dragon and difficulty

[Starvark]

So I am a lvl 33 Mage. I find the effin Dragon boss unkillable and difficulty settings seem to be bugged to the point that lowering difficulty makes things worse. When i for example increase player health, I actually have less health when I load in. The dragon seems to be tuned to a party and not a solo player and the only class equipped to deal with it seems to be archers.
Anyone else has the same problem (and maybe solution)?

[Silent Warrior]

I would recommend to use a bow with Stun Arrows. Get him down, then hit him either with your melee weapon or use your wand / staff to deal damage. ( I'm a pure melee, so idk how magic works on him)
When you want lower the difficulty: have a look on boss hp and boss damage.

[Starvark]

Originally posted by Silent Warrior:

I would recommend to use a bow with Stun Arrows. Get him down, then hit him either with your melee weapon or use your wand / staff to deal damage. ( I'm a pure melee, so idk how magic works on him)
When you want lower the difficulty: have a look on boss hp and boss damage.

Thanx for suggestions. I did try boss HP and although it wasnt bugged in a rare brake from tradition, it was still promissing a long tedious fight..... I will give the bow a try i guess.

[Silent Warrior]

Originally posted by Lightsong:

Originally posted by Silent Warrior:

I would recommend to use a bow with Stun Arrows. Get him down, then hit him either with your melee weapon or use your wand / staff to deal damage. ( I'm a pure melee, so idk how magic works on him)
When you want lower the difficulty: have a look on boss hp and boss damage.

Thanx for suggestions. I did try boss HP and although it wasnt bugged in a rare brake from tradition, it was still promissing a long tedious fight..... I will give the bow a try i guess.

Yes, it took me many tries until I got him . The bow isn't for dealing damage, it is only to get him down, and get some seconds to hit him. He'll fligh up again, and also summon some flying mobs. I placed an altar very close to him, in the cave vis-a-vis. Was so far my hardest fight in this game, and even as a melee with much hp I died several times.
I wish you GL.

[Rufert]

Yeah the boss is almost invulnerable until you get him to fall over by shooting him in the mouth when he's charging a special attack.

I think it was a mistake on the devs part to actually let him take any damage at all until you've done his gimmick thing.

When I was there the first time I got him to half health having no idea he could get knocked down. My brain just locked into "okay he's taking damage i'm probably underleveled, this'll just take a while."

If it has just said "immune" then I'd probably have started looking looking for a gimmick earlier.

[Starvark]

I KILLED THE MOTHER-FUDGING DRAGON
So I used the stun arrows (even as a mage) to make him fall down and then hit him with my eternal acid bite spell.
Thank Silent Warrior for advice

[Starvark]

Originally posted by Rufert:

Yeah the boss is almost invulnerable until you get him to fall over by shooting him in the mouth when he's charging a special attack.

I think it was a mistake on the devs part to actually let him take any damage at all until you've done his gimmick thing.

When I was there the first time I got him to half health having no idea he could get knocked down. My brain just locked into "okay he's taking damage i'm probably underleveled, this'll just take a while."

If it has just said "immune" then I'd probably have started looking looking for a gimmick earlier.

Agreed