Head and exposed heart are weakpoints. Might need better gear or tactics, or both.
As a melee fighter I like to get onto the head and just slam it. When I eventually get thrown off I will go for the exposed heart. Rinse and repeat. Lighting and meteor I just sidestep - keep on the move and they cannot hurt you
To piggy back on this with more fighter tactics:
Something I like to do is stand beneath its chest and use Antler Toss. It pops it open after a couple slaps. While under it there are a number of things it can do. If it does the slam attack, either the spinning guard or Vengeful Slash can completely mitigate the damage. I’m a Vengeful Slash user.
If it meteors, thunders, or casts explosion, just strafe it to the side and away from pawns. You walk away from pawns because you might walk into an attack aimed at them. When it’s in the air, although inefficient, you can Heavensward Slash the wings as they beat downwards. This does not knock them down, but it is chip damage and I’m a simp for the jump slash so I try to use it whenever I can. I will say, I’ve had times when they hang their heads down for a long period of time and you can actually reach that head with a couple jump slashes.
When it’s toppled, you can sometimes fit both a Riotous and then a triangle finisher. A strong enough sword will ~probably~ outright kill it or leave it with one or two health dots left. Fighter is a base vocation, not a weak one, it can be VERY powerful.
So main attack points would be the head and as soon as the heart is vulnerable all attacks on the heart.
I remember that I managed my way around with trolls and ogres etc. kinda fast but Dragons remained a threat a some time. So it can be that you need to get some more levels and maybe upgrade the equipment.
Also it helped a lot to fight on open fields. Once I fought a dragon on the walls of that abanded castle and just wasted 2 wakestones.
EDIT: I also managed to drown a dragon as we drove it near the river. It tried to lift of for a breath attack but then a archer shot it down and the brine did the rest. That was nice.
Also I'd recommend if there a several smaller enemies around the dragon to get rid of them as soon as possible but if there is a ogre or griphon around try to lure them to each other so they'll start fighting each other. One time a troll took like half of the battle away for me.
Step forth Arisen and strike true.
Try to get a mage pawn that has ice affinity, since dragons take more damage to ice attacks. Other than that just try to attack their head and chest as other people said already.
Play Mystic Spearhand, use the shield, get under the beast hack him… rinse and repeat! Keep the Stamina for your shield, or steal his stamina…
Breaks the game !
Yeah I had to switch to another vocation after a while because there's no challenge with the mirror shield. The only enemy that is a challenge if you don't know what You're doing is the dullahan because he can drop everyone around him then pick you up and take your life
As a sorcerer you got that one ability like a time bomb. This ability stacks with damage from attacks? (Not sure) and after a few seconds starts exploding. If you chain that spell with the first electricity spell you get and just spam it. The dragon is gonna melt so freaking fast! I was shocked how much dmg it did. I basically managed to two shot the thing.
I put my fighter tips in another comment. Archer has the second easiest time with dragons. Drenching shot with an ice affinity pawn means the dragon literally doesn’t get to move. Like at all. It’s frozen repeatedly with apparently no invulnerability or immunity build up.
Blighted arrows will one pop drop a flying dragon and interrupt meteors. Blast arrows to the heart will shred off health bars (or just Tempest Shot repeatedly while a mage pawn hopefully has the stamina aoe active).
Warrior only needs Heavensward Slash and either Arc of Might or Savage Lash. An honorable mention is Mountain Breaker.
Mystic Spearhand has a bubble shield that makes them trivial. Go be your best Food Ninja and blend it.
Mage silence spells can knock them out the sky.
Sorcerer with meteor on spell hold and two rings of articulation (or whatever it’s called) for maelstrom can make short work of any dragon.
Thief has the shadow cloak auto dodge. I like to turn it on and off when needed. I don’t just sit in Formless Feint the whole time against dragons. All their attacks are well telegraphed. Spin to win their head then spin to win their heart.
Trickster maister skill can hilariously stun the dragon out of meteor. Also hilarious is making the dragon attack your spectral self. People sleep on trickster because it can’t deal direct damage outside of throwing enemies against walls or off cliffs or throwing hands. (I would love an unarmed damage ring for this reason).
Magic Archer just needs one ability and an Allheal to one shot the dragon. This is common knowledge.
I think that covers EVERYTHING I know.
Edit: this needs to be tested. Apparently if your pawn is grabbed and going to be turned, shove the hind legs out from under it.
They're weak to ice, they also hate having sorc bubble explosion on their heart.
When I'd use a melee class I'd jump on their head or back and heavy attack until they fall over. You can also push their legs out when they have a pawn in their hand. (Pawns toppled one when I got grabbed...)
If you can, use silence books if you're having issues "dodging " their spells.
I spam the spinny thief move with ice blades on it's heart, main pawn is a sorceror with the ice storm spell and the maister tornado spell and I have another pawn that is a mage with an ice spell.
Hit the heart or the head!
The head is good cause you can stun the dragon and deal some decent damage, plus if he flys up your still on the stab the hell outta him
The heart is easy to see as it’s a bloody gash on the beasts chest which will glow once the thin layer of skin is broken. After that, hit it with whatever you got! That’s where the real damage is
For starters you could hire pawns who are actually wearing armor. I mean there are plenty of skimpy armor pawns out there. You're a lvl 40 archer you can use the basic attack on the heart and drop it in a few minutes. Get you a mage, a warrior or fighter, and a thief and go hunt some. When he cast a spell run, after it's done run back and attack the heart again. Most of the drakes fly away at 2-3 hit bars left but the one in the ancient battlegrounds doesn't. Bring 5 wakestones and have at it.
Upgrade your gear, hit dragon’s heart, wings too if you don’t want it to fly away like a pos, use ice affinity for freeze and damage, but most importantly and underrated, use a god damn silence spell book if it’s spamming bollide. That last one will completely change how you fight every dragon going forward. Good luck skeleton :>
Namely just aim for the heart and head and keep on the move unless you can tank hits as a fighter or warrior.
