Easiest way to beat the dragon is mage or range style... Cause there is one spot that the dragon will ignore ur fires... I dunno now if they change anything but wen i fought it, all i use was frm wind blast to firebolt... And i beat it wen i was a lvl 43... Took a while too... But i still beat it :)... My suggestion for melees... Bring like 10+ lobs and 1 str pot and bring ammor mith and up... rune skimmy and 2h (incase if ur skimmy is doing hell lots of zeros)... well that is my suggestion... :)