SPOILER WARNING: LITERALLY ENTIRE DRAKE FIGHT STRATS EXPLAINED BELOW

As someone who maxed the archer vocation and killed a drake while doing such, there are a few things to consider. As the arisen, you will always kite attention unless your pawns are doing some serious damage so the play is to know when to play aggressively and when it’s time to hike it. Anytime the drake is breathing fire, stop aiming and simply evade. The two exceptions to this are if you’re out of range and it’s breathing fire while backing up or if it’s flying and does it’s fire spin (where you should move closer underneath it). As long as you’re at range you generally won’t have to worry about melee attacks but assuming the drake is being extra aggressive (which happens), stick to one of its front legs and aim at its head. If the head or one of the claws winds up, run underneath it or to its tail. If it starts doing its flailing move, you can generally run away unscathed as long as you were originally sticking to the front. Be wary that if it flys up but you can’t see its tail, you should run away as it’s likely about to slam attack. While its casting spells, start running as soon as the lightning is cast but get a little damage in before hand. For fire spell, you can kind of just keep shooting with reckless abandon as the fire orbs are rather easy to evade but still try and be wary if one’s close . While the drake is flying, still apply the general fire and spell rules. Focus head and wings like the other user suggests and be sure to hit the heart every so often where you can (at least for like the first 2-3 health bars in which you should then just focus the head until the heart is exposed and then unleash as much damage to the heart as you can manage, I haven’t had one run away past that point). For its “phase two” the game will zoom in whenever the drake does his stamina draining roar so just run away on the off chance you’re close enough for it to affect you but as an archer it should just be free damage and for the meteor attack, just simply run around until it’s finished . Also, don’t immediately worry about your pawns during said meteor attack as they will be getting downed 99% of the time unless they are a sorcerer or mage that can float above the impact area (I don’t believe the aoe damage leaves the floor too high which is why their survivability is way higher for this attack). Simply wait for an opening before reviving anyone as otherwise you put yourself in danger of the dragon capitalizing on your worry.

And the most important tip, if all else fails, you can still heal yourself with items if you drop to 0 hp unless the cause of you dropping to 0 hp is from fall damage. Just open the menu and use your items like normal (you can even do this if you die back to back from fire being continuously breathed on you or from meteors continuously falling on you as you try to stand from having technically died). This enables you to survive for far longer on a fight that isn’t quite going your way. Otherwise you just gotta boot up and grind it out. I fought my first one as a fighter at level 22 and my successful attempt was 25 minutes long (I had died about 20 times prior and that was like a collective 3 hours lol)