Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-9954580-20130607043137/@comment-18016240-20131104222254

97.88.61.100 wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote: 156.99.211.221 wrote: Oh, and you don't fight the Hellkite Dragon unless you really want the challenge. What you do is you wait for him to get on the bridge and then run like hell for the bonfire at the other end. He's far from challenging once you figure out that there's a fireproof spot by where he lands, you just have to time it right and not get greedy and he'll be dead in no time. I killed him once. I basically got lucky and managed to hack at his leg without him flying up and breathing fire downward.

There are the walls on either side of the middle that will protect you, but that little spot that's closer to the bonfire is still in range of his "fly up and breathe fire straight down" attack, which spreads out enough to hit you. You mean that wall close to the stair case? I've never had a problem when I'd use it to wait for him to hop down, maybe you were just unlucky and got a glitch.