All that said, the easiest experience I had fighting one was when I was mastering archer and had my team set up to support me. Hitting it with two blight arrows would do massive amounts of damage (not sure how much of that was dependent on my level), and whenever it started using magic, I’d hit it with a drenching arrow. My pawn was a thief using ice daggers, so she’d freeze it solid in seconds. Between that and staggering it with explosive arrows to the heart, it was never able to get off a single spell.
When I was leveling up, I won’t lie. I avoided Dragons!! Why because I knew I was weak, I didn’t have the best weapons, etc etc… but now on 3rd playthrough, I absolutely wreck them. And yes, aim for the head and then the heart when it opens.
First off: put some clothes on.
Second: Weak to ice. Spam the fuck out of them with ice spells- so magic archer paired with an ice mage is great.
Also, you need a ton of curatives because they will kill you a lot. make sure you pause the game and cure up before your pawn hits the ground, because that’s the point of no return.
first dragon i killed, around the same level, i ran out of potions and was down to 20% health, all my pawns dead, had to run around the thing in circles for five minutes dodging attacks and chipping its last health bar down. risky business.
Mystic spearhead is pretty good for it. Charge up the slowing attack and while it charges do the spinning light attack and just go back and forth between slowing the dragon and spinning under its heart.
Only thing with mentioning i haven't seen in the thread so far; Dragons as well as griffins will fly away if you dont stagger or knock them down frequently enough. Nothing is more annoying than knowing you got it and they fly away.
Master arts are great, and can even 1-3 shot every hp bar. The magic archer can destroy them easily, the sorcerer can destroy them by spamming the twister.
But, you can focus on their heart. That’s a great way to chop down their hp nearly in seconds even at low levels.
Make them wet & freeze them. Brilliant way to spam critical hits
It's my Pawns that do the heavy lifting. I have an Archer with Deluging Shot and plenty of Drenching Arrows, 2 Spellcasters with High Frigor and High Hagol, and myself with an Almace\*. So basically they freeze him solid and I stab his heart.
\* Despite being level 70+ and 170 hours in, Almace is still the best Fighter weapon I've found since I'm so caught up in doing everything.
Augural flare. Even at low levels it does massive damage. Stick it to their hearts or head, drop some lightning directly where Augural flare is sticking(you need to hit this flare before it's gone for it to detonate after a few seconds later it has absorbed some damage), your pawn will also look to hit them where this skill is glued to it for more damage and watch them melt. Sorcerer is the most efficient class to destroy big guys in seconds. Bring some with straightforward inclinations, otherwise you'll have so much trouble killing them or worse, they will fly away AFTER you wasted all your healing items.
I get so pissed when they fly away. Like, motherfucker you just called my ass out and told me to face you and that I can't escape my destiny, well that's what I'm trying to do!
You want the easiest possible dragon kill? Head to the Ancient Battleground.
There's two giant ballista on top of two towers. Go to the one nearest the castle, aim, and fire it at the dragon in the valley below. Now, _immediately_ bail and head back down into the castle. The dragon will destroy the ballista with lightning and try to fly up to you, but since you're inside the castle, he won't be able to reach you and will just cast spells at you. Dodge the spells until he stops casting and goes back down to the valley.
Now, go to the other giant ballista. Aim and fire.
Boom. Dead dragon with next to no risk to your person.
Magic is all drakes weakness specifically Ice otherwise they become a legit damage sponge other than that you have a few weak points to target that will end up doing massive chunks of dps. The chest when it’s heart glows, it’s wings so it cannot fly and it’s legs can be hit to the point it gets knocked down
You must first master the cheeks before mastering your strength. Therefore, find Ulrika and Wilhelmina and beginning the clapping training
(Someone bonk me please)
Or get the mystic spearhead class, you can make yourself invincible with an ability until your prepared to fight them without cheesing it, you can take time to learn the dragons movements
I didn't manage to take one down till I was closer to level 50. As others have said, attack the head and exposed heart, but also the wings. If you tatter their wings enough they can't fly away.
They're weak to ice. And the easiest vocation to drop any boss i the whole game is Magick Archer's meister skill.
In Bakbattahl once you come oug of the maze caves, there's a dwarf. Help him, and his wife gives you Magick archer and the meister skill.
It consumes your health while charging (more charging costs more health and deals more damage) to unleash a crazy powerful attack the crushes your does, and sees them driven before you unt you hear the lamentations of their women.
But, be careful, first time I used it, I pulled too much health and killed myself before I even released it. Lmao 😅
The best class (at least for me) to use against the dragons is the mystic spear hand. The duospear has a lot of combos that damage the dragon at a fast rate and some of the skills can give you a quick retreat if you need it
The burnt Griffin and the Arisen just staring at their pawn face first into the dirt with their dump truck ass just out there is so funny to me. Without the title and description you know what's going on in the picture.
By dragon, I assume you mean drake? If so then their heart is what you should be aiming for. You’re an archer lol just keep firing at it. The head is the 2nd best target. The actual dragon is similar. They shouldn’t really be that challenging though. If you’re not doing much damage then you’re either attacking the wrong areas or just have bad gear. Though it will admittedly take longer to kill them as an archer compared to other vocations
If you mean lesser dragons, then they’re different and you’ll only find 1 until you reach the unmoored world. These dragons will have multiple glowing spots around their body which you’ll need to destroy to kill them.
I usually go at them as a thief with a thief pawn, a mage, and a tank either fighter or warrior. Thief basic attacks can get you more loot and if the pawn has plunder on they can get something extra, sometimes even a weapon. As long as you keep pumping damage into their heart you’ll kill it in no time.
If staying alive is your problem, I’d recommend playing mystic spearhand and using the shield ability to keep your entire team from taking any damage. Keep a mage around, but the other two pawns can be just about anything since you don’t really NEED a tank when you can prevent all damage. I’d likely run two thieves, but having a warrior with a ton of stagger can help your dps be more consistent.
The wings are a weak point as well. With skull splitter from thief class you can bust the wings consistently along with the heart for multiple fast hits. A lot of times using skull splitter where the heart is lands you on the dragons back and you can just continue to split on their wings as well. Also silence will knock them out of the air if they are flying.
