The opening hours of Metaphor: ReFantazio sends you to a variety of unique places as you’re introduced to its interesting world and gameplay design. After the game’s initial segments play out, you’ll soon find yourself exploring your first main dungeon — a place known as the Nord Mines. This lengthy dungeon stretches on for an hour or so and includes another fight against a human boss. But right as you’re getting ready to reach the end of the mines, you’ll stumble across a room with a sleeping dragon where your team decides it might be smarter to sneak around it and avoid combat.
Because of the way the game pushes you toward stealth in this room, you may be convinced that waking and fighting the dragon is a really bad idea. However, you might be surprised to hear that the dragon actually isn’t that difficult to defeat, and doing so can earn you an extremely powerful weapon. Let’s take a look at what you need to know about the Nord Mines dragon.
How to kill the Nord Mines dragon (and why you should)
When you reach the room with the sleeping dragon in Nord Mines, you can choose to stealth around the outer rim of the area or face the dragon by approaching it. We’d recommend you approach and fight the dragon, as defeating it isn’t as difficult as the game hints it’ll be.
We’d recommend you have at least one Mage archetype with the Blizz spell unlocked, as the dragon is weak to ice. Having multiple mages can make this fight even easier, though you’ll want to make sure they stay on the backline to avoid taking significant damage from the dragon’s various powerful attacks.
Luckily, taking down the dragon is a straightforward affair. Just wail on it with Blizz and heal when necessary to find that it goes down much quicker than you probably initially expected. And when it’s dead, you’ll be able to loot the Dragon’s Indignation greatsword from a chest behind where the dragon was sleeping. Its whopping 111 Attack makes it the absolute best weapon you can equip at this point in the game, so toss it on whichever character you have running the Warrior archetype and prepare to dish out the hurt with it.
