Glintstone Dragon Adula | Elden Ring Wiki

Dragonscale blade will break this dragon’s ankles. Along with a debuff.

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Honestly, these AoE’s are wild.

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Rusted anchor makes this dragon cry

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Approach the dragon from the butt. Drink the flask for infinite FP. Stand and wait until he gets annihilated by Meteor of Astel.

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As a full INT Dark Moon Greatsword / Spell build, this one was very frustrating. After 1 hour, I decided to give the cathedral a shot. Beat him in the first try with this strat. Just use the Cathedral at your advantage and spam whatever spell, bow or ranged skills you want (I used rock sling). Was a breeze doing it this way and it didn't feel like a cheese (I don't like cheesing bosses).

Pro tip: Use Gold Scarab + Gold Pickled Foot to get 190k Souls.

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The first time this guy bailed on me at the Three Sisters, I thought it was bugged. It didn't fly off, it just faded into thin air while crawling on the ground, much like regular enemies/world bosses do when they get too far away from their designated area. By the time I fought it again, I had entirely forgotten its name and had no clue it was the same dragon, until it happened again on my subsequent playthrough.

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Fecking dragon like abandoned the area after fighting for a while. Just despawned and my jellyfish despawned too

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Fun fact, the name of the Dragon is a reference to adularescence. It's a type of optical phenomenon in certain gemstones - most notably Moonstone to really make that link to Ranni obvious.

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I'm not killing my lady's dragon and that's all there is to it.

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Adula is a part of the residences club he has eighty in one catagiirey and forty in the rest just like Mogh the omen Radagon and fortisaxx

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Literally just rock sling, like 3 casts to the head staggers her, stays down for like 10 seconds and keep casting. Not the most engaging gameplay, but its a dragon fight. How much more engaging can you get? I spawned her from the Cathedral grace, so she didnt fly immediately.

Will say you'll probably have to dodge a couple breath/moonblade attacks, but dodging those looks sick, u got this.

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A god tier strategy for almost every boss is to proc Poison and Rot on them. I've done my second playthrough and it works reliably every time. Also, having a good Bleed weapon like RoB or Mogh's Spear helps tremendously

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Envoy Long Horn is da wae

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Does killing the dragon make this area offline?

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Ya I used mimic tear on this a**hole, what of it?

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This mf should not be hostile against player aligned with Ranni, the very fact that we are on that hill at all should tell the ****er we aren't someone you attack on sight. Fromsoft is great with little details like this, maybe they missed it or a heart for the dragon cult is more important then Ranni's pet.

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80% immune to me and flies away every time I hit him a+ boss design

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Really poor writing... Another dragon other than lansseax where we could have had a conversation with them because they both have no reason to fight us.. but noo, they go "oh dragon, make it an enemy!" Ugh...

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Those who say that adula attacks us even being on the same side.
1. the first time you meet her the first thing we do is attack or defend ourselves, before we can end the conflict adula runs away disappearing, she never witnesses that later we join rannis and help her, she only knows It goes with the appreciation that we are enemies.
2. The second time we meet her, we simply summarize what we started, and as all the souls are beaten, we end up either being devoured or being victorious, rannis and adula never have any kind of communication that guarantees that we are the same equipment.
Everything can be interpreted as a misunderstanding,
I would say that the ***** that makes everything misunderstood is the idiot rannis, who from the beginning treats the subordinates like stupid puppets.

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Most bullshit dragon
32 int 26 strength, rl70, 11% magic absorbtion and 15% physical. 40 vigor. Ohkod by the moonblade. I don't mind if I'm under leveled but 40 vigor shouldn't ohko you, not unless you have serious negative absorbtion.

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If this Dragon is under Ranni's service, them why is he trying to kill us when we should just work together? I would've loved to have a Dragon for a Bestie.

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Just another example of really bad writing

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Easy for archers to cheese from inside the cathedral to the right, I inflicted scarlet rot with rotbone arrows then switched to Holy and Radahn great arrows.

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Bloodboon worked quite well

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The pike's heavy attack is an excellent method of hitting the head very consistently

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Gallop over to Moonfolk Ruins and the dragon will de-aggro, allowing for some free shots when you approach again.

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The camera under the dragon was the biggest enemy in this fight.

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least bullshit dragon

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Rock sling works well for sorcerers. The rocks do around 400 dmg of all rocks hit with the meteor staff,

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Fun Fact: If you somehow manage to kill this boss at Three Sisters, you will receive 12000 Runes for killing it and no Dragon Hearts. How did I find this out? The dragon glitched to where it was stuck on crystals and got lock into a falling animation where it ended up dying from Fall Damage.

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This game is weird sometimes. Astel, a boss I spent 3 hours wiping on before coming up with a niche strategy, 80k runes. Adula, a boss I killed on my second try by whaling on her feet with Uchigatana until she fell over, 120k runes...

