Glintstone Dragon Adula | Elden Ring Wiki

Idk how, but I entered through the back of the cathedral and found Ranni without fighting Adula at all. Will slay the dragon later.

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I think if you become Ranni's consort, Adula no longer attacks you at Manus Celes. The spirit summon pool in the area is still active but instead Adula is asleep just outside of its range and will only wake up if approached.

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I just ran past it into Rannis rise and it died while I was in the tower somehow

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11k hp is a lot. I'm maybe too defensive on my talismans, everyone uses a defensive incantation because why not, you can't get offensive body ones afaik. So maybe I should rely on status and black flames for the %hp dmg.

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This boss actually provides a very good thematic parallel:
When Godwyn beats a dragon in battle he befriends them, viewing them as a true equal worthy of respect, and when the time comes said dragon literally follows him into death out of sheer loyalty to their friend
When Ranni beats a dragon in battle she forces them into servitude and when the time comes said dragon ****s off at the first inconvenience.

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>a knightly oath

Brave Sir Adula ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Adula turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Adula!

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Easy dragon cheese
Set Latenna on a rock to your right before you get to the location where you activate the dragon.
Retreat so the dragon just paces in a circles.
Latenna will just keep firing arrows until he dies.

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It's quite easy to learn the moveset, similar to other dragons in the game. The only moveset I sometimes have trouble dodging is Seeking Shards. That attack shoots so fast you have to time it perfectly, and even if you do dodge perfectly, it will sometimes still hit you or not hit you at all. It's very hit or miss. Nevertheless, go for its head if you're a melee build and try to poise break it if you can with heavy attacks

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for mages, rock sling is your friend, use the cathedral as cover for its attacks. used lusat/meteorite staff

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So the dragon just despawned mid fight and upon reloading the area its not there? thank you from soft

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Use the large stone formation for cover in front of the cathedral whenever it unleashes its glintstone stars if you are caught far from the cathedral. Torrent will be your friend specially for melee builds. Its Moonblade attack is a little bit tricky since it penetrates cover so it's better to run towards Adula when his doing the attack. It's optional but 3 dragon hearts and plenty of runes to level up for couple of times makes it worth it.

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So Adula swore a knightly oath to Ranni who is a Carian Princess, does that mean that Adula is technically a Carian Knight?

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If you're playing squishy mage like me and having trouble dodging his homing shards and Moonblade I strongly recommend using the Ritual Shield Talisman. Thing saved me from being 1-shot too many times

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The attack when she jumps back and spews magic fire in a 270 degree arc is so unfair.

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Does beating this guy at Three Sisters make him have less HP later or should I just continue to tiptoe around him?

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If it on an int build, only way u can really win is with rock sling

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sucks when you main int and then you get to meet these kind of bosses, not only you deal smol dmg but can also get one shot by them...

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tfw ranni was like 3 meters away as you murdered one of her actually loyal servants she could've easily told that you were on their side, also robbing yourself of summoning an oath sworn dragon for elden beast if you were set on age of the stars

she's definitely marika's child...

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Dude fighting this boss with a dagger on horseback was hell. It took him 1 try after switching to longsword

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my strat as a spell caster
Meteorite and comet icerag. He can be frostbitten to take more damage, and both of these spells will break stance for critical attack.
Eternal darkness for when he summons seekers, and if he does the sword stand still with torrent and then dismount at the right time to receive iframes

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you can use torrent to dodge the sword sweep if you unmount when it comes for you, gives you enough iframes to dodge the swing and the projectiles
but it doesn't work with the seeking shards, you should just take cover for those

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Are we sure that Ranni actually bothered to tell Adula that you’re a friend and there is no need to attack you?

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Worst ****ing dragon in the game. Garbage.

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I hate every dragon in this game. Tank my FPS> fly away (this dude teleports) > Spam AOE > Fly Away > I hit his legs looking at black textures > fly away > spam AOE > kills my horse > goes on....

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So first this guy tries to prevent me from meeting my waifu and then he comes back to crash my wedding? What a jerk.

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Adula is a real missed opportunity for some story-line depth. Adula and Lansseax both have back-stories that clearly involve capacity for higher reasoning, but you never see it - they're just as mindless in their immediate hatred of your existence as any other random enemy you come across.

Lansseax I can sort-of understand: she loved Vyke, and it's plausible that after Vyke went the way of the Three Fingers she just checked out of wanting anything more to do with Tarnished, so the fact that she makes no attempt to warn you away with words or do anything other than KOS you might be a conscious choice that we can never know she's making.

Adula's instant and sustained aggression, on the other hand, makes zero sense. He serves Ranni, you serve Ranni (even if not at the start, you have to be in her service to get to the Cathedral of Manus Celes area), every one of Ranni's other servants recognises you as one of them as soon as you enter her service (Ranni can clearly communicate telepathically with them all; how else does the message get to them the instant you pledge service to her?), and Adula is, according to repeated in-game lore, capable of appreciating and adhering to the same code of conduct as all of Ranni's other servants. Why does Adula act like you're just another trespasser long after everyone else has got the message here?

The dumbest part of all of this is, FromSoft literally had dragon bosses that talked to (and even halfheartedly helped) you and only went hostile if antagonised in both DS1 and DS2. They're plainly capable of making dragons into characters as well as enemies / bosses - why didn't this happen with dragons in ER that they went out of their way to add humanoid back-stories to?

It would've been much better if you could get up to Adula's final location without needing to be in Ranni's service (or after annoying her with Seluvis' potion and not using a Celestial Dew), but if you were on good terms with Ranni at the point of reaching the cathedral, you got the option of talking to Adula and convincing him to hand over the Moonblade spell through dialogue instead of fighting for it. Maybe you only need to get him to 50% health again for him to yield and offer it up since you 'bested him like Ranni did'. Frankly, almost anything would've been more engaging than just another dragon to murder for loot - there's already Smarag down by the Academy, after all.

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Haha scorpion shamk go stab stab

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did this at lvl 71.. was not fun :)

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Adula, Slayer of Framerate

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Night Maiden's Mist is the best strategy for me. I couldn't beat him even at level 121 since I'm a mage, but with the mist, I was finally able to do it! So glad I got Adula's Moonblade.

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lion greatbow +9 with radahn's spear as ammo only took 7 special attacks to defeat adula and also used this on other 3 glintstone dragons in area and melted them all fast.

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That stupid **** just disappeared on me while trying to avoid my halbard what a joke you owe me your loot.

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Full INT build here. Spammed Rock Sling while ursing Nepheli Loux+10 ash. She did more damage than me on this boss no joke.

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Spectral Lance AOW on something like Nightriders Glaive does good damage but amazing stagger dmg. Quick cast also. 1 to the body and 2 to the head dropped him. And I’m on NG2 rn

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I was approaching the tower to talk to Ranni, when "Great Enemy Felled" came across the screen, along with 12k runes. I had seen the dragon in the distance, but I had made a point of going around it so as not to aggro it at that stage. So what the hell? I looked around, and didn't find any drops either.

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I'm doing a new playthrough and this dragon never spawned after Caria Manor

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I'm doing a new playthrough and this dragon never spawned after Caria Manor

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Just walked in the Ranni’s Rise and got the “Greater Enemy Felled” message and got 12.000 runes but no items, and now I can’t find the dragon. Is it possible that that dragon somehow died?

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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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