Dark Souls 1 Dragon Bridge

Hellkite Wyvern

Location	Undead Burg
Health *	NG: 2208
Health *	NG+: ??
Souls *	NG: 10,000
Souls *	NG+: 50,000
* Recorded in PATCH 1.5

Hellkite Wyvern Data

Likewise referred to equally a combination of Bridge/Hellkite/Red, and Dragon/Drake/Wyvern.

Description

The Hellkite Wyvern is get-go encountered after the Taurus Demon in the Undead Burg area. After climbing up downward one flight of stairs, wait across the span to see several undead waiting for yous. If you run across the bridge at total speed with shield upward at a light weight (less than 25% of your equip burden), you can make information technology all the way to the midpoint of the span without getting hit by his burn down jiff and duck into an area on the right side that lets you activate the start shortcut in the game (a ladder downward to your previous bonfire). If you walk across the side of the span (without running) you lot can sneak to the midpoint without getting burned by the dragon as well. This is confirmed to work on both NG and NG+ of the PtdE. If you're having a trouble getting past him in that location is another method, get to the staircase on the right side of the span. Poke out a little into his line of sight in order to go him to kill the Undead, the second y'all see him get ready to attack run dorsum downwardly the stairs. One time he'southward back to his usual spot get effectually the track and upward against the wall. This wall will protect you from his burn attacks, if he doesn't come up down to strike y'all try shooting him with a bow. He'll either shoot fire or wing towards you, you lot want him to fly towards you for an assault. Once he does run by him as fast as y'all tin can, don't worry near the items because once you light the Bonfire right under him you'll exist able to get those items much easier. The only thing yous'll need to worry about is the flying back + shooting fire attack and his tail. To make this easier destroy his tail on the platform under him where y'all have a articulate shot at his tail.

Glitches

Note: Earlier glitch killing for x,000 souls, ensure that yous have farmed the 555 souls you receive for just walking upward the mid bridge stairs until it is obsolete. I have recorded 10 souls per 2d which helped me apace purchase next level magic and levels to movement onto the next zone. Yous may be surprised how quick 10k goes when you kill him vs farming for much more.

Later on the one.05 Patch: Shooting it from behind with ane arrow tin can make information technology vanish into thin air, but information technology will come back during a later visit. No souls are rewarded for this.
The Wyvern tin also be attacked from behind the gate that leads to the Sunlight Chantry. Approach from the rats or from the Undead Church, to prevent the dragon from flying away. Get to the acme of the first stairs, where the undead soldier awaits, then turn around and walk along the ledge in a higher place the staircase. Do an overhead attack against the wall, right to a higher place the gate, and information technology should hit the fly of the wyvern. Alternatively, spring across to the modest ledge on the other side of the staircase, where whatsoever attack should exist able to hit information technology.

Rewards

Killing the Hellkite Wyvern, either unremarkably or through a glitch, will reward you with ten,000 souls (50,000 on NG+). This is more than enough to catapult a character at low level upwardly to exist much more competitive with the monsters you are most to face.
If you destroy the creature's tail by shooting at information technology with your bow, yous can obtain the Drake Sword, a favorite starting weapon of many players, which has a base assail rating of 200. Y'all can shoot his tail from below the bridge with a brusque bow to suspension it. It takes 28 shots using regular wooden arrows or 13 Big Arrows with a Regular Short Bow using regular wooden arrows (done with minimum possible stats to use bow). Stand underneath the bridge, kill the couple enemies lurking around, and take your time shooting his tail. Each shot, he'll wing down to the bridge and stomp around earlier flying back to his perch. The Drake Sword volition appear in your inventory when his tail is destroyed. (Note: when playing a depression Dex build, this can exist done with well-nigh 25-30 shots of Normal Bolts from the Low-cal Crossbow likewise, but bring near 10 extra. Since you cannot aim crossbows as y'all tin with bows, it takes a scrap of adjusting the character position, role player cam, and test shots to line up everything properly.)
Killing the Hellkite Wyvern allows you to teleport to the Sunlight Altar bonfire after placing the Lordvessel. (Maybe outdated data, the bonfire can exist warped to regardless of whether or not the Wyvern is live)

Strategy

With a stiff plenty weapon and a bit of sprint/dodging:

Showtime arouse the dragon into blasting the bridge with fire killing off all the hollows, piece of cake enough with a bow.
From the meridian of the stairs fire an pointer at the Wyvern and and so switching back to your chief weapon, run forrard to where he should land. Once you lot're close enough hack away since if yous're behind his claws his breath won't hitting you. Once he leaps up into the air run dorsum in the reverse direction to where he'll land and proceed striking away, repeat as necessary. I did this with a +2 Lightning Halberd and he only got to fly virtually one time.
Notation: the Wyvern is completely allowed to fire, meaning Burn down/Chaos weapons will deal limited damage.

