The following is a compact guide on how to defeat the final boss with minimum risk.
How to Beat the Final Boss (Heroic Mode)
All credit goes to ShockedHearts!
The following items are needed to make the boss easier.
- Pan Spear (upgraded is a plus).
- Shadow Eye (for healing properties and bonus damage when active).
- Krell Shield (Highest block for minimum stamina loss when blocking).
Once you have these items you would want to follow these tips to avoid damage and deal as much damage as you can safely.
- Use the spear to (from a distance) stab the dragon once or twice after every attack they do, try to keep space between the two of you and make sure to keep in front of the dragon. He will spam easily avoidable attacks such as Fire Breath, Claws Swipes, or body slamming you. When he performs these try to move backwards and to the right proceeded by quick thrusts of the spear.
- Trying to stay behind the dragon is risky because he has several attacks that will quickly swipe behind him which make it hard to predict (as well as annoying)
- If you have any trouble you can use the shadow eye ability to heal yourself quickly by spam attacking the dragon as fast as possible. (two birds with one stone since you heal and deal damage.) Dragon Hearts DO NOT WORK in this boss it damages you because I guess the dragon has control over them or something.
- Also when the dragon is stunned spam attack him to boost your shadow orb bar so you can regain it.
- Lastly once the dragon is very low on HP it will do the body slam attack BUT it will change into a running multi hit followed by a thrust at you. I found the only way to avoid damage here is to block with your shield. dodging never seemed to work for me.
This should be the safest way to defeat him and is how I plan to get the *Old Enough* achievement.
Just in case anyone else sees this and makes it harder on themselves by not using hearts, you CAN use dragon hearts during the fight, but only if the dragon is occupied with something else. Otherwise he will reverse it and kill you instead. Ideal time to use it is when he’s flying, this works for sure every time, though I did also use it once without dying, when he was breathing fire(I wouldn’t recommend that though since I’m not sure if that was a fluke or not and only tried it once so take that one with a grain of salt).