riley420 said:
Anyone have any tips on killing dragons? I was just walking on my merry way to finish my Companions initiation, when all of a sudden...BEHIND ME...I hear BOOM...ROAR.
I turn around and a fucking dragon is nuking me with fire before I can even whip my sword out. I'm a one handed battle mage, specializing in Destruction.
Anyone?
I'm by no means an expert gamer, and I haven't figured out the best strategy for taking down a dragon. But I have killed about 5 of them now. Here's how I did it.
1st Dragon: This was easy, bow and arrows and a lot of NPC's helping me shoot at it around a tower.
2nd Dragon: All alone with my companion in the mountains. The dragon kept swooping down and hitting my housecarl. I ran back, and healed her up, and ended up jumping into a cave...never killed that one actually.
3rd Dragon: I put on my big boy pants and said fuck it, I'm not running. Used up a lot of healing potions though. I just shot at the damn Dragon using my Dwarven Bow(23 dmg+10 Shock+50%magicka dmg) and Dwarven Arrows(14 dmg). Ended up taking that bitch out with a little help from my housecarl who is also using a Dwarven Bow+Dwarven Arrows (I've spent a lot of money upgrading my companions armor+weapons. She's bad ass BTW).
4th Dragon: I'm a Theif-Mage-Archer, in that order. So I set my companion up with a Dwarven Bow+Dwarven Arrows, I cast an Atronach (flaming stripper that throws fire balls) I spam my staff (WABBAJACK IS AWESOME) until my magicka restores and then I toss some fire firebolts at it until it dies.
5th Dragon: Same strategy as above. Only now I'm using a combination of staves/dwarven bow to take them down. Mostly I reach for my bow because I don't have to recharge it with soul shards, and I have a pretty high archery rating now.
PS: Run around and hide a little, you don't ever want to stand out in the open. Right now I'm trying to discover a pattern of what type of dragons like to fly around more, what types like to land on all fours, what types like to hover around. Oh also, if you're on a building or any structure the dragon won't land as much and will hover in front of you and you can shoot it and jump down off/behind the structure...unless you're on a tower, just run down the stairs.
Dragons IMO don't seem that hard to take down at this point. But they can catch you off guard and alone which sucks.