Chimera and Gorechimera | Bestiary Dragon's Dogma Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Description: The Chimera is a cross-species of a lion, a goat and a snake. It's a fast and powerful beast that can be quite challenging to weaker characters, but it becomes less threatening after learning the basic strategy on how to fight it.

Location: Barta Crags, The Everfall (Chamber of Fate), Cursewood, Deos Hills, Northface Forest, The Greatwall, Verda Woodlands, Vestad Hills. At some of these places it respawns after 3 days.

Weakness: Fire, magick (lion).

Resistance: Physical damage (lion).

Attacks: The Chimera has a lot of attacks. Most of all, the particularly dangerous is the goat which wields magick. It can put the party to sleep of simply deal a lot of damage. The snake tail can poison the characters and it attacks when the lion falls to the ground. The lion itself is also challenging when it stands alone. One of his attacks is directed at a sleeping character - you can snap out of it by moving the left stick.

Strategy: The Chimera consists of three independent parts and it has to be taken into account. If you kill the lion first, the goat takes control of the body. If you kill the lion and the goat, the snake will die automatically. In practice, though, it's better to focus on the two weakest parts: the goat and the snake tail, and only then fight the lion. The only downside is that in the last stage of the fight the lion becomes much more aggressive.

The most comfortable position to attack is on the beast' body. First, kill the tail, then move towards the front so as to strike the goat and the lion's head with each attack. In the last stage, the Chimera becomes faster and fiercer. Nevertheless, try to stay on its back and keep hitting the head. Mages are very useful against the lion since it's partially resistant to physical attacks.

Gorechimera

Description: The Gorechimera is a more powerful version of the Chimera, which appears after killing the Dragon. The beast differs from its basic form in that it can, among other things, heal.

Location: The Everfall (Chamber of Apprehension, Chamber of Hope), Unusual Beach, Barta Crags (both places after killing the Dragon), Tainted Mountain Temple (before the fight with the Dragon).

Strategy: Fighting the enhanced Chimera is much like fighting the basic one, with two differences: the snake tail will grow back after a while, and the goat will be healing the beast. This means that your first priority should be the goat (once defeated, it won't be resurrected).