So soloing Irk over and over can get you all the keys? Been a long time since I did Dreadhorn to be honest but I thought each one gave a different key and Irk was like the brain or somethin.....
Sorry for the noob question.....just wasnt sure if taking on Irk one on one would get you all the keys eventually with all the others lured away like that.
Yeah sorry solo'ing Irk will not get you all of the keys. I get ahead of myself and can be pretty vague sometimes...
You still have to collect ALL of the keys from the various monsters that drop them but Irk is the gatekeeper of the Dreadhorn so to speak. Irk's Brain is really the only 'hard' key to get the rest of the keys are relatively easy to acquire. So once Spite and Guile are lured into the desert everthing becomes easy and your essentially free to kill Irk to your hearts content and farm as many keys 'Irk Brains' as you want.
What I usually do when I want to Chain Dreadhorn (somewhere between 5-8 runs) is gather Gnaw's Fang first...Go in the cave and get 5-6 fangs or whatever number Dreadhorns I intend on doing.
Then I lure Spite and Guile into the desert.
Then I kill Irk to match the number of Gnaw's keys I collected.
Then move to Lillith and Sabrix and collect those keys to match whatever number I've collected for the other two keys.
Thorny Briar spawns in the desert so there's not much to do there except pick it up and another one insta spawns somewhere else in the desert. Same with the Blighted Cotton which spawns in the swamps...all you have to do it pick it up.