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[DrekorSilverfang]

I found the fight to be one of the easiest boss fights on Nightmare.

I am playing as 2H warrior(vanguard, reaver and templar spec). Had Varric for aggro control and DPS, Anders for buffs and heals and Sebastian for DPS. I made sure to keep everyone at max range from the dragon with only me in Melee. I dodged the melee attacks and fire breath. When he flew up to the ledge I just soaked the fireballs and let anders take care of it while I focused on adds. Focused on the dragons themselves first and just let varric shift aggro of the dragonlings to me where they would get killed by my AE attacks. When the 2 dragons came out I made sure to let my HP drop to about 50% and hit cleave+sac frenzy and hit my burst and killed both nearly instantly. Had Sebastian use guardian angel a few times as he pulled aggro and used second wind and restoration potions to restore some stam but overall quite easy took I'd say about 5-10 minutes.

[Auru]

I just killed this boss, maybe 20 minutes ago I had my sword/shield Hawke, Anders Sebastian and Varric and the game difficulty was on hard

I just straight up tanked him with elemental aegis and shield defence up, got shield + heals from Anders, while the archers did there pewpew thing

When all the little dragonlings came I gathered everyone up for the taunt, and then bombed them all with double hail of arrows

took a while to actually kill the boss, and I nearly ran out of lyrium potions (was scrambling on the corpses for more) but it was fairly easy, Anders Panacea was enough to keep Varric/Seb alive from the flame bombs the dragon was doing from the high spot

[AsaTJ]

How did you keep Anders alive? Before I found out about the blind spot, he was getting 2-shot by those fireballs.

[Kemmer]

I am not 133t enough to play on Nightmare and the High Dragon on Hard was a challenge for me only eclipsed by the Rock Wraith (which I had to turn down to Normal). As other people have mentioned, you have to keep mobile and you cannot even have two party members too close to each other or you'll get fireballed in the face. My party consisted of Mage Hawke, Fenris, Anders, and Varric. Oh, and Dog . Dog helped A LOT, as he would often draw aggro from Fenris, allowing the elven battle blender to clean up the adds going for ranged characters. I had to keep people on the move constantly, but it was a very satisfying win. 

Oh, and to reply to the poster immediately above me, it helps to have Revive on at least 1 character.  I had 2, with Mage Hawke as a Spirit Healer and Ander with Panacea.  Each mage dies once in the fight, but the other was able to bring them back from the brink.  Having revive isn't absolutely necessary, since both deaths were from carelessness on my part, but it makes it easier.  Oh, and I had lots and lots of Elfroot potions.

Good luck!

Modifié par Kemmer, 15 mars 2011 - 06:21 .

[AsaTJ]

I found the Hight Dragon significantly harder than the Rock Wraith. Rock Wraith was time-consuming as I was constantly pausing to tell people to get out of the way of his attacks, but it wasn't all that difficult. He didn't fire snipe people with no way to control who he targets.

[Waltzingbear]

AsaTJ wrote...

How did you keep Anders alive? Before I found out about the blind spot, he was getting 2-shot by those fireballs.

That's correct sir. So make sure he doesn't get hit twice without healing himself.
 Also the faster you are to kill the little tykes the less you'd have to deal with the fireballs.

Modifié par Waltzingbear, 15 mars 2011 - 08:20 .

[ShadyKat]

XOGHunter246 wrote...

More like a Low Dragon compared to DAO.

I thought the High dragon at the Bone pit was far harder then the one in Origins. It took me about an hour to beat the High Dragon in DA2. Thank the Maker for Aveline's tanking ability.

[AsaTJ]

Oh, easily. The hardest boss fights in Origins were all tank and spank. No adds, just keep the guy with the shield alive.

[XOGHunter246]

ShadyKat wrote...

I thought the High dragon at the Bone pit was far harder then the one in Origins. It took me about an hour to beat the High Dragon in DA2. Thank the Maker for Aveline's tanking ability.

