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Peerless Bosses: From bottom-left clockwise: Medusa, Chief Paroxysmus, Stygian Dragon, Monstrous Interred Grizzle, Lady Melisande, Travesty, Shimmering Effusion, Dread Horn (center)

Peerless Bosses, or just Peerlesses, are boss monsters that spawn in certain dungeons that were introduced with the Mondain's Legacy expansion. Stygian Abyss expansion added two more to the already available six, making a total of eight Peerless bosses. Along with Champion Spawns, Peerless Bosses are one of the primary sources of rare Artifacts.

Mechanics

Each boss has a location of its own and some of these areas have a requirement just to enter them. Their rooms can be accessed only by acquiring certain keys.

For most, the pattern is that keys are obtained from certain monsters within the dungeons. In only one case (Travesty) is the key literally a key. Most of the time it is some other items. Keys can be readily identified because they are often blessed and have a countdown timer on them. They expire after this countdown timer runs out to prevent stockpiling.

For Mondain's Legacy peerlesses, these keys are exchanged at a certain place in the dungeon for a main key. This key is then used to access the Peerless room. Once the keys are used or expire, no one else may enter the boss room, and the rooms can only be entered with the proper keys. A maximum of 30 people (or 3 parties) can enter a Peerless area or boss room at one time. Once inside the boss room, you are under a time limit of about 2 hours. Once the time is up, your group is ejected from the room.

Once the boss is killed, another time limit, of about 10 minutes, goes into effect. You have about 10 minutes to loot or you are ejected. From the Peerlesses are obtained certain unique Peerless Artifacts and ingredients with which certain other artifacts can be crafted.

Peerless Bosses

Mondain's Legacy

Dread Horn in Twisted Weald
Travesty in The Citadel
Chief Paroxysmus in the Palace of Paroxysmus
Lady Melisande in Blighted Grove
Monstrous Interred Grizzle in Bedlam
Shimmering Effusion in the Prism of Light

Stygian Abyss

Medusa in the Stygian Abyss Dungeon
Stygian Dragon in the Stygian Abyss Dungeon

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-'''Peerless''' Bosses, or just Peerlesses, are "boss" monsters that spawn in certain [[dungeons]] that were introduced with the [[Mondain's Legacy]] expansion.
+[[File:Peerless.jpg|thumb|'''Peerless Bosses''': From bottom-left clockwise: [[Medusa]], [[Chief Paroxysmus]], [[Stygian Dragon]], [[Monstrous Interred Grizzle]], [[Lady Melisande]], [[Travesty]], [[Shimmering Effusion]], [[Dread Horn]] (center)]]
+'''Peerless''' Bosses, or just '''Peerlesses''', are ''boss'' monsters that spawn in certain [[dungeons]] that were introduced with the [[Mondain's Legacy]] expansion. [[Stygian Abyss]] expansion added two more to the already available six, making a total of eight Peerless bosses.  Along with [[Champion Spawns]], Peerless Bosses are one of the primary sources of rare [[Artifacts]].
-Their rooms can be accessed only by acquiring certain keys.
+==Mechanics==
+Each boss has a location of its own and some of these areas have a requirement just to enter them. Their rooms can be accessed only by acquiring certain keys.
-For most, the pattern is that keys are obtained from certain monsters within the dungeons.  The keys are dungeon-appropriate objects with timers (they expire after a certain period of time).
+For most, the pattern is that keys are obtained from certain monsters within the dungeons. In only one case ([[Travesty]]) is the ''key'' literally a key. Most of the time it is some other items. Keys can be readily identified because they are often [[blessed]] and have a countdown timer on them. They expire after this countdown timer runs out to prevent stockpiling.
-These keys are then exchanged at a certain place in the dungeon for a "main key."  This key is then used to access the Peerless room.
+For [[Mondain's Legacy]] peerlesses, these keys are exchanged at a certain place in the dungeon for a ''main key''. This key is then used to access the Peerless room. Once the keys are used or expire, no one else may enter the boss room, and the rooms can only be entered with the proper keys. A maximum of 30 people (or 3 parties) can enter a Peerless area or ''boss room'' at one time. Once inside the boss room, you are under a time limit of about 2 hours. Once the time is up, your group is ejected from the room.
-Up to 30 characters, 3 parties' worth, can enter a Peerless room at once.
+Once the boss is killed, another time limit, of about 10 minutes, goes into effect. You have about 10 minutes to loot or you are ejected. From the Peerlesses are obtained certain unique [[Artifacts (Peerless)|Peerless Artifacts]] and ingredients with which certain other [[Craftable_Artifact|artifacts can be crafted]].
-The Peerlesses are as follows.
+==Peerless Bosses==
--[[Travesty]], located in [[The Citadel]];
+===Mondain's Legacy===
+* [[Dread Horn]] in [[Twisted Weald]]
+* [[Travesty]] in [[The Citadel]]
+* [[Chief Paroxysmus]] in the [[Palace of Paroxysmus]]
+* [[Lady Melisande]] in [[Blighted Grove]]
+* [[Monstrous Interred Grizzle]] in [[Bedlam]]
+* [[Shimmering Effusion]] in the [[Prism of Light]]
+===Stygian Abyss===
+* [[Medusa]] in the [[Stygian Abyss Dungeon]]
+* [[Stygian Dragon]] in the [[Stygian Abyss Dungeon]]
--[[Chief Paroxysmus]], located in the [[Palace of Paroxysmus]];
+[[Category:Directory]]
--[[Lady Melisande]], located in the [[Blighted Grove]];
--The [[Monstrous Interred Grizzle]], located in [[Bedlam]]; and
--The [[Shimmering Effusion]], located in the [[Prism of Light]].
-From the Peerlesses are obtained certain unique [[artifacts]] and ingredients with which certain other [[artifacts]] can be crafted.
-==UOStuff==
-* With the introduction of the Mondain's Legacy expansion came the 6 Peerless bosses, located in most of the UO:ML dungeons.
-* Each boss has a location of it's own and some of these areas have a requirement just to enter them.
-* Entering most Peerless areas requires the collection of certain "keys."
-* In only one case (Travesty) is the "key" literally a key.  Most of the time it is some other item(s).  Keys can be readily identified because they are blessed, and have a countdown timer on them (to prevent stockpiling).
-* In most cases, the keys need to be turned in at a certain place, and exchanged for a second set of keys commonly known as "crossing keys" or "main keys".  Using a key from the second set teleports your party into the "boss room."
-* Normally you get 3 main keys/crossing keys.  Each one can teleport 1 party.
-* Once the keys are used or expire, no one else may enter the boss room, and the rooms can only be entered with the proper keys.
-* Thus, a maximum of 30 people (3 parties) can enter a Peerless area or "boss room" at one time.
-* Once inside the boss room, you are under a time limit of about 2 hours. Once the time is up, your group is ejected from the room.
-* Once the boss is killed, another time limit, of about 10 minutes, goes into effect.  You have about 10 minutes to loot or you are ejected.
-* All of the Peerless monsters listed below work in this way, except for Markatus the Minotaur.  Markatus is summoned by killing monsters in his dungeon, in [[Champion Spawn]] type fashion.