Elden Ring: Jagged Peak Drake (Jagged Peak Foothills) Boss Fight (SOTE)

As you probably know, bosses in Elden Ring are divided into three tiers. From lowest to highest: Field Bosses, Greater Enemy Bosses and finally Demigods and Legends.

Jagged Peak Drake is in the middle tier, Greater Enemy Bosses, and is found outdoors in the Jagged Peaks Foothills area in the Land of Shadow. It is an optional boss in the sense that it is not required to defeat it in order to progress the main story of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.

As I was climbing up some rather rough terrain, I came across a large dragon just sleeping in the middle of nowhere. Or now that I think of it, it was actually a quite small dragon compared to some others I’ve seen. So yeah, it was a drake. No matter, it’s similar enough to a dragon that I knew what it was dreaming about: yet another elaborate scheme to somehow get me roasted and be the dragon’s next meal.

Not one to suffer the insatiable appetites of dragons and their kin, I immediately called in Black Knife Tiche for assistance and readied by usual favorite dragon attitude readjustment tool, the Bolt of Gransax. This time I even remembered to put on the Godfrey Icon and Shard of Alexander, both of which boost the ranged damage of the Bolt of Gransax a great deal.

Fighting dragons in melee is just annoying as it’s usually about chasing after their feet and getting stomped upon half the time, so I prefer to stay ranged and the ranged weapon art on the Bolt of Gransax is just perfect for that, even though it’s fairly slow to charge up.

I usually prefer to wake sleeping dragons with an arrow to the face, but the red lightning from the Bolt of Gransax works just as well. There is also a certain poetic justice to a dragon dreaming about roasting me, only to be awakened by having its own face roasted by lightning accompanied by the sound of my manic cackling.

And now for the usual boring details about my character. I play as a mostly Dexterity build. My melee weapons are the Hand of Mallenia and the Uchigatana with Keen affinity, but I mostly used the Bolt of Gransax in this fight. I was level 202 and Scadutree Blessing 10 when this video was recorded, which I think is reasonable for this boss. I’m always looking for the sweet spot where it’s not mind-numbing easy mode, but also not so difficult that I will be stuck on the same boss for hours ;-)

Fan art inspired by this boss fight

Anime-style fan art of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor facing the Jagged Peak Drake in the fiery foothills of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, moments before battle. Click or tap the image for more information.

Dark, realistic fantasy artwork of the Tarnished in Black Knife armor confronting the Jagged Peak Drake in a barren, red-lit landscape moments before battle. Click or tap the image for more information.

Dark fantasy scene showing the Tarnished from behind on the left, facing a colossal Jagged Peak Drake looming ahead in a barren, ash-lit landscape. Click or tap the image for more information.

Wide dark fantasy scene showing the Tarnished from behind on the left, facing a colossal Jagged Peak Drake amid a barren, rocky landscape under a fiery sky. Click or tap the image for more information.

Elevated isometric view of the Tarnished seen from behind on the left, facing a colossal Jagged Peak Drake in a barren, rocky landscape under an ash-red sky. Click or tap the image for more information.

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