Dragon Cave
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I think the two
strategies below pretty much confirm the best attack strategy while they
vary slightly. The two different approaches to how each person protected
their party is quite interesting. Combined these two strategies should give
you a pretty good idea on how to Slay the Dragon. Have fun!
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Strategy by
Charles
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| Having finally tangled with (and defeated)
the Dragon King, this battle is not for the weak of heart as the Dragon
King has 39000 hit points and packs quite a wallop when he attacks. I found
that most of the offensive spells have little effect on the dragon. Poison
spells have a limited success of significant damage on him but it's a crap
shoot on their success. I either got a ton of damage on him or very little
damage with these. He seems to have resistance to most of the crippling
spell classes like dark grasp, arms of earth, etc.. |
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He also has one helluva armor class
because my party had little success hitting him with the best weapons available
in Chedia (including a whole set of worthless of Dragon slaying melee and
range weapons for my party) and Godlike stats that were beefed up with Bless
and Faith spells.
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I did find a combination that works
well on him finally. He is very susceptible to stun and paralyze when
he is hit with weapons with these modifiers (i.e. of brawlers, of fear).
The Fear weapons last the longest on him. Dragon King strategy to
defeat him and remain alive to tell about it.
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1) Paralyze him with a Fear
weapon.
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2) step back a few feet while your Ranger
wails on him with Everstrike(the only weapon that I found that would consistently
hit him and hit him hard).
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Repeat as necessary and sprinkle in
some healing spell casts to keep everyone alive. He is worth a ton of experience
points and he guards two Black chests with killer items in them.
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Have elemental protection and resist death
magic cast on your party. I used elemental aura also; however, the
dragon didn't seem to take much damage from the return spell so again it
may be a worthless spell to cast. Also, the dragon's fighting tatics are
as follows: he casts column of fire and also paralyze according to the identify
monster info. I also noticed during the battle that he seems to have
a wing buffet attack in which he throws the party out of melee range so be
prepared for that. - Charles
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Strategy by
Tom
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First this was my party all
leveled up in combat and magic abilities. Mage, Assasin, Paladin, Priest.
First I had to figure out what would stop him as in what would make him stop
using his attacks. I tried paralyze because I remembered that that worked
like a charm on dragons in previous mm games. But it would only be active
for a couple of minutes and that just wasn't good enough. So, I though to
myself, I need somthing that does the same and holds out longer or can be
reused a lot. Fortunatly I had a couple 'of brutes' weapons. And that did
the trick. So I went out in search of more. Once I had them I returned. Don't
bother with the 'dragon slaying' weapons because they don't hit more often
then others and if you can't incapacitate the dragon, you'll be dead anyway.
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Then it was finding out what
would hurt this critter. I tried every spell I had and the only ones that
did some good damage were the 'eye of the storm' spell doing some 200 damage
but this one can only be cast once per day, and the 'chain lightening' spell
but that did only some 10-70 hps of damage wich just wasn't enough. So I
looked at my spell book and noticed one that I hadn't used before. Why i
don't know. That spell being 'poison cloud'. I cast it and to my surpise
it did 300-500 damge a cast. The thing is, that this critter is so big that
it doesn't get hit once by the cloud but multiple times. Every time it gets
hit it does some 40 to 135 damage.
So, this is how I killed the dragon. |
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Entered the dragon cave and
set poison cloud as my mages quick spell. Casted pain reflection on every
party member. It would at least deal some damage if the dragon hit me. I
put a wand of clouds in my mages weapons slot, luckily I had been hanging
on to most of the wands in case of a rainy day, boy did they come in handy.
Casted bless and rushed the dragon.
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When it got paralyzed by the
weapons I casted regeneration on everyone that needed it and if needed you
can always resurrect someone. Both the mage and cleric can cast this so you
should have at least one of them still alive. Then I started wacking him
and using up my wands of clouds. The mage was doing the most damage with
her wands wile the others did continuosly paralyze the dragon. If it got
out of the paralyzation it didn't take long for him to get paralyzed again.
If he did get out he did do some damage. My priest casted regeneration on
the party members that needed it and if push comes to shove she could always
use divine intervention, as could the mage. If the wand run out, you can
always use the spell of poison cloud. If the mage gets to low on spell points,
use the divine intervention spell. An item that regenerates spell and hit
points can also be very handy. - Tom
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