I've been trying to kill Firk' the Red Dragon to no avail. He basically kicks my ass!! I don't have a monk in my party. I have four wands of cloud kill, but that is not enough. Close, but so far... Help! It's my birthday and all I want is a dead red dragon!!

*just shakes his head*

Greetings...
The way I see it, you are rushing to get into battle(with a red dragon!!).
The best advice I can offer you is to do the other quests first and earn those much needed
exp. and thus gaining a few levels before you face the big red monster again.

There are threads in this forum which discuss strategy on fighting Firkragg. Do check 'em out.

And Happy Birthday!!!!!

Welcome to the board ladyzekke,
I'm going to have to agree with The X. Most of the strategy books suggest waiting until you have reached chapter 5 or 6 before you try taking down the Big Mean Red Lumbering Machine.
There are good players who manage to take him down before that with no losses. My characters are fairly low level, I'm still in chapter 3 and I'm in the same situation that you are. I manage to take him out, but he always takes 1 to 3 of my characters down with him. That price is far too steep.

Ladyzekke, just do this...



Okay maybe Firkraag's a bit bigger than that.

You can find some strategies to beat Firkraag here and here.

*hint* Lower resistance, greater malison, finger of death.

If you don't mind losing a couple of items, like Carsomyr or maybe a cloak of shielding, you can always use my magic resistance, greater malison, flesh to stone method (patent applied). Kills him off quickly, and since I don't keep paladins around long and Carsomyr only sells for about 5,000 gp, it doesn't worry me. Well, unless the petrification messes around with my precious red dragon scales. The other way is the talk, hit method. That just seems a little too cheap for my liking, though.

(looks up)
Oh. Uh, yeah, finger of death would work, too, and you wouldn't lose any items. (why didn't I think of that?)

Feeblemind worked for me...try that.

I so did not rate lower resistance and greater malison as good spells when i beat the game the first time. the second time i was a lot smarter about spells. those 2 spells can put you on even par with just about anyone. i wondered why Firkraag kept casting greater malison at me

I appreciate what you guys are saying, but I believe part of the problem is that ladyzekke, like me has lower class characters. None of my magic users can cast anything above level 5 spells, including Edwin. I can cast lower resistence etcetera, but we kon't have the benefit of pinkie of death, and big time malison.

Ummm...the.Relic, Lower Resistance is a Level 5 spell, and Greater Malison a Level 4 so you should be able to cast it. This will first strip away magic resistance (some of it anyway) and GM will lower his saving throws. Then if you don't have access to an instant kill spell use something like Polymorph Other which is a Level 4 spell to turn him into a squirrel. Hmm, i'm not sure if you would get 64000xp for killing a squirrel though, or if you'd get Carsomyr. But it's worth a shot.

Heh, I did say I can cast Lower Resistence, thanx for the heads up on GMalison, I haven't seen it anywhere and thought it was a higher level spell. I will have to look that one up.
He he, I did a polymorh squirrel on a wizard once, it was funny watching a squirrel cast spells. Thanx for the imfo

EASIEST WAY TO KILL FIKRAAG *SPOILER*
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Talk to him, then say.... i'll come back for you later (or words to that effect) then pile everyone into him, spells, swords whatever and he wont fight back..... every 30 seconds or so talk to him again and he STILL WON'T ATTACK!!! repeat until dead!

note: this worked for me but it may be a bug.... try it anyway.... and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

thanks a lot guys! I'll try doing a few more quests first, then go for it again using those strategies. You will hear my battlecry when the task is done!!

Ha ha....! I finally killed Big Red on the second hit, Vorpal Blade strikes again.
Kensai 1... Firkraag zip.....!
No losses this time, nobody even got damaged. Gotta love the Vorpal Blade!

What is a "vorpal blade" Relic? Is it a weapon you can buy/find or an ability one of your characters has?

MEMNOCH
HOW DARETH THY ATTACK A FAIRY DRAGON
YOU FILTHY --
filty ehm
filthy ehm
ehm wait i got it
YOU FILTHY JEROME
RAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSKKKKKK

tnx for listening

How's this?



Ehm its actually a baby wyvern
Aren't faery dragons supposed to be pink?

Ehm well
I guess they should
sorry

BTW it's a psuedo dragon

Filthy Jerome? hmmm, young ones these days, i'm the last of the great paladins i'll have you know.

oh and one more point.... FAIRY DRAGONS ARE A WASTE OF TIME!!! KILL THEM ALL QUICK!!!!!!

*ahem* thats all....

Since nobody answered you Ladyzekke, the Vorpal Blade is made out of two parts, the hilt and the silver blade. Cromwell, in the docks, forges it for you. However you will not find the parts until you go to Spellhold, later in the game.
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Accept Saemon's offer to help leave Spellhold after your fight with Irenicus. If you don't, you cannot get the parts you need. Once you have the blade, the owners of the hilt will find you...

Once again, thank you Suul-Yinn. I will keep that in mind. I don't mind waiting until later in the game, as long as eventually I can get Firkraag! Thanks for answering!

Huh? Money actually has some value left to you? If it were me (whos been having trouble getting rid of the stuff) I'd allow the deaths and got get em resed at the nearest temple.

That would be all well and good Armageddonex, but at this point, not one of my characters even makes a dent.!?

Hmmml.... I was trying to help, I can't help it if I'm a little late tonight

Dragon Hunt!
One good old fashion way to this, as one has done several times in pen and paper version. IOne happy dude really really good at longswords, yeah, that nice little draogn blade +3 +6 vs Dragons, dragonhide shield (yep sword and shield style, classic almost romantic), Ring of Fireresistance, Amulette of magic resistance (always useful) boots of speed found them in a earlier game can´t find them now, anyone knows where they are to be found?? , Good armour, and lots of resistance spells fearless and such.. Kiyahaawa-sama Dragon sushi, watch your fighter fly away when that red batards use his breathweapon on you, but also see that he only flies no damage, can take some time but the rest of the party can help some...
Try it at least once, its a classic Dragon bash struggle heroic and hence foolish but ... fun!