Farum Azula Dragon | Elden Ring Wiki

My cheeze strategy, sort of, for first greater dragon on curved bridge: I run by him to the other side and seek protection from his fire breath in chambers in front of the grace here. This location offers surprisingly good protection form the fire. In between his fire breaths I pop out and apply mist spell (which you can buy from Gowry outside of Sella if you do his quest). The mist wears down the dragon in 10 minutes or so, and the mist consumes very little fp. I needed like 4 flasks to kill him. He will sometimes go to lightning attack, but it can be avoided or tanked with good lightning protection.

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You can summon Latenna at the border of the summon zone and then dodge the dragon for 10 minutes while Latenna shoots the dragon. It's that easy.

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I just ran past it considering I did **** all damage with my +23 Lordsworn greatsword and my 45 strength, combined with the fact you can't lock onto its legs (you know something you can actually hit). Then as I come to the site of grace... +Ancient dragon smithing stone. +34,000 runes.
Didn't expect that to happen.

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Screw that monstrosity you encounter first in Farum Azula.
If you don't wanna spend the next 20 minutes running around and fighting against both this flying HP sponge and the camera, then I suggest to ignore it until you get rid of the Godskin Duo and slap Black Flame Tornado on your weapon.
Or you could try using the one on the Peeler if you're able to use it, which should be doable for any class with Godrick's Rune, Soreseal and either the DEX+ talisman or tear.

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yet another oversized enemy you can't lock on to and have to fight with the camera more than the enemy

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Been using a faith focused build, no int, no arcane. Decently tanky and both my fire and lightning spells do decent damage... these MFs are my bane. Hell for some reason i couldnt even hit their back legs with my treespear. Probalby could have tried using the coded sword or some other holy weapon, but still.

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Most brainless solution to these, from my experience, is to get the Godskin Peeler, run under them whenever there's an opening, and trade Black Flame Tornado with it. Just get the minimum stats and build for survivability (Ritual Shield, and stuff like that). Ended up resorting to this on a gosh-darn STR/INT build. Percent health damage is nothing to scoff at.

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i wish i could target lock their knees :P

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Blood hound step on bleed claw/fist weapon stay close to back feet all fight. Watch for ledge though and fire attack reposition at that time.

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Yes the camera sucks, yes the health bar and resistances are frustrating, but come on - when that first guy flies down from the sky and you can just run up and *boop* him on the head, it's hilarious.

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Lol all these lighting things that do extra 5% damage to those dragons.... while they have 80% lightning dmg negation. Fantastic feature.

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Bro Alexander downed one of these all on his own so that it wouldn't interfere with the duel, and was left in perfect condition afterwards. What a chad he is.

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An easy cheese I found for the disappearing dragon sleeping south of skeletons at dragon temple lift:
Ekzykes's decay, combined with chilling mist on Beastman's Cold Cleaver decimated this creature's health.
I used Fingerprint stone shield for defense, I also just tried redmane greatshield and killed it again too. Fingerprint is best against it's fire, but redmane works as a substitute.

Rotten breath works as well, but required 2 casts (for me) to proc scarlet rot.

In case anyone cares, my equipment loadout is
Beastmans Cold Clever +24
Staff of loss +24
Fingerprint Stone Shield
Dragon Communion Seal +9

Imp Head (wolf)
Crucible Tree Armor
Night's Cavalry Gauntlets/Graves

Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman
Flamedrake Talisman +2
Flocks Canvas Talisman
Crepus's Vial

Physick: not used, but crimson bubbletear and opaline hardtear

All I do is start at dragon temple lift, cast unseen form (which does not appear to work with crepus vial, but does, as I never seem to be chased when using both) and run to the sleeping dragon to the south. Drink physick if needed (I no longer use for this) then I two hand the communion seal, target dragons head and jump off rocks toward dragon and cast Ekzykes decay. Done this way you will levitate above the dragon and track its head nicely, inflicting scarlet rot.

