Dullahan spawn testing - requesting data - Elf Forest

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If anyone has some free time and is exploring the Elf Forest areas, let me know approximately where you found him. The two times I encountered him he was just east of the gazebo looking structure with 2 fires.

Specters (floaty white ghosts) tend to hang around these areas at certain times of night. I believe there is some other telltale signs to guide players to help find if he is around but it's difficult.

My methods of testing so far have been unsuccessful but low amount of data yet.
-sleep once at the elf inn, making sure to not have dragonplague on pawns
-doze off on the bench at the inn for 7 days to reset spawns
-doze until night
-go do some run around loops of the upper areas of the forest to see if I can see any particle effects that are different.
Some things I tried:
1. loop around each glow elf beacon that are scattered around north side.
2. watched specters for a while, i had a theory that the Dullahan in the elf forest may be tied to certain regular enemy spawns, kind of like Death was in the first game. Death would only spawn in the first area if lizards were in that area on loading.
3. Followed the npcs for a bit in the dark, the only two times I seen him in the elf forest he was playing with npcs. Not seen.
4. If I saw nothing I would gather the bark from the ultra bark tree (4 or 5 bark spots), then go back to elf city and doze off until the next night.
If anyone has any ideas or sees something let us know here if you spot him in the forest and what conditions.

The specters seem to only spawn past a certain time too, they are not present when I first leave the city but pop up like 5-10 min after i do a couple patrols.

[Elemiire]

Encountered one on day 1 in the Malachite Forest, just after descending the "ruin stairs" - it was night time and other than that I couldn't tell you anything because I was level 5 and ran like hell lmao.

Never encountered it since though - even after going back to try and find it.
Edit to say that I only ever encountered one from a quest and a random one in post game since then.

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Anyone else get any encounters today?

[DopeyWednesday]

I just encountered him (this is my first time seeing him after finishing the quest to save Gregor) he was near the "forgotten" riftsone there's a campsite right next to it(idk if everyones riftstones are labeled the same in every game?) It's near the Windworn Gully general area. But He was very close to the campfire/ forgotten riftstone where he spawned. Near all the broken buildings.


I didn't beat him and he despawned when daylight came, I should be able to fight him again I hope, right? Dude is STRONG.

[Sailor Gloom]

I encountered him pretty regularly when I was looking for the ghost cart before I got the quest for it. I just went along the main road from Vernworth to Checkpoint rest town. Found him like 75% of the time it felt like

[Keldrath]

It’s not set it’s just a random night encounter that’s exceptionally rare. If you really want them get to post game they hound you there constantly it’s almost annoying

[ffrotty]

dullahan spawned for me south of battahl in unmoored.

in main game i fought him 2x, one at the substantial ruins around the path if you go east from vern and then north (running to beginning game) and then right before a bridge crossing over at the north east part of that path.

[Lloyd]

Run to Ancient Battleground, near campsite with riftstone, you find 2 zombie Kill> Keep runing to Caslte. Then return to campsite. Dullahan spawn.

The mechanics of it are as follows, it appears after the place you just ran through. And killed a all of zombies\skelets there. Immediately on the point if you look at the online map he does not appear at once. I don't know why or how it works. Tested in a lot of places. But it's hard for me to explain every point where I met him. I did exactly that, went to one side killed monsters, reached the end, and when returning he appeared. where I was literally 5 minutes ago.

[Edelgris]

The Dullahan design is good. Kind of looks a bit like something out of Dark Souls. All the undead monsters are pretty cool, tbh. The variety of undead in this game is getting slept on, pun intended.

[Elenoe]

one spawned here

https://mapgenie.io/dragons-dogma-2/maps/world?locationIds=333688
(exactly between linked ogre and ancestral cave north of it, where the round staircase is)

the other here
https://mapgenie.io/dragons-dogma-2/maps/world?locationIds=333687

both at "early" night obviously (rested until night then run there). Both were there just as I was passing through. No killing or anything. There is always a dense fog all around the big area when he is up.

[1CMF]

I just fought the dullahan in the south western section of Battahl. Nowhere near a forest or the elves.

I did notice the large fog area as mentioned above, thought it was area specific but disapated after I killed him.

That said, anyone know if you can grab his head like Medusa? I duno it's just in his hands, I tried to run up and grab it but was a mage at the time so uI couldn't focus fire a weak point and try to knock it out of his hands like with blunt attacks or something.

[Edelgris]

Originally posted by 1CMF:

I just fought the dulahan in the south western section of Battahl. Nowhere near a forest or the elves.

That said, anyone know if you can grab his head like Medusa? I duno it's just in his hands, I tried to run up and grab it but was a mage at the time so uI couldn't focus fire a weak point and try to knock it out of his hands like with blunt attacks or something.

Would be fun if we could kick it around like a football.

[Richard]

I fought one at the Riftstone of Duty. He spawned after i killed the bandits in the wooden shacks there (South across the river from the gazebo I think you are talking about). I also fought one in the Mountains North of Nameless Village. It spawned right before the sun came up and de-spawned within a minute.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

they spawn near covered running water and grave sites just before morning

[1CMF]

Originally posted by Grr. SG CMD Majah Lazah:

they spawn near covered running water and grave sites just before morning

I fought one not near covered running water....but it was near running water....which ties back to the dullahan myth of not being able to cross water.

[Edelgris]

I encountered one walking along the road, right in front of where my character marker is pointing on this screenshot. Directly south of the Frightful Hollow crypt.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3213137702

The time was around midnight. I did not encounter any ghosts. I did encounter some skeletons briefly before.