Questions about dragonfly

[Spyro1]

Firstly i just wanted to know exactly how to make him drop extra scales from stunning him? The wiki says deal x amount of damage to stun him then do an additional x amount of damage to make him drop the scale. So yesterday i used to ice staff to freeze him, dropped a stack of 32 gunpowder then hit him a bit more with the ice staff while my gf dropped an additional 40 gunpowder . However after successfully hitting him with almost 2 full stacks of gunpowder he never dropped any scales. Am i doing something wrong? Should i first wait for him to unfreeze and give it a bit of time before freezing him again before hitting him with the second stack? 

Secondly. How on earth do you deal with the larvae? They have a lot of hp for something that attacks in such big numbers. And what makes it really tough is the fire damage they constantly emmit goes straight through my armor. I dont have an issue with damage being dealt by dragonfly but the fire damage from the larvae is what is screwing me over. I saw YT videos of people making walls around themselves and dragonfly to prevent the larvae from bothering the player but apparently they patched it and now dragonfly just smashes walls in his way or something? So how would i now kill dragonfly as i cannot figure out how to deal with the larvae while trying to stay within the boundaries of the arena to ensure dragonfly doesnt go out of the arena and fly back thus resetting his stats

[Sinister_Fang]

1 minute ago, Spyro1 said:

Secondly. How on earth do you deal with the larvae? They have a lot of hp for something that attacks in such big numbers. And what makes it really tough is the fire damage they constantly emmit goes straight through my armor. I dont have an issue with damage being dealt by dragonfly but the fire damage from the larvae is what is screwing me over. I saw YT videos of people making walls around themselves and dragonfly to prevent the larvae from bothering the player but apparently they patched it and now dragonfly just smashes walls in his way or something? So how would i now kill dragonfly as i cannot figure out how to deal with the larvae while trying to stay within the boundaries of the arena to ensure dragonfly doesnt go out of the arena and fly back thus resetting his stats

The wall method still works just fine. Although if you want to take care of the lavae properly, I'd recommend bringing an ice staff or two. After about 2 or 3 hits (I forget how many it was) they'll remain frozen until they die.

And as for the gunpowder... maybe you missed? I've personally never had much luck with that stuff. It's blast radius is pretty small and the fire usually frees anything that's frozen or asleep.

[Spyro1]

11 minutes ago, Sinister_Fang said:

The wall method still works just fine. Although if you want to take care of the lavae properly, I'd recommend bringing an ice staff or two. After about 2 or 3 hits (I forget how many it was) they'll remain frozen until they die.

And as for the gunpowder... maybe you missed? I've personally never had much luck with that stuff. It's blast radius is pretty small and the fire usually frees anything that's frozen or asleep.

So if i build stone walls with the dimensions say 8x8 dragonfly will remain in the wall for the entire battle thus making me safe from the larvae?

[Myself49]

2 hours ago, Spyro1 said:

So if i build stone walls with the dimensions say 8x8 dragonfly will remain in the wall for the entire battle thus making me safe from the larvae?

Pretty sure people tend to build the walls around the magma pools so the lavaes can't really get out of them and go to you.

But you could always just do this:

 

[Cyberboy2000]

2 hours ago, Spyro1 said:

So if i build stone walls with the dimensions say 8x8 dragonfly will remain in the wall for the entire battle thus making me safe from the larvae?

No, the Dragonfly will still be able to leave, but at least the larvae won't be able to get to you. Though since they suicide after a certain time you want a panflute to get her out of her enraged state.

[mochilo]

3 hours ago, Spyro1 said:

So if i build stone walls with the dimensions say 8x8 dragonfly will remain in the wall for the entire battle thus making me safe from the larvae?

Dragonfly will leave the walled area after you make a certain % damage to it. In that moment dfly goes to spawn lavaes from each magma pool, and after that it will come back to fight you again. Note that it takes a few seconds (sometimes like 20 seconds or maybe more) to spawn every lavae and come back, so you need to wait without going out or opening the door to stay safe from the lavaes.

The lavae spawning will normally happen three times during the fight, when dragonfly HP goes under 80%, 50% and 30% or something similar. To make a good use of the gunpowder you need to put it to sleep first, and only use one stack of gunpowder every time because it will wake up and go away after the first one explodes.

And if the walled area is not close enough to the Dragonfly set piece it won't come back to you, so you need to find a good spot.

Good luck!

[Spyro1]

1 hour ago, Cyberboy2000 said:

No, the Dragonfly will still be able to leave, but at least the larvae won't be able to get to you. Though since they suicide after a certain time you want a panflute to get her out of her enraged state.

Does the pan flute work the same as it did in RoG? In other words one use will put everything to sleep? 

[mochilo]

Or you can just wait until spring so others kill dragonfly for you

[Rellimarual]

In my experience once you have the pen up to protect you from the larvae, two players just tanking on her with dark swords will make her drop a scale. 

[Mday]

17 hours ago, Myself49 said:

Pretty sure people tend to build the walls around the magma pools so the lavaes can't really get out of them and go to you.

But you could always just do this:

 

um... I should add that, the video was make from earlier beta. It still work, but it is not as safe as it used to be.

Now to make this strat work you need to have a pan flute ready, *just in case* dragonfly enrage. Sleep time story won't make it in time.

Also the flingo set up can make things worst. It can cause the dragonfly to enrage much earlier. This is because lavae can now unfreeze each other by their own body heat. So if you freeze a group of lavaes close together, they will unfreeze and die altogether.

[Diaboliko]

1 hour ago, Mday said:

Also the flingo set up can make things worst. It can cause the dragonfly to enrage much earlier. This is because lavae can now unfreeze each other by their own body heat. So if you freeze a group of lavaes close together, they will unfreeze and die altogether.

Its a reliable and very consistent strat. If dfly does enrage - you only gotta take 0-1 extra hits(while she is enraged) before she freezes again thanks to flingos. However you can easily avoid enraging her by making sure her freeze timer got refreshed recently. I find this kind of evasion very reliable for myself.

The key to effective usage of flingo strat is killing lavaes while they are frozen by yourself(they die from a single hit with anything while in frozen state)

[Myself49]

It is also possible to kill the Dragonfly easily using good ol Wickerbottom mass tentacle shenanigans. Do the setup like in the video I linked but only the magma pool walls and the flingo and nothing else.

Get a snurtle shell and bee queen hat and just camp in the middle of your tentacles. If Dragonfly enrages either use pan flute right away or let her burn the walls which should trigger the flingo and un-enrage her. It will also freeze your tentacles however.

I prefer to keep my flingo off and just turn it on by lazy explorer teleporting next to it if things get hairy.

[Mday]

7 hours ago, Diaboliko said:

Its a reliable and very consistent strat. If dfly does enrage - you only gotta take 0-1 extra hits(while she is enraged) before she freezes again thanks to flingos. However you can easily avoid enraging her by making sure her freeze timer got refreshed recently. I find this kind of evasion very reliable for myself.

The key to effective usage of flingo strat is killing lavaes while they are frozen by yourself(they die from a single hit with anything while in frozen state)

dude I was talking about the strat shown in the video.

[PuffinBy]

The problem is that you used too much gunpowder at first.  Seven is enough to stun him, (actually, as long as the damage doesn't make him get to the next stage.) Twenty gunpowder can stun him too.(Twenty might not be the max amount, just the biggest number I've tried)

[verm1ll1on]

About the extra Scale, after you stun her, I believe you have a limited amount of time to deal X damage for her to drop the Scale. Let's say you have 5 seconds to deal 2k of damage while she is stunned. If the Gunpowder takes more than 5 seconds to ignite, the scales won't drop.