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I actually killed it in NG3 at ranni's rise with a single full charged ancient dragon strike faith build.

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I'm a little mad that she GAINS health for her reappearance rather than losing the health I took away at her first.

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Hold on, it swore an oath to serve her? Why the hell'sit trying to attack us then? I swear, half the issues in these games could be solved with proper communication.

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It has purple crystal toenails lol

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She's a dummy who doesn't know that we're working for the same boss.

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She has a moonlight greatsword, and it's distinctively a sorcery and not a power she got from eating sorcerers, therefor the reason she's the only character in Ranni's service that's hostile to us is we're basically cucking this dragon.

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Gravity sorceries, specifically Rock Sling, work great when facing this boss on a magic build, since they deal physical damage and not magical damage. Just stand inside the safety of the cathedral and throw rocks at her head until she dies.

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I thought he was about to enter his second phase, not teleport away!

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It takes some time to fully aggro if you're damaging it from a distance, so you can pelt it with like 5 or 6 poison arrows before it even really starts to turn around. Considering the fact that this boss can nearly one shot endgame characters, you may want to utilize this information to cheese it with your ranged dot of choice. In my tests, I noted that the boss will detect you in stealth even if you're behind it. It'll aggro when you get within like 20 feet of its foot, so poison mist isn't really an option for this.

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Can be cheesed by standing on the slanted pillar by the entrance of the cathedral, it will just walk back and forth by the wall, it can still hit you with the blade and some breath attacks but you can easily just back away when they are coming. Inflict it with rot or use Black Flame to take it down painlessly

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Cheese method: stood inside the building where the site of Grace is. Literally just shot arrows at him from the doorway. Occasionally he’ll do a flame attack so just walk behind the wall and hide and then come back out and shoot at his wings or whatever. Pop a gold foot before he dies for extra runes!

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if youre working a sorcerer build try cerulean hidden tear + meteorite and youll be able to take it down in one go. first youll have to run past it into the cathedral and start the fight from behind so that you can cast early enough to knock it down before you get hit

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Why did the dragon disappear with half health at three sisters?

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why do we actually fight Adula, if it serves Ranni and we're trying to go and help Ranni achieve her goals, why does it attack us

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i actually found a really good spirit summon in Latenna +10. I placed her in the entrance of the manor and kited the dragon around using Rock Sling, and she consistently did around 500 damage every few seconds

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I seem to have a problem where my Mimic will simply not attack this guy, no matter what weapons / spell combos I try, the mimic will just run up to it and then stand there

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idk if any1 mentioned this, but I ignored the dragon, and after I gave Ranni the finger slayer blade, I walked out of the room as the "Great Enemy Felled" appear. I was confused and then I realized it just Adula despawn and moved to Manus Celes cathedral

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Eternal Darkness saved me by drawing in those homing crystals, so I hope that helps.

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great another dragon fight - many times will my ****ing pony get stun locked and roasted again?

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If you lose the dragon after fighting it near Ranni’s Rise, look west of the Village of Albinaurics grace site. You’ll find the dragon curled up under two towering stones. If you zoom in on the map, the stones look like two sticks leaning towards each other to form an incomplete triangle. Sorry If my post is wordy, English is not my first language. I’ve been told I write very wordy.

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is there a meta around charming adula as a host? done a number of invasions here with adula hostile to me, and I'm a little confused. i wish the moonlight altar was like the forest for dark souls 1's cat covenant - for ranni consorts

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Rocksling is the way to go if you're on a mage build and do low damage because of his magic resist
If you have mimic tear and want it to spam it as well, make sure to have some starlight shards equipped so the mimic can recover FP

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Did him at level 100, don't know if I' m overleveled but it sure didn't feel like it. Got me destroyed 10+ times. Finally went in with full Radahn's, magic negation buffs + horseback fighting buff. Mimic ashes too. Kept meleeing his feet, switching between them. He didn't have the chance to cast that lethal ice beam of his, nor anything else actually, he was just constantly trying to stomp me. At 5% of his health he knocked me down. RNG helped, got back up unharmed, finished him off. Everything else failed miserably. As usual in this game, storming in and being aggressive paid off.

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His forward fire breath has a visual glitch where he moves his head and damagr stream to adjust for player movement, but the fire stream visually stays in the same location. You will still die even if the visual fire breath is nowhere near you.

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That dragon doesnt appear for me anymore on his second location I dont know why tho i still got the spirit calling icon flashing

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What was the point of making us fight Adula if they're just going to bail? Don't do that, either let us kill it the first time or have it spawn much later.

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I once fought him on his second location without success and wanted to come back later and now i wanna try to fight him again but he is no where to be found but I still got the spirit calling icon flashing on the screen did it happen to anyone else?

