Ender Dragon

The Ender Dragon is a Boss found on the End Island in the Dragon's Nest. It drops powerful loot including Dragon Armors and Dragon Fragments when killed. Unlike the Magma Cube Boss, which spawns naturally, the Ender Dragon must be summoned.

The Ender Dragon has 7 variants: Protector, Wise, Unstable, Superior, Strong, Young, and Old.

The Ender Dragon has between 7.5 and 15 million depending on the variant it spawns as.

Summoning
The Ender Dragon is summoned with 8 Summoning Eyes. These eyes must be placed in the altar in the center of the nest. After all 8 are placed, the dragon is summoned and the fight will begin. This is similar to the summoning of Arachne with Arachne Keeper Fragments.

Variants
The Ender Dragon will spawn as one of seven variants. The dragon variant affects the Dragon's health, behavior, drops, and attacks.

The Dragon Fight
After eight Summoning Eyes have been placed, there will be a brief period before the dragon will hatch from an egg in the sky, knocking all players a large distance away from the Dragon Altar at the center of the Dragon's Nest. After the dragon has spawned, the dragon variant will be announced in the chat.

The door to the Dragon's Nest will shut, the gaps at the top will be covered with glass and Ender Crystals will spawn around the nest on top of obsidian spikes. These crystals must be destroyed to stop the dragon from regenerating health. Destroyed crystals will respawn after a certain amount of time.

Additionally, Gregory the Opportunist will spawn near the Dragon's Gate. He will sell a Decent Bow as well as Arrows at a higher price than the Weaponsmith in town.

Attacks
The dragon has three attacks, which all deal True Damage, meaning defense won't work against these attacks.
 * 1) Rush - The dragon will charge a player, inflicting heavy damage and knockback.
 * 2) Fireball - The dragon will fly to a point in the arena, stop in place, then fire a barrage of fireballs at players. These fireballs explode and can damage multiple players at once. They will knock players high up into the air.
 * 3) Lightning - The dragon will briefly stop in place, summoning lightning around it and creating audible thunder sounds. After a brief period, it will summon lightning and smite players from above. This attack can be avoided if the player has a block above their head.

After some time has passed, the dragon will summon groups of Zealots. Note that these Zealots are immediately hostile, even if the player has not damaged or looked at them. The Dragon also makes already existing Zealots hostile.

When players are killed, they must make their way down to the Dragon's Nest again, and break down the sealed door. The door has lots of health, can be attacked with both ranged and melee attacks and will open again when its health bar is depleted. Both endermites and endermen spawn as the door takes damage. This can be avoided by using a horse pet to glitch in or using the Dragon's Nest Travel Scroll.

After the Ender Dragon is defeated, Gregory will depart and hostile mobs will not spawn in the Dragon's Nest for a brief amount of time. All existing hostile mobs (including special zealots) will instantly die. During this time, dragons cannot be summoned. After this brief time has passed, a message in the chat will announce the respawning of the Dragon Egg, after which mobs will spawn as normal and players are able to summon another dragon.

①Basic Items
Players can attack the dragon with bows from a distance, or use a sword to do melee damage while it is not moving. Due to the Dragon's speed, strength, and large amount of health, it is recommended to use these items:

1. Armors, Weapons, Tools and support items

 * Any decent armor, Dragon Armor or stronger gear
 * Keeps you alive when the dragon uses its abilities.


 * Runaan's Bow or other strong bows, with basic level 5 Enchantments, including Snipe, Power, and Aiming.
 * Allows you to do massive ranged damage to the dragon, which is the main method due to the dragon rarely perching and constantly being in the air.


 * Aspect of the End and/or Grappling Hook
 * For increased mobility and melee damage.


 * Radiant Power Orb
 * For the health regeneration ability.

2. Potions

 * Archery Potions
 * Strength Potions
 * Critical Potions
 * Spirit Potions
 * Rabbit/Jump Boost Potions

Or, instead of using all those potions, you could use a God Potion, bought from Elizabeth for 1500 SkyBlock Bits



3. Pets

 * Any pet with strength and/or critical damage bonus, the Variant of the Griffin is recommended.
 * Any pets with damage increasing abilities, such as the Tiger.

4. Other items

 * Accessories reforged to any Reforge which gives  Strength and/or Crit Damage (e.g Forceful, Strong, ect.).

