(Spoilers) All dragons are not created equally.

[teufel_barde]

So, I've killed all the dragons in this game, and i've got to say, some are way easier than others. But whether its due to me getting lucky, or actual tactical genius, that shall be up to you. But i basically wanted to share my stories on how i killed them, and to hear other peoples stories.

Sky dragon: I got to the temple and chatted with her, and while i was tempted to try and talk my way out of the situation, my loot senses were tingling. I did what any party would do in this situation, and sent my fighter up to hit it in the shins, the guy managed to crit hit on a knock down attack and pinned her for a few sec's, this allowed my mages to unload unholy hellfire down upon her while durance, being the grumpy old fart that he was, kept hitting her with his stick. It took twenty seconds of constantly knocking her prone and roasting her to death before she bled out in front of her baby. Yes, i killed her child last.

Alpine dragon: First time i encountered him, i was but a lowly level 11 group of warriors, drunk on success for freeing the forge. We bravely charged at him, and by we, i mean eder, and he was instantly killed in one shot. Seconds later, so were the rest of us. Skip ahead in time, and we are a slightly higher group of level 16 heros, restatted and ready to go. I spread everyone out around the room, eder at the bottom left, feather head in the top right, and the two mages, durance and our favourite fish smelling monk between in a sort of line. we then tried, and died, as the dragon decided to ice breath the mages and durance, just as eder hit the dragon and summoned the ghosts. A minute later, everyone died. This repeated no less than six times before i found a winning tactic.
Eder, decked to the nines in armour, goes behind the dragon and distracts it while chugging health potions, meanwhile, feather head (i cannot remember her name, but she didn't seem to mind) was killing all the scrubs with her +5 flaming sword of death, while my two mages made the dragon super stupid with constant debuffs, working from the lower spells to highest, all while our ewok druid unloaded more debuffs on it, then we made it our friend and asked him nicely to stand still...while we unloaded all the fireball spells we had into it along with durance dropping whatever he had onto it. obviously it wasn't too happy, and eder was the closest thing to punish. However, while it worked on making eder its chew toy, i had both my mages cast death ray on its rear for maximum penetration, only to unload all their hot balls onto it once more, only this time a bit delayed for full coverage. It took me two hours if you take into account all the other tries, but this final one? About three or so minutes.

Bog dragons: I accidentally stumbled on these guys while exploring the area, so i wasn't fully prepared to face them or their swamp momma. Thankfully for me, with the power of eder, being the rock when i need him the most, and some literal rocks, they all clustered together and took the full brunt of about eight freezing rakes to the face before suffering more fireballs after being turned to stone. These guys were meant to take longer and be harder, but they got pancaked quicker than the conversation building up to it. Not that i'm complaining, but still.

Adra dragon: This fella was not a tough customer. Thanks to my amazing tactics with the alpine dragon, she went down harder than a wet bag of cement, which was depressing in a way, because i was hoping for another real challange before the final boss. But still, it was worth it.

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A side note: for some reason i didn't get the stream trophies after killing the dragons for some reason, which is really annoying.

[Multihog]

Sky dragon was a joke, but adra, bog, and to a lesser extent alpine dragon gave me trouble on Path of the Damned.

Adra was initially very tough, and I died almost instantly multiple times, but once I focused the adds first and spammed paralysis scrolls on the dragon, it became relatively simple. I also used spells that reduce the dragon's resistance to paralysis (reflex?).

Alpine dragon was probably the second easiest after the sky dragon. I used a strategy where I placed my guys right next to a wall, melees in the front and ranged in the back. This way my ranged fighters were safe, and my melees could tank the damage. It was also easy to keep everyone priest buffed when they were so closely packed.

The bog dragons I had the most trouble with. I don't remember how the fight exactly went, but I remember using druid spells to bring their defences down, so my wizard CC could get through more reliably. I probably died more than 20 times to them. The wizard boss casting spells didn't help my case, either.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by teufel_barde:

All dragons are not created equally.

That is intentional. http://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Dragon#Variants

[Wasted_46]

nice stories. Good dragon stories are always the best to read.

On what difficulty are you playing?

(inteeresting: Sky dragon is potentially the strongest one by far if you play on PoTD upscaled since it is the only one that scales. Its stats are on par with the bog dragons except you encounter it 4-5 levels earlier. I once fought upscaled sky dragon on LVL11 and it's not fun. )