How are you suppose to kill devarra dragon?

[Deviant]

are you suppose to be level 20 for this quest or something? im level 10 and this dragon 1 hits almost my entire party and i have the ambush buff and i set up alot of other buffs before fight and summons and dont matter all my attacks are missing on dragon and the dragon almost 1 shots my entire party and if he doesnt then my half party are frightened and skipping turns all the time how the hell are you suppose to do this quest?

[vilsky]

Pre-fighgt buffs, spread positioning, summon meat to soak damage instead of you. And pray to dice.

Also there's a chance that your party too weak at the moment. Loot couple of big dungeons, finish couple of big locations.

[Astral Projection]

Resist Fire Communal is required.

Stoneskin Communal always good for tough fights.

Also Heroism, prayer, and every other buff that improves saves for the fear.

Haste as always of course.

IIRC party was 11-12 when I beat her and wasn't too hard.

[Grubbs008]

There are 3 encounters as well, you aren't suppose to kill her on the first 2. Just survive.

[Deviant]

how the ♥♥♥♥ you can kill this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dragon IM MISSING 99% OF ATTACKS ON HER AND IF I DO HIT HER IT DOES ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 10 DMG WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS FIGHT

[Mr Fred]

You wouldnt stand a chance in a straight up fight but the way the quest is scripted you only have to deal him like 20% of its max hp to make it run. Then another like 20% in another location then you one shot it with an arrow in one last fight.

Haste your team before the ambush and you should have the dragon running in under 12 seconds or youre doing it wrong.

Edit you also dont seem to realize remove fear should be part of your pre buff rotation as well since you talked about being feared.

[Hyke Nowman]

Pray to the dice roll.
The gods answered my call and a double crit with my archer solved the dragon issue :D

[Viceroy Günther von Lichler]

resist fire
the fire resist shield buff
haste
protection against alignment (evil i think?)
Iron Will feat on all characters possible

my character is a cleric necromancer with the mythic perk that gives you a lot more spells of rank 1-3, so i always made sure to have skeletons in melee with the dragon and then wittled it down with Wedulagh's bow attacks and i also had limited success with my mage mercenary with a lot of spell penetration feats, mythic and normal
i didnt put anyone in melee with it, Greybor would probably have done well, but it was the first time i had him so he didnt have Iron Will yet and was perma feared

thats how i did it at level 9-10

[Frostbeast]

In the first encounter the dragon is not immune to attribute dmg. As a Lich i used some Magic Missile(Lich perk removes 5 point in STR,DEX,CON with Missiles spell) and he ran away. It was almost disapointing.

[korkk]

this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid my anti fear spells do nothing to her ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ frightening presence so if i dont take her out in the first round my whole team is instantly feared and fight becomes impossible

[ahsanford]

Just had my first encounter with her at Level 10 west of Drezen. One look at inspected stats told me that this would be an instant beatdown a la Blightmaw. It's actually harder than Blightmaw as there is zero buff/summon time.

Presumed it was just a horrible RNG encounter and reloaded, but it kept happening so I then assumed it was not a full battle and just tried to outlast her. Turned out to be right.

My scheme:

1) Switch to turn-based. I do this for the mythic big bads to turn the frantic level down, defeat bad realtime NPC re-decision-making, and plan a bit.

2) If your casters go before the dragon, drop useful buffs like resist fire communal. If casters go after, first attack is usually AOE breath so it's channeling time for your healer. Saren at this point (L10 + channeling hat + mythic channeling) is pretty well setup to counter the fire damage as his heal is solid 35-45 points each time (think Devarra hits for 58 if you have communal anti-fire).

3) Scatter. Good for limiting future AOE damage, makes dragon have to move between melee takedowns, buying you more time to do enough damage to survive the battle.

4) Just bloody her up a bit. I used the (I believe first Mythic rank?) Instrument of Freedom and it lands every time, no defending it -- two of those landed and this first battle was over. She then bolted. It was still 'Cleanup in Aisle 2' afterwards: I had at 3 folks down, but it worked.

No idea what the final battle will be for this one, but I am assuming that 15 DR and super high magic resist means that I'll be spamming Instrument of Freedom and hoping for Lann (a butcher with the bow, btw) popping some criticals.

- A

[Morgian]

Remove fear: cast it after the fact. It is a huge AE that will suppress fear. If you cast it in advance, you just shot yourself in the foot, because it provides a mere +4 to the save. Make sure that at least two partymembers have access to it or a scroll.

Resist fire is nice, but you want protection from fire (communal) in this fight to nullify the approximately 100 fire damage. Nothing says you cannot have both, of course. Again, carrying scrolls in addition is helpful, as it gives you a better chance to get it on before the dragon attacks (even if scrolls have minimum CL, unless self-written).

Use cold spells and ranged touch attacks as a way to trigger her flight faster. If your casters have reach spell they can use the 1st level spell. Cone of cold is better of course. Modified force spells work wonders, too...the 3rd level blast plus bolster or empower is good.

[Koveras]

You can run away when she attacks you on random encounters. Just run to the other end of the map. She'll leave after a breath attacking and chasing you a bit. You don't need to attack her except when you're at the ambush site and her lair.

[Stechhelm]

Originally posted by Deviant:

how the ♥♥♥♥ you can kill this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dragon IM MISSING 99% OF ATTACKS ON HER AND IF I DO HIT HER IT DOES ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 10 DMG WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS FIGHT

At this point you should have element attacks to bypass his Spell Resistance. You can completly forget about meele attacks in this fight.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by Mako Kilo:

Originally posted by Deviant:

how the ♥♥♥♥ you can kill this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dragon IM MISSING 99% OF ATTACKS ON HER AND IF I DO HIT HER IT DOES ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 10 DMG WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS THIS FIGHT

At this point you should have element attacks to bypass his Spell Resistance. You can completly forget about meele attacks in this fight.

Uh, what? It was melee attacks I used to tear the dragon apart. Its AC is low enough that I've never even bothered looking what it is.

You're supposed to use buffs before a boss fight in this game. And boss fights are pretty well signposted for the most part.

OP is clearly someone who should turn difficult waaaaay down, because he has no idea what he's doing.

[Stechhelm]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Originally posted by Mako Kilo:

At this point you should have element attacks to bypass his Spell Resistance. You can completly forget about meele attacks in this fight.

Uh, what? It was melee attacks I used to tear the dragon apart. Its AC is low enough that I've never even bothered looking what it is.

You're supposed to use buffs before a boss fight in this game. And boss fights are pretty well signposted for the most part.

OP is clearly someone who should turn difficult waaaaay down, because he has no idea what he's doing.

Uh, yes. Its based on the difficulty. I thought this is obvious.