How to kill the DST ''New Reign'' Dragonfly

[Wubbafet]

I am having a hard time killing the dragonfly solo play or with 2 friends. The problem is that with the ''beta updates'' the Larvae despawn en whenever that happens the dragonfly goes in enrage mode and stays that way. I tried to keep the last Larvae alive but it didn't help. Sometimes it worked but most of the times he will get enraged even if we don't combat him. Any modern strats that work??  I tried all the strats on YouTube but all are oudated.

[Pruinae]

You can use the panflute and wait for her to sleep (I mean, don't attack her while she is making the falling asleep animaton), thus making her leave the enraged mode.

[Wubbafet]

Thanks! Other thing I can do? I have a panflute of 20% but I still haven't found any green gems for a deconstruction staff.

[Michi01]

12 minutes ago, Wubbafet said:

Thanks! Other thing I can do? I have a panflute of 20% but I still haven't found any green gems for a deconstruction staff.

A bunch of sleep darts should work as well

[Pruinae]

54 minutes ago, Wubbafet said:

Thanks! Other thing I can do? I have a panflute of 20% but I still haven't found any green gems for a deconstruction staff.

If you have a Wicker on the team you can spam "On tentacles" on a area and bring her to the center, but, keep in mind that when you see that there's only one lavae alive you HAVE to move her to somewhere else to prevent her killing all tentacles with her stomp and be able to put her to sleep to turn off the enraged mode.

[FreyaMaluk]

30 minutes ago, MatheusR31 said:

If you have a Wicker on the team you can spam "On tentacles" on a area and bring her to the center, but, keep in mind that when you see that there's only one lavae alive you HAVE to move her to somewhere else to prevent her killing all tentacles with her stomp and be able to put her to sleep to turn off the enraged mode.

wicker... so useful... I love her..  <3

 

 

[Rellimarual]

Apologies for reviving this zombie topic, but does this strat still work? I'm playing with one other friend (Wig & WX) and we've been fighting her from inside a walled pen to keep the larvae away. (My friend has set up a flingo with twigs around the inside perimeter of the pen to freeze the larvae.) Then she gets enraged, and we run around the desert until she stops chasing us, but apparently after that happens, her health resets? I can't even keep track of all the changes made to the beta, but does it still work to use the panflute on her when she starts to enrage? It's getting really monotonous burning through tons and tons of armor and salves only to end up back at square one.

[Rellimarual]

Also, my friend is under the impression that the DF doesn't get wet from rain, but the wiki seems to say otherwise. Is that a change with the ANR beta. We're using the beta.

[Electroely]

3 hours ago, Rellimarual said:

Then she gets enraged, and we run around the desert until she stops chasing us, but apparently after that happens, her health resets?

Her health does reset. If you can't find panflutes, how about trying to get a Wickerbottom friend to join and make you some Sleepytime Stories? Putting Dragonfly to sleep removes her rage mode. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything else you can do. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[AnonymousKoala]

5 hours ago, Rellimarual said:

Apologies for reviving this zombie topic, but does this strat still work? I'm playing with one other friend (Wig & WX) and we've been fighting her from inside a walled pen to keep the larvae away. (My friend has set up a flingo with twigs around the inside perimeter of the pen to freeze the larvae.) Then she gets enraged, and we run around the desert until she stops chasing us, but apparently after that happens, her health resets? I can't even keep track of all the changes made to the beta, but does it still work to use the panflute on her when she starts to enrage? It's getting really monotonous burning through tons and tons of armor and salves only to end up back at square one.

Me and a friend just used scalemail(Hit dfly repeatedly until she drops the first scale, run, repeat, craft 2 scalemails) for lavaes and marble suits + football hats(a few log suits would work as good replacements to the marble one though), and when she was enraged, Pan Flute.

Also yes, Dfly still gets wet from rain.

[pofil]

9 hours ago, Rellimarual said:

Apologies for reviving this zombie topic, but does this strat still work? I'm playing with one other friend (Wig & WX) and we've been fighting her from inside a walled pen to keep the larvae away. (My friend has set up a flingo with twigs around the inside perimeter of the pen to freeze the larvae.) Then she gets enraged, and we run around the desert until she stops chasing us, but apparently after that happens, her health resets? I can't even keep track of all the changes made to the beta, but does it still work to use the panflute on her when she starts to enrage? It's getting really monotonous burning through tons and tons of armor and salves only to end up back at square one.

If you leave the dragonfly arena mid fight D-Fly will despawn and revive back in the middle of her set piece after a few seconds at full HP. I have a world with just one friend in it also and we had the same trouble. The strategy we use now is:

We both have scalemails and a few watter balloons each (5 direct hits with the watter balloons are enough to extinguish her). When she enrages, we dodge the first ground ponud attack hoping it's in the middle of our walled of area and she doesnt break any walls. We both switch to scalemails at that point. After that she targets one player with her swing attacks. That player just sits and keeps healing himself while the other targets her with the balloons. 

