How To Beat Velgar In Runescape: Dragonwilds

If you’ve made it to the fight, Velgar may prove to be a challenging foe, but with some precise preparations, you’ll be able to defeat it easily and avenge Cathan. Here’s how you can prepare to fight against it and avoid some of its most annoying attacks.

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Where To Find Velgar

Velgar resides in the huge tower in the center of the Fractured Plains. However, to fight against it, you’ll have to craft the Challenge Horn. The Challenge Horn can be crafted on a smithing anvil by combining Bloodwood Sap and a Dragon Tooth with five bronze bars.

Once you have crafted the Challenge Horn, you’ll have to head to Velgar’s Rise, the tower in Fractured Plains, and place the Challenge Horn on the Dragonkin Altar. Doing so will summon Velgar to fight against you.

Preparations For Velgar Boss Battle

Velgar is a power level four boss, which means you’ll need armor and weapons that are at least level four to comfortably fight against it. It is recommended that you have the full set of Ironplate Armor, which provides a 75 Lifeward HP on top of your base HP.

Be sure to bring some small or medium wardstones to get that extra Lifeward HP. Other than that, it’s important to bring a strong bow. You can use either the Blightwood Longbow, the Blightwood Shortbow, or the Hunter Stagbow to fight against Velgar.

Keep in mind that using a melee weapon is highly dangerous because Velgar mostly keeps flying and landing all around the tower, and it’s a lot easier to stick to the bow to dish out consistent damage instead of chasing the boss around with a melee weapon.

Bring an Anti-Poison Potion to withstand Velgar’s poison attacks. If you don’t bring an Anti-Poison Potion, the fight is most likely over the moment you get affected by the poison. After using the Anti-Poison Potion, you can comfortably stand your ground without taking much damage, even if Velgar covers the entire tower in poison.

You can craft the Anti-Poison Potion by combining Harralander and a Bittercap Mushroom inside a brewing cauldron.

Bring a few healing potions as well. These potions will allow you to survive the fight more easily, even if you take some damage in the process. Make sure you’re at full HP and use the Anti-Poison Potion before you put the Challenge Horn on the Dragonkin Altar.

How To Fight Against Velgar

Velgar repeatedly uses the same few attacks during the entire boss battle. These attacks progressively get stronger as Velgar loses more HP, and avoiding them becomes more challenging. All you have to do is repeatedly attack the boss with your bow whenever it lands on the tower, and you’ll eventually come out victorious.

Poison Spit

Velgar covers a triangular area in front of it with poison. If you step on the poison, you will take damage and will build up the poison status effect, unless you’re using the Anti-Poison Potion. You’ll still have to avoid the initial spit attack, which can be done by pressing the evade button at the precise time.

Earth Spikes

The boss will slam its claw on the ground, sending a tracking attack from under the ground, which will cause spikes to erupt from the ground where you’re standing. Velgar will send multiple spikes in your direction if its HP is getting lowered.

You will have to evade just as the spikes are about to connect to avoid taking any damage. It’s good practice to evade multiple times in a row if the boss sends multiple spikes in your direction.

Poison Rain

Velgar will take to the skies, shooting poison at the tower. You can spot where the poison blast is going to land by watching the circles on the ground. You have to watch your footing and avoid the initial blasts. If you end up stepping on the poison that’s on the ground, you won’t take any damage if you’re using the Anti-Poison potion.

In the latter half of the fight, these circles on the ground will start moving, and it will become difficult to predict the precise location of the poison blasts, but you simply have to wait out this attack.

After Velgar has landed on the tower, you can resume attacking it with the bow. Keep your distance from it, and you’ll eventually be able to bring it down for good.

Rewards For Defeating Velgar

Defeating Velgar will reward you with its severed head, which you’re tasked to bring to the Wise Old Man in the Bramblemead Valley. Once you return to him and present him the dragon’s severed head, you will receive the following rewards:

• Dragon Visage
• Anti-Dragon Shield
• Tome Of The Dragon Slayer

Furthermore, you’ll also unlock the recipe for the Dragonblight Shield, which can be crafted on a smithing anvil using the Dragon Visage and the Anti-Dragon Shield that you have just acquired, alongside 12 Vault Shards and one Vault Core.