Upon landing, I switch my left hand from communion seal to fingerprint shield, and position myself to cast Chilling Mist weapon art. I use a beastmans cold cleaver, but anything should work. I've also used chilling mist on a claymore to about the same effect. Chilling mist will inflict frostbite on dragon, and with scarlet rot, its heath will just melt away. You will likely have to apply frostbite a second time, in between waiting guard against dragons attacks and get a few hits in.

Using this method, I kill this dragon in about 2-3 minutes with minimal effort (to farm gravel stone)


I tried crystal barrage, but with 58 int, I just didn't have the stats to make it work. For me, scarlet rot and frostbite is the easiest way to kill this creature. Hope this is helpful to others.

TLDR: use ekzyke's decay in conjunction with chilling mist to melt dragon's health to farm gravel stone

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why does it feel like these have more health than some of the boss dragons

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Hello, Sir Bastard (sword) here, if anyone was struggling to consistently win this fight like me but doesn't want to switch weapons outright for one fight (curse you serpent-hunter!), this just worked for me, maybe it'll help you too.

R1's and Jumping R1's only
Winged sword Insignia
Green Turtle
Erdtree's Favor
Emerald Medallion
Max Stamina and Stamina Recovery in Wonderous Physick

Spinning Slash

Focus on the back legs, maybe a few cheeky jumping R1's at the head on the way past.
Only took about 7 minutes and was way easier than usual for me, and my weapon only has like 600 AR so I'm sure you could cut that down with a better weapon.

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The game is fun.
The game is a battle.
If it's not fun, why bother?
If it's not a battle, where's the fun?

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It takes about 80 years to kill this thing

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RL 1 + 0 here. Use Scorpion Dagger (s), Swap to Hook Claws infused with frost, and dodge like you’re finally at the end game. We’re not in Limgrave (Kansas) anymore.

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FS make a dragon you can actually see challenge

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Envoy's Long Horn skill Bubble Shower melts these, and pretty much all, dragons.

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Any status immunities/resistances or weaknesses?

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10/10 would pet

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Vyke's EX Girlfriends are pretty mad at him

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Faith builds for the first one if you need the ancient dragon stone: Pest Threads - Use a summon ash to run distraction, lock on but still get EXTREMELY close and use the threads, this takes about 6 casts but most of the fight is just chasing him to get close or dodging to avoid fire and lightning

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I only I could see when I'm trying to attack the damn thing. Thanks again fromsoft for another giant ass dragon fight with no proper camera angle. There's only two lock on point, head of base of throat good luck hitting either as they're at the majority of the fight out of distance.

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This thing has around 28K health. Fire giant has 43K with a weak spot. Placidusax has 26 K. Malenia has 33K
Not difficult, just extremely tedious and annoying, unreasonably tanky and stronger than both of the "named" variants.Lanessax and Fortissax were legendary creatures and this random-ahh dragon just outperforms both.

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I have 160 hours of gameplay, the game never crashed until the fight with the first Farum Azula Dragon. The game just freezes the image and sound, then the monitor feed turns off and I have a really hard time trying to retake control of the system without forcing a reset.

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Awful design. Listen, I'm fine with being punished for dodging away. If I do it because I'm scared and trying to get away from an enemy. However, that's simply not the case. I have to dodge backwards because the camera will stop working if I don't. It's either that, or run all the way behind the dragon. It's the same thing I did with Midir - except he didn't have lingering hitboxes.

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When he landed at the open i found a safe spot between incoming lightning pillars to hit him with Ranni's Dark moon to lower resistances then hit him with a few charged Heavy's from Moonlight Greatsword during his wind ups and recovery. Ran away during fire breathing phase, causing him to go up in the air and descend. once he landed he was right on top of me so I used Meteorite of Astel which finished him off before he could respond

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I just spammed Rotten Dragons breath and hid in the grace room

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I usually go without using Bleed because I deem it too OP. The first one had such a terrible arena and was so annoying that I had to use Bleed just to get rid of him as soon as possible. Why not ignore him for the rest of the game? It pissed me off that much.

