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these guys have way too much health

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Honestly I really like these guys. They have enough unique moves to make them interesting and not feel like a total repeat, and their visual design is amazing. I also love any chance to exploit Holy weakness. But yeah the one at Scadu Altus where you have to fight the dragon along with a squad of dipsh*t soldiers with archery support is completely asinine. From definitely should have tweaked the aggro so that everyone is on the same side fighting the dragon until it dies, it's such an easy fix and it would make the fight so epic and interesting. But yeah Ghostflame dragons are a 7/10, would fight

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The funniest thing is that the Ghostflame Dragon at Cerulean Coast summons undead soldiers and those soldiers will chase you until the ends of the earth or until you rest at a grace. They chased me all the way to the Stone Coffin entrance and I rode their on horseback in a straight line.

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you can summon Jolan for this fight on the Cerulean Coast if you Start Count Ymirs quest line and talk to him again after activating the first finger ruins whistle. The Summon spot is in the bare patch infront of the ghostflame dragon if you are approaching from the cerulean coast site of grace.

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The lack of a Named Ghostflame Dragon incantation is a damn shame.

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Moves and jumps around way too much for something that is dead/undead.

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It feels like the black steel great hammer was made to crack these things in half, just a couple bonks and these things are gone

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gold order funadamentlist death strength build never felt so great. Even on ng+ these dudes melt like butter!

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i discovered that there's a rare mounting attack you can do against the ghostflame dragon (this may affect other dragons) where you do a jump attack on its head. it's very similar to the type of attack you do on the flaming head chariot enemies in base game, but this attack immediately topples the dragon instead. this is the first time i've seen this attack despite having 9+ save files, is this unique to the ghostflame dragons?
golden epitaph goes hard vs. them btw, it's a low-requirement weapon that can give you (and teammates) a strong buff vs. undead - and the sword is pretty good against it too.

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love the one in scadu altus because there will always be one or two knights that shoot arrows at you or chase you around the entire fight like there isnt a evil zombie dragon eating all their friends

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the soldiers near the moorth highway one really grinds my gears

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I’m on my first play through currently at Lvl. 148. I have Str: 30, Dex: 23, Int: 43, Fth: 41, Arc: 45. 3 stat boost talismans and the one that boosts incantations.

I used a clayman’s harpoon +19 w/ AoW spectral lance and dragon communion seal +10 to cast rot breath…I summoned the skeletons with great shields at +10 (I think). Also used golden vow and flame, grant me strength to buff…

Just beat the one at the cerulean coast using that setup and had a blast doing it. Decently challenging. Can’t wait to see about the dragon with the soldiers and the bridge or whatever…

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I am playing seamless co-op (400% hp) and this one was pretty hard until we both started hitting the head with big holy buffed weapons. The Crits on stagger do insane dmg for some reason. Its not really mentioned in the wiki so I thought I would post it here. Jumping heavy spam on the head works wonders.

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I thought the one that was fighting the soldiers was cool at first until I realized 1) I wasn't getting runes from killing them 2) they weren't damaging the dragon much and just attacked me if I tried fighting the dragon. So the strat seems to be to just wait until the dragon kills a bunch of them before I can start fighting it. zzzzz

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Magic fortification/barrier of gold + spelldrake +2 talisman + sacred blade = big dead dragon ez clap

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“This random guy is helping us kill this huge dragon that we’re doing little damage to? Better stop attacking the dragon and focus on the random tarnished that was helping us” I get that not being able to die made everyone insane but they’re clearly smart enough to attack the dragon

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When you can't make Midir shittier, put tons of NPCs that will focus only you with the Dragon. Good job, shittiest fight in the DLC.

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halo scythe skill carried me against these so much

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Bow with Enchanted Shot and Golden Arrows. Use Arrows Reach and Sting.

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lool these things were designed to be fought on foot, the forward distance they cover in their melee swipes are an incredible anti-torrent weapon.

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Sacred Blade Beam Ash of War destroys this beast even at level 3 Scadutree. If you want simple boo boo damage use Holy Pots Most Deathbird and this can be off by it.

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Messmer i will bring marikas head to your doorstep if you tell your knights I'm helping them

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Didn’t know how durable my controller was until I fought the one in Cerulean Coast

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If you're doing NG+ then the skill of the Greatsword of Radahn (Lord)+10 absolutely decimates this dragon when you're underneath him.