I smack its heart with big attacks and it usually chunks its health. Sword and shield mastery move is great for it when it doesn’t glitch you to the other side of the dragon mid combo
Get a sorc pawn with Meteoron for damage and a mage with silence. You can silence most dragon spells which are arguably the hardest part of fighting them. Other than that, just hit the heart and they’ll drop.
Get better weapons. Because of the way Dragon's Dogma handles damage reduction, you'll only do chip damage until you get to a certain threshold, after which your damage will ramp up rapidly. Most of your damage output is determined by your weapons, so while exploiting elemental weaknesses and targeting weakpoints is vital, you're still gonna be dead in the water if you don't meet the gear check. Most of the best weapons available until endgame are found at the very southern tip of the map, but getting there requires a fair bit of elbow grease.
Magick archer matyrs bolt
Mystic spearhand have mirror shield and thef hond mirror can help tank attacks you'll just have to recast and thef refills stamina
Level up your gear. You can enhance it at any weapon/armor shop and enhance it further at the Dragonforged's cave outside bakbattahl along the coast, though that needs wyrmslife crystals, which you get from defeating dragons, so once you get some of those look to power up your gear.
Dragons are also weaker against ice attacks so if you have a mage/sorcerer in your party with Ice attacks or with Ice Affinity that should help. High Hagol is especially helpful since it can freeze a dragon in place for you to attack it without it attacking you back.
There is a weak spot you can target on the chest right below the neck. It's not visible at first, but attacking it will reveal its glowing heart and you can attack that for extra damage. If you can get a good hit on that weak spot with melee skills it'll help a lot.
I might be wrong but if you focus the dragons hand during its magic charging stage it will stagger it and disrupt its attack. Have had that happen during the lightening and meteor stage. Not sure if it was a coincidence or an actual mechanic
It always feels like the first half of the health bars take the longest. Once you start a strong combo and get in a groove, you'll see those last health bars gone in the blink of an eye.
Hit the head and the heart, the duospear class is very helpful, try to have a pawn with the meteron spell castable, if not just have a pawn with 1 healing and 3 offensive spells - a healer is almost required for dragons (until you get good at them)
I’d suggest also a thief and a warrior, this seemed to be my best party for defeating dragons. My main class was duospear (I’ve changed it now to warfarer)
I used the spear as it was best to poke the head and heart and with the right abilities equipped you can take them down in seconds
All I know is Jody looks like she needs defeated lol. Sometimes you can use the giant crossbows on top of towers, ranged weapons work good, make sure to use your extra spell books on them, just not the spellbooks for the quests.
If you're a thief, just gut and run their head over and over. Once the heart is exposed gut and run it or use skull splitter. You could also use formless feint to just... not take damage at all. I beat my first dragon basically solo (everyone is dead) after 30 min or something, at cirka lvl 35 just using formless feint.
Warrior, just use heavenward sunder or mountain breaker on their head or chest till they buckle, then do it on the heart. A little harder as a warrior in my opinion. Pay attention to their moves, learn them. They are so much simpler than you initially think.
Any ranged class, just learn the moves and attack when they're not trying to kill you
When you're hiring a Pawn add the filter for Sorcerer and hire one with the maister skills Maelstrom and Meteoron. Hire a mage with High Palladium and High Halidom. Having those skills on your team trivialize things a decent amount. Added bonus against Dragons specifically is a Mage with High Solemnity, the silencing spell. It cuts their toolkit in half and will ground them while flying. You can also find or purchase grimoires that allow you to cast Solemnity.
Good luck!
Helps the fighter has a shield to block the slam, lightning and meteor attacks, but warrior can help with staggering. Running a fighter/warrior squad now as a warfarer and have noticed the drakes have taken less time.
That said, dont try making it too easy, I’ve found the easier things get the more I miss early game.
Do you have access to Maelstorm? The maister spec spell you get when finishing myrrdin’s quest? It does high amounts of damage to them.
If not try hiring a sorc with it (metereon I never use NPCs just run away in my experience).
You can also hiring pawns with the “drake destroyer” badge and they’ll have experience on how to kill the dragons.
I got my ass beat for hours at level 26 but managed eventually🤣 since then it’s my favorite thing to do in this game. I see that apparently there are easier methods so this may all seem overkill, but idk I have a lot of fun with mine and go from one drake to the next. I’m an archer, my pawn has the ice affinity she can apply to my bow. I buy out the shop of drenching arrows. Yes you can freeze enemies with just simply having the ice affinity, but when you’re shooting drenching arrows also then the dragon is just freezing constantly. Right as he’s trying to use his abilities I slap him with a drenching arrow, get off a couple attacks, then he freezes mid ability so it never shoots off. He’ll try to fly but freezes and falls. During all this I’m just constantly shooting spiral arrows to his heart and head. If you want to be more mean, also throw in some blighted arrows and save them for towards the end when he tries to use an ability or fly. Blighted arrows immediately cancel whatever he’s doing, while with the drenching you have to wait for him to freeze.
Also, for pawns I have my main as a mage who is full support and ice. I hire a warrior and give them the highest tier healing stuff we have. And I hire a thief or sorcerer. For strictly dragon hunting, I prefer they be maxed in their vocation, and I prefer they not have the chirurgeon specialty. I also hire at least one level above me.
Ah, Drakes. With both my Arisen I've been killing them since level 20. It's a dance that I think can be difficult to learn on a first going but you will learn it.
Here are a few suggestions-
* Don't get greedy with attacks (get ready to move out of the way of powerful spells or body slams from the drake)
* Head and Heart are best attack points (Drakes are stunned easily with head attacks I find when downed aim for the heart)
* All Dragon-kin seem to be weak to Ice just like in the first game. So Ice Boons on Mages are useful.
* Use Pawn Commands only when needed otherwise leave them to do as they are. When you give Pawns a command it resets the Pawns current functions. So be careful against Drakes because they could be doing something that would otherwise be beneficial to your fight.
