26 May 2025 - 22:55Finally, Killed Megadragon !
Posted by NickTheGreek, 9 Aug 2014, 04:27 PM
finally killed the MegaDragon in Word Of Xeen !!!
"The Megadragon is the hardest monster in the game so it's best to fight him shortly before the game ends.
But if you want a challenge you can defeat him at level 100 or even earlier and even in a Darkside only game.
The Megadragon has 90% damage resistance, the Xeen Slayer Sword ignores damage resistance so it's x10 versus Megadragons. You can trade it during the fight if you want to be cheesy, if not weapons of dragon slaying do triple damage.
The dragon has 64k HP, the mass distortion spell halfs HP, cast it several times with cleric and paladin. Dragon sleep spell works sometimes.
Preparation doesn't hurt either, at the dragon clouds there's a well which grants 50 levels temporarily, use it and cast day of protection and day of sorcery afterwards, if you have items which casts those spells have your highest level character use them. The dragon attacks with energy so use a location which raises energy resistance too. And get your stats raised temporarily, might allows doing more damage, luck reduces the chance to get eradicated instantly if you take damage, ..., there are locations which offer extra HP and SP, ....
Start your buffing in the morning so you have plenty of time to visit all beneficial location and fight before the day expires.
Start the fight in melee (use jump or teleport if needed) since the dragon has a better ranged attack than your party."
http://www.gog.com/forum/might_and_magic_series/world_of_xeen_mega_dragon
More information
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Castle Alamar's top level is always available even after you "killed" Sheltem. You can even visit Sheltem's room again if you want. If you do go in, you'll find yourself trapped with Sheltem's lonely forgotten chair. The only way to escape Sheltem's room in this situation is Mr. Wizard or Town Portal.
Nothing really changes if you kill Mega dragon first; he's just a regular monster as far as the game engine is concerned. In addition to 100,000,000 experience, MD gives you easy access to some Xeen Power Juice. But killing MD isn't even necessary to get this juice. Check out this map of Castle Alarm Level 3 to see why:
http://www.pcurzi.net/wagh/mdragon.png
The green bar is the regular path to Sheltem, while blue highlights the path to Mega Dragon's cloud and the Juice. The game never gives puzzle instructions for that blue path to my knowledge, so uncovering it is a matter of trial and error.
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