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From can make a perfectly fair dragon boss, and still find a way to ruin it with a huge crowd of mobs.
The worst part is that it's obviously programmed so they do very little damage to the dragon and vice versa. You pretty much have to kill all of them yourself.

At least you get a flask refill when the dragon keeps pulling in even more mobs from the surrounding area.

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There's no reason the one at Cerulean Coast shouldn't deal sleep instead of frostbite. Have it breath sleep fire at the start, and then follow up with a sleep inflicting roar similar to Ekzykes and Borealis for the 2nd phase instead of just summoning skeletons. Then give both of those to the player as Dragon incants.

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I think Latenna is a great summon to fight dragons because of the expansive area she covers, but she didn't do anything when I summoned her to fight the one in Moorth highway, just stood still, even when Messmer's knights approached her. I guess her AI broke for good because this was constant even after attempting to summon her 3 times.
From Soft, as always, delivering absolute sh*t quality control

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About the big AoE attack where its chest glows: This hits low to the ground and is actually jumpable. It spawns a ring of flame at the very edge of the AoE which can't be jumped and does damage over time, but if you stay close, you won't have to deal with that and can exploit the opening. I haven't tested it, but I think certain spells or incantations that levitate you up in the air may also work for avoiding it (this works on the stomp attacks of the giant flaming enemies elsewhere in the DLC).

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Imo the best way to easy get this one done is to break its poise (eg. Banished Knight's Halberd + Ash of War: Ice Spear) and then throw holy pots at it. This also works really well for deathrite Birds ;)

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Absolutely 0 fun to fight these nor any sense of accomplishment when it's defeated. rot breath and riding torrent in circles seems to be the safest strategy . it's difficult boss but not fun difficult. Just annoying.

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Or use gargoyle's blackblade+9 = holy water for dragon

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All I'm gonna say is: Shared Order (left hand weapon) and Dragon Kin's Cragblade. Boom

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There's a huge undead dragon pounding everything in sight and spewing ghostflame but the clowns fighting him prefer to focus you

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Whoever designed the one in the cerulean coast should be crucified.

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How to turbo-stomp Ghostflame Dragons and any other undead enemy in the game:

Get the Ash of War "Sacred Order" and duplicate it. Get the weapon "Golden Epitaph". Both of these can be found in the Altus Plateau. Now infuse 2 weapons of your choice with holy damage and "Sacred Order", extra points for weapons that deal strike damage.

1. Cast the skill of "Golden Epitaph"
2. Cast the "Sacred Order" of your left hand infused weapon by two-handing it. (This can be a dagger to avoid weight issues)
3. Swap right-hand weapon to your other infused weapon and cast the second "Sacred Order".

You just stacked three 100% damage increases against undead enemies for 60 seconds. Yes, both "Sacred Order" will enhance both of your weapons damage despite being a weapon specific buff.

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If you don't feel like fighting the one in the lake next to the "Greatbridge North" grace I'd recommmend Latenna as well. Summon her on the highest cliff next to the Belurat Gaol Exit and buff her with Last Rites or Shared Order. If you'd like to contribute too then get the Erdtree Bow/Greatbow with Golden Arrows, arrow talismans and holy damage buffs. Or you can just let Latenna handle it and AFK a bit. Note, the dragon can still hit you/Latenna with his breath. Best to back up a little from the cliff face. Second note, Latenna might also get knocked back when this happens in which case she'll have a hard time hitting anything.

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HOW TO .KILL THIS?????

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Important to know: Sacred Order in offhand and mainhand affects both weapons multiplicatively, and stacks multiplicatively with Shared Order. Sacred Order is a weapon buff, but due to questionable coding, each instance affects BOTH of your weapons and you can have 2 instances active at once. Shared Order is an aura buff that stacks with Sacred Orders. This can produce tremendously silly numbers. This can probably be buffed by Light (from Sword of Light) which is a body buff, though I haven't tried.

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Impressive how Fromsoft somehow made dragon field bosses even more miserable to fight.

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Easy guide to melt any Ghostflame Dragon.

Get the Golden Epitaph sword from Auriza Hero's Grave, and the Smithscript Shield from Taylew's Ruined Forge.

Use the Last Rites skill on the sword to add a holy damage buff to yourself and double your damage against undead enemies.

Lock on to the head and then use the Discus Hurl skill on the shield to throw your now holy-infused shield at the Dragon. The insane tracking will almost guarantee constant headshots.

Ghostflame Dragons thave -10% holy resistance, taske +65% damage from headshots, and are classed as undead.