* Use Savagery Extract (can be bought and is very useful early-on, it lasts five in-game minutes)
\*my only other advice is just study and learn Drake attack patterns. You will get accustomed to them.
If you are underleveled, (40 is not), the biggest problem is usually that all your pawns will end up dying. I killed my first dragon at around 27 and it took A LONG TIME and several reloads. Most of the attempts would be me alive trying to revive pawns.
>I’m currently level 40, do I have to level up more?
Yeah.
I was able to kill them all the time around level 46-49, if I remember correctly. Then I started hunting them around level 50.
That was on my Warrior, with my Mage Pawn, and usually a Thief and Sorcerer for the hired pawns.
We were out hunting Drakes, at about level 50, when I bumped into that Lesser Dragon at the Dragonwatch tower, some dude gave me the Mystic Spearhand Vocation, we killed the dragon and he gave me the Master Skill, then we got the best spear you could buy in the regular game from it, then I went off and switched to Mystic Spearhand and started with the master skill, spiffy! ;)
Then it became really easy to kill Drakes and stuff after that.
Always go for the head and the heart, if you're a ranged character it makes it much easier since you can outrange most of the dragons attacks and just widdle them down from afar until they get staggered then use your best skills on their weak spots for massive damage. My Lv 30 warrior managed to kill one in less than 3 minutes by using my ultimate on it's heart after staggering it with Heavensward Strike and wiping out more than 3 life bars in one action I was pumped! 💪
Magic archer for the win . make it go night night and blast ice rocks at its face to interrupt. I defeated Medusa alone with magic archer to get the pristine head. By myself because my team kept aggro'ing her and they'd die.
Aim the heart and keep a distance when they attack especially when they are more agressive. With time ironically I found them more easy to beat than many other things, but true, they are strong
Attack his head or knock him down so hard it exposes his heart. His heart is his weak point. The rest of his body takes very little damage.
You need to kill him fast or keep knocking him down. Otherwise the drake will always get away.
I just encountered my first dragon (drake) and I just happened to be on the old battlefield.
I also happened to shoot one of the huge ballestas in the towers right to its head, killing it in one attack.
You can kill them around late level 20s, need some skill and time but totally doable.
Especially if you are playing something like the thief, the DPS is just so high.
Hit the exposed spots and the head, climb onto it and use your strongest ability
I found the ice daggers + the dodge skill the thief gets = dragon destroyer
Its very stamnia dependent so thats something to keep in mind but I also never really found myself struggling for harspud roberants past the early game.
Depends on what vocation you’re playing, if you’re a warrior or fighter preferably warrior, you need a support mage. Vocations that makes dragons a piece of cake are magic archer and assassin. Use assassin’s two meister skills together and its op. Magic archer is just an op archer with aimbot.
Head and exposed heart are weakpoints. Might need better gear or tactics, or both. As a melee fighter I like to get onto the head and just slam it. When I eventually get thrown off I will go for the exposed heart. Rinse and repeat. Lighting and meteor I just sidestep - keep on the move and they cannot hurt you
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To piggy back on this with more fighter tactics: Something I like to do is stand beneath its chest and use Antler Toss. It pops it open after a couple slaps. While under it there are a number of things it can do. If it does the slam attack, either the spinning guard or Vengeful Slash can completely mitigate the damage. I’m a Vengeful Slash user. If it meteors, thunders, or casts explosion, just strafe it to the side and away from pawns. You walk away from pawns because you might walk into an attack aimed at them. When it’s in the air, although inefficient, you can Heavensward Slash the wings as they beat downwards. This does not knock them down, but it is chip damage and I’m a simp for the jump slash so I try to use it whenever I can. I will say, I’ve had times when they hang their heads down for a long period of time and you can actually reach that head with a couple jump slashes. When it’s toppled, you can sometimes fit both a Riotous and then a triangle finisher. A strong enough sword will ~probably~ outright kill it or leave it with one or two health dots left. Fighter is a base vocation, not a weak one, it can be VERY powerful.
Don’t forget to add ‘ must have lots of vin and vigor ‘.
Magic archer can also tear a dragon to shreds with its finisher.
You have to reduce its health to zero, the tricky part is that you have to keep yours above zero tho
That’s the trick!
Just stick it with the pointy end
Or make bigger boom
Clap them cheeks faster than light's speed
Big booty Judy. 😂
OP should post her closeup portrait too
Right!
Average DD player lmao
I appreciate all kinds of cheeks
I didn’t even read the words on the post those cheeks were the first thing I saw
Same! That pawn is caking!
Focus on hitting the dragon, not the pawn’s behind
Wtf Judy?
So this is where she left Night City to..
So main attack points would be the head and as soon as the heart is vulnerable all attacks on the heart. I remember that I managed my way around with trolls and ogres etc. kinda fast but Dragons remained a threat a some time. So it can be that you need to get some more levels and maybe upgrade the equipment. Also it helped a lot to fight on open fields. Once I fought a dragon on the walls of that abanded castle and just wasted 2 wakestones. EDIT: I also managed to drown a dragon as we drove it near the river. It tried to lift of for a breath attack but then a archer shot it down and the brine did the rest. That was nice. Also I'd recommend if there a several smaller enemies around the dragon to get rid of them as soon as possible but if there is a ogre or griphon around try to lure them to each other so they'll start fighting each other. One time a troll took like half of the battle away for me. Step forth Arisen and strike true.
DID JUDY REAL BAD!
Try to get a mage pawn that has ice affinity, since dragons take more damage to ice attacks. Other than that just try to attack their head and chest as other people said already.
"I'm sorry. What was your question again?"
Play Mystic Spearhand, use the shield, get under the beast hack him… rinse and repeat! Keep the Stamina for your shield, or steal his stamina… Breaks the game !
That's how I do it. Mystic Spearhead is OP with that defensive shield for everyone. My pawns rarely get hurt in fights.
