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#1
Cerulione

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Hullo everyone,

 

I'm trying to do a solo dragon hunting with my Knight Enchanter (level 22 on Hard) with some quite decent equipment. Currently trying to do the Highland Ravager & can't manage to deplete its life to less than one-third...

 

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Does anyone have any suggestion/tips?

 

Thanks in advance!



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How come you can take him to 1/3rd of his life with almost full life left on your side but can't deplete him beyond that? What's happening?

 

First thing that springs to mind when I see your screenshot is: why do you take healing grenades instead of regeneration / fire resist / pitch grenade?

 

Secondly: why take fire spells when it's a fire dragon who greatly resists fire? Take lightning or frost instead. You're also going solo, lose the dispel and revive, replace them with damage spells or something. They're pretty useless in that fight if you're alone anyhow.

 

Also, mana pots are probably debatable for knight enchanters. Never really needed any of them on Vivienne.



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Thanks for the answer :lol:

 

Since I'm KE with special armour that gives extra Guard everytime I got hit, it's quite easy to keep the life full all the time since the barrier got recharged everytime I hit the dragon with Spirit Blade. My tactic is to hit it with Spirit Blade since the damage is quite good compared to staff attack, especially when the dragon start to flap its wing to do area damage. If I can hitting at that time, it's a guarantee to keep the barrier up all the time.

 

The problem is dragonling. There are more and more the lower the dragon's life point drop. Everytime it takes me more time to kill all & they give less guard & barrier recharge.

 

Your remark about fire resis/regen potion is really good, I'll try it. This potions I bring on that screenshot are the potions/grenade I always bring. Normally the Healing Mist is to restore the HP of the team. Guess that next time I'll also respec to ice mage first.

 

Does mana pot affect Spirit Blade?

 

Edit: other problem is the time needed for this battle. It took me 2h straight & I got more & more tired so I started to make mistakes & got my healing pot depleted.

 

I don't know whether this is feasible...



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It's definitely possible. Probably also faster than two hours, holy hell!

 

The lyrium potion will only regen your mana, unless you upgraded it to offer + magic. In which case it will increase the damage of spirit blade.

 

I think you really need to focus on getting some good damaging abilities on your bars, no way it should take two hours to kill that guy, even solo!

 



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I just did this the other day on my KE, but I was on Nightmare. Sadly I can't record it because it takes me about 18-20 mins and the PS4 only records 15 minutes of footage. Anyhow, when the the baby dragons spawn, let them bunch up on you and cast Disruption Field. Then Spirit Blade + Fade Cloak all of them in a group. I'd recommend crafting an Ice Staff and placing a Dragon Slaying Ruin in it mainly because this will make your Spirit Blade attack deal additional damage. And since the Staff will be made out of ice, you'll be doing bonus damage + Ice damage with each Spirit Blade attack you land. I'd also recommend bringing maxed out Lyrium potions along, this way you can drink one when your mana is getting low and you need to cast Barrier/Fade Cloak on yourself to get out of danger. Hope this helps, good luck!\

 

P.S When you make the Ice Staff I'd highly recommend taking Energy Barrage, mainly because if you have high crit chance it will really hurt the baby Dragons.



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Possibly might want to try dipping into frost for some damaging spell backups that the dragon (and dragonlings) will be weak to.



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I agree with Eledran, you should respec.

 

There aren't many offensive abilities in the ice tree, but Winters Grasp  (improved) would be nice for dragonlings (they are vulnerable to cold).

 

Other than that I suggest finding or crafting a cold based staff, adding a dragonlslaying rune, and using Energy Barrage from the lightning tree (it will do the damage type of your staff).



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Is that the high level one in the snowy region?

 

Twenty five minutes. Seriously. That's how long it took me. My party were dead within the first three, including my archer. I played out the rest of the fight as the immortal Blackwall. The beast kept summoning it's minions over and over, and recasting guard..... grr.

 

Still, a fittingly epic battle with which to complete my dragon hunt and earn the trophy. 



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Here I already got the best ice staff I can make (around 120 DPS only however... those rogues can go up to 300++ easily :angry: ) and the mana potion is upgraded to max already.

 

Okay I'll respec & change the grenade/potions & dragon rune, we'll see if it works :lol:

 

Thanks everyone!



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Make sure to use dragon parts from previous victories to make your staff.

 

This cheap ass dragonling summoning swine deserves beating to death with bits of his own kin! 


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Man, this all makes me want to retry my Champion solo and see if I can beat 9 minutes by using some maxed Bee Grenades with high To the Death stacks.

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Man, this all makes me want to retry my Champion solo and see if I can beat 9 minutes by using some maxed Bee Grenades with high To the Death stacks.

 

I had no idea To The Death stacked.  

 

Very handy for killing most dragons. This one? You get pulled out of range too often thanks to it's summons. 


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I had no idea To The Death stacked.

Very handy for killing most dragons. This one? You get pulled out of range too often thanks to it's summons.

I just mean it's 5%per second thing, after 30 seconds that's 150%. ravager is kinda hoppy but for the most part I was able to keep it up for about 20-30 seconds at a time. Took about 9 minutes to solo. I just ignored the adds.

But on another champ playthrough I figured out the damage bonus applies to bee grenades, so I wanna try again, I'll see if I still have a save to try it on.

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Processing and uploading to Youtube now, will post when done, yeah, rampant bee grenade throwing + To the Death damage multiplier makes for hilariously short work of the dragon.



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You need fade cloak and fade step to dodge more effectively. And you have to exploit elemental weaknesses more. Energy barrage and crafted staffs are imporrant.

What gear are you using?