Firedrakes. How Do I kell thedm

[Planet_Guardian]

Originally Posted by Enchantra

Only problem is I can't seem to spawn them. I went to the moonbeast island and I had just as much trouble spawning them, so I am going to try your suggestion. I try running around with my blast nova killing everything I see but the minor things! I need big things. haha

I know the feeling. I have raised about half-a-dozen characters from levels 50 to 80, and yes, it takes forever when beating up on Moonbeasts. You must have a high level threshold for the insanity before you can kill ten's of thousands of enemies.

The game needs to spawn enemies continously with 200k to 400k more frequently. Drakes once in awhile, just doesn't cut it. I wouldn't mind having mini-bosses being spawned more often with groups of regular monsters. (Sort of like when a Visgoth...Zaur, Wylvan, or Urgoth Renegade gets spawned as a miniboss amongst its Thrall minions...except make this mini-boss more challenging than a firedrake and make it worth the while in ADV/EXP...say like 200k to 400k). That would be nice.

Also, is there anyway to spawn firebeast (Red Moonbeasts) in the Vale of Ruin...or was there only one of them in the entire game? I think it was worth a little more than 50k, but I can't remember as I was swarmed by those witches spraying posion clouds. Vale of Ruin is a good place to up your EXP/ADV...and get money. The Forbidden Lands is good (next to a fireplace) to earn EXP/ADV, as well as money and spellbooks. If you have a healthy supply of magic spells and your Scribe is at 12-15...then maybe you don't need fire places or more spells. In that case, I guess your done playing this game...because the challenge is gone.

Planet_Guardian

[Enchantra]

Ahh well at level 35 I sucked...I was at like 20 arcane magic and as a magic character my melee attack is so weak. So I like my blast nova's and cataclysms. I went to moonbeast island and found that if I stood at the shrine and faced north to north west, I could spawn the moon beasts. Sometimes in groups of 2 and sometimes in the 8's. I had fun! I spent a while there until I was at level 70, then I was so over it.

So I went to the northern steeps and wandered around the forbidden lands and I have hardly gained any experience since leaving the island. So I am off to the maze to finish the game! I am at level 35 for arcane magic, I saved up all my money and bought loads of spells, sold up my inventory and I am ready for the finale!

Thanks for the tips! E

[Ornate_Demon]

LOL .. I was killing drakes on hard at lvl 14 with whirlwinds. Nope no modifiers. I've seen level 1000's online... so I don't even know anymore... well I beat the game at level 24, with fairly basic gear, and it wasn't a challange at all. Guess it's off the the onling playing lobby again.

[zan11dar]

I usually go to the firedrake breeding grounds at level 8 with a bunch of freeze spells or ice shard spells and pick out a dragon and freeze him out
of the air. Then chop on him a while with my weapons until I see him start
to unthaw, then freeze him again. Repeat. Or zap him with ice shard spells
one after another until he dies. usually takes about 60 or 70 on normal play
with arcane magic at 8 or 9. get my 300,000 experience points. I don't
level up until after I kill all the drakes. I go to the campfire and wait till I
get all my spells back between dragons. If I'm a fighter type, I wait until
I get a ice weapon and just whack em until they die.

[BGRocks]

Took out my first Firedrake at level 9 with an Elven long bow and archery level 3...it took me about half an hour, but it was worth it for the several hundred thousand experience points, at a time when they were very useful (just got heavy armour/weapons/shield available). After the first one, I saw four others hanging around nests, and decided one was enough for now.

[dragon kiler]

i read in a post once that the best wey to kill them is to use the tornado spell.
get like 200 charges and send them away. it also said that they killed 2 with 1 tornado.
then they tried 5 at once...
it must have killed at least 10!!
try it.

[deathlord]

get u the spell freeze and freeze them and once on the ground move to rear and hack or novablast them when they thaw refreeze simple done deal and use ward of fire u get the freeze from grymlok i was able to kill all the firedrakes that attacked me with this methed but one at a time two are very hard but can be done

[deathlord]

Originally Posted by Planet_Guardian

I know the feeling. I have raised about half-a-dozen characters from levels 50 to 80, and yes, it takes forever when beating up on Moonbeasts. You must have a high level threshold for the insanity before you can kill ten's of thousands of enemies.

The game needs to spawn enemies continously with 200k to 400k more frequently. Drakes once in awhile, just doesn't cut it. I wouldn't mind having mini-bosses being spawned more often with groups of regular monsters. (Sort of like when a Visgoth...Zaur, Wylvan, or Urgoth Renegade gets spawned as a miniboss amongst its Thrall minions...except make this mini-boss more challenging than a firedrake and make it worth the while in ADV/EXP...say like 200k to 400k). That would be nice.

Also, is there anyway to spawn firebeast (Red Moonbeasts) in the Vale of Ruin...or was there only one of them in the entire game? I think it was worth a little more than 50k, but I can't remember as I was swarmed by those witches spraying posion clouds. Vale of Ruin is a good place to up your EXP/ADV...and get money. The Forbidden Lands is good (next to a fireplace) to earn EXP/ADV, as well as money and spellbooks. If you have a healthy supply of magic spells and your Scribe is at 12-15...then maybe you don't need fire places or more spells. In that case, I guess your done playing this game...because the challenge is gone.

Planet_Guardian

go to options set your settins more monster they will spawn faster and any time during the game you can turn it back to normal
great to build up points fast

[Queen_Articuno]

@Planet_Guardian: There is more than one of the 'red Moonbeasts' around. They are called Brimstone Beasts. I was in the VoR for my Warwitch class quest, and while running around, trying to find Grenevulia (? on spelling) the Pox, I ran into two of them. I remember seeing them and running off in the opposite direction, cause I was a fairly wimpy mage/adept enchantress/battlemage at that time. When I say fairly wimpy, what I meant was that I had around 80-100-something HP, and I just wanted to beat the Pox and get out of there to get my class promotion.

[xopal]

I was level 18 before I killed my first fire drake.

I used a freeze arcane spell to get close to it. Then I continued to hit it with a medium axe that had ice strike, and beat it to death....it kept frozen pretty well. If it got a hit on me, I would pause, freeze it again, then melee with the ice axe. It didn't take long, however, like I said, I was level 18 at least (a lot of 10 skill levels and 60-70 on attributes).

Good luck!

[ywou whou]

i use ice swords and tank him and just heal the damage, no need to worry about pulls or any dodging, do use fire ward usually thou, ice make it hit the ground, u just got to get them to drop down intially or get up to them on a hill. and then ioce procs will pretty much keep them grounded. is way of done it most time, bow just takes to long, and im not much of a caster. like to pund them


the shaman

[vagabond1066]

Use a ward of fire protection, then close with the drake. Once you're near it, unleash the rune spell shards of stone. If you're above 12th level then one casting will kill it. I killed five drakes in under 30 seconds with that tactic.

[Dugeonlord]

I put al my pro fire armoer makin me 100% resitent to fire then kill them with melle attacks. Do drakes respond again cause i killed them all and now theres no more?

[George_K]

You can kill ANYTHING in the game with just one or two blasts from a scroll. Forget about everything and just spend all your money for Blast Nova scrolls. The mightiest dragon will go down in just one or two blasts

[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.