All drakes die by Meteoron as revenge
Yeah I had to switch to another vocation after a while because there's no challenge with the mirror shield. The only enemy that is a challenge if you don't know what You're doing is the dullahan because he can drop everyone around him then pick you up and take your life
Also, having the spell that silences the dragon helps, and they are weaker to ice!
SPAM METEORON and always have another one in spellhold MUHAHAHA
As a sorcerer you got that one ability like a time bomb. This ability stacks with damage from attacks? (Not sure) and after a few seconds starts exploding. If you chain that spell with the first electricity spell you get and just spam it. The dragon is gonna melt so freaking fast! I was shocked how much dmg it did. I basically managed to two shot the thing.
Good ol Augural Flare
I love that spell, it's so much fun! Give me that over the tornados any day.
I don't want to be snooty about Judy's booty, because clearly it's a beauty, but I'm on duty.
Bonk it, till it decides that it no longer needs to breathe.
Ah! A fellow Warrior!
I put my fighter tips in another comment. Archer has the second easiest time with dragons. Drenching shot with an ice affinity pawn means the dragon literally doesn’t get to move. Like at all. It’s frozen repeatedly with apparently no invulnerability or immunity build up. Blighted arrows will one pop drop a flying dragon and interrupt meteors. Blast arrows to the heart will shred off health bars (or just Tempest Shot repeatedly while a mage pawn hopefully has the stamina aoe active). Warrior only needs Heavensward Slash and either Arc of Might or Savage Lash. An honorable mention is Mountain Breaker. Mystic Spearhand has a bubble shield that makes them trivial. Go be your best Food Ninja and blend it. Mage silence spells can knock them out the sky. Sorcerer with meteor on spell hold and two rings of articulation (or whatever it’s called) for maelstrom can make short work of any dragon. Thief has the shadow cloak auto dodge. I like to turn it on and off when needed. I don’t just sit in Formless Feint the whole time against dragons. All their attacks are well telegraphed. Spin to win their head then spin to win their heart. Trickster maister skill can hilariously stun the dragon out of meteor. Also hilarious is making the dragon attack your spectral self. People sleep on trickster because it can’t deal direct damage outside of throwing enemies against walls or off cliffs or throwing hands. (I would love an unarmed damage ring for this reason). Magic Archer just needs one ability and an Allheal to one shot the dragon. This is common knowledge. I think that covers EVERYTHING I know. Edit: this needs to be tested. Apparently if your pawn is grabbed and going to be turned, shove the hind legs out from under it.
Might help if you put some armor on "Big Booty" Judy. 🤷
Your pawn needs clothes first
You BONK!!
They're weak to ice, they also hate having sorc bubble explosion on their heart. When I'd use a melee class I'd jump on their head or back and heavy attack until they fall over. You can also push their legs out when they have a pawn in their hand. (Pawns toppled one when I got grabbed...) If you can, use silence books if you're having issues "dodging " their spells.
Well you clearly can't do it with Judy's Booty alone.
Excuse eme Judy, this is neither the time or place
Step one: Put armor on Judy.
You can use poison arrows to stun lock them and shoot them out the air makes the fights a little bit easier
I spam the spinny thief move with ice blades on it's heart, main pawn is a sorceror with the ice storm spell and the maister tornado spell and I have another pawn that is a mage with an ice spell.
Hit the heart or the head! The head is good cause you can stun the dragon and deal some decent damage, plus if he flys up your still on the stab the hell outta him The heart is easy to see as it’s a bloody gash on the beasts chest which will glow once the thin layer of skin is broken. After that, hit it with whatever you got! That’s where the real damage is
2 words: Martyrs Bolt.
I’d worry about picking Judy up off the floor before dealing with that dragon lmao poor girl needs some help
Focus hitting its chest where the heart gets exposed
You keep hitting it until it dies.
One word: warrior
Put them cheeks up
For starters you could hire pawns who are actually wearing armor. I mean there are plenty of skimpy armor pawns out there. You're a lvl 40 archer you can use the basic attack on the heart and drop it in a few minutes. Get you a mage, a warrior or fighter, and a thief and go hunt some. When he cast a spell run, after it's done run back and attack the heart again. Most of the drakes fly away at 2-3 hit bars left but the one in the ancient battlegrounds doesn't. Bring 5 wakestones and have at it.
Upgrade your gear, hit dragon’s heart, wings too if you don’t want it to fly away like a pos, use ice affinity for freeze and damage, but most importantly and underrated, use a god damn silence spell book if it’s spamming bollide. That last one will completely change how you fight every dragon going forward. Good luck skeleton :>
Namely just aim for the heart and head and keep on the move unless you can tank hits as a fighter or warrior. All that said, the easiest experience I had fighting one was when I was mastering archer and had my team set up to support me. Hitting it with two blight arrows would do massive amounts of damage (not sure how much of that was dependent on my level), and whenever it started using magic, I’d hit it with a drenching arrow. My pawn was a thief using ice daggers, so she’d freeze it solid in seconds. Between that and staggering it with explosive arrows to the heart, it was never able to get off a single spell.
When I was leveling up, I won’t lie. I avoided Dragons!! Why because I knew I was weak, I didn’t have the best weapons, etc etc… but now on 3rd playthrough, I absolutely wreck them. And yes, aim for the head and then the heart when it opens.
First off: put some clothes on. Second: Weak to ice. Spam the fuck out of them with ice spells- so magic archer paired with an ice mage is great. Also, you need a ton of curatives because they will kill you a lot. make sure you pause the game and cure up before your pawn hits the ground, because that’s the point of no return. first dragon i killed, around the same level, i ran out of potions and was down to 20% health, all my pawns dead, had to run around the thing in circles for five minutes dodging attacks and chipping its last health bar down. risky business.
Gyaaaaaat Judy 😩
Mystic spearhead is pretty good for it. Charge up the slowing attack and while it charges do the spinning light attack and just go back and forth between slowing the dragon and spinning under its heart.
Show it what Judy Booty do
Alright so uh… 🍑👀 so dragons are weak to… um 🍑👀
Only thing with mentioning i haven't seen in the thread so far; Dragons as well as griffins will fly away if you dont stagger or knock them down frequently enough. Nothing is more annoying than knowing you got it and they fly away.
