If you see Gold Dragon is coming, you should try to have Orange 3 and preferably Green 3/5 (although almost every comp needs Orange 3 and Green 3/5 anyway, so it should be something you should be trying to get in general).

Gold Dragon's gimmick is that it begins with Truestrike 6, so he spams your team in the first 2 turns. Two of the attacks in the first two turns will be stuns, the other will be an AoE nuke. You need to have a team who can begin recovering very quickly, meaning you need to place healers in the back to avoid getting stunned and make sure that they can protect your team for the 2nd turn. Stuff like Pinto is very valuable here.

In general, Gold Dragon is the most "stat-check" heavy of the second-to-last bosses. Did you bring healing? Do you have enough up-front defenses? Can you recover in the first turn (usually with Orange 3)? Then you usually can beat Gold Dragon.

If you see Gold Dragon, build for the Illusion symbol. It's (literally) the only way to consistently kill it, or kill it at all in the later Witch's Maze.

Without Illusion, it's really heavy RNG: there doesn't seem to be a limit on how often he can use his breath attack and healing can't keep up with its damage, so you don't have a chance if he uses it 3-4 times in a row.

I have now tested "Blue" and "Shield". It was okay, but it was not enough. I got as far as the "Golden Dragon" easily - without really taking any damage. But at the "Golden Dragon" I die again. (I tried it 2x) I will now test your idea, Rwar, in relation to "Illusion". Thanks for the tip.

Edit: I didn't make it with "Illussion" either. Heal + Illusion does not work. Due to the fact that the "Golden Dragon" attacks several times, 1x Illusion brings nothing at all. I have already unlocked 47/80 and I can't do the "Golden Dragon"... Will there be anything after that, or is that the end?

I finally did it!

If someone had told me that you can sell the units and if they were > silver that the symbols/bonuses are kept, then everything would have been much easier. :-D

Originally posted by Newbie:

I finally did it!

If someone had told me that you can sell the units and if they were > silver that the symbols/bonuses are kept, then everything would have been much easier. :-D

it's stated in the tutorial

Originally posted by WhatTheFlip:

Originally posted by Newbie:

I finally did it!

If someone had told me that you can sell the units and if they were > silver that the symbols/bonuses are kept, then everything would have been much easier. :-D

it's stated in the tutorial :monstertrainaww:

Seriously? I'm usually pretty observant when it comes to things like this. :-O Then it was probably not so much in focus when that was described.

Originally posted by Newbie:

Originally posted by WhatTheFlip:

it's stated in the tutorial :monstertrainaww:

Seriously? I'm usually pretty observant when it comes to things like this. :-O Then it was probably not so much in focus when that was described.

Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/s6RrMki

gold dragon is bugged, triggered 2 time in quick succession his heavy aoe spell ...

Originally posted by potato:

gold dragon is bugged, triggered 2 time in quick succession his heavy aoe spell ...

It's not a bug, he attacks 3 times per turn, heavy can trigger every 2 attacks, he also starts with true strike 6, so he will do 2 turns with 3 specials each, better bring some mitigation, or its bye bye.

Also better roll lucky on your illusions first turn or 2 or you die like what happened to me where it didn't trigger for those first 2 turns so i lost most of my team.

It's annoying to just die from RNG failure with illusion heh...

Golden dragon = cancer.
I had an amazing run and in before last boss - Golden Dragon,
Nuked my team and i lost, nice.

It's one of the harder (and more random) bosses. Always have two shields ready to go at the start of the fight, and get the green bonus to avoid being bursted down. It can also stun your key units, so be prepared for that too.