is going to stick with you and may interfere with your duties as anchor.

Anchor should revisit their portal regularly, before 8 minutes. This keeps the zone alive. It may be necessary to visit after every few dom kills or loot runs.

Anchors provide three benefits:

1. Saves time: The amount of time it would take for a group member to go from the WP and find the stairs going up.

2. Having a TP in a zone extends the amount of time which can pass before the zone is 'forgotten' by the game. For groups that clear Dominus quickly, this is rarely a problem, however.

3. This next part is important. If a group member uses the waypoint to create a [new] zone by using [CTRL]+click, the game will give them a new zone... BUT the moment they go up the first stairs, they will be placed into the existing zone of a different group member. - When group members start saying stuff like, "Hey, get out of my zone!" or "Weird, somebody already got ahead of me somehow." - this is because someone probably created their own zone (at waypoint) and then forgot to [CTRL]+click the stairs. If people start AT the stairs, they are less likely to forget. This is further explained in detail in the next post.

Note: If someone DOES forget, there might not be many hints for them because all the monsters are probably still alive. They might go all the way up to dominus, create a TP, and then realize Dominus is dead. It may be a good idea to kill at least a few monsters so there is an indication.

An alternative to anchoring: Everybody uses waypoint to old zone (pre-cleared for fast running), CTRL + click the first stairway to create new.

• Stairs are in complete corners. I.e. If a corner of the map has an area of incomplete flooring, go to the next corner.

•Corners with stairs do not have mobs, so one can circle around the middle and look for an area without monsters.

• Holes in walls can be moved through with teleport or leap slam.

• There are others, please submit and or link screen shots.

• If you go up a stairway and see two (2) doors leading out from the first room, the next stairway will always be adjacent, not across.

• The top level has one of three possible layouts. (I would like you to submit mapped screen shots for further analysis of all levels.)

• It is reportedly productive to check opposite side before adjacent. (Validation and explanation needed)

Going low life with blood magic gear.

Consider that you want to go 'low life' by using blood magic. Using a 'blood magic' support gem will increase mana cost by about 200%. This makes auras with 60% mana reservation unusable. Use 'snap shotting'. Equip an item which grants 'blood magic'. Cast your desired auras, then remove the item and replace it with your item of choice. Your aura will persist.

(A future update to game mechanics could stop 'snap shotting' from working by killing auras when items or gems are removed, but for now it works. The downside of snapshotting is time cost and inventory space.

Items with Blood Magic
Malachai's Simula (Note: +20% mana cost)
Prism Guardian : With 25% reduced mana reservation!
The Covenant: robe.

Freeze Mine + Righteous Fire Dominus Video

Simple enemies are spawned at the same location where Dominus begins the fight. Freeze Mine is unlikely to have enough cold DMG to freeze Dominus, however since he starts out located close to lower level mobs, 'elemental proliferation' will allow for him to become frozen.

Freeze mine can be supported by trap laying key stones, cold penetration, and other gems.
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Freeze_Mine

Freeze Mine has been changed to an update, which results in it causing damage. Since it now causes damage, perma-freezing a boss through lower level mobs + elemental proliferation is less likely to result in an easy perma-freeze (the lower level mob will simply die).

The video also demonstrates the use of 'Righteous Fire', and a technique called 'snap shotting'. The DPS of Righteous Fire is based on HP. The item 'Belly of the Best' greatly boosts HP. I.e. equip something nice, cast a persistent spell, then change equipment.

Notify me of good videos useful for dom run tactics and info, I will add them.

The Original Dominus Farming Guide: This guide features important map examples which will improve your run time. It also features guidance for using two accounts on the same computer in order to be your own culler. If you're into soloing, then why not solo among the best drops in the game?

If you know if other good threads/guides, please notify me so I can update this list and cull useful information into a master thread.