②Advanced Strategy
Players seeking to deal as much damage as possible should use the following items and strategies to maximize damage:

1.Armors, Weapons, Tools and support items
Damage Boosting Armor, such as:


 * Strong Dragon Armor
 * Optionally with Tarantula Helmet and/or Tarantula Boots
 * The passive ability of Tarantula Helmet named "Radioactive", which bonus its wearer 1% crit dmg per 10 strength, is good for increase stats.
 * Using Tarantula Boots makes the wearer able to stay in range, which allows the wearer do melee dmg with a strong sword to the dragon.
 * Tarantula Armor
 * Tarantula Armor

More powerful than tarantula-strong armor sets, because its full set bonus will provide more damage during the fight.


 * Tuxedos

Are even more powerful than Tarantula or Strong Dragon Armor sets, because of the Dashing ability which increases total damage output and it's incredibly high critical damage stat


 * Werewolf Armor

As of the Skyblock Patch 0.11.3, any damage above 1% of the Dragon's health will not count, so many people use this set because of its high ferocity stat, allowing the player ot hit the boss more times.

Aspect of the Dragons or Livid Dagger

Aspect of the Dragons has decent basic stats and it is cheap recently. But Livid Dagger has 100% critical chance and its backstab ability is easy to activate when dragon stops.

Runaans' Bow with full enchantments, even including dragon hunter.

Mana Flux Power Orb, Overflux Power Orb or Plasmaflux Power Orb

For stronger buff.

2.Pets
Higher rarity tiger and Legendary Wither Skeleton are recommended.

3.Other items

 * Weird Tuba
 * For its strength boost when using it.
 * When the dragon is shooting fireballs, utilize a Grappling Hook and/or Aspect of the End to quickly close the distance and use Tarantula Boots to stay in range to use a strong melee weapon such as Livid Dagger
 * When the dragon is shooting fireballs, utilize a Grappling Hook and/or Aspect of the End to quickly close the distance and use Tarantula Boots to stay in range to use a strong melee weapon such as Livid Dagger
 * When the dragon is shooting fireballs, utilize a Grappling Hook and/or Aspect of the End to quickly close the distance and use Tarantula Boots to stay in range to use a strong melee weapon such as Livid Dagger

③Sweat Strategy
This strategy requires the player to have a large quantity of Remnants of the Eye in their inventory as any kind of attack from the dragon will kill them in a single hit. And also, many items here cost many coins to obtain, so prepare tons of coins if you want to be a sweat.

Armors, Weapons, Tools and support items
Elegant Tuxedo with Warden Helmet or (on budget) Crown of Greed

This set of armor can provide very high damage boosts during dragon fights, but these pieces are expensive.

Maxed Gilded Midas' Sword or maxed Shadow Fury

Both of these two weapons have high basic stats.

Maxed Livid Dagger might be able to deal more damage than Midas' Sword and Shadow Fury when its passive ability is active.

Maxed Runaans' Bow or maxed Magma Bow

Runaans' Bow is always good in dragon fights, but recently Magma Bow can do more damage.

2.Pets
Epic / Legendary Tiger, Legendary Wither Skeleton, Legendary Golem, or Epic / Legendary Ender Dragon

3.Other items

Large amount of accessories

Overflux Power Orb

④Mage Strategy
If one is trying to beat the Ender Dragon as a mage, it's necessary to have some of these items:
 * Frozen Scythe or Bonzo's Staff
 * Voodoo Doll
 * Ink Wand
 * Elegant Tuxedo with Shadow Goggles
 * Guardian or Sheep Pet
 * Aspect of the End and Grappling Hook to approach dragon quickly

When the Dragon stops to perform a Fireball or Lightning attack, use a Grappling Hook and/or Aspect of the End to get in close range to a dragon, then use Ink Wand and the Voodoo Doll to apply the damage over time debuff. The Guardian Pet can be utilized when you are close to the dragon to trigger its Lazerbeam ability for massive damage.

⑤ Endgame Strategies
This strategy require some of the best gear in the game and a level of mechanical skill. This section is split into two parts: Prefire Strategy and Sword Swap Strategy:

Prefire- This strategy involves dealing as much damage to the dragon as it hatches out of the egg. To do this strategy, it's recommended to use:


 * Elegant Tuxedo with Warden Helmet or Crown of Greed(Or Tarantula Helmet if one's is higher than their )
 * A good bow, preferably a Mosquito Bow or Magma Bow
 * Edible Mace
 * a Golem Pet

Before the dragon spawns, prepare your golem's Toss ability by killing 4 mobs. Then, as the dragon is about to spawn, shoot arrows on the egg. Then, right as the dragon egg shatters, trigger the Edible Mace's ability to double the damage of your arrows, Once the dragon actually spawns, your Edible Mace's prop stacks with the Golem's ability, dealing massive damage. If done with multiple people, The dragon could lose half of it's health upon birth or even die immediately.

