**How to down the dragon SPOILER**
I didn't come back for it. I was level 9 or 10 when I went there and took her down the first time. Make sure you have plenty of healing items (lesser and normal health poultice was all I used) and normal Lyrium potions. My party consisted of the main character of course (weapon and shield warrior), Shale on default scrapper tactics, Leliana on custom melee tactics, and Wynne on custom healing tactics.
As you come down the ramp, then just a bit further, there's an area flatter and more open the the surrounding terrain. Call the dragon down, she'll smash down in the middle of the group. Immediately have Wynne cast group heal. You can try positioning your party spread out a bit before calling the dragon down I suppose, but I didn't bother.
Once the initial shock is over and everyone is healed and back to their feet, I positioned Wynne in the small hole (next to the flat area, green colored, on the left if you're looking back at the caverns entrance). She stayed there pretty much untouched through the fight. The rest of the group fought the dragon in the center of the flat area. I used the main character as a tank. I kept the dragon facing towards the entrance of the Sacred Ashes temple, and positioned Shale and Lel behind him. This helped to minimize the amount of fire damage they took.
Now... keeping everyone alive is the trick. Wynne would heal anyone who hit 50% health, and I would pause and manually tell her to group heal after large attacks from the dragon that damaged the other three members. If both heal and group heal were on cooldown and healing was needed, I would pause and instruct whatever member to heal with an item. The main character and Shale used health poultice (went through about 10) while the lesser health poultice (about 5) was sufficient to nearly fill Lel's health. Wynne only got damaged once, but a group heal fixed that. Wynne also went through about 4 Lyrium potions.
Once in a while, a character will get chewed on and take massive damage. In my case, it was always my main character who was tanking the fight. Obviously, the character being chewed on can't use items, so it's up to the healer to keep them alive with well-timed heals. Heal with a normal heal first (when down to about 25% health), then group heal if a second heal is needed. It's a bit of a waste of group heal if no one else is injured, but it's better than losing the tank and everyone else getting wiped out.
Anyway, a lot of healing, a lot of pausing, and a good plan will down the beast. I managed to down her with one death (poor Lel). I revived her, as the dragon was down to about 10%. Of course, Lil got the pleasure of mounting the dragon's head and shoving both her blades into the dragon's skull.
Modifié par Quaxo, 13 novembre 2009 - 06:28 .