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Jagged Peak Drake Boss Video Guide

Jagged Peak Drake Fight Strategy

The Best Tips for Jagged Peak Drake:

• Use the Rotten Breath incantation to inflict Scarlet Rot
• Use the Opaline Hardtear in mixed Physick to increase one's damage resistance.
• The Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana deals +30% damage against this boss.

Melee Users

The Jagged Peak Drake can be found at the entrance to the Jagged Peak, found after clearing the Dragon's Pit, sleeping in a shallow lake surrounded by dragon corpses. This boss is optional but can be encountered very early, so you may want to come back later. This boss deals both fire and Lightning Damage, with many melee and ranged options. It will move around the arena constantly, so staying on Torrent is key.

The second encounter is unique, as it will be fighting alongside another drake when you start the fight with it. The other drake has its own separate health bar, and can be killed independently of the actual boss. They are first seen fighting other enemies, so its best to go in for the kill while they are distracted.

The one of many melee attacks that the Jagged Peak Drake does is a tail sweep. While facing you, it might start to turn around. When it does, it lifts its tail and sweeps it around. This can be easily indicated as it takes a while for the Drake to turn around, so you will need to time your dodge roll right to avoid receiving damage. You can dodge forward to also get closer to it so that you can perform close-range melee attacks on its legs to break its stance to further deal heavy damage to it.

It also has a few attacks where it will be stationed in one location in the area. One of which is when it plants itself on the ground and breathes fire in front of it, this attack can be easily indicated when it has fire in its mouth and starts to swing its head slowly from side to side. When you see this, that is your signal to run to the sides to avoid the flames and to catch up to it to deal damage to its sides as it will only direct the flames in front of it. Another attack is when it lets out a roar followed by flame-lightning striking the ground in front and around it. Watch for spots where the lightning will land. Alternatively, you can also try to run to its sides and go around the boss.

The Jagged Peak Drake has a few leaping attacks that it performs. One of them is its heavy stomps which it will leap into the air, hover a moment, and stomp down heavily onto you. This attack can be indicated when it hovers momentarily in the air. You will need to time your dodge towards its back legs right when it stomps onto the ground, this will avoid the damage and get you closer to attacking it. The next leaping attack is its leaping fire-breathing attack, It will leap up and then breathe out fire when it hovers down backward. This leaves a large AoE on fire so you will need to run or dodge roll out of the indicated orange glow on the ground. It will land a distance away from you so you can either catch up to attack it or wait until its next attack.

A good strategy here is to utilize Torrent to make this fight easier, as with all instances of dragon combat. You can ride around the area to evade the dragon's attacks while also chipping off damage by attacking its legs. You can dash away out of harm's way with Torrent, so you can move in and out of combat, making this fight easier if you choose to go on horseback for this fight.

Once you defeat the Jagged Peak Drake, it will drop 90,000 Runes, 1 Dragon Heart, and 1 Dragonscale Flesh.

Magic and Ranged Users

Strategy Writeup for Magic Users

Jagged Peak Drake Attacks & Counters

Attack	Description	Counter
Most of its attacks are the same as Flying Dragon Agheel, see Agheel's page for a more comprehensive guide
Drake's Flame Lightning	Raises its head high and roars, calling down bolts of flame lightning from the sky to strike the ground.	Get under the dragon or get on Torrent and circle around. Watch the ground for orange sparks, as it indicates where the lightning will hit.
Raging Smash	The Drake roars and lifts up its wings, before smashing the ground three times. The last hit is delayed.	Get underneath it or run away on horseback.

Jagged Peak Drake Notes & Other Trivia

• Pierce negation is only 10 against 35 for every other physical type and 40 for Magic and Fire, so thrusting weapons and bows are decisively the best answer.
• Two are fought and they differ: the Jagged Peak Foothills drake has 31,941 HP and pays 90,000 runes, while the one further up has 39,377 HP and pays 120,000.
• Both drop a Dragon Heart and Dragonscale Flesh, making the pair a reliable source of Dragon Communion material.
• Neither can be parried and both carry 120 Stance.
• The upper drake is found fighting another dragon southeast of the Foot of the Jagged Peak Site of Grace — letting them damage each other first is free progress.

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