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Vlad's backstory

 * More on his death can be found here
 * When he arrived at the underworld, he discovered an incredible gain in power about himself due to the suffering he delivered in life, and possibly his death fetish.
 * He immediately began to round up souls who were being ignored at the moment, and began to threaten to overthrow Grenth after 37 and a half decades.
 * right now, grenth is fighting off his forces, but you were highered by a subordinate not fighting as well to eliminate vlad. lucky you.

Location
Underworld Depository
 * A unique location, it is where the bodies destroyed in battle are deposited, so that if grenth should so require, he can plant souls into them and take charge in the human realm. Vlad particularly likes it here, as he can simply set up 15 large spikes in a ring, and watch as people fall from the sky to be impaled. it is also a strategic strong point for necromances, as their is literally no end to the corpses.

Mission

 * Vlad is a fairly (insert difficulty level here) mission, as hecomes at you in 2 phases, but there is little fighting before you face him. exhaustion is removed, but the fight with him is still hard.
 * You are assigned by the Late Voice of the Emperor (he's under new management after his departure) to kill Vlad, as there are enough uprisings in the underworld already, without this Transylvanian punk messing about.
 * ok. that's it. It doesn't get anymore complicated until you actually fight him.
 * oh wait, you are also armed with 5 ex-humans and the late Blade of the emperor (If in search of his terms of agreement, see The Late Voice of the Emperor)

Strategy

 * There are 3 parts to this mission. The first isn't tough. at all. your necrotic allies should even be able to handle this without you. And they only have 1 skill each.
 * Of course, they can't die, seen as they resurrect 3 seconds after death.
 * Anyway, you fight off about 10 ignored souls. They use the skills Ignorance, Guilt, Overload, and Glimmer of Light
 * They have 12 domination, 12 healing prayers, and 7 fast casting. they are even easier to defeat due to their constant health degen of -2.
 * So ends part 1. Now Vlad says some stuff about how he isn't impressed at all by you, seen as his forces suck. it's no wonder they didn't kill themselves. but still, he comes out to kill you because your in his lair, and will most likely eat all his food in some sort of wild party.
 * The second part involves vlad using a particularly annoying and brutish skill, Soul exchange
 * This skill allows him to possess any other body he wishes, and his own become lifeless and invulnerable. He uses this to possess a party member or ally, even pets.
 * he will remain using this character's body until it is defeated, at which point his soul drifts for 5 seconds then lands in a new one. any player possessed cannot use skills, or even control their character. This becomes incredibly annoying in itself, besides the fact that you are dead. luckily, Vlad uses the attributes and skills You had, Which means he won't overwhelm you at all.
 * the main annoyance is when he either possesses one of your allies, or when he possesses your healer/protter. (it should be noted that when he possesses you, all your skills become recharged, but you can still see what skill he is about to use, and who he targets.)
 * Your Ex-human allies use Animate Flesh Golem at lvl 29 for the golem, and the Blade uses Aura of the Lich at level 20 each for his minions. When vlad possesses them, he summons minions that remain loyal to him. He appears to have an minion cap of 40, which means when he uses AotL, you suffer from a whole lot of lvl 20 bone horrors. Minions he summons in another body remain loyal to him in any body.
 * When he possesses a character, 6 of his Ignored souls come down to assist. This makes it very irritable when he has just summoned a minion or two.
 * He will continue this way until he has already possessed the entire party once, and all allies/pets once. Then, you move on to the third phase.
 * During the third phase, he uses his own skills, rather than yours, but has formed a bond with all of you, in life force, making it so that any life he sacrifices will be taken from a random party member instead of from himself.(the percents work with your health, not his. otherwise, 15% of his health could be 50% of yours or more)
 * This makes him highly dangerous, as he uses only sacrifice skills. it can be noted, that at this point he has 0 death magic.
 * the best way to fight him is to disable his spells, and deal raw damage, mostly due to his powerful sacrifice skills that work with conditions and hexes.
 * simply suriving longer than he does will work, because while an ignored soul drops by every 20 seconds and goes on a mad dash to heal him, you should be able to easily out damage this.
 * surival is important, as he has health levels notably higher than shiro, abbadon, or the Lich lord, perhaps 50% more.
 * Beware the suddenness of his sacrifices, being near death and suddenly losing the last of your health will really suck. but, the process has no specifications for targeting, so it could tax anyone, even if 3 people have 2 health, and a fourth has 1000.
 * There are no better tips. It is very straight forward, but can take incredibly long, as he has massive health in the third phase, and possessed characters or creatures in the second phase have 750 health, and 80 armor.
 * For more information on fightg him, regard his skills shown below.

His Skills
The following shows a list of his skills, and at what attribute they are. While on the section of skills though, it should be noted that his skills will be disabled for a maximum of 20 seconds, and that he cannot suffer enchantment removal (effects of the removal still activate, such as Shatter Enchantment


 * Awaken the Blood att. 16/18
 * Contagion att. 0
 * Touch of agony att. 18
 * Wallow's Bite att. 18
 * Signet of Agony att. 18
 * Soul Exchange (see above)
 * Psychosomatic Contagion enchantment, cost 10 energy lasts 60 seconds. any hexes Vlad receives are also given to all foes in the area of Vlad. When this occurs, Vlad saccrifices 10% Health.
 * Sacrificial Cleansing Spell, cost 1 energy recharge 1 second. life sacrifice, 4%. Removes a hex and a condition from Vlad.

Important Dialog
If you are unfocused enough to here him talking, then it won't matter what he says.