Let's play Dragon's Dogma: DA Quest: Griffins Bane | Hard Mode | All Soldiers Saved 

Just enough to stun it. The only way I've found to do this is by lighting it on fire right before the scripted grab event.

For the Royal Orders Quest, "The Wyrmking's Ring" you have to go to Bluemoon Tower to confront Solomet and get the ring. Killing the Griffin is not hard and can be done in mere seconds. The hard part is making sure that the soldier survives without resorting to going to the tower beforehand and breaking the gates. It wouldn't be much of a video if I just used blast arrows or Immolation to kill the beast in seconds.