Level Range: [ 50+ ] Disclaimer: Use these notes at your own risk, I provide no guarantees
Make sure you bring a mage capable of casting WEAKEN, IDIOCY, CLUMSINESS
From the entrance room, go north and kill the guardian spirit and GET POUCH CORPSE
Now move north again, and visit the rooms east and west, killing each statue and getting the medallion from each corpse
Move north again, and again visit each room, killing each statue and getting medallions
Move north again, and again visit each room, killing each statue and getting medallions
Now OPEN POUCH, PUT 6*MEDALLION POUCH, USE POUCH
This creates a rune medallion which will open the door north of 'Before the Bronze Gate'
In the next area you will be fighting human and sidhe warriors, GET MEDALLION CORPSE, you need a bottom and middle section from these mobs.
You should also find Balor's Minion, when you kill it, GET FRAME CORPSE
Each of the medallions you get, if you look at it will say it is a "whatever" piece of a third of a larger medallion
You want to get all three pieces (Bottom, Middle, Top) and put them in the frame, toss the others, USE FRAME, you now have a runed stone emblem
And you will fight Conall Cernach the first boss
Once done move all the way north, east, and north to 'Before the Inner Gates'
UNLOCK N, OPEN N, but do not move yet
Next up is Balor for this boss fight you must IDIOCY, WEAKEN, and CLUMSINESS him in order to cripple his attacks.
Simply have your very capable tank engage the boss and the mages should work on that in unison, for example if you have
three casters, have them take one spell each etc etc
Kill Balor.... he drops various things
From Balor, go DOWN.... here there is a seal... IDIOCY, WEAKEN, and CLUMSINESS the seal... have your tank or shooter pull the statues from each of the four directions from this main room until you have 4 statues and the de-prepped seal in the same room.
Now kill the seal.
Once done... rinse and repeat the next new seals, heading DOWN each time.
Once you are in 'The Bowels of Annwn' you should have everyone remove their light sources, and head west three times.
Now you will be in 'A Narrow Passage' if you have a 3C mage get them to LOCATE CONN, if you know the layout you are about to
walk into you will know it is essentially a three room square, so if he is found in 'The Northeast Corner of the Grotto' he is S,E from you for example. This is just to know roughly where he is so you dont walk in on him when you dont expect it.
If you dont have someone with LOCATE scan also works...
Walk around the outside edge of the square, do NOT walk into the centre as that is where Carman is.
Walk around the outside edge of the square killing forlorn souls, the forlorn general, and Conn.
Once all of that is dead.... go into the centre and kill Carman, she tends to blind like a bastard so be ready for that.
When she reaches 75% she will spawn one of her sons, retarget
to kill him first, then target back to Carman, when she hits 50% she will spawn her second son, FLEE, and regroup on the outside edge of the square. Now shoot all the beings that her son is generating, there are a BUNCH of em, then kill the son.
Then go back in and kill Carman...she summons one last son at 25%, KILL him, then kill her.
Now head south through the middle of the cavern and you will find a staircase up, go up, then north.
If you already have 'a key-shaped gemstone' from a previous run you can simply follow the directions below, shooting and clearing. If you do not, ASK SOUL FOLLOW ME, you must now keep the soul alive so make sure nobody accidentally hits it, and heal it periodically.
In each room that you move SHOOT SLEEPER until clear, make sure nobody accidentally hits the soul.
Now you need to follow the path through the sleepers, this is normally handled by a series of runes, the stone in each room shows a pattern of runes, these correspond to north, south, east and west. Therefore giving you the safe path.
But I will save you the time....W, W, N, N, W, N, N, E, E, N, N, E, S, E, N, N, N, E, S, E, N, N, E, N, W, N
This will cause some acts to occur if the soul is with you, and he will drop 'a key-shaped gemstone' so take this, it is a rentable key for future if you like.
Next is the final boss... move north when you are ready, as the mob acts are long.
Watch all the spam, the boss fight is actually four phases
Phase 1 - fight Dagda until he drags you 'Inside the Belly of the Beast', OPEN FISSURE, kill the lots of half-digested creatures
Phase 2 - fight Dagda until he drags you 'Inside the Mind of the Beast', OPEN COBWEBS, kill the lots of terrifying nightmares
Phase 3 - fight Dagda until he drags you 'Inside the Heart of the Beast', have your healers premake a bunch of augments for the final battle, OPEN SOUL, kill all of the shards of the demon soul
Phase 4 - Fight Dagda, this is the actual fight, use the augments as necessary, you will need to do a lot of damage