Drake Farming?

[Mister Bones]

Any suggestions on what's the best spot to farm drakes for crystals? And if anyone knows how to stop them from peacing out and flying away, that'd be nice. (I've lost the rewards from at least 5 kills because the drake just left halfway through the fight.)

[Mechanique]

Start by destroying wings so they can't fly away.

If your pawns are too good and deal too much damage before you can disable wings, shoot drake into the tip of the tail as it tries to fly and it will fall back down

[The 5th Seraph]

I saw a Drake from a distance somewhere over to the East a bit Northish of the Nameless Village... but I didn't approach it. I didn't want to get Dragon Plague and frankly I was underlevelled.
Then after getting carried back to the Griffin's nest and climbing my way out of it, I accidentally stumbled across a Drake in the dark just a ways south, and to my vast surprise my party killed it with gratuitous amounts of High Frigor spam.

So, I'm guessing one of those two places, maybe?

[Honkly Honkler]

The one in the Ancient Battleground always stays there AFAIK.
Make sure you hit the cyclops there at least once so you get the XP.