Dastardly Duos Overview Guide

Dastardly Duos is a new weekly event where players can compete in groups of up to 5, the goal is to defeat waves of bosses in order to earn points. There are a variety of rewards for participating in this time limited 6 week event.

Dastardly Duos will run from the reset starting on the 3rd of June and end on the 14th of July.

In this guide we cover where to start, what to expect and what rewards are available.

Where to start Dastardly Duos

Dastardly Duos have a hub in Dornogal, Stormwind and Orgrimmar, where you will find a group of NPCs and a podium interacting with the podium will show your high-score to other players around the area.

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Once you are at the hub all you need to do is speak to Xyggie Marou to be teleported to the Dastardly Duos instance. You can enter with up to 5 other players and NPCs will fill in gaps in your group.

How Dastardly Duos Works

Once inside the instance, there will be a couple of things you want to take note of. The Image below shows where all of the important things are.

Food

In Dastardly Duos you can get food buffs there are 4 different food buffs, you can only have one food buff active at a time. In order to activate certain foods you will need to speak to Wodin in the Dastardly Duos Hub.

• Cake From a Fan - 65% Increased Movement Speed
• Beefy Burger - 15% Increased Damage and 15% Reduced Damage Taken
• "Challenging" Hot Dog” - Increases points from kills and Survival Bonus but causes a large knock-back periodically to you and enemies.
• Heary Haunch - Physical Damage Taken reduced by 80%, Magical Damage Taken reduced by 40%, Damage Done reduced by 40%, Threat Generation increased by 600%. This can not be used by Tanks.
• "Challenging" Shrimpy Fish - Increased points from kills and survival bonus but causes you to take 40% increased damage and deal 40% reduced damage.

Potions

In Dastardly Duos you will have access to 3 different potions. You can only have one potion buff active at a time.

• Vial of Healing - Gain 6% of maximum health every 6 seconds
• Bottle of Invisibility - Turns the Player invisible until you are attacked or be attacked jumping will make you invisible again.
• Can of Amps - Increases movement speed by 65%

Xyggie Marou

Xyggie Marou is in the opening area of the arena talking to her will let you remove all the NPC party members, this will make the encounters much more difficult but you no longer have to share score with the NPCs, so you can potentially get a higher score.

Combat

Once you have buffed up, you can run towards the gates to start dastardly duos. You will get a pop up to confirm you want to start, then you get a 10 second timer. The first objective will be to clear some trash around the arena. You will notice a timer at the top starting at 5mins and it will count down if the timer reaches 0 you will not get to progress to the next stage.

Once you have completed the first adds the first two bosses will spawn, you will have to tackle both bosses at the same time. They generally do not have that many mechanics, but you can get some nasty combos where you can’t heal yourself due to stacking healing reductions.

After you have defeated the two bosses, two more will spawn and you will need to defeat them. Depending on which week we are on the event will either end here or continue.

Increasing the Timer

The timer can be increased by either clicking on the gears that spawn while you are defeating the bosses. Additionally, when you complete the dastardly duos you might occasionally receive Burner Clocks, using these items will add 30 seconds to the timer.

Earning Points

Upon completing a Dastardly Duos you will have a popup showing a breakdown of how much score you received. There are three things that contribute you your score then damage you deal to bosses and trash, how Quickly the match is complete and avoiding deaths.

Bonus score can be obtained one of two ways, the first is that occasionally Cheery bombs will spawn from the props around the arena. These that have a counter above their head, when full these will become circles that increase the amount of points you receive by 100%.

The second way to obtain bonus points is to use one of the two foods that grant bonus points when used.

The amount of points you earn does not increase the amount of rewards and are just for glory and showing off to your friends.

Rewards

Quests

Each week you will receive a new quest which is to complete a dastardly duos, this rewards a random champion track item. This quest can only be completed once on your account so if you want to get an upgrade make sure you do the quest on a character that needs the upgrade.

Completing the Dastardly Duos quest each week will rewards you with the following items:

Completing Dastardly Duos

Every time you finish a dastardly duos you will receive a random piece of veteran warbound until equipped, this will always be the same armor type of the character you complete it on. You will also receive some items to earn more points. The first is the Burner Clock, these add 30 seconds to the timer and have a 3 minute cooldown.

The second is the Bullhorn of Calling, when used this summons an extra group of enemies that can be defeated for additional points. In week 3 and onwards the Bullhorn of Calling will instead summon an additional boss for you to tackle.

Vendor Rewards

There is one vendor that sells cosmetic items for Dastardly Duos, the vendor is Wodin the Troll-Servant you do not need to do anything to unlock this vendor although some items will only be available after a week 3 and 4.

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Wodin Sells the following items.

Dastardly Duos is an interesting new content style released by Blizzard in Patch 11.1.5, we hope this guide helped you better understand dastardly duos and the rewards available from them.