How to Stun Dragonfly as a solo Wilson?

[Evelo]

Just a quick question for anyone with the answer. I am going to try and farm Scales soon (Fight Dfly stun her, run away to reset, repeat) but I don't play any of the high dps characters (Wolfgang, Wigfrid, Wanda, Warly, Wendykinda), so I am wondering how to actually stun Dfly for her scales. Considering you need to do 1250 damage in 5 seconds (unless I am mistaken) I would be missing about 250 damage if I just slap Dfly for 5 seconds straight with a Dark Sword. Do I rely on Gunpowder + Ice Staff/Flute, Blowdarts, Waterballoons + Morning Star, Bee Mines (do they work on Dfly?)
Before any of you suggest swapping characters via the Celestial Portal, I detest the mechanic and refuse utilize it. I am looking for alternative solutions that is not "Swap to Wolfgang" or the sort.

Thanks!

[SonicDen220]

Bunnymen army is probably your best bet.

[kiwikenobi]

As a Wilson main who plays alone most of the time, I always use gunpowder and a pan flute to get scales from Dragonfly. The key thing is to drop the 20 gunpowder in two stacks right next to each other, in stacks of 7 and 13, and light the stack of 7 first. The Don't Starve wiki page about Dragonfly explains exactly how it works.

https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Dragonfly#Behavior_2

[Evelo]

1 minute ago, kiwikenobi said:

As a Wilson main who plays alone most of the time, I always use gunpowder and a pan flute to get scales from Dragonfly. The key thing is to drop the 20 gunpowder in two stacks right next to each other, in stacks of 7 and 13, and light the stack of 7 first. The Don't Starve wiki page about Dragonfly explains exactly how it works.

https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Dragonfly#Behavior_2

Oh completely missed that section. Thank you! 20 gunpowder is pretty easy to obtain, well besides the nitre.

[Mike23Ua]

Can’t you use the new pirate canons for this? I haven’t tried it yet but I imagine they would be exceptionally well for boss fights.

[kiwikenobi]

27 minutes ago, Evelo said:

20 gunpowder is pretty easy to obtain, well besides the nitre.

I find that nitre's not too hard to accumulate in a solo world, particularly if you use thermal stones in ice boxes rather than endothermic fires in summer. And by the time you've mined every rock with nitre in it, there should be be petrified forests for more nitre. Pair them with Bearger for easy harvesting, and you'll have tons of nitre.

[Cr4zyFl4mes]

4 hours ago, kiwikenobi said:

I find that nitre's not too hard to accumulate in a solo world, particularly if you use thermal stones in ice boxes rather than endothermic fires in summer. And by the time you've mined every rock with nitre in it, there should be be petrified forests for more nitre. Pair them with Bearger for easy harvesting, and you'll have tons of nitre.

luxury fan > ice box + thermal stone.

[DVGMedia]

7 hours ago, Evelo said:

Oh completely missed that section. Thank you! 20 gunpowder is pretty easy to obtain, well besides the nitre.

I have to say that this does not work as well as it used to anymore. you would have to use more gunpowder because every boss has a gunpowder resistance after 10 seconds of recently getting hit by gunpowder.
This was done so that you cant just immediately kill bosses with stacks of gunpowder  each doing 8k.
you can still do it though if you wait 10 seconds after the boss takes damage.

the damage reduction lowers  over time so it can still be possible to do  but you do need more gunpowder than 20

if looking to farm scales

7 and 16 gunpowder is needed to get the scale if lit at the same time.
you can still do 7 and 13 and do the rest of the damage with a spear. if want to save some resources.

The damage reduction is actually based on the amount of gunpowder used.
for each gunpowder in the stack that blew up  the boss gets a 2.5% damage reduction to the next gunpowder blast in the next 10 seconds.
1=2.5
2=5
3=7.5
Ect..

[Falkenpelz]

That's the fun part: you don't 

[Kur0u]

This is the setup I have to help farm Dragonfly on my world.

Method:

• Drop veggie between Bunnies enclosure to get their attention.
• Wait until Dusk, trigger Dragonfly.
• Stand between Bunnies enclosure and they will munch her away.
• You can probably kill her by morning.
• After Dragonfly is dead or you're done, pick up the veggie and bunnies go back to their houses.
• Profits.

Notes:

• Need 8-12 bunnies to stunlock efficiently, 8 is minimum if you're gonna help with a good weapon (I mainly do this riding a Beefalo).
• Dragonfly immediately spawns Lavae after recovering from the stun.
• Move away to "out of range zone" to repeat the process if you want to farm her Scale (I always kill her though as I like the gems).
• If you have 12 Bunnies and deal good damage yourself while having walls around the lava pits she will never enrage due to stunlock.
• Have a panflute ready if you can't deal enough damage. The more bunnies the better for this.

 

I have 12 bunnies on each side and can kill Dragonfly in 2 minutes and 30 seconds with minimum effort.
Also got a very convenient Cactus spawn as veggie bait.
Images for reference:

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[ArubaroBeefalo]

you can hire few pigs or bunnymen to reach the threshold 

[oregu]

wow, i thought you were doing exaggerating when you said you needed 20 gunpowder to get a scale. i only managed to get it using 11.
4 for the initial stun and 7 more to get the scale. (you light the 4 first and let the gunpowder light the 7th. takes a couple attempts to get used to, have to be rly careful w/the gunpowder). i was attack cancelling so you prolly need 1 or 2 more gunpowder than that.

[Mr Giggio]

Depending on how long term ur world are in the moment u can place some houndius shotius away next to her despawn zone and bring her there to have some fun

[kiwikenobi]

15 hours ago, EsaiXD said:

I have to say that this does not work as well as it used to anymore.

 

15 hours ago, EsaiXD said:

7 and 16 gunpowder is needed to get the scale if lit at the same time.

Dang, they changed it? Well, at least not by too much. The method still works, at least, just need a few extra gunpowder. Or the nerve to rush in and whack Dragonfly a bit before she gets back up. ^o^;>