Personally, I think the best character to use for hunting dragons is a blade. The simple reason for this is that they can cast some of the very useful protective mage magic on themselves AND they can fight. I always wondered about these great spells like protection from magical weapons for a mage, who will rarely even be targetted by magical weapons, if you're careful. So I have the bard load up on the protective spells you need, have any priests cast their defensive spells on him (or the group), have your blade with boots of speed and dual wielding, have him do his offensive spin, and then just go to town by himself while the others sit back and watch from a safe distance. I killed Firkraag and the Shadow dragon that way. You just have to make sure your bard is high level enough so that his Thaco is low enough (the offensive spin helps).
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