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Hopefully this helps someone didn't see it on the wiki and needed to kill the first one, The first one in the area has roughly 20,000 HP used poison mist to cheese it, each poison dealt 1,911 damage removed the 630 damage for 1281 damage equal to 6.3% of its health multiplied by a 100 to get 20,333.33 so that's it health in case anyone needs it and how I worked it out

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Spamming jump R2 bonking with a large club (or any melee weapon) to fight the dragon is doable, but not recommended.
The fight just turn into a boring jump attack, reposition, jump attack cycle until one of you eventually dies.

And DON'T use the lock-on feature on them, you will miss 50% of your attack...

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It really sucks being summoned from a summoning pool for the one at the start of Farum Azula, because you don’t get sent home after killing it as it isn’t technically a “boss”. Are you expected to get all the way to the Godskin Duo in one go? Sure ok lol ezpz /s

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I tested it, and I think Lansseax and the other Ancient Dragons share the same lightning resistance? I used Thunderbolt, and Lansseax took 95 damage while a no-named one took 86. So, they'd probably have 80% resistance rather than 40%, if it's similar to Lan's. I wish the wiki would include this stuff, it's really difficult to assume especially when Fortissax has 80% holy resistance, meanwhile Lansseax doesn't. One of them's corrupted by death, sure, but we don't know for sure if Lansseax has different resistances from the no-named ones either.

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Does From Software actually play their games? I don't know how anyone could engage this enemy in melee and conclude that the camera experience is acceptable. Somehow they are even missing the leg lock-on points that the regular dragons have.

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For those farming for gravel stones, some builds may consider using blackflame blade with heirloom and marika seals/godrick rune. The %hp damage made the fight...tolerable on my quality build.

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after defeating all demigods, the flame giant, after 50 hours of gameplay i quit the game because of this nameless enemy. **** this.
im not coming back ever to this ****.

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Terribly overtuned boss. Made the weak point the head, but made it so the boss moved its head insanely frequently and not lower it enough. The after-shockwaves get annoying over time and eventually you just realize this boss is not worth the time. Can’t even reasonably be poise-broken. If it was like the crystalions where poise could be built up without worrying about regeneration, it would be fine. But these guys fly away all the goddamn time to regen their already insanely high poise. Terribly designed boss, especially when compared to the likes of Midir.

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Just spam blade of death, these creatures are cancer

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Got second ANCIENT DRAGON SMITHING STONE as it spawned again after killed months ago. Respawned solo.

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Int/Faith build, I tried every possible combination of skills and spells, what led me to kill the first one (that drops the Ancient Stone):
- Dung Eater +10

Buffs
- 1x Lightningproof Dried Liver
- Golden Lightning Fortification
- Golden Vow
- Protection of the Erdtree

Attacks
- Spam charged Rotten Breath
- When he was far I charged Shard Spiral

I had to go with 90% damage negation 4 times, I used:
- 3x Uplifiting Aromatic Perfume
- Opaline Bubbletear

That's why I love hybrid builds. I like mixing and matching all these spells and items.

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So, how much health do they have? Like seriously, can somebody check that?

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Why do these bozos have double the health of the boss dragons lmao

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Poison mist on the sleeping dragon. got bored being under it and hitting empty air when trying to melee

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How I killed the first one:
Flamberge+bloodflame blade+wild strikes.
It’s cheesy, but it worked so I don’t really care

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At ng+ they first one are insane hard ashes dont work for me they get stucked most time. What works is running thru go to the Grace Seite activate it und use greatbow to Shoot him down thru pillars. For Laters also use bow try Hit the heads

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Random dragons that are for some reason way stronger than most of the Boss dragons I've faced so far.

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Wtf? What are their stats? Strengths? Weaknesses? Isn't this supposed to be a wiki?

