Talk:By Royal Decree III/@comment-74.176.185.136-20160119082617/@comment-24458380-20160120123916

OK so after 6 attempts, I managed to slay the 2 Firedrakes in the Sparyard of Scant Mercy that mostly meets your challenge.

Here's a video of me winning the fight in Hard Mode, with no armor, buffs, curatives, or Wakestones. In order to mimic a low level Arisen, I'm using ONLY Rusted daggers and the menu is never opened during the battle.



I only made once mistake when I got hit with a Fire Breath attack from the airborne Firedrake at the 1:39 minute time mark. I should've been perfectly safe from the aerial fire breath while underneath the grounded dragon's spin, but ... whatever.

This fight is made difficult by the game's occasionally wonky "clipping" physics, where one dragon can "push" through the other or bump each other's bodies to your disadvantage.

The Firedrakes sometimes even breath fire or tail whip THROUGH pillars or the solid body of the other dragon (which is what happened to me here).

Because I can only inflict negligible damage in this fight, I have to rely on good pawns to do the bulk of the damage. Specifically, the Sorcerer pawn using High Miasma and High Frigor.

So to buy time for the Sorcerer pawn to cast, I slow down the Firedrakes with Torpor with the Goldforged Rusted Daggers. The Torpor effect lasts 25 seconds, so I keep debilitating them both.

Speed and a high damage output are a Firedrake's biggest weapons. So I rob them of those advantages with Torpor and a Fighter pawn wielding a Dragon's Roost shield (to infllict Lowered Strength on them).

From there, I just have to survive the fight and remain engaged in the battle (otherwise my pawns will disengage as well).

Keep the dragons within your field of view at all times and try to isolate one and focus your efforts on killing it.

Maneuver one dragon in front of the other to limit your exposure to the "rear" dragon behind the one in front of you.

So even a low level Arisen can win this fight with this strategy.

"Friend" players with high level pawns in order to forgo the Rift Crystal price, and practice !