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| Location | Crumbling Farum Azula |
| Drops | Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone (Greater Farum Azula Dragons only) Gravel Stone x3 (respawning Lesser Farum Azula Dragon only) Runes (32,400, 21,600, or 14,400 depending on type)
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Farum Azula Dragons are Hostile Creatures in Elden Ring. They are the many four-winged dragons seen around Crumbling Farum Azula. Some can be found sleeping, while others may fly in and ambush you.
Ancestors of the modern dragons, the ancient dragons had scales of Gravel Stone and wielded lightning as their weapon. It is said that they once attacked Leyndell, the Royal Capital.
Spoken of in legend, red lightning is the weapon wielded by the ancient dragons.
Elden Ring Farum Azula Dragon Locations
Several Farum Azula Dragons can be found within the legacy dungeon of Crumbling Farum Azula. They come in two varieties: Greater Farum Azula Dragons, which wield lightning, and Lesser Farum Azula Dragons, which do not. A total of two Greater Azula Dragons and three Lesser Dragons can be encountered in the following locations:
- The first Greater Farum Azula dragon is encountered on the curved bridge after the Crumbling Beast Grave Site of Grace. You can summon Spirit Ashes for this fight. This dragon will not vanish even if the player moves to an area where it cannot reach them. It drops an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone + 32,400 Runes on defeat and will not respawn.
- From the Tempest-Facing Balcony Site of Grace, turn around, run through the temple building, and ride down the elevator on the other side. Turn right from the elevator, then hop across the floating rocks onto a circular platform with a Smithing Stone (8). You will be attacked by the first Lesser Farum Azula Dragon when you reach that platform. If you leave the platform without defeating the dragon, it will turn to mist and vanish, becoming inaccessible until the player fast travels or rests at a site of grace. Defeating it rewards 21,600 Runes, and the dragon will not respawn.
- A second Lesser Farum Azula Dragon sleeps deeply atop the temple to the left of the Tempest Facing Balcony. If you are at the final step of Iron Fist Alexander's questline, it will not spawn; the area will instead serve as the arena for Alexander's final duel. This dragon will not reappear even after you have defeated Alexander. It can be reached most quickly by traveling to the Dragon Temple Lift site of grace and hugging the right edge of the map as you proceed out of the temple. This dragon will not awaken unless the player strikes it directly with an attack; walking, running, or even attacking near it provokes no response. This dragon will not vanish even if the player moves to an area it cannot reach. Defeating it rewards 14,400 Runes, and the dragon will not respawn.
- A third Lesser Farum Azula Dragon can be found sleeping behind a courtyard full of skeletal Beastmen. Nearby is a Smithing Stone (8) on a corpse, and a small scarab carrying the Golden Lightning Fortification incantation. This dragon sleeps less deeply than its counterpart; it will not awaken while the player is crouched, but walking, sprinting, or attacking near it will awaken the beast. If the player retreats within or past the fallen ruins leading to the dragon's ledge, it will turn to mist and vanish, becoming inaccessible until the player fast travels or rests at a site of grace. Defeating this dragon will reward the player with 21,600 Runes, as well as drop 3x Gravel Stone. This dragon does respawn.
- A second, heavily-injured, Greater Farum Azula Dragon will attack you with intermittent bursts of lightning as you advance from the Dragon Temple Roof Site of Grace. If you approach the plaza where it stands, it will begin to attack. If the player enters the small building to the back left of the plaza, hides behind the rubble on the left side of the plaza, or travels along the path to the right side of the plaza, the dragon will vanish and become inaccessible until the player fast travels or rests at a grace. Defeating it rewards 32,400 Runes and and Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. This dragon does not respawn.
Elden Ring Farum Azula Dragon Drops
- Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone (Greater Farum Azula Dragons)
- Gravel Stone (Guaranteed drop of 3 from the respawning Lesser Azula Dragons)
Farum Azula Dragon Notes & Tips
Ancient Dragon type- Deals Fire, Lightning and Standard Damage
- Strong against Elemental-type damage (most noticeably Lightning)
- Weaker against Pierce Damage.
- Weak spot: Head
- Can be poise-broken for a riposte, but it is very difficult due to poise-damage reduction. Even with hits to the head, the player will earlier eliminate the dragon and not break his poise.
- Poise: 120, but there is poise-damage reduction 0.2, and thus making their "actual poise" rise to 600, which makes them the most difficult enemy to perform a critical attack on.
- Hits to head deals double poise damage, so its "actual poise" is 300 with only this type of hits.
- Parryable: No
- The Farum Azula Dragons use different movesets
- The first Greater Farum Azula Dragon encountered at the beginning of the area uses a modified version of Ancient Dragon Lansseax's moveset, adding Lichdragon Fortissax's divebomb attack, a unique aerial glaive attack, and using Lansseax's Ancient Dragon Lightning Strike attack throughout the battle instead of just as an opener. It shares Lansseax's phase transition at 50% HP and the resulting alterations to the moveset.
