How to you kill dragons?

[BloodwolfeAK]

I keep my eyes peeled for any flying overhead. And it seems that if I fast travel now, I get one almost everytime if I travel to communities around the perimeter. WOOT!

I also have delayed doing the MQ as much as possible. I don't know if it drives 'em to come after me, but it sure seems like it!

 

Anyways, once I have one in the vicinity I don't waste time shooting at 'em....too d**n hard. I just run around under them, jumping up and down. It may seem stoopid....but I have actually only had 1 not land and fight. Since it works for me, I'm stickin' with it!

 

Once, they land I hit 'em with my first shout to really get their attention, then I wade in. My toon cannot do so, but I usually do my evil laugh because I know they are MINE now! I wear DS armor that I have made from their corpses and I DW some ebony swords(altho for the first 20 or 30 I used dual dwarven maces). I rarely take much damage--about 1/3 or so. Although I the last 2 elder Drakes I have killed have pushed me to about half. The last one maybe not....I fought him on a tower where I had given it a mortal blow and it fell down(tearing up a divot...nice!) and I jumped off the top onto it instead of running down the stairs. It was a relatively short tower so it wasn't that big of a deal. But charging down 3 filights of stairs is slightly dizzying, so I jumped and took a bit of damage there. I could tell it was all but dead so I pulled a crit swing and killed it with a final blow! But, best of all, I had a nice crit which then gave me a nice cinematic of me decapitating it. =)

 

All my fights are like that. I have shields ready if I start getting pummeled that are primed with resistances, but haven't needed 'em. I have heard that some have had a tough time with Drakes, but I haven't yet. I like to just charge their maw, they get a good blast or 3 on me, but in the meantime I am bludgeoning them to death...or now I guess it would be 'hacking them to pieces'!!

I have also read about some of their attacks they can do....I hadn't really seen any of them tho'. I hadn't let 'em live long enough I guess. I stood there once just to see what it would do to me and it was nice, it bit down on me so I was chomped about down to the waist...then it gave me a fling away. Nice! I have since then had a tail-swipe too, no wing buffet that I have noticed though. Lastly, I am glad they scale a bit....but I think they should be tougher. Drakes are the Alpha Predator-they should be a brutal fight imo.

[Matth85]

2 Dremora Lords can take down a dragon twice as fast as any Player warrior can, unless he have exploited the crafting proffesions.

And the fact that as a mage you will die in about 2 attacks from the dragon, makes it harder for us to manage than you plate guys.

[BloodwolfeAK]

Aye, Matth85....I wear my Dragonscale armor and although it is considered 'light armor' it is certainly more protection then those little dresses the mages wear =P

 

As for inferring that I have exploited the crafting professions, that would be incorrect. I have worked diligently to get my smithing, and then enchanting maxed and have put almost every point into those trees(with a few in 1 handed as well!). So, while I havent actually put on my mage duds yet, to go that route- I will take your word at how fast a couple of summoned does the job, I am sure it works well and it sounds like a good strategy for a clothy. I will have to try that method when I start on the magic quests!(and you can have 2?! summoned creatures?? is there no limit?? interesting!)

 

I can say, having done in upwards of 40+ dragons, that I can kill em pretty quickly. I haven't actually.."timed" it, but it is a matter of seconds...30 or less, certainly*.

*If I can get em on the ground of course....If they are flying around or land and take off before I can close to melee distance extends that time.