Not sure if its even possible. But what classes would have the highest and lowest chances of soloing the Adra dragon on PoTD?

 

Note: NOT including cheese or exploits; like spamming figurines, reaching a bugged safe-spot etc.

Well, if figurines are cheese, I dunno.

 

Wiz/Druid can oneshot him if they get reasonably lucky.

Well, if figurines are cheese, I dunno.

 

Wiz/Druid can oneshot him if they get reasonably lucky.

How so? Not a single spell is strong enough for that? O.o

Well, technically 2+ spells. Petrify + x. For wiz, the ice ray deals most single target damage i think. I'm sure you can find smth damaging enough in druid's arsenal as well.

Edited April 20, 201510 yr by MadDemiurg

Yeah do not spam figurines, bring 5 lvl 12 characters instead because that is not cheese.

Probably depends on your definition of cheese, but if it includes petrify or kiting then there is probably no way to solo him without cheese.

Priest can lock him down with with seals pretty well + finish off with DoT damage. Also, block passage with summon buffed with sparks of the righteous and shield it with withdraw = invulnerable wall dealing irresistable shock damage for 50 sec or so (adra has high shock resist though).

 

All can be classified as cheese ofc.

lol, figurine cheese. Then I guess Ptrify spells are also cheese, Mind Binding is Cheese etc.

 

So far I can tell you how to kill Adra solo: being a Moon-Like Fighter, weapon and shield, max tanker, regen, weapon with accuracy on appropriate enemy group (don't know which dragon was, since I play on Polish version) and just stand there and auto-attack it. Stack Might, Con and Endurace with food before fight. Draining weapon is required to heal, armor with appropriate resistance echants. Auto-attack it to death. No cheese.

 

Cipher- you can try perma paralyze it or use summon to spam AW and link that gives crushing damage per sec. Stack Might. Use petrify.

 

Barbarian- set petrify trap, let it get you to 50% HP for Blooded to trigger, lure it to trap, summon 3x Shades, use Animancer Boots and melt it with 3x Jolting Touch.

 

Rest melee classes you probably want use summons for aggro, dps and extra damage from flanked. Stack Might, CON and have a lot regen potion and kill it.

 

Wizard- stack MIGHT, all damage bonuses gear you can get. Petrify it and use most damaging spells on it. Should go down fast.

 

Really only class that can kill it WITHOUT ANY "cheese" is geared up Fighter. He can just stand there and tank and kill it. There is video somewhere also with it.

Edited April 20, 201510 yr by Voltron

Any class can pull off petrify trap.

 

I had a full tank fighter (150+ deflect, ~100 all resists unbuffed) and it still got oneshot  by the dragon (it seems to be able to attack multiple resists), so I don't think fighter auto attack plan is gonna work.

 

Edit: Just checked, and wing slam is a fort attack with secondary prone vs reflex @ 120 accuracy, so tanking it doesn't look realistic.

Edited April 20, 201510 yr by MadDemiurg

Any class can pull off petrify trap.

 

I had a full tank fighter (150+ deflect, ~100 all resists unbuffed) and it still got oneshot  by the dragon (it seems to be able to attack multiple resists), so I don't think fighter auto attack plan is gonna work.

 

Edit: Just checked, and wing slam is a fort attack with secondary prone vs reflex @ 120 accuracy, so tanking it doesn't look realistic.

 

There was today solo Adra Figher kill: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/77839-are-paladins-really-not-that-bad/page-2

 

dukefx posted video there, however somehow video is no longer showing to me (I can even see big open space in his post where video was and there is reply to it in further posts).

 

Check if you can see this video Mad, maybe it is just me. I watched it today earlier. He was using spear plus shield I think.

This was a Sky Dragon kill. Sky is a harmless kitten compared to Adra.

That's me doing the sky dragon. Didn't try the adra dragon with that, but I doubt I'd succeed with all those adds.

Even without the ads it chews up a full tank fighter pretty fast. Mine is quite optimized. I suppose I could squeeze in a few points here and there but it won't really help.

Edited April 20, 201510 yr by MadDemiurg

Even without the ads it chews up a full tank fighter pretty fast. Mine is quite optimized. I suppose I could squeeze in a few points here and there but it won't really help.

 

Then my bad, I thought it was Adra dragon.

 

Well, so the only solo tactic is still in place- GoA trap and melt it with your highest damaging combo your class have.

 

Adra wasn't really designed to be solo killed without using so called "cheap tactic".

 

However it is RPG. In real fight would you prefer to fight dragon straight 1v1 or would you use tactic to win it?

 

IMO GoA trap + figurines (especially 3x Shades with their accuracy) and using what you can best is pretty nice way to kill dragon, since that really shows how strong this dragon is. IMO that is nice.

 

Ehhh...shame that Adra dragon do not have like 20 melee minions around....my retalitation barb would kill it then .

Well, GoA itself/Earth Talon works just as well. Plus it is possible to lock down the dragon with other CC, though I'm not sure whether it would be enough to deal the damage required. Think priest with repulsing seals and a bunch of maelstrom scrolls can work.

 

There's a bunch of melee and ranged mobs near Adra btw, but I'm pretty sure retal barb won't kill it fast enough even with OSA activated. The dragon hits for 200+ after all.

Edited April 20, 201510 yr by MadDemiurg

Well, GoA itself/Earth Talon works just as well. Plus it is possible to lock down the dragon with other CC, though I'm not sure whether it would be enough to deal the damage required. Think priest with repulsing seals and a bunch of maelstrom scrolls can work.

 

There's a bunch of melee and ranged mobs near Adra btw, but I'm pretty sure retal barb won't kill it fast enough even with OSA activated. The dragon hits for 200+ after all.

 

Range mobs won't do, they need to be melee to turn on OSA and hit my bard to trigger retalitation procing and activate Carnage procing around.

 

I would still need to tank which is impossible so GoA is still the only way.

 

Priest can work, same as Wizard, however GoA is still needed to not risk being OHKed by Adra Dragon.

Petrify is the key.  Makes it easy to hit and damage goes directly to health.

Note: NOT including cheese

 

 

Dude have you even fought the Adra dragon?

Ceranai did it solo with a Chanter, but you might find it too cheesy. Starting from about this post here, you can see a lot of the things he attempted, some discussion about various strategies, getting one shot by the dragon etc:

 

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/76328-solo-play-tips-not-exploits-potd/page-4?do=findComment&comment=1656204

 

It might help you plan out a strat that will work for you at least.

Frodo was not cheesing, 

 

 

Frodo was trolling, the troll.