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Regal Omen Barn cheeses this boss easily. Stand behind the piller and move out and spam it a few times, 3 magic flasks wporth of spamming it and he was dead at the Cathedral of Manus Celes. The other ones just Horse ride till they run.

I will say they must have buffed this final version of the boss from 1.03 he is much harder and has much higher magic reduction. It at least seems it was far easier on another character in the previous version with a simular build and weapons. But there have been several enemies that have seemed to be boosted in 1.04 that aren't in the notes.

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As with most dragons in this game, two applications of rot breath will do the job.

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Use Atenna, she'll snipe him for you

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There is one easy way to cheese this fight that everyone can do. All you need is 14 Int to cast Night Maiden's Mist. Cast it few times (one at the time and wait for it to end) from inside the cathedral and watch the health bar melt

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Mysteriously died when I was doing sellen quest finding the hidden floor cellar and I got 12k runes

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Fighting this guy was real easy up by the towers, in which it also flies off like a coward halfway through, but in the lakes he's a real jerk;
It's mostly up in the air shooting down insta-kill magic flames and running away, then when you get close enough to hit, it just repeats the same cheap tactic. It's like it rage quit the fair fight on the ground, only to then act like a cheap babby when it comes to the retribution round. I swear Elden Ring has a big push for you to use magic compared to other titles.

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Blue text is almost impossible to read, suggest a reformat?

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Easy Cheese as a caster. Go inside the Cathedral and hug the front wall. Send out Kristoff Spirit Ashes (Cold damage does almost nothing to him) and just go brew some coffee. I peeked out of the corner every so often, throw rocks and hid again.

Yeah its not my proudest moment, but I can now stab stuff with a frosty greatsword to make me feel better.

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This damn big lizard's fire breath (well... Glintstone Breath) seems to be glitched. More than once, it breath the fire and I have no difficulty moving ahead of the breath, but then as I'm getting next to its wings and it stopped its breath, some of the fire breath comes back and hit me from behind. (It literally went in the opposite direction from where it was shooting it.) From what I have seen, the fire breath particles "bounce" off certain tall surface (like rocks) and returns toward me while being barely visible anymore. It's kinda hard to explain, but the worse part of it is that this glitch kills me in 0.1 sec. (It drop my health to 0 and pushes me off Torrent instantly.)

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I hate how dragon fights are only ever annoyingly difficult because of the terrain.

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hello, i wasn't fighting this thing at all, i was in Ranni's Tower when i got the ''Great Enemy Felled'' message i went out and it wasn't there. this happen to anyine else?

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Out of the millions of teleports this buggy shitsack shiny lizard goes through, one is canon. Wooooo

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This fight is infuriating as melee. It just keeps running the **** away from you AND does damage at the same time. I spend my time running around after the thing to catch up to it and when I do, it flies off again and sets everything on fire on the way. One time it kept flying off and landing then flying off so many times that it despawned itself. I couldn't even catch up to it.

Cheesing this ****er with no remorse. Rock Sling all the way.

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For anyone (particularly melee) that prefers not to fight on horseback, cold godskin peeler with bloodhound step worked well for me.

Focused legs and bloodhound stepped to other leg when the one I was hitting raised to stomp. Watch for tail whip.

Double step through his flying sword attack to increase odds of dodging blade and follow up mist. Hammering bloodhound step to close gap especially beneficial if he's going to flame attack while on ground so you have stamina to chain hits while he won't react. Winged sword insignia boosted this.

Wait for crystal magic attack to pop and then wait until projectiles are honing in on you then roll for iframe protection.

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2 flames of redmane on his head and he's stunned, I have 39 faith and use Lordsworn's Greatsword

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I was just fighting this dragon and he flew up, then disapeared. I got no runes, no heart, no message of enemy killed. I rested and came back, the dragon is gone. what did I do wrong?

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mf literally rage quit on me after I depleted half his health

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The worst part of this fight is the crystal ball thing that fires homing crystals. They break through any shield, they hit and such different times that it's nearly impossible to roll through them, and even hiding behind something doesn't work because the shards that went straight in the air will come down on your head like a mortar. Absolute RNG move as to if you live or die. It's just a Vigor check. I hate it so, so much.

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I saw the dragon in three sisters, and went around it to Rannis Rise, intending to fight it later. I go to the top, Talk to Ranni the witch, talk to her friends, then all of a sudden, it pops up that I slew a Great enemy, and I got 12k souls, but no dragon heart, and I go back outside and the dragon is gone. At first it wouldn’t let me leave, so I go back to talk to Ranni, but I went too fast and fell off a cliff.

I didn’t screw myself out of a dragon heart did I?

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This thing ****ing sucks imo. Constantly flying away (more than other dragons I feel), and constantly spams one shots.
Cheap fight, isn't satisfying to defeat either.

