Talk:Ur-Dragon/@comment-204.58.218.232-20120622180057/@comment-78.229.22.45-20120622201320

I'm not sure. Of course, without pawns you can raise your stats to obcenes numbers, but It's not clear if these boosts do actually match the damage output of 3 goods rangers (because of diminishing returns. the wiki doesn't mention it but I wouldn't be surprised if more testing could radically change the consensus on this method).

On a near-death dragon, pawns will miss the hearts most of the time so the assassin's buid is probably better, but on a newborn beast I prefer keep them. I prefer usually fight with pawns, anyway. Once they hit level 100 and have enough herbs they usually survive the whole fight. A team fully geared whith the Magnanimous Cloak will even share his mushroom and herb with you, you spend a lot less time in the inventory and the fight is more to my taste.