We also carry a hammer and walls each, so if she breaks any while enraged, we get on repairs ASAP, cuz the lavae are annoying as ****

[Wubbafet]

It would be cool if dragonfly doesn't regen hp. Me and my friend still couldn't kill the git. In my opinion he is too hard without Wolfgang/gunpowder or less then 3 people. Yes probably I suck at the game, but the dragonfly just has too many hp for a 2 or 1 player battle because of the beta patches. They should fix health cap issues for less players then 4. I mean deerclops, bearger and Goose Goose are easy and fun, but the dragonfly just seems ridiculous. I prefer a double hp dragonfly roaming at your base in summer, than how it is now.

[JohnWatson]

I'm pretty sure she gets enraged if you kill all of her larvae. Try leaving one alive.

[pofil]

17 minutes ago, Wubbafet said:

t would be cool if dragonfly doesn't regen hp.

Well, she only "regens" when the battle is disengaged, and she actually despawns and respawns again at full hp. You could exploit this to your advantage, let's say to farm up scales by just stunning her to get her scale and then disengage the battle. Two players with normal damage and dark swords are enough to stun her and get the scale almost every time and you dont have to wait the twenty day period for her to respawn as you would had you killed her in the first place.

As for killing her with less than three players, me and my friend are playing a world with just two people in it. We are Wicker and WX and we kill her regularly, so it is possible. Since the recent update she does enrage every so often but if you maximize your damage output and plan and prepare in advance you should be fine. When she does enrage, we use watter balloons to return her to normal and  then just continue swinging. I thought sleepytime  stories book would not work on her but someone in this thread suggested it would, so I am going to give that a try, it will definitely make things much easier and "foolproof". 

[Rellimarual]

Thanks everyone. Getting a third person isn't really an option since it's hard enough to find times when both of us can play. @pofil how did you get the scale mail in the first place? From killing it with more than 2 players?  

To be honest, I had just gotten used to the idea that chunks of the game will never really be accessible to me or the one or two friends that I can play with at a time. It really would be great if the HP of the raid bosses could be adjustable. One of the great things about DS is that there are alternate ways of killing all of the classic bosses, from tanking with tons of resources to guile or agility. You often have to improvise. All of that is fun and encourages you to be creative, but this battle is just a tedious slog. Even if the DF simply didn't regen its health, a single player could chip away at it over time with a combo of gunpowder, other mobs, tricks and combat. That would be fun.

[Rellimarual]

15 minutes ago, pofil said:

Well, she only "regens" when the battle is disengaged, and she actually despawns and respawns again at full hp. You could exploit this to your advantage, let's say to farm up scales by just stunning her to get her scale and then disengage the battle. Two players with normal damage and dark swords are enough to stun her and get the scale almost every time and you dont have to wait the twenty day period for her to respawn as you would had you killed her in the first place.

You jumped in while I was responding. Thanks for this tip.

[mochilo]

18 minutes ago, Rellimarual said:

To be honest, I had just gotten used to the idea that chunks of the game will never really be accessible to me or the one or two friends that I can play with at a time. It really would be great if the HP of the raid bosses could be adjustable.

I use a mod callled Automatic health adjust (or something like that) that scales HP to player numbers, being the DS level for solo player. maybe that help you too

[mochilo]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764204839

[pofil]

@Rellimarual If you want to kill her with just two players, what I suggest is to still build walls near or within the Dfly arena. Make sure the walled off area is wide enough for her AoE attack to not destroy the walls. Have a flingo inside and something flammable at the outskirts of the enclosed space so the lavae get frozen.

The two players should have: 
1\ 2 dark sworkds + a ham bat or a tentacle spike each
2\ a bunch of armor of your choosing + a scalemail We usually go with thulcite suits for increased damage reduction and football helmets because they are cheap and they reduce the durability drain of your fancy armor due to the way it stacks in DST. You can go with thulcite crowns and logsuits, or just log suits and football helmets if you don't have access to all that fancy stuff. The marble armor is also nice since you are gonna be tanking throughout most of the battle anyway, but I've never really crafted one.
3\ Healing items. We usually go with food, dragonpies are basically free, but you can choose whatever you like. Jerky, pirogi, fishsticks, trail mix, etc. You need ~5 pies each but we go with 10 just to be sure. You can also use salves or poultices if you like and have a bunch of them.
4\ 5-10 water balloons each. If the dragonfly ever turns red, you switch from whatever armor you are using to the scalemail and throw the balloons at her.
5\ a bunch of walls and a hammer each, if she enrages and emergency repairs are due.
6\ pan flute/sleepytime stories (optional)

So we usually do the following:
One player waits in the walled of space ready to close it off while the other one gets Dfly's attention and baits her in.

