Rawr

[zillah975]

Help?



So, I'm in the keep facing down the Arishok. Isabella has screwed me over, I don't have Fenris with me, and the Arishok is totally not offering me a one-on-one duel, so me and my party of Aveline, Varric, and Anders (plus my not-as-awesome-as-in-DAO dog) have to defeat seven thousand Qunari and their never-ending supply of mages. (Okay, the seven thousand is an exaggeration, but I die just as efficiently as if it weren't.)

I've fought this battle five times now and can't win. Any tips? I've set the tactics up so that each party member should use a healing potion if they fall too low without getting a heal from Anders, but the cooldown time on both healing and stamina/mana potions is screwing me badly. I've been switching back and forth between my Rogue!Hawke and Anders to try to keep Anders alive when I need him to switch to full-on healing mode, I've set the difficulty level to "casual", I'm trying to kill all the Qunari mages as soon as I can find the fuckers, but they keep popping up all the way across the battlefield and smacking my party down with those fucking lightning things or whatever they are.

I completed all the quests I could find so I think I'm leveled as high as I can get for this fight, and I just have no idea how I'm supposed to win this.

Anyone?

For now, I think I'm going to clean the kitchen. It will be much more fun than this battle.

Comments

[visser]

If you can get to a save where you can change your party, grab Fenris, then go to the Black Emporium (If you got the Signature Edition, if not, ignore this paragraph), get some Maker's Sigh and get points in "back to back" for your rogue- it saved Anders' butt quite a few times. I also made my rogue a Duelist/Assassin, because Back to Back, followed by Throw the Gauntlet? Instant mage ass saver.

That being said... you might stand a chance dueling the Arishok as a Rogue. I wouldn't know how that fight went, because my rogue didn't have Fenris- she hated him. Lacerate and Dueling modes should help a LOT. That extra defense plus a bleed? (And you can use your dog in the duel, too!) Does pretty nice damage and if you have enough points in it, your rogue doesn't take a lot of damage- my rogue solo'ed the Varterral and made it out with 50% health. (Blaming Anders for refusing to heal because he was all "RAWWRRRRR JUSTICEEEEEE RAWRRRRR")

Also, if you have Sebastian or Varric in your party, it REALLY helps to edit their tactics to target magic using enemies first- they both hit clothies like Mac Trucks. Be prepared to heal them a lot, though- Seb and Varric tend to pull aggro off Aveline like MAD with the damage they do. Seb is squishier than Varric- he also doesn't RUN AWAY if he's being targeted, unlike Varric..... /ramble

At least you're not playing a mage. Yes, a mage may be able to control the FUCK out of the crowd (Pyromancer Force mage? YES PLEASE INSTANT FLAMING FLOOR KISSING), but a mage cannot beat the Arishok. I tried- even on casual and FFFFF that sexy bastard hits like a TRUCK. By kiting him around the pillars, abusing the fuck out of my heal spells and pots (Force/Spirit Healer mage with a taste for fire) and freezing him with Winter's Grasp (I had improved WG, so he froze for a few seconds, and Cone of Cold slowed him) I got him to like...20%? and then he impaled me.


-_- and not in the way I'd like. Jerk didn't even buy me a cab ride home afterward.

[nagia]

I've beaten the Arishok with a mage Hawke at least four times, by this point. (Adder's had three runthroughs.) At least one of those was on Normal. And I didn't even have to runscript healplayer my ass out of the fire on the Casual runs.

I go Primalist, Elementalist, and Force Mage. Freeze him with Petrify and WG, then throw down Gravitic Ring and every AoE you have. Tempest, Chain Lightning and Stonefist are my gods.