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Whoever designed the one in Scadu Altus needs to be taken outside and beaten senseless.

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If your a STR/FTH, the great club works wonders. Holy Land sow works both close up and ranged.

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used holy slash with shared order or whatever it is that increases holy dmg 50%. Didn't have a faith build

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try horse

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Rotten breath ahh fight near moorth ruins

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"yo dude let's put around a ****ton those dragons that are literally the same as any other dragon from the base game. oh make you fight it while an army of soldiers or skeletons attacks you at the same time. oh and also give it 60 magic resistance because **** those mage guys in particular" (game of the year btw)

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Hehe bubble cannon go brrrrr

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While I am a member of the four people who actually enjoy this fight, I think that there was a big missed opportunity for a crusable dragon instead. Make a big gold colored, horn decked and further feathered drake and name it the golden dragon. Its fire would be the gold/black flame that omens wield, and it would be able to fire watchful spirits like those of the omen and horned bairns. Its roar could do the sword of milos shriek debuff, and its bite attack could have the same flask stealing effect as the dancing lion (golden dragon or not, that effect should have been used more). Heck you could give it a phase two where it grows a pair of golden crusable wings and have it become a sort of ancient dragon. I wanted this to be a thing coming into the dlc as we don't have a holy dragon breath attack, and this would have fit like a glove.

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always kill all the annoying ******* black knights first. ungrateful ****ers

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Moorth highway dragon gank make me want to kms. Spend all your flasks getting rid of the enemies just to die to the dragon or wait 30 minutes for them to all die. Waste of my time

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sacred blade sim

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Use 3 FP Discus of Light headshots to melt.

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Golden Epitaph buff + any holy based aow - sacred blade / either elden beast remembrance weapons -> dragon go byebye

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Halo Scythe is super effective on these dragons- especially if you can get the auto lock on its head.

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You don't get any runes for killing the extra enemies during the ghostflame dragon fight by Moorth Highway.

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Sacred Blade, nuff said.

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The Moorth Highway dragon fight is such a poorly thought out design. Oh cool, a big battle against an undead dragon and a company of soldiers. I'll join in to take the dragon down while they distract it...oh wait the soldiers instantly aggro to me instead of the dragon when I get in their site. And they have sniper greatbow archers that can hit me for half my HP. Great work on that one.

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I swear, if it weren't for their weakness to holy damage, these mfs would be more difficult than bayle.

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I know what kind of dragon we will put on DLC. The same one that players fought on base game. But guys hear me out. It breathe cold flame instead of red flame. It is crazy right?

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if you’re an int mage, meteorite of astel turns them into jelly. use rock sling to stagger and meteorite of astel to punish!

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Classic bs ctrl+c ctrl+v "boss" from FromSoft

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For Godwyn's sake please use the Golden Epitaph (or whatever other anti-undead weapons/spells you have)

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Miyazaki, this is the fifth time you've brought a dragon to show and tell today

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Last Rites skill on the Golden Epitaph doubles damage against Ghostflame Dragons, as well as other undead enemies. It doubles all types of damage, spells as well as melee.

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More boring reused assets yay.

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While yes these are very similar to bosses we already have plenty of in the base game, they have a couple of unique moves, and they look really cool, and bring up some interesting lore implications, being dragons that wield the power of a god of death. I like them

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You are not able to summon your spirit ash after you defeat Dragon Man and or his invasion. I think the reason he invades you back at the beginning of the Dragon pit is. You really have no reason to go back this way. If you defeat him as an invasion. It locks you out of any ash summon for dragons for the rest of the playthrough. Prior to not killing him I had the option to summon, so I know it's linked to Dragon man one way or the other...

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They really thought the one with the crowd of soldiers that randomly get dragon amnesia when they see the tarnished was some dope **** huh

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If you have a magic build you could Just skip these tbh they have way too much hp and magic absorption

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Oh look another ghostflame dragon. How very interesting.

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Theres several dogs that patrol the area and they absolutely will suicide directly into you during the ad phase

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You can position Latenna on the cliff to be your sniper and pewpewpew from a distance. Dex/arcane build, put sacred order on godskin peeler and kill this in one try.

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You can position Latenna on the cliff to be your sniper and pewpewpew from a distance. Dex/arcane build, put sacred order on godskin peeler and kill this in one try.

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Kid named Sacred Blade.