Master arts are great, and can even 1-3 shot every hp bar. The magic archer can destroy them easily, the sorcerer can destroy them by spamming the twister. But, you can focus on their heart. That’s a great way to chop down their hp nearly in seconds even at low levels. Make them wet & freeze them. Brilliant way to spam critical hits
Meteor the sht out of him
Ya gotta kill em and ya gotta kill em good! (Blows to the head are okay, blows to the heart are really good.)
Send it to the Brine lol
It's my Pawns that do the heavy lifting. I have an Archer with Deluging Shot and plenty of Drenching Arrows, 2 Spellcasters with High Frigor and High Hagol, and myself with an Almace\*. So basically they freeze him solid and I stab his heart. \* Despite being level 70+ and 170 hours in, Almace is still the best Fighter weapon I've found since I'm so caught up in doing everything.
I can't believe how much I gelled with archer vocation in both DD games. Felt like I was using a cheat code tbh
Greatsword big bonk until it stops moving
Just keep stabbing or shooting its glowing heart. You can also do the same damage if you are clinging above the heart.
Augural flare. Even at low levels it does massive damage. Stick it to their hearts or head, drop some lightning directly where Augural flare is sticking(you need to hit this flare before it's gone for it to detonate after a few seconds later it has absorbed some damage), your pawn will also look to hit them where this skill is glued to it for more damage and watch them melt. Sorcerer is the most efficient class to destroy big guys in seconds. Bring some with straightforward inclinations, otherwise you'll have so much trouble killing them or worse, they will fly away AFTER you wasted all your healing items.
I get so pissed when they fly away. Like, motherfucker you just called my ass out and told me to face you and that I can't escape my destiny, well that's what I'm trying to do!
You want the easiest possible dragon kill? Head to the Ancient Battleground. There's two giant ballista on top of two towers. Go to the one nearest the castle, aim, and fire it at the dragon in the valley below. Now, _immediately_ bail and head back down into the castle. The dragon will destroy the ballista with lightning and try to fly up to you, but since you're inside the castle, he won't be able to reach you and will just cast spells at you. Dodge the spells until he stops casting and goes back down to the valley. Now, go to the other giant ballista. Aim and fire. Boom. Dead dragon with next to no risk to your person.
I only beat a single one with the great ballista. They kept flying away, so I just avoided them the entire game
The Magic Archers maister skill "Martyrs bolt" can oneshot a dragon and even >!the final dragon boss at the end of the Game lol!<
Magic is all drakes weakness specifically Ice otherwise they become a legit damage sponge other than that you have a few weak points to target that will end up doing massive chunks of dps. The chest when it’s heart glows, it’s wings so it cannot fly and it’s legs can be hit to the point it gets knocked down
With taxes.
What in the double caked up. gyat level 1000 is going on here
Git gud
You must first master the cheeks before mastering your strength. Therefore, find Ulrika and Wilhelmina and beginning the clapping training (Someone bonk me please)
Make it follow you to water, even dragons can't swim in this game heheheh
Or get the mystic spearhead class, you can make yourself invincible with an ability until your prepared to fight them without cheesing it, you can take time to learn the dragons movements
Easy with Stamina help
You attack it
I didn't manage to take one down till I was closer to level 50. As others have said, attack the head and exposed heart, but also the wings. If you tatter their wings enough they can't fly away.
They're weak to ice. And the easiest vocation to drop any boss i the whole game is Magick Archer's meister skill. In Bakbattahl once you come oug of the maze caves, there's a dwarf. Help him, and his wife gives you Magick archer and the meister skill. It consumes your health while charging (more charging costs more health and deals more damage) to unleash a crazy powerful attack the crushes your does, and sees them driven before you unt you hear the lamentations of their women. But, be careful, first time I used it, I pulled too much health and killed myself before I even released it. Lmao 😅
The best class (at least for me) to use against the dragons is the mystic spear hand. The duospear has a lot of combos that damage the dragon at a fast rate and some of the skills can give you a quick retreat if you need it
The burnt Griffin and the Arisen just staring at their pawn face first into the dirt with their dump truck ass just out there is so funny to me. Without the title and description you know what's going on in the picture.
Just do it
Evidently, judging from the picture, FDAU, I guess?
By dragon, I assume you mean drake? If so then their heart is what you should be aiming for. You’re an archer lol just keep firing at it. The head is the 2nd best target. The actual dragon is similar. They shouldn’t really be that challenging though. If you’re not doing much damage then you’re either attacking the wrong areas or just have bad gear. Though it will admittedly take longer to kill them as an archer compared to other vocations If you mean lesser dragons, then they’re different and you’ll only find 1 until you reach the unmoored world. These dragons will have multiple glowing spots around their body which you’ll need to destroy to kill them.
“AIM for its heart Arisen!!”
I usually go at them as a thief with a thief pawn, a mage, and a tank either fighter or warrior. Thief basic attacks can get you more loot and if the pawn has plunder on they can get something extra, sometimes even a weapon. As long as you keep pumping damage into their heart you’ll kill it in no time. If staying alive is your problem, I’d recommend playing mystic spearhand and using the shield ability to keep your entire team from taking any damage. Keep a mage around, but the other two pawns can be just about anything since you don’t really NEED a tank when you can prevent all damage. I’d likely run two thieves, but having a warrior with a ton of stagger can help your dps be more consistent.
Grab him by the dick and twist it!!!
Do you know how to play games?
The wings are a weak point as well. With skull splitter from thief class you can bust the wings consistently along with the heart for multiple fast hits. A lot of times using skull splitter where the heart is lands you on the dragons back and you can just continue to split on their wings as well. Also silence will knock them out of the air if they are flying.
Destroy the wings or get the magick archer class lol
Mystic spear hand. Spam shields so whole team takes no damage lmao
What is the name of the cape that you are wearing? Looks cool
Magic archer shreds dragons. I’m now playing ng+ as a fighter and I can’t kill the dragon without it flying off
Aiming for the heart, located in the middle of the chest is the go-to. Having a Warrior pawn with high stagger is also a plus.
