What are good spells to fight dragons?

[sleeve]

Or other highly mobile enemies?

Also, is there a place to read enemy lore? Like a beastiary

[Lord Bob]

I mostly use Lightning Spear. Try to look for an opening and cast away. Locking on to the body makes you hit your target more reliably, although hitting the head does more damage.
Also, incantations or spells that have an area of effect, like Giantsflame Take Thee are slow to cast but might hit for high damage, even when your aim was a little off.

There is so much lore, but more lore in general you can piece together by reading the item descriptions of items you find throughout the game. Some of it is related to enemies (bosses mostly).

[DarkFenix]

Early game? Rock sling. Later game? Adula's moonblade.

The former is immediately available when you start the game if you know where to go. Not the most accurate spell, but it has long range, huge poise damage, and is generally great against large creatures. The latter is from a boss kill you need a fair bit of progression for, and has become my go-to for... well, most things really, it hits crazy hard against small targets, but absolutely obliterates large ones.

And no, no bestiary, Souls games are always very sparse on information. You generally have to piece together little tidbits of information from item descriptions and what little exposition the game gives. Or wait for a Youtuber to do it for you and present it in a neat little package.

[Sabaithal]

If we're talking "fire and forget" spells, I'm not sure if there are any that cover the same distances that dragons do (they fade out after travelling so far). You're best bet is to get fast moving spells, such as lightning, and fight at medium range of the dragon itself.

[Rivaldman]

The weapon art of FALLINGSTAR BEAST JAW works well, if you consider it applicable too.

[sleeve]

Thanks all! Was getting shellacked!!

[Parking Place]

Originally posted by sleeve:

Or other highly mobile enemies?

I don't want to be that guy but dragons are sitting ducks

[sleeve]

Like it's so immersive, I just finished the Ranni questline and my heart is still pumping, so much action. It's a pity, it would be awesome lore flavor to me to find out why mobs in the eternal cities are like that. Or how the funny things in the academy came to be like that.

These are things I loved about games like witcher, ME, pathfinder and grim dawn. Asmongold said it feels like walking into a painting, and damn when I walked through the Nokron, it really was so. Would be nice to get that lore immersion too

[sleeve]

Originally posted by Parking Place:

Originally posted by sleeve:

Or other highly mobile enemies?

I don't want to be that guy but dragons are sitting ducks

xD :X