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Best boss in the game. I simply love running around on Torrent and swatting its legs, especially when a bunch of black knights are aggroing you and not the colossal dragon burning them alive.

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Pest thread spears on horse makes these ezpz. Run around on your horse and shoot projectiles when the dragon is still, rinse repeat. Enjoy ur smithing stones.

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Bro straight outta the Soul Cairn

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more boring dragon fights

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Honestly my favorite of the basic dragons, I don’t get the hate for these guys and the others honestly (except the rot one he kinda sucks but i still don’t hate it)

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The dragon in Moorth Highway was the worst dragon fight in any souls game ever as melee build. It’s not the dragon but the fact that there are 20+ soldiers fighting it and then they start attacking me? Extremely unfun, after two attempts I just kept hitting it with a greatbow while it killed the soldiers and then I finally fought it. By the time it killed all the soldiers it was at 1/3 HP. Seriously unfun fight

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To whoever thought of the Dragon + crowd of soldiers encounter: Hey man! Why?

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The flame Dragon honestly wasn't that hard, the only issue is being in the path of the flame attack when he stomps his foot down or sprays at the ground if you are on foot while fighting him. You have a second to run away or dodge through the flame but sometimes it fails. The only Dragon I struggle with is Bayle, he's far worse than any other Dragon in this game. He have a lot more attacks than they do. I got to him on NG+ 15 and seen so many people i summon into my world get annihilated instantly.

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Interesting that they're immune to poison but not rot.

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so sick in tired of these cheap reskinned dragon fights, they're boring and take WAY too much time. Do better fromsoft because so far this DLC ain't it

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Shoutout to the one at cerulean coast for being the first boss ive one shotted in a souls game. Alexander shard, holy boosting stuff, last rites, sacred order offhand and sneak attacking sacred blade hitting its feet and the projectile its head. I was shocked to say the least

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Fought this thing in NG+7. Took me 32 minutes. I think someone fat fingered the HP pools

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When you think dragon fight couldn't get any worse, they add in 20 soldiers in a zone with already abysmal fps drop.

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Gotta say, I hate these. Something about their moveset just throws me off, plus they deal more damage than some of the Remembrance bosses for some reason.

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Envoy Horn. BUBBLES!

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Found out something nifty about these things and all undead mobs. Golden Epitaph's Last Rite AoW stacks with Sacred Blade AoW for something like 200%+ damage to undead since one is a aura buff and the other is a weapon buff. Powerstanced Miquellan Knight's Sword with Golden Epitaph, buffed with both, and used the Sacred Blade projectile on the head of one of these dragons and hit for 10k+. It died in 3 hits.

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Knights actually helped me as a caster lmfao. They were tanking and holding aggro while I was riding around throwing blackflame at the dragon. One idiot switched aggro from the dragon and kept trying to shoot me so I had to put him down, another one died to the dragon and one knight survived. I and the survived guy just kinda let each other be after dragon kicked the bucket lol. At some point I attempted to drop them a warming stone to heal them up a bit, but these dipshits began attacking me and I wasn't able to do that.

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The boss that makes me happiest we can disable certain summoning pools

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Just walk under their head, lock on, and spam sacred blade with the biggest weapon you can wield, when both the projectile and the weapon hit it will demolish them even if you have single digit faith.

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"Dang it, this dragon with cold flame powers is destroying our army! We gotta regroup and try to- Wait a minute... THERE'S A GUY OVER THERE! FORGET THE DRAGON! KILL THAT GUY!!!"

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Say cheese.... first can be shoot from lege near lake without probs. Second near moort can be cheesed from cave but first let the knights have their fun.

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the black blade incantation killed him fast

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Gravesite Plain Ghostflame Dragon can be easily cheesed by placing Latenna the Albinauric Summon next to the Stake of Marika at the southern edge of the lake.

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The cool factor of fighting a dragon is outweighed by cluttered / uneven fight arenas, summoning ganks, constant running to get into position, identical movesets, and fighting like 30 of them throughout the game. I understand why they get hunted to extinction in every universe, they're f***ing annoying.

Wiki says legs are their weak spots, pretty sure their head is the only weak spot. Attacking legs will trigger a downward breath attack that will smoke you, like every other Fromsoft dragon.

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For the one fighting with the soldiers, I wish they wouldn't aggro you if you're within some odd distance of the boss, it would've been cool fighting along side them like some enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda thing.

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meteorite staff... the way i have treated you up until now... i am so sorry..... my beloved....

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