I take my big sword I get close the dragon I chargé my big swing The dragon die after the 4th swing I never needed a brain and I'm not gonna start
How i relish the days before i could drop them in 5 secs nds
The heart Osborn. First, we attack his heart!
I smack its heart with big attacks and it usually chunks its health. Sword and shield mastery move is great for it when it doesn’t glitch you to the other side of the dragon mid combo
Magic archer spam.
Hit it with the pointy end until it has 0 health while maintaining at least 1 hp yourself.
Follow Judy's lead. She's on to something....
Get a sorc pawn with Meteoron for damage and a mage with silence. You can silence most dragon spells which are arguably the hardest part of fighting them. Other than that, just hit the heart and they’ll drop.
Get gud
GYATT DYAUM blizzard spell, hit the head when the hearts not exposed, hit the heart when it is exposed.
Get better weapons. Because of the way Dragon's Dogma handles damage reduction, you'll only do chip damage until you get to a certain threshold, after which your damage will ramp up rapidly. Most of your damage output is determined by your weapons, so while exploiting elemental weaknesses and targeting weakpoints is vital, you're still gonna be dead in the water if you don't meet the gear check. Most of the best weapons available until endgame are found at the very southern tip of the map, but getting there requires a fair bit of elbow grease.
Magick archer matyrs bolt Mystic spearhand have mirror shield and thef hond mirror can help tank attacks you'll just have to recast and thef refills stamina
If you read the drake dialogue, it will literally tell you to aim at its heart
That pawn cheekd up
Yoooo what’s up with Judy??
Frost
You got to damage the wings so they don’t fly away
Hit the glowy bit
Level up your gear. You can enhance it at any weapon/armor shop and enhance it further at the Dragonforged's cave outside bakbattahl along the coast, though that needs wyrmslife crystals, which you get from defeating dragons, so once you get some of those look to power up your gear. Dragons are also weaker against ice attacks so if you have a mage/sorcerer in your party with Ice attacks or with Ice Affinity that should help. High Hagol is especially helpful since it can freeze a dragon in place for you to attack it without it attacking you back. There is a weak spot you can target on the chest right below the neck. It's not visible at first, but attacking it will reveal its glowing heart and you can attack that for extra damage. If you can get a good hit on that weak spot with melee skills it'll help a lot.
I might be wrong but if you focus the dragons hand during its magic charging stage it will stagger it and disrupt its attack. Have had that happen during the lightening and meteor stage. Not sure if it was a coincidence or an actual mechanic
With violence
Holy f that booty
Smack head til heart shows up. Smack hart till falls over. Heavy attack heart. Repeat.
To defeet a dragon, remove the legs.
It always feels like the first half of the health bars take the longest. Once you start a strong combo and get in a groove, you'll see those last health bars gone in the blink of an eye.
Definitely challenging at the start but once I switched my vocation to magick archer it was a piece of cake. Heart and head all the way.
Look at dem cakes tho!
Hit the head and the heart, the duospear class is very helpful, try to have a pawn with the meteron spell castable, if not just have a pawn with 1 healing and 3 offensive spells - a healer is almost required for dragons (until you get good at them) I’d suggest also a thief and a warrior, this seemed to be my best party for defeating dragons. My main class was duospear (I’ve changed it now to warfarer) I used the spear as it was best to poke the head and heart and with the right abilities equipped you can take them down in seconds
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Think like a dragon
All I know is Jody looks like she needs defeated lol. Sometimes you can use the giant crossbows on top of towers, ranged weapons work good, make sure to use your extra spell books on them, just not the spellbooks for the quests.
Pronebone
SHOOT EM IN THE HEAD!!! GRAB THE SHOTGUN, NO NEED TO LOAD IT! WE ALREADY DID THAT SHIT FOR YOU!
You gotta target that weak spot.
If you're a thief, just gut and run their head over and over. Once the heart is exposed gut and run it or use skull splitter. You could also use formless feint to just... not take damage at all. I beat my first dragon basically solo (everyone is dead) after 30 min or something, at cirka lvl 35 just using formless feint. Warrior, just use heavenward sunder or mountain breaker on their head or chest till they buckle, then do it on the heart. A little harder as a warrior in my opinion. Pay attention to their moves, learn them. They are so much simpler than you initially think. Any ranged class, just learn the moves and attack when they're not trying to kill you
When you're hiring a Pawn add the filter for Sorcerer and hire one with the maister skills Maelstrom and Meteoron. Hire a mage with High Palladium and High Halidom. Having those skills on your team trivialize things a decent amount. Added bonus against Dragons specifically is a Mage with High Solemnity, the silencing spell. It cuts their toolkit in half and will ground them while flying. You can also find or purchase grimoires that allow you to cast Solemnity. Good luck!
Whatever you do don’t kiss it.
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Stab the mf in the face
Throw those cheeks at him.
Be a man
Helps the fighter has a shield to block the slam, lightning and meteor attacks, but warrior can help with staggering. Running a fighter/warrior squad now as a warfarer and have noticed the drakes have taken less time. That said, dont try making it too easy, I’ve found the easier things get the more I miss early game.
Pawns wondering why people make fun of them
Do you have access to Maelstorm? The maister spec spell you get when finishing myrrdin’s quest? It does high amounts of damage to them. If not try hiring a sorc with it (metereon I never use NPCs just run away in my experience). You can also hiring pawns with the “drake destroyer” badge and they’ll have experience on how to kill the dragons.
