Stuck in Fargrove sewers

[MingDragon]

Your personal interaction is exceedingly more helpful than the long reads looking for specific information. It is greatly appreciated. I agree that laying back and plunking endlessly with a bow or throw weapon is excellent. I have employed just that tactic inumerable times to build my character to her current status. Having a character that can be easily killed necessitates such tactics, I would think. I picked up a Venom Dagger (dozens actually) from a Thief Brigande and have used it effectively. The increased damage was a welcomed improvement over my Short Bow. Against a pack of eighteen Brigands, the poison works wonders. I try to hit each one at least once and then let the poison do it's work. It takes about twenty seconds and then the Brigands literally start dying all around me without my firing a shot. Even the Borloth succumbs to the poison. Firing and running for dear life has always been a favored tactic. As I flee to a more defensable position, the caption shows them dying behind me from the poison, one after another.
The Fire Drakes are unaffected by the Fireball weapon. This had been my characters most powerful weapon... and then here is this monster that eats them for breakfast. The Freezing Touch with a Fangtip Blade +1 works great. The freeze stops the Drakes attack but the Drake is able to turn from side to side and maintains his direction while frozen facing your character so as to throw flames at the first opportunity when it thaws. My character suffers such great armor damage during this attack that I'm unable to maintain the offensive. The Fire Drake can spray flames underneath himself! They spray flames and spit Fireballs and strike with it's horns and barbed tail as well. When the Drake took flight, I got underneath and thrust and parried with Freezing Touch. The Freezing Touch wouldn't strike but I gained many twenty five and thirty damage strikes against it. Then it sprayed the fire underneath! Naturally I took flight to a defensable position. The Drakes must drop both 'brimstone powder' and 'dragons tooth'. I have some of both. I don't really know when I picked up the brimstone powder. I may have gotten it from a treasure chest or something. But the Drakes definately drop 'dragons tooth'. I've verified that. They may be similar to the Harrowbark Walkers however, a few Harrowbarks drop both the Mandrake Root and the Mordis Vine while most drop only the Mordis Vine.
What are these Rune Stones for? How do you use them? I'll read the forum further on this topic.

[kathycf]

I have a lot of different strategies I employ for drakes, it all depends on the class of the character, and their overall level. It is fun, because I like to plan out my stratgy...like a general. There are no fire based spells that will work on a dragon, they have an innate resistance to that, I assume because it is their "natural element". They breathe it after all. You will find there are a few creatures like that in the game, for example the moonbeasts. They live on a island in Lost Lake and any ice based spell makes them laugh. Fire based spells work well on them, additionally shooting sparks and poison cloud.


I have played the game for several months and I must say, I think you got the brimstone powder someplace else. I have only had Drakes drop the dragon tooth. They aren't like the Harrowbark walkers in that respect, because you are correct that HWs can drop a couple of kataals. For me, I have had them drop mordis vine and mandrake root.

Rune stones are used to power rune spells. You can read about the different rune spells here:
http://www.gamebanshee.com/dungeonlords/runemagic.php
Sadly, a number of the rune spells are broken, you can read which ones in the sticky located at the top of the DL forum page. I like rune blades for a melee character, and shards of stone is a very powerfull offensive rune spell.

*edit* I forgot to mention that it has been my experience that you can only find the actual rune spells at a shop. The stones may be found in chests as well as drops occasionally, but I have never found an actual rune spell that way. The shopkeeper with the best stock of rune spells is Grymlock, in the Northern Steppes, although a few of the other shopkeepers (such as the Celestial guild) have a few rune spells in stock.


I see that we are kind of moving off topic for the scope of this thread. If something hasn't been done to death already, you can always start your own thread to ask a question. For example, if you wanted to discuss general game play strategies or whatever, you could conceivably start a thread to do so. This wouldn't extend to killing dragons, because there is already an established thread for that. I mean, I could go on gabbing about stuff, ( I am a gabber) but I also don't want to move this thread way off topic.

[jparm3rd]

MingDragon:

First, let me apologize to you. I can't believe that you've not gone through the sewers, yet have leveled your character up to 103. That is well, just awesome! I thought you were a noob and therefor was trying to gently suggest in an earlier post that you needed to level your character a little before going through the F. sewer, but stupid me. 103--Geez. I had no idea there is such a ridge that allows you out. Everytime I've tried it I failed, so I assume you had a high athletics skill? Perhaps you could tell me what skill level of athletics you had as well as where you were sucessful climbing out? Thanks in advance for that info, I'd like to try that. As Kath stated, you will have zero trouble with the F. sewers at 103. She also answered all your other questions so I won't bore you with repeating them and just instead say, ditto.

As to killing fire drakes specifically, you probably have more experience with that than I do and let me tell you given how you did it you must have fighting skills I'd kill to have. A venom dagger, eh? Wow. Well, to echo Kath, the fire drake is immune to fire spells, but suffers twice the damage from ice spells. I picked that up in a dev forum back nearly a year ago, so I know the info is good. The dev also stated that fire spells heal them, so if it survived the patches.....mmmm. And again like Kath, the only katal I've got from them is the Dragon Tooth. As I intimated in my earlier post, I generally use a bow--if you can get your hands on a venom bow-that's very effective-similar to what you've seen on the dagger. I've found distance to be the best policy when fighting them-that and some kind of fire protection---their fire attack is deadly. But heck, YOU tell us how to fight them! You are the pro at 103!

Good luck,

jparm3rd.

[Skidder]

Originally Posted by jparm3rd

I had no idea there is such a ridge that allows you out. Everytime I've tried it I failed, so I assume you had a high athletics skill? Perhaps you could tell me what skill level of athletics you had as well as where you were sucessful climbing out?

jparm3rd,

For climbing routes, see this thread:
http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/du...ses-63787.html