This is a thread for players to ask for hints (either general or about particular encounters and enemies), as well as share their strategies.
Ancient dragons:
Some players asked about the ancient dragon superbosses and how to defeat them.
These bosses are extremely difficult to beat by design – I added them in an update for players who commented that all the existing bosses were fairly easy when you had late game equipment and skills. Because of this, there is no single trick that helps you beat the ancient dragons – you should fully develop your character (skills, perks, equipment) and use all the resources you have in the encounter!
Some general hints that may help:
- If you have Survival 2, Study the ancient dragon. You'll gain a lot of useful information that will help you develop a strategy for the fight.
- Focus on one type of attack (Magic/Combat/using allies with Charisma) and try to get as many attack/damage bonuses as possible – the bosses have a lot of health and fairly high Defence.
- Make sure you have plenty of HP/MP restoring items and items that remove negative status effects. Prepare for a long fight.
- If you have Trading, you can buy a single use item from the Collector which will help a lot.
- Equipment that revives you if you die in combat (Glass Ring, Saint's Hauberk) can help – as long as you have "revives" left, you can mostly ignore defending and dish out more damage.
Have fun, and I hope you'll beat those dragons!
So, it is possible to beat the Red Knight just with strong equipment and skills, but there are some tricks to this fight. As a merchant, you may recruit a companion to fight in your place - though you'll have to learn a thing or two about the Knight first for them to win. If you fight by yourself, there is one very helpful thing. I won't write the full spoiler just yet, but have you noticed that the Red Knight only attacks with an axe - no bow, no magic? There are ways to exploit that!