Sword Swap- this strategy utilizes dungeon items to deal massive damage. However, unlike the prefire strategy, this requires the player to be in close proximity to the dragon

Items required include the following-


 * Elegant Tuxedo or Necron's Armor
 * At least 3 or 4 Bonemerangs
 * Giant's Sword(Preferably with One For All )

Due to your setup having little to no range, this requires getting up close to the dragon, Once you get close, fire all your Bonemerangs and immediately swap to your Giant's Sword to amplify your bones' damage.

Drops
Each player that damages the Ender Dragon will receive individual loot, including Ender Pearls and Enchanted Ender Pearls.

Major loot received is governed by Dragon Weight, which determines a player's eligibility for major loot. Note that achieving a weight requirement does not guarantee the respective drop.

Dragon Weight is determined in the following manner: While players will be ranked in damage regardless of whether they damaged the dragon, they must deal damage to the dragon to receive Dragon Weight.

Players will only receive one major loot item from a dragon. Reaching the weight requirement for an item grants eligibility to receive it, but does not guarantee it will drop. Items are rolled in the order shown by the loot table, meaning the player has a chance at receiving the item of the highest weight requirement they achieved first, followed by items after it in descending order.

Note that every Summoning Eye placed will increase the chances of obtaining the Aspect of the Dragons.

According to Dctr, a skyblock admin, the chances of obtaining a Ender Dragon Pet are 0.04%.

Dragon Scale, Dragon Claw, Dragon Horn, Aspect of the Dragons, and Ender Dragon Pet all have a chance to drop when reached 450 Dragon Weight. Dragon Scale, Dragon Claw, Dragon Horn, and Ender Dragon Pet won't subtract the weight when drop looted.

Players will receive a Dragon Fragment for every 22 remaining Dragon Weight after the weight of the item they received is subtracted from their total weight.

Players will achieve a minimum of three fragments if they dealt at least one damage.

Tips

 * Placing 2 Summoning Eyes has been proven to be the optimal amount to place for its cost to reward ratio. However, this strategy requires the player to consistently score first or second place.
 * Brewing Potions will drastically increase damage output
 * Helpful potions are Strength Potions, Archery Potions, Critical Potions and Spirit Potions, and Rabbit or Jump Boost Potions.
 * The Jump Boost does not directly increase damage, but being able to shoot your bow from higher to prevent the aiming enchant targeting Obsidian defenders and Watchers as well as being able to quickly climb up the miniature spikes without using mana does prove to be an advantage.


 * Having specialized Armor will help increase damage dealt.
 * The most effective armor sets are Strong Dragon Armor, Frozen Blaze Armor, Superior Dragon Armor, Tarantula Armor.
 * Crystal Armor and Tarantula Armor have a fantastic synergy. Crystal Armor can be equipped for high amounts of, which is retained after switching to Tarantula Armor. When the dragon stops, use Aspect of the End to quickly close the distance to the dragon and then keep double jumping (using the tarantula or spider boots) while hitting it.
 * Before a fight when the dragon is about to spawn, bow shots can be pre-fired, allowing extra damage at the start of the fight.
 * Clicking as fast as you can is recommended since the dragon does not have the hit delay that other mobs do. For example, someone clicking 12 times per second hits the dragon 12 times per second.
 * It is recommended to use Dragon Hunter 3, but due to the costly price, dh 4 and dh 5 should try to be avoided unless you have a high budget as dh 4 costs 8m and dh 5 costs 16m

Trivia

 * Similar the Magma Cube Boss, players will see their ranking for how much damage they dealt to the boss.
 * The Ender Dragon was the second Boss added to the game.
 * There is currently a bug in which in certain lobbies, summoned dragons will disappear after a player hits it with the Aspect of the Dragons ability. The boss bar and Gregory the Opportunist is still present, but the dragon itself is missing. Ender Crystals still spawn around a minute after the disappearance, and it stays like that until the lobby resets.
 * The Old Dragon has the 3rd highest health of all non-dungeon mobs, at . This is second only to the Arachne tier 2 and Minos Inquisitor.
 * Holy Dragons do not exist, even though Holy Dragon Armor, Holy Fragments, and Holy Lost Adventurers do.