Doppelganger
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| Doppelganger | |
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| Affiliation | Not specified |
| Type | Not specified |
| Profession |  (see notes)
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| Level(s) | 20 (30) |
| Campaign | Prophecies |
For those who have succeeded where many have failed and have come this far, the only thing that stands between them and Ascension is the Doppelganger, their mirror image that they must defeat alone which will test their ability to outsmart their foes. Here there is no relying on expensive equipment or hiding behind party members.
The Doppelganger copies your character's set of skills and has its own set of attributes, health, and energy. Because of this the player must devise a way of defeating the Doppelganger by using its weaknesses; it is limited in intelligence as it is an AI (it cannot use certain strategies or chain moves like a player) and it cannot use skills that are linked to a title track.
Defeating the Doppelganger will reward you with 50,000 XP and 1,000 bonus XP for defeating it in under 10 minutes in normal mode (2 minutes in Hard Mode, where the reward is normal) and take your character to The Dragon's Lair.
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[edit] Missions
[edit] Skills
- 12 in all attributes, normal mode as well as hard mode.
- The Doppelganger has the same set of skills as its opponent.
- It cannot use any PvE-only skills (except Vampirism and Winds, which will be level 9); however, they will be on its skill bar.
[edit] Notes
- There is no animal for it to charm, so Charm Animal and Comfort Animal is useless to it.
- Like all other AI opponents, the Doppelganger will attack even when afflicted with hexes such as Empathy and Insidious Parasite that punish it for attacking. It will continue to attack until it kills itself. Furthermore, since the damage from Insidious Parasite is life stealing, it is not subject to mitigation by protection spells, so a player can conceivably equip Shielding Hands, Protective Spirit, and Insidious Parasite to defeat the boss without lifting a finger offensively.
- The Doppelganger has 480 health in Normal Mode and 680 in Hard Mode. This is not affected by runes you may equip.
- The Doppelganger will not queue skills, which means that you can spam a skill chain more quickly than the Doppelganger does.
- If you and the Doppelganger both die at the same time, you will still get credit for completing the mission; however, this will count as a death if you are trying for the Survivor title.
- At the beginning of the encounter, the Doppelganger is affected by the enchantment Divine Fire.
- Technically, the Doppelganger is a monk - which has been shown by it dropping monk tomes - that copies the players skills and has all attributes (primary as well as secondary) of the primary and secondary profession of the player. Thus it acts as if it was of variable profession. The reason behind this might be that changing a creature's real profession in an instance is much harder than mimicking one.
[edit] Trivia
- Doppelganger was called "Mirror Self" prior to the June 15th, 2005 game update.
- The word Doppelganger originates from the word Doppelgänger (a German term that translated literally means "Double Walker"), a copy of ones self, often considered a bad omen.
- The Doppelganger formerly wielded an Eternal Bow for long ranged attacks, but now uses a Tormented Spear, and a Chaos Axe for melee attacks.