Means to kill/pass the Hellkite Wyvern without directly engaging it:

Use a bow to aim spells at his head from under the span near the rat tunnel. If you tin can get by the Wyvern as explained to a higher place and join the Warrior of Sunlight then Lightning Spear can kill the Wyvern in five-7 hits. This strat is practiced for organized religion users, and it may also be helpful for int-magic users. Same can exist washed with Soul Arrow/Heavy Soul Arrow. This is past far the easiest technique.
Shoot the Wyvern from nether the span; first cut off the tail then shooting the caput/neck. At base of operations stats needed for the Short Bow (purchased for one,000 souls from Undead Merchant (Male)) information technology will have roughly 350-400 arrows to take him down. (The Wyven will showtime to heal itself after a while. While it is healing it will agree its left wing over its head to protect itself.) After 1.05 patch. It looks like Wyvern cannot be killed any more with depression level bows. No thing how many arrows you shoot, he keeps regenerating himself. If your bow deals most 120 damage per hit, there is a risk of beating him; it seems his regenerating ability is too stiff -keeping him at about lx% heal. The Wyvern has a different animation for when information technology heals its harm, it will heighten its wings as if its covering/licking its wings. It but does this while continuing on acme of the gate that leads to the bonfire. I was able to kill the Wyvern with a +five Short Bow and a combination of poison and wooden arrows, if you only have wooden or standard arrows, salve your arrows until you have admission to poisonous substance arrows.
Shoot the wyvern'due south tail from below the bridge to obtain the Drake Sword. equip the drake sword as your second right mitt weapon. stand at the top of the stairs without causing him to exhale burn down, shoot an pointer at his head/neck (this will cause him to jump down onto the bridge) chop-chop bandy to the drake sword and agree with both hands while running into the center of the bridge and swing your sword. If you time information technology correctly, by time you swing your sword you will hit his head every bit he roars. at present be quick and dart back down the stairs. It will have a little practice but when you have it down you wont take any harm. information technology simply takes nearly x of these to do the job.
Note: it is possible to run past the wyvern if the player is able to whorl between its legs when information technology lands on the bridge. This allows the thespian to use the bonfire across the bridge and open up the gate to the Undead Parish. Be warned: the drake volition fly abroad subsequently you make information technology through, but it volition go on returning to the bridge until destroyed. This means that the straight route across the span is withal unsafe.
If y'all accept the Master Key, you tin access the bridge, dragon costless, by never walking up the stairs in Undead Burg where you first run into the dragon. Instead, take the route Firelink Shrine -> New Londo Ruins -> Darkroot Basin -> Darkroot Garden -> Undead Parish -> Undead Burg. The road is unsafe this early on, and includes outrunning enemies much of the time, and then y'all may want to remove armor during the New Londo and Darkroot sections.
This is a NG+ or belatedly NG strat. Run to the kickoff of the bridge contrary the dragon and equip your hawk ring. Equip your bow, with this you lot can hit him all the fashion from across the span. If you don't have arrows or this bow even so so yous wil take to run a niggling up the bridge and shoot your long bow (+whatsoever level). He will land on the bridge and begin walking towards yous. Run dorsum to the curvation way and shoot a few arrows at him. When he looks equally if he is going to breathe fire run/dodge down the stairs on either side that atomic number 82 to where you showtime met Solaire. Give him a second and he volition plough around to beginning walking towards his perch again. Let him walk 4 to 5 steps and so attack with your bow again until he shut and rinse/repeat running down the stairs and dorsum up attacking. The key is to make sure he doesn't get fourth dimension to return to his perch and heal. You volition be surprised how fast he goes down this mode (confirmed on NG+)
A good combination is the Cherry Tearstone Band, Ring of the Sunday's Firstborn and Great Lightning Spear. Let an enemy damage you to trigger the Red Tearstone Ring. Stand up on the right side of the span where you would shoot the tail to learn the Drake Sword (You can break it off in one striking). Aim for his correct wing with a Lightning Spear. Repeat until dead. You lot'll desire to use a bow-zoom to aim. Will go down in 5-half dozen hits. THIS WAS DONE ON NG+ with a SL 120 Character.