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My biggest flex was getting through the area with the birds and dragon first try after watching my friend die like 10 times, then when I got to the area with the big beastman and his lightning spamming goons I didn't see the doorway and ended up completing all of the haligtree because I was upset i couldn't kill it

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Fought the one blocking the first site of grace, noticed that it wasn't physically able to hit me if I stayed below its torso, I downed its health bar to 10% and then dragon was like: i cant do this anymore, and it literally fell to the tornado and died. Worth it.

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how tedious do you want this fight to be?
yes

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I spent an hour trying to defeat the one that spawns near worm faces thinking it will drop a ancient dragon smithing stone. It dropped nothing :|

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The first one, at least, seems to have infinite poise. I hit him with 5+ Flames of the Redmane and...nothing. Doesn't even flinch. If you've been focusing on a critical hit playstyle then prepare to change your tactics a LOT because as far as I can tell you'll never get a chance to land one on this guy.

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Lion's Greatbow, Radahn's Spears and Radahn's Rain makes them quite manageable :)

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Who tf decided an enemy harder to defeat than Fire Giant should drop almost no runes and a few Gravel Stones? At this point in the game levels cost 200k+ and the miners in the snowfields drop those stones like candy

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Ahh Fromsoft can we have normal sized bosses fitting into the screen?

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If a dragon disappears on you, exit the game and reload. It'll come back. The sleeping one in the area near Alexander just seems to jump up into the air and fly off after about a minute. I wasn't able to kill it because it would just keep fleeing. Doesn't seem to be worth the trouble anyway, but it's kind of odd.

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Fighting these with the giant crusher gave me flashbacks of playing monster hunter with a greatsword.

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A second "Lessar" Farum Azula Dragon

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Run past the dragon that lands (on the curved) straight to the site of grace where the two beast men are in the burial room. Kill both!
Now go out sneaking behind the dragon- throw mist- run back to the room. Throw mist at the archway. Hide in the room. Dragon will wither away and lighting wont hit you. Takes about 10 minutes but super cheesy!

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Keeping poison darts and poison arrows is really helpful. Cheesed almost every dragon with them.

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I can never complete the first one without crashing.

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I would very highly recommend Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear if you have it. Bloodboone Ritual is incredible for this, and all other, dragons. Just be sure to get close to it's back legs/tail or it will just slam it's fist through your spleen..and jaw. It's like this Ash was specifically designed for dragons. The only issue is that it takes a long time to cast, so you will probably get hit using it a few times. But as long as you can handle 1 or 2 hits you can just flask up. Depending on your stats, 3 to 6ish casts will just melt him. It's also perfect since dragons are weak to Pierce.
TLDR; Use the Ash Bloodboone Ritual on Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear if you have it. Will melt dragons.

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After several fights where I did little damage trying to melee him here is what worked for me. Used a mimic to tank/distract. Gave him Moonveil. Once the Dragon swoops in run past behind him. Used Serpent bow with Serpent arrow. Move to the first pillar near the exit alcove. From there just shoot him and duck behind the pillar when he does his stuff. He has a couple of attacks that might knock you over but should have time to heal or get behind the pillar before you take real damage. Was really easy. If your summon bugs out and doesnt attack , try calling closer to where it swoops in and toward the cliff rather than the wall. As you run past theyll get aggro on each other and the summon should enage.

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I noticed that the injured one that harasses you with lightning always vanished once approached when I was helping other players in Coop, but when I was playing on my own, it put up a fight once I reached it and I was able to kill it and got an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone from it and it did not respawn. So I'm thinking multiplayer may be a factor. Then again, the one that appears where Alexander does never spawned for me because he was there instead and that might also be the reason.

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does the dragon with the bird bodyguards still go to brazil after u reach him?

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No luck with sleeping dragon - as soon as i get it to 30-20% HP it'll just fly away .. maybe it goes for a nap somewhere else or its same one that spam dragon lightning, but in earlier phase?

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If you're going to put giant enemies in your video game FIX THE CAMERA SO WE CAN SEE THEM

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Bruh, just don't lock, and hit his legs... This is all that is required of you in a fight with a dragons...

