The Dragon Pod, also known as the Drgn Grass in the PlayStation version, is a boss in Final Fantasy V. It is the reason wind drakes have been dying out, as it attacks any drakes that investigate the plant. When the party seeks for herbs to heal a wind drake, they mistake the Dragon Pod for the herb and are attacked.
It is fought on the peak of Drakenvale; in the Finest Fantasy for Advance and the 2013 versions, it also appears in the Sealed Temple's Cloister of the Dead.
Stats[]
Battle[]
The Dragon Pod will only spawn Dragon Flowers, which will attack the party for a small amount of damage and inflict old, confuse, paralyze, poison, or darkness, depending on the type of flower.
Both the Dragon Pod and its flowers have no elemental weaknesses or resistances, and lack the Heavy flag.
Strategy[]
The simplest strategy is to constantly cast the party's strongest multi-target spells, or use a Monk's kick ability. As the Dragon Flowers have only 100 HP each, powerful spells and kick can wipe out entire groups as they appear, on top of dealing damage to the Dragon Pod.
For an alternate strategy, as soon as the battle begins, the party should summon Golem. The party can now kill the Dragon Pod and the Dragon Flowers surrounding it easily, since they all use physical attacks. The party can first kill the flowers, then focus on the pod. One can cast Sleep on every flower, rendering the Dragon Pod defenseless.
As the Dragon Pod is not immune to the Blue Magic spell Death Claw, using this right before a multi-targeting attack will wipe out every enemy on-screen.
Dragon Pod is not immune to instant death and can potentially be killed by a character attacking with Death Sickle, which can be acquired from a Harvester in Bartz's world. If a Berserker is using the Death Sickle, the player should eliminate the Dragon Flowers as not to distract the Berserker's targeting. Another way to potentially incur instant death with a Beastmaster releasing an Aquathorn to cast Death. The party can also use Iainuki, acquired at leveling a Samurai to level 5, to instantly dispatch the Dragon Pod.
A chemist can use the Mix command to use Antilixir on the Dragon Pod to immediately put it in critical HP and then kill it with a single attack.
A Geomancer can use the Gaia ability to potentially use Twister on the Dragon Pod, reducing it to single digit HP.
Other appearances[]
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