When she is in and both players are completely walled off from all sides, you start the battle with your weaker weapon (the ham bats or the spikes), you use them till  she goes to about 24-23.5k HP and then switch to dark swords. The dark sword damage of two players hitting her is enough to stun her so you get a bit of extra damage in before she goes off to spawn her lavae by starting off with the weaker weapon. You usually also get the scale. I found that if you hit her synchronously you are guaranteed to get the drop, while if you are out of sync you may not get it. Keep swinging with the dark swords till she wakes up and goes to spawn her lavae. 

At this point you need the flingomatic to be turned on, and keep away from the walls as the lavae can still hit you trough them if you get too close. After she spawns lavae from all 5 pools she will return. Stay in the middle and keep swinging at her with the dark swords. If you have access to such items, at this point it would be a good idea to use blowdarts or gunpowder to get some extra damage for a second stun, as her second stun threshold cannot be reached by two players with normal damage modifiers.

The battle is pretty straight forward at this point it just rinse and repeat. She keeps going back to the pools to spawn more lavae, then comes back and gets her ass whooped. If she does get enraged (this has happened to me and my friend during different stages of the fight but sometimes she doesn't get enraged at all, so I'm assuming there is some randomness to the lavae self destruct timer or to her returning to the magma pools) she will turn red and do a AoE attack immediately. When you see her turning red, switch to scalemail and try to dodge the AoE. note that the AoE attack breaks walls, so keep her in the middle where she won't hit them. If she does break the walls, you will have to break them down with a hammer and rebuild them before the lavae she pawns get in. When you dodge the initial AoE, she will target one of you and chase him down with swing attacks. what we usually end up doing at this point is, the player who she targeted stays still and heals, while the other one throws watter balloons at her till she gets extinguished. A pan flute or a sleepy time stories book will make this easier as I assume you can put Dfly to sleep and throw the balloons at her without having to tank her. bare in mind though, that it is virtually impossible to hit her with a balloon when she is on the move. Once she returns to normal, you go back to slicing her up with the dark swords and normal armor. 

Note that you can always disengage the fight if you just leave the arena, so just hammer down a wall and run. I suggest you try this out on a test world first, even if you cheat a bit, just to get a feel for the mechanics. Maybe you can improve something in my setup. This is definitely not an easy fight for two average characters to carry out, so expect to die a lot at first.

P.S. If you are not immediately gonna die if you don't heal, then leave the healing for when she is away spawning her lavae. When she is inside the walls, just keep swinging. The whole point of this is to deal the most damage as quickly as possible. 

[verm1ll1on]

So yea, I recently gg rekted her solo with Wilson and it wasn't all that difficult! Requires a whole bunch of items, but it's not that hard! 

You'l need: Panflute, Ice Staff, a god damn whole bunch of armor and helmets, a Hambat (not the best weapon, but at least you don't have to worry about durability), Stone Walls and healing food/items of your choice.

Go full Trump on those Lavae ponds and wall'em up. Every single one of them. In your first fight with Dragonfly, you won't be able to close one pond (the one in the center, where she stays) and that's the reason you'll need the Ice Staff.

Once you got those walls covered, all you have to do is pretty much put on your best armor/helmet duo and kick the **** out of her. If you have a friend, you can tank her damage and hit as hard as you can for her to drop an extra Scale. After that, you can either keep on tanking her or kite. It's a bit difficult to get the timing to kite her, but once you do, you're golden.

When she start to summon the Lavae, there's only gonna be one to come for you, and that's the Ice Staff comes to aid. Easy Peasy. 

After she spawns the Lavae, she'll into her infamous enraged mode eventually and that's when the Panflute comes to action. As soon as you notice her changing animation, left mouse click the **** out of your Panflute and put that thing to sleep. After that, you can keep punching her. She might try to go full enraged once or twice more, so pay attention.

[Wubbafet]

Thank you guys so much for the great responses! This is like one of the first games were I dont find the wiki that usefull. But this forum tho 

[Rellimarual]

This is very generous of you -- many thanks! You're inspiring me to get back in there.

 

 

[Sinister_Fang]

8 hours ago, JohnWatson said:

I'm pretty sure she gets enraged if you kill all of her larvae. Try leaving one alive.

Can't do that anymore. The lavee will die after a while if left alone. So unless you have a high dps going you're gonna have to deal with her enraged state.

[cezarica]

Two words: Water balloons!

You can thank me later.

[Sinister_Fang]

7 minutes ago, cezarica said:

Two words: Water balloons!

You can thank me later.

And I got 2 more words for you: Morning star!

Actually, this got me thinking, can toadstool get wet? The morning star already works great due to it also being a light source, but if the toadstool can get wet then I just might go give it a solo attempt.