Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks How to Defeat Dragon Riders?

Im 44th Lvl Survivor. Ag 110 Str 92 Vit ~ 400 Int ~60 All Resistances are above 100 And i have realy big problems to defeat Dragon riders! I didnt realy learn skills of magic, only 2 Lvl of Burning Wall and Healing... Those Dragon Riders kill me with 2 hits. All others creatures are no match to me. But i cant damage Dragon Riders much with a bow, thus im 5Lvl skill and use some arrow magics from Rainger skills. What can i do? Steel Scorpions dont help much too, because Dragon Rider kills them with 1 hit! :[

Level R: 40 - Fire R: 100 - Light.R -10 - Pois. R. 100 - Spirit 100 - Attack/defense 86/94 - Damage 238-714 - AC 329 - Health 6300 - Sight 12

Weaknesses differ between the species, with the blues being particularly susceptible to lightning based attacks. However, if one is caught observing the dragonriders, one should be prepared for ranged attacks of fire, lightning, poison, and even freezing blasts! Running is a poor option as they are extremely fast as well. Easily the most dangerous inhabitant of the wastelands, and should be treated as such.


From Sir Toejam's bestiarium. So, I'd go for lightning. My strategy was different, I fought as a mage, sorry - no further help possible.
Kiya

I take it those dragon riders are tougher than the one in the Imps deserted castle then? cause I took that one down with six elemental strikes and about 12 restoration potions while melee fighting the other dragon worshipers.

Depends on - I killed them with nearly your combination very quickly and had high resistances (mage). But this gamer is a survivor, so he won't have elemental strike, Used elemental hail. I froze them before, cursed them and they were down in a nick of time.
Kiya

I just used my Survivors skills and outpaced them. Just flew as a ghost to the iland of the Dark Ring. Just hope that there will be no Dragon Riders in dungeons of Dark Ring.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/alien.gif" alt="" />

use swords even if u freeze u can still make a spell use withiring curse and hell spike pause the game when changing spell !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

nope, no D.R.'s there.

There is at least one dragon-rider in the black ring dungeon. They have negative lightning resists even before cursing, too.