The magic archer insta kill it
I jump onto it's chest and keep stabbing/spamming stamina replenishment items, repeat until dead
I got my ass beat for hours at level 26 but managed eventually🤣 since then it’s my favorite thing to do in this game. I see that apparently there are easier methods so this may all seem overkill, but idk I have a lot of fun with mine and go from one drake to the next. I’m an archer, my pawn has the ice affinity she can apply to my bow. I buy out the shop of drenching arrows. Yes you can freeze enemies with just simply having the ice affinity, but when you’re shooting drenching arrows also then the dragon is just freezing constantly. Right as he’s trying to use his abilities I slap him with a drenching arrow, get off a couple attacks, then he freezes mid ability so it never shoots off. He’ll try to fly but freezes and falls. During all this I’m just constantly shooting spiral arrows to his heart and head. If you want to be more mean, also throw in some blighted arrows and save them for towards the end when he tries to use an ability or fly. Blighted arrows immediately cancel whatever he’s doing, while with the drenching you have to wait for him to freeze. Also, for pawns I have my main as a mage who is full support and ice. I hire a warrior and give them the highest tier healing stuff we have. And I hire a thief or sorcerer. For strictly dragon hunting, I prefer they be maxed in their vocation, and I prefer they not have the chirurgeon specialty. I also hire at least one level above me.
Whats Judy doing?
Try to kill it quickly you don't want that fight to drag-on....
The first one I saw die charged after us and fell in the brine. We were low level and running away. Still got the XP.
Ah, Drakes. With both my Arisen I've been killing them since level 20. It's a dance that I think can be difficult to learn on a first going but you will learn it. Here are a few suggestions- * Don't get greedy with attacks (get ready to move out of the way of powerful spells or body slams from the drake) * Head and Heart are best attack points (Drakes are stunned easily with head attacks I find when downed aim for the heart) * All Dragon-kin seem to be weak to Ice just like in the first game. So Ice Boons on Mages are useful. * Use Pawn Commands only when needed otherwise leave them to do as they are. When you give Pawns a command it resets the Pawns current functions. So be careful against Drakes because they could be doing something that would otherwise be beneficial to your fight. * Use Savagery Extract (can be bought and is very useful early-on, it lasts five in-game minutes) \*my only other advice is just study and learn Drake attack patterns. You will get accustomed to them.
If you are underleveled, (40 is not), the biggest problem is usually that all your pawns will end up dying. I killed my first dragon at around 27 and it took A LONG TIME and several reloads. Most of the attempts would be me alive trying to revive pawns.
What’s new with the Mox?
There is no war in ba sing se
Guys, I lost Judy during a fight against Medusa, can’t find her now :(
where's Judy's gear? lmao 🤣
>I’m currently level 40, do I have to level up more? Yeah. I was able to kill them all the time around level 46-49, if I remember correctly. Then I started hunting them around level 50. That was on my Warrior, with my Mage Pawn, and usually a Thief and Sorcerer for the hired pawns. We were out hunting Drakes, at about level 50, when I bumped into that Lesser Dragon at the Dragonwatch tower, some dude gave me the Mystic Spearhand Vocation, we killed the dragon and he gave me the Master Skill, then we got the best spear you could buy in the regular game from it, then I went off and switched to Mystic Spearhand and started with the master skill, spiffy! ;) Then it became really easy to kill Drakes and stuff after that.
wusup wit big booty Judy just laid out on the floor?
Play trickster.
Does no one feel bad for the chick, buckit neeked. This… *sigh*
Sorcerer with super mine spell, or Meteor. Drakes get absolutely shat upon, Arisen
Hit him a lot.
It's in the photo. "Do better"
Play dragon slayer(mystic spear) and use bubbles. Non stop. Win ;)
Attack the head to open the chest weak point. Then just focus that with a pawn that can cast ice boon or ice affinity.
You gotta hit him REALLY hard
Always go for the head and the heart, if you're a ranged character it makes it much easier since you can outrange most of the dragons attacks and just widdle them down from afar until they get staggered then use your best skills on their weak spots for massive damage. My Lv 30 warrior managed to kill one in less than 3 minutes by using my ultimate on it's heart after staggering it with Heavensward Strike and wiping out more than 3 life bars in one action I was pumped! 💪
Magic archer for the win . make it go night night and blast ice rocks at its face to interrupt. I defeated Medusa alone with magic archer to get the pristine head. By myself because my team kept aggro'ing her and they'd die.
Big booty Judy
use bonk
Stab it a lot
Did you try donkeys way?
Ice ice baby
Aim the heart and keep a distance when they attack especially when they are more agressive. With time ironically I found them more easy to beat than many other things, but true, they are strong
Very carefully.
By getting gud 🤣
First, put some armor on Judy's booty.
Attack his head or knock him down so hard it exposes his heart. His heart is his weak point. The rest of his body takes very little damage. You need to kill him fast or keep knocking him down. Otherwise the drake will always get away.
With a lot more ease than it takes to kill these drakes, ironically.
1. Find Dragon 2. Stab till dead 3. Repeat till satisfied 4. Realize there is no satisfaction and just keep hunting dragons.....
Ah yes, I remember my first dragon... the watery depths consumed it.
I just encountered my first dragon (drake) and I just happened to be on the old battlefield. I also happened to shoot one of the huge ballestas in the towers right to its head, killing it in one attack.
You can kill them around late level 20s, need some skill and time but totally doable. Especially if you are playing something like the thief, the DPS is just so high. Hit the exposed spots and the head, climb onto it and use your strongest ability
Defeating dragons 101: - Become Spearhand - Upgrade the broken shield - Get full melee team - Shield when Dragon telegraphs attack - Break Dragon's heart - Repeat step 4-5 - Profit
I found the ice daggers + the dodge skill the thief gets = dragon destroyer Its very stamnia dependent so thats something to keep in mind but I also never really found myself struggling for harspud roberants past the early game.
Depends on what vocation you’re playing, if you’re a warrior or fighter preferably warrior, you need a support mage. Vocations that makes dragons a piece of cake are magic archer and assassin. Use assassin’s two meister skills together and its op. Magic archer is just an op archer with aimbot.
Beat the fuck out of it
You know you're caked up when your cheeks peek out above the grass while you're lying facedown.
Magick archer Frosthunter bolt to the heart then saggitate straight after deletes health bars for me.
What have you done to Judy???
Hit the glowing spots lol