Dragon Isles

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Overview

Monsters: Monster: Dragon Spawn Dragon Spawns, Monster: Druid Druids, Monster: Serpent Serpents, etc etc etc

Boss: Firstborn, Matron of Flame

Special Rules

Defeating the Firstborn will unlock the path to the Lair.

The Lair is a narrow corridor that starts with two Dragon Guards flanking a wall that vanishes if they're defeated, followed by four Dragon Elites and finally the Matron of Flame.

The Matron drops Item: Dragon Shield Dragon Shield instead of a trophy, but The Firstborn drops a dragon scale as normal. Although the dragon scale is the only trophy in the dungeon, you may choose to sell it for 25g, but you can also leave with it and sell it to the taxidermist.

Strategy

(todo: find out if any content from Annotated Playthrough Dragon Isles and Anyone Can Win Vicious Part 2: Dragon Isles is still useful)

After the interminable curse-corrosion-weaken trifectas of most Vicious dungeons, this is a fresh breath of air. Prefer HALPMEH to PISORF or BURNDAYRAZ, as there are no walls and the Matron retaliates. The final gauntlet can be bypassed with a single use of a wall-breaking ability and WEYTWUT to leap over the other four enemies. Or if you make it to level 10 and have WONAFYT, you can summon the Matron to you after destroying the wall or killing one guard.

Assassin - Play competently enough to reach level 10 in the main dungeon (A Item: Balanced Dagger Balanced Dagger, the Goblin race or worship Dracul/Tikki Tooki may be useful); this will allow you to make short work of the Matron's escort and handle her as you would handle a slightly lighter-weight Super Meat Man.

Berserker - The berserker trivializes the first half of the dungeon with his magic resist. If you save enough popcorn, you can use that magic resist for the Matron as well.

Crusader - Resists such as the Dragon Shield's are nearly useless for other classes in the lair because of the curse bearers, but not for the Crusader! Keep some level 1 and 2 enemies alive to build momentum and truly show the dragons the meaning of pain.

Priest - If you already have the Item: Naga Cauldron Naga Cauldron from the Naga City, you can see just how much HP a Halfling Priest can accumulate. A Item: Trisword Trisword helps too. If possible, limit resource use with the Firstborn by using APHEELSIK.

Quests

Vicious

Here be Dragons - Complete Dragon Isles with any 3 classes. Unlocks the playable Class: Half-Dragon Half-Dragon monster class.