- The second Greater Farum Azula Dragon uses a modified version of Lichdragon Fortissax's second phase moveset, with the only difference being the omission of Fortissax's Lightning Glaive attack.
- The lesser Farum Azula Dragons share the same moveset: a truncated version of the basic moveset shared between Lansseax and Fortissax. They lack the divebomb, all lightning summoning attacks, and do not generate lightning aftershocks with their claw attacks and double-handed slam. Despite this, they still undergo the same phase transition at close to 50% HP, altering the way they perform their combos. It is worth noting that the first Lesser Farum Azula Dragon may also be either guaranteed (or at least more heavily weighted) to perform the standing firebreath attack following a repositioning hop compared to the others, but further testing is needed to confirm this.
- The Greater Dragons, despite cladding themselves in lightning, share the same lightning flat defense and absorption (as well as all other flat defense and absorption values) with the Lesser Azula Dragons.
- Farum Azula Dragons, like Lansseax and Fortissax, take double damage from attacks to the head. This vulnerability can be triggered even by some AoE spells such as Greyoll's Roar. Additionally, attacks on sleeping or otherwise unaware dragons deal 1.5 times the standard damage, which stacks multiplicatively with their head weakspot.
- The teleportation animation typically played by the dragons when they vanish in response to the player moving to an inaccessible area can be "overridden" if another animation, such as landing from an aerial attack, is playing instead. If this occurs, the dragon may simply vanish without any noticeable animation; this has no practical effect and the dragon can be encountered again by resting at a site of grace or fast traveling.
Farum Azula Dragon Image Gallery
AnonymousDoes 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.
- Anonymous
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 ****.
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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Got second ANCIENT DRAGON SMITHING STONE as it spawned again after killed months ago. Respawned solo.
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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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
Ahh Fromsoft can we have normal sized bosses fitting into the screen?
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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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 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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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
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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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.
Black Knife Tiche summon is super helpful for this absolute sponge.
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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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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.
I've encountered him in a few locations, and I hit him once and then he'll vanish.
Not die, I don't get any runes or items. Just... Disappears.
And not a "flew off", he literally just pops out of existance.
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Are Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone guaranteed drops? They don't drop anything for me.
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thius nameless random enemy took me 10x the tries of every demigod so far wtf
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There's a room to cheese from realative safety on the left, on the start of the bridge. All that roaring makes plenty of time to bait him, run back, and use Black-Key Crossbow, Black-Key bolts to rot, and standard bolts for DPS.
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This guy is tricky, but the secret to his defeat is to use the Scarlet Rot. Get Rotten Breath, and cast it at him. Then run away and hide in a nearby room so that he can't get you.
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This guy is tricky, but the secret to his defeat is to use the Scarlet Rot. Get Rotten Breath, and cast it at him. Then run away and hide in a nearby room so that he can't get you.
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Has anyone else had this dragon be 'friendly'? I approached it and attacked it once. I then realized it was missing like 80% of its HP and wouldn't fight back. When walked like 5 meters away, it took off and turned into dust in the air. Kinda trippy...
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why, why are all the locking points in these monsters head or neck?
If the body is available I should be able to lock to the body and hit it.
Another bad boss with bad camera and locking works making it artificially difficult.
Can't lock on cause your attacks misses if you try to hit the belly or leggs fron underneath.
Can't play unlocked cause you can't see him when he flies away and can't see the attacks coming.
0/10
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literally just a tankier version of the dragon near the capitals outskirts. lame.
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Rot breath, mimic tear +10, comet azure, and a sh1tload cerulean flasks killed him quickly. Let scarlet rot take half his health, then rot em again and use comet spell. Takes a good amount of fp to rot maybe 100 when using rot breath but it works.
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Never mind I beat him without making the game crash. The key is not looking at the ****ing tornado. If you look at the ****ing tornado it crashes the game. And trying to avoid looking at the tornado, while fighting a colossal enemy with **** camera angles, on uneven ground, is a pain in the ass. Thanks for 32k runes I guess.
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There is a relatively safe space north west, farthest away from the Grace. The fire attack can hit you, so you want to inch close to the wall as possible.
You can try to reapply poison or scarlet rot, but I found it safest to wait until the dragon walks back to the middle of the bridge.
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There's another one on your path you come accross when you progress from the Dragon Temple Rooftop site of grace, he summons thunder bolts while you try to get close, but when you do get close he doesn't attack and just stares at you. When I walked away from him he jumped up and dissapeared, should i have killed him for a drop i wonder? Why was it friendly all of the sudden
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Does this dragon respawn after you die or rest at a site of grace, or is it a permanent kill?
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Very weak to Scarlet Rot, so you can use "Rotten Breath" dragonic spell to easily infect him and it causes HUGE damage over time.
Also, drops Ancient Dragon Somber Stone x 1 (needed to upgrade weapon to max). Doesn't drop anything else. Good luck!
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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