Niedner

### Dragon Soul - Niedner

Niedner is the fifth **boss** in Dawnlands and currently one of the hardest to conquer. Once the ruler of the snow mountains, Niedner is the last of the Dragon lineage. Evidence of the dragons being exterminated is not clear, but their strength. from times unknown, is still clear as day. Even while sealed, Niedner is still channeling the storms on the snow mountains in hopes of guarding the last light of the dragons.

## Boss Information

### Location

Niedner can be found in the SnowMountain biome.

### Rewards

* World level progression from V to VI
* Level cap on player rises from 50 to 60
* Makes the Mithril Armour set available for unlocking.

### Drops

* Ancient Dragon's Horn
* Ancient Dragon's Scale
* Niedner's Grudge

## Defeating the Boss

### Unique Attacks

* Frost Breath : Niedner opens its mouth for a while and that's your cue to move to the side or behind it
* Frost Spear : Niedner makes several spears of ice in the air. After a while it rapidly shoots them to your exact location. It's shooting animation is too fast, and really hard to dodge.
* Poisoned Earth Spike : Niedner shoots earth spike from the bottom of your exact location, There is no animation at all and no demarcation of AOE coverage.
* Charge: Niedner charges into your character.

### Clearing Strategy

For defeating Niedner, there is no trick or shortcut to use, but there are definitely some things that you should pay absolute attention to.

Riding your mount while fighting this boss is necessary to dodge the boss' skills. This is where you learn to shoot arrows while riding your mount. On your 1st try, just bring a cheap weapon and learn its attack pattern. You can re-summon the boss as many times as you want until you kill the boss for the 1st time (no additional key needed at all). Don't be afraid to fail and die several times until you get the hang of it.

#### Right Times to Attack The Boss

* After dodging the frost spear
* After taking damage from the earth spike
* When Niedner is casting frost breath

When you feel like you understand the pattern enough, bring your best bow and arrows and fight the boss for real. don't forget to be hungry so you have more capacity to heal.

#### Suggested Consumables and Trinket

* Atk Potion M
* Cold Resistance Wine
* Dandelion Wine
* HEALTH POTION S
* HEALTH POTION M
* Soup
* Food (Sausage or Roast Beef)
* Pierce Trinket
* Elemental Trinket
* Frost Resistance Trinket.

#### Why 2 separate health potion?

Because both of them have a separate cooldown, so you have more options to heal. Cold Resistance wine reduces the damage taken from the boss attacks. Soup is for Sustainable heals.

#### Weapon Recommendation

Melee weapons are useless in this boss fight. It flies and rarely gets down. Even when it goes down, it only drops for 5 seconds max. You need a lot of bows and arrows. It is recommended to have full slot copper bows + tons of copper arrows (around 8 bows + 1000 of any arrows better than wooden ones)

#### Tips on using the follower

Your follower will take the agro of the boss off of you. Your follower has a maximum range of how far it can be from your character; so every time the boss prepared for Frost Breath, run far away until your follower gets teleported back to you and out of the frost breath area. this will reduce the amount of damage taken by your follower by a significant amount. Give your follower Cold Resistance Armor Set as well. Its a really cheap high-tier equipment, easy to make. Place your backup Arrows + Wood in your follower's backpack, you have enough time to craft when the boss is doing its frost breath