[LupusArgentum]

Just "Freeze" the damn things and hit em with a couple Stone Shards... if you have a decent level of Rune Magic (everybody wants to say don't bother with Rune cause most of em are broken, but that one spell has caused more damage for me than even cataclysm can.)

My War Witch/Celestial can kill a fire drake on hard mode without even having to bother with the fire ward. She just hits em with the Stone Shards twice, and they're done. At the time she was still fighting them, that character had a level 7 Rune Magic skill and a 75 intellect.

All in all, i must agree that the moonbeasts are more profitable... despite the fact that the drakes are worth so many adv points, if you put the game on hard with more encounters, you can fight moonbeasts all day long, three to six at a time... I used those damn blue cats to take all my characters' well beyond their requirements for whatever third tier class they wanted, long before they had even started searching for the Argalia of Eryldorn... if you take a character to around level 20 before leaving the elven lands, you can probably get em to level 50 before they complete the game.