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Could this have been a communion dragon? Would make sense if Adula was formerly in her service and is still guarding that place. Ranni placing a guardian dragon outside also explains why Seluvis only visits an apparition

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You can shoot Loretta's bow and ride back to the grace, wait a little, shoot another Loretta, rince repeat, you'd need about 15 of them to go through; lock on body instead of head, it will be easier to hit as he moves past the doorway.
This is blue cheese, though, in sense it is a cheesy, safe and slightly stinky way to deal with magnificent magical dragon.

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I'd say One of the Tankiest Dragons in the game just before Placidusax the Dragon Lord himself.... If you are a Mage INT Build like i did against this Dragon , try using Rock Sling its one of the only Sorcery Spells that deals great damage and also staggers this Dragon. ( Other Glintstone Sorceries will be extremely not that damage dealing since Adula has the most Magic Defense along with Placidusax... ). Otherwise even Comet Azur Combo doesn't work that well... If you'd want you could also Mist this dragon to Death with the Night Maiden Mist for a cheesy approach... Altho if it wasn't for my Spirit Summon this would've been a pretty tough Boss for being just a regular dragon... I also found that Lightning attacks specialy from a decently upgraded Seal could deal more damage than Sorcery Spells unless if its Gravity Spells like Rock Sling. ( Rock Sling might be slow yes , but if you Land the 3 Rocks onto his Head it'll deal Massive damage and can stagger this nasty Dragon easily... So try saving up all your FP Flasks and FP mostly for Rock Slings , Meteorites , or Weapon Skills otherwise you need alot of Hits in order to kill this dragon with Glintstone Pebbles or even Comet ). Other not soo bad strategy is you carefully Aim Loretta's Greatbow Spell on its Head... That's the only Spell that deals significant damage towards the head otherwise you will deal minimal damage if struck on the body parts of this dragon. Goodluck this Dragon is a must Kill for all Mage Builds as Adula's Moonblade outshines Carian Greatsword or even Carian Piercer.

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What a garbage ****ing fight. I hate boring encounters like this where I spend 15 mins whittling down a health bar only to get one shot by some bull ****

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Ignore the comments talking about meteorite. Waiting for the RNG to determine if one of them in the storm hits the dragon is not worth it compared to rock sling.

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It's a cheesy way to kill him but super easy. Just run far enough into the cathedral and shoot him with poison and blood arrows (or just regular arrows but will take much longer) if you stand back far enough he can't hurt you with any attacks. Just move around the ruble in the cathedral when he flies and stay out of reach of his frost attack. Super easy fight

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i can confirm gravity stone destroys and staggers him even with low int

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Hey guys, the easiest way to fight this one as a mage, throw rocks at it's head! it doesn't like gravity, you can easily knock it out twice and deal creditable damage with an INT build.

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sorry for even considering going int i guess

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I was wondering, if this guy's name is translated wrong. We have Glintsone Dragon Smarag, quite obviously a reference to a name for emerald (in older English or any of the other many languages still using it) with it's emerald scales. I think Adula in meant to follow the same pattern, it's name being Azura, in reference to it's azure scales. The mistranslation would make sense if we think about the Japanese syllables it would be written with: アヅラ, which could be romanized as Azura, Azula, Adura or Adula.

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My favorite part of the fight is when he gets 20 feet away from where he spawns. phases out of reality, spawns back in in the middle of an attack and one shots you instantly, Very cool!

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The dragon on ranni rise just dissapeared for me. I was shooting arrows at it from one of the rock pillar on the left of Renna rise.

And it just cease to exist, no great enemy felled it just gone with its 25% health

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Envoy’s Long Horn +6 made this fight utterly trivial.
Bubble Shower kept them in a constantly stagger state for critical attacks.

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Had him at about 75% health, mid fight he flew straight up and disappeared.. no runes, no nothing.. idk? tried coming back multiple times.
Fun fight while it lasted though

Good luck

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Rot breath + hide in the curch from magic/fire attacks

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Earned the Great Enemy Felled but never met Adula. Very odd but I wont complain about free runes!

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Ok, i killed him at the cathedral, then after some time i returned to this location to fight Alecto and at the road from moon altar to ringleader evergaol there is somehow another dragon. With the same design, but no boss label. Bug?

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Is it still bugged?

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For casters when fighting at Moonlight Altar, just use Rock Sling.

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Some players are experiencing a glitch where they are receiving a "Great Enemy Felled" message and 12,000 runes upon entering the 3 Sisters area without ever encountering the dragon.

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Eternal Darkness (sorcery) works great for his magic attack. If you’re having trouble as a magic build I would beef up a weapon like Morning Star and putting a holy/fire ash on it.

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He never spawned for me in front of the cathedral.. i fought him at three sisters and he teleported but never showed up in the church..

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