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Rotten Breath the first one w all the hp. I used 4hp n 10fp flask. Mimic tear +10 to distract dragon than get in there and RB that ho. When mimic dies hide behind pillars and use poison or DB ranged atk in tandem w RB. 3rd try not to hard.

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Weakest dragon in the game.

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This boss's camera work is as trash as the elden beast

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are there any lore reasons for them being able to use lansseax's glaive and fortissax's lightning spear?

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For melee: wild strike his legs. I used the great stars so I healed on each hit too (I think)

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The birds were harder to fend off than the dragon. Got under him, two weapon arts from my mogh spear killed him. I couldn’t even see his health bar. Wish I could’ve watched it drain.

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This really seems like an enemy youre not supposed to fight (yet). His attacks are mostly easy to avoid and even somewhat predictable if you don't use the completely unhelpful target lock.

But he has such an immense amount of health that he is bound to hit you after fiveteen minutes of mindlessly slashing damage into him, which can easily two shot you, destroying your progress.

I'd suggest just running past him for now if you dont absolutely need his drops and maybe coming back after you've leveled up your head a bit more before banging it into this wall again.

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these guys are bosses without the boss health bar, very nice miyazaki

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My biggest battle with this was against the camera, not the dragon itself.

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i havent looked each time it's happened but if i turn left at the dragon and make my way to the red-roofed building around the rock he disappears

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Melee is near impossible for the first one and summons don’t even attack they just walk into a wall.

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I would rather fight the 2 silver archers in Anor Londo, at least they don't have 10 ****ing birds

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Is anyone else getting consistent crashes while facing one of these guys? I can't even progress because the game keeps freaking out every time he pulls out his lightning sword.

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I love the model for these dragons, but the locking points make no sense, and they have strange iframes occasionally when I am striking their feet.

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Aids

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Really don't understand how you're supposed to kill this guy with melee without chugging because i can barely see what he's doing and his melee attacks all have an undodgeable aftershock effect

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this first dragon is a buggy ****, there's just no way to aim at his feet like any other big boss in the game, impossible to hit that trash

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Are these guys especially weak to slash damage or is he just a beefy boi? The other dragons are weak to most physical types but this one seems covered in scales.

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There are 4 of them in CFA, the first one is the one between the grace sites at the beginning, the second on the floating platform to the right of exiting the lift at the bottom, the third is sleeping in the stonesword key unlocked area and the fourth is the one in the screenshots after the rooftop grace. They are annoying as they vanish when you get a bit too far away from them, giving little opportunity for ranged combat. Only the first one allows the summoning of ashes, but is also the one with the most health.

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There are 4 of them in CFA, the first one is the one between the grace sites at the beginning, the second on the floating platform to the right of exiting the lift at the bottom, the third is sleeping in the stonesword key unlocked area and the fourth is the one in the screenshots after the rooftop grace. They are annoying as they vanish when you get a bit too far away from them, giving little opportunity for ranged combat. Only the first one allows the summoning of ashes, but is also the one with the most health.

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Hard to hit properly as melee. I died more to this first dragon than to Dragonlord Placidusax.

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dragonwound and dried liver are useful for these two dragons.

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Black Knife Tiche summon is super helpful for this absolute sponge.

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This dude can breathe fire through solid walls.

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why, o why can't you lock onto his feet like any other giant monster in this game...

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If you snipe the sleeping one with a bow , it just rises to it's feet, flies up and vanishes in a cloud of sparkles 0_0

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He has too much HP for no reason. Boring to fight to be honest, the other dragons at least give more runes.

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Just a clone of other Dragon bosses. Kinda lame.

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cheesed him with Jar Cannon after using mimic tear bring his HP down to half.

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You can bait him to the end of the roof, then hide in the room with the Grace point is. His flame attack won't reach you if you stand at the far end of the room. Once his back is turned, unload Comet Azure at his a**. Rinse n repeat.

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