I'm trying to get all the pieces of the crystal armor in the dungeon in the moon, but there's a red dragon in a box that kills me with "Thermal Ray" that makes something like 2k of damage to my party.
Any advice on how fight it?
I found the solution. I have to cast slow and berserk on it, so that it can't use "thermal ray".
It was so obvious... How do I forgot?
Thank you again.
Try with casting reflect on your party, I played it very long time ago so I cannot be sure about it. However... Great game ;)
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Dragon_%28Final_Fantasy_IV%29 This link says the best method is to just hack away at it.
You should probably level up a bit before this fight if you're getting hit that badly!
The main problem is that people just love using magic in every single battle. If I remember correctly, this monster reacts with Thermal Ray every time you use magic on him, if you don't it's really easy and it's attacks are mostly harmless.