Since the 1.4 update, those dragons are my toughest challenge. This is with the able basal resistances on my armor and lots of cleaving resistance. I get off one abide elements spell, TESO Blades Gold and afterwards those f*ckers do something to cesspool my abracadabra so I can't get off addition one.
Then I'm accustomed for all I'm account (with the able weapon of course), and if they haven't aswell drained my backbone praying I time an adrenaline contrivance properly. The cartilage dragons are the affliction - any of these bad boys that appearance up Akin 60+ are about angry for me. Not abiding what to try next, but will accumulate at it. Fun to accept a new challenge. Any hints are welcome!
My action adjoin Dragons:
- Abide Element 5 (keep consistently active).
- Ward (use adjoin the arch individual hit spells).
- Spell attrition on three armor pieces.
- Equip Elven absorber for Magicka regen (as choleric as you can).
- Adrenaline Contrivance to balk ability attacks.
- Focusing contrivance to balk ability attacks and displace abilities cooldown.
- Assimilation enchantments on rings and gloves (or addition antecedent of Stamina).
- Abate best Magicka and/or Abate best Backbone are accessible (the Backbone one is my aboriginal choice).
- Some Cleaving attrition can help.
- I'm because to abode one shock attraction on my armor, aback if I action able Cartilage Dragons a big bulk of accident beat my Abide Element 5 and my 54 spell resistance.
Resist Element 5 is needed, but maybe not abundant for the arch dragons. Magicka can be added adequate with "spell resistance" (bonus enchantment). This is what I have.
Ward is advantageous to absolutely abstain their arch individual hit spells (I mainly casting it adjoin Cartilage Dragon, while he casting the big adulteration sphere).
I action them with Eleven absorber equipped, it is choleric to mythical, so it provides 29 added Magicka about-face per second. It makes a absolute big difference. Wielding a weapon with two calmly for that baby accident addition is not account adjoin dragons.
Dragons can use able ability attacks that needs to be dodged. I use Adrenaline Dodge, and Focusing Dodge. So I can anon casting Adrenaline Contrivance or added abilities again, if needed.
Against animation attacks, if needed, I'm aswell application Absorb, or Dodge, or Ward.
Dodging adjoin a animation advance allows to get the best bulk of heal/cooldown reduction/magicka.
To balance my Stamina, I'm application the assimilation attraction on gloves and rings.
Cleaving Attrition can advice adjoin their concrete attacks, but for now I don't accept it. I'm boring crafting a Dragonscale set, aback I‘m still application a Daedric bowl set with "bad" enchantments.
Both the benefit enchantments "Reduce best Magicka" and "Reduce best Stamina" are absolute helpful. They can be acclimated to calmly balance bloom afore killing them (they are not able afterwards Magicka and Stamina). Appropriate now I use a weapon with "Reduce best Stamina", but Magicka could be bigger because they accept a absolute big Backbone pool.
I anticipate Dragons (especially Cartilage Dragon) are a far bigger blackmail compared to Liches.