Talk:Ur-Dragon/@comment-173.221.114.36-20120623151518/@comment-5097251-20120623172926

At the end of every encounter with the Ur-Dragon, and if you've survived, it says "accessing server", which presumably is the point where it uploads the damage you've done to it. To "participate" in the Ur-Dragon fight, you basically need to do this. If you leave, it will just count it as leaving, and dying I assume doesn't record any damage you have done. So, basically, just get to the end of the 8-10 minute encounter and make sure you've got some hits in.

Once you're participated in an Ur-Dragon generation, then you'll essentially be on a list which hands out rewards at the end, when it's been killed. Of course, if you don't hurt it much, your rewards will be fairly crappy - if you do a ton of damage over the course of several different encounters, the chances of getting better loot at the end is higher.

Offline mode is just like online, the Ur-Dragon just has much less health, and obviously only you are fighting it. You have to fight it in 8-10 minute segments, essentially chipping away its health in each encounter until you eventually kill it. After that, it will respawn eventually.

Level doesn't really matter as much as skills and equipment, so you can fight it pretty much any time - considering any damage you do will remain there until you come back and fight it later, you can do a "practice" run of sorts if you want.