The High Dragon in this game is far more easier more space all you have to do is move the opposite way when it flys in air move up attack when it flys again move down attack as long as you has potions it very easy on any difficulty. I did beat it at level 19 though. Might be slightly harder to do this as a warrior though but that whats potions are for and a mage. Fireballs did hardly any damage on me with the resist I was wearing and Fenris and Varrick only killed Anders as he had no good fire resist .

Modifié par XOGHunter246, 17 mars 2011 - 08:59 .

[VampOrchid]

Where is the high dragon? Why can't i find it?

[Trophonius]

VampOrchid wrote...

Where is the high dragon? Why can't i find it?

It happens if you talk to Hubert in Hightown and take up the offer on co-owning a mine with him. When you do, a quest called Mine Massacre automatically shows up when you visit the Bone Pit.

But yeah, the High Dragon was a little bit more of a challenge here. In DA:O, it was easy to have a tank taunt and trap her in the ruin so that your ranged characters can snipe away. In DA2, she goes up a platform and summons mobs of dragonlings/dragons to wipe your party. When she did that, I had Varric/Anders do some AOE damage while Fenris tanked.

Modifié par Trophonius, 17 mars 2011 - 11:22 .

[termokanden]

Bone Pit in Act 3. You must have followed the mine quest chain in previous Acts I think. Then at some point in Act 3 you should get the quest to go find out who killed all your miners.

Edit: Too late

Modifié par termokanden, 17 mars 2011 - 11:16 .

[Inchoroi]

Just did it on hard (on my 2nd runthrough). The fight took about 10 minutes. Party was 2hander hawke specced vanguard, reaver, and whatever tree has the 60s cooldown yellow bar replenisher, Anders was on healbot duty and casting upgraded haste whenever it was off cooldown, Merril was specced a little weird for the fight (blood magic, 50ish constitution, sustaining ele weap and elemental arcane shield, the 2 upgraded entropy tree spells that matter, the the ice spell in the ele tree, spirit bolt, walking bomb), and Sebastian specced a typical royal archer and bow spec, with sustained haste spec and a few points into subtlety(?) for the -25% threat.

Tactics weren't all that involved, just set them up to cast stuff (set the entropy tree spells for elite or higher and any archer or mage aoe for groups of 3 or 4+). Slotted fire resist runes for everyone, but had to use 3 for hawke because the values on his gear are pretty weak compared to what the companions get for slotting a rune. Hawke ended up with something like 79% fire resist and the rest had 90%. So, fireballs were not a problem. I just stood there not trying to dodge them or anything because Anders spirit healer aura healed right through them instantly.

The only death was my dog, which I didn't bother resummoning. Hawke had to use 3 health pots because of Anders cooldown timers and it would have ended up being 5 or 6 but I have fully upgraded reaver devour. I didn't have to switch to control any other party member at all, Hawke rarely lost aggro and when he did it was easy to get back by using abilities (also made sure to keep him facing the dragon away so sebastian got flanking bonus). The adds phase was never a problem and I didn't use any strategy for them, unless you count running around lol'ing as I smashed stuff a "strategy." The weapon I used was Bloom with a devastate rune and a +crit rune. I might have been able to shave off a minute or so if I had merril using a staff with cold damage (for the elemental weapons buff), but as it was she was using the staff from the forbidden knowledge quest for blood magic benefits (and the staff is FIRE, lol). I probably could have found a cheap ice staff to use for the fight but I just couldn't bother because Community was coming on in 15 minutes and I have a hard-on for Britta (i.e. I didn't want to waste any more time so I just went for it).

As you can tell from my writing, I'm not a very talented gamer (since I can't even bother to remember the names of some of the talents), so if I can do the fight on Hard with relatively little expenditure (rune costs and maker's respec pots) then you probably can too.

Happy dragon hunting!

[sevenplusone]

This fight is easy on Nightmare.

It's tank and spank until he goes on his cliff, which should happen in a few seconds, as I'm 99% sure it's percentage based since he hopped on up there after 10 seconds of combat.

For the first wave of adds just tank them all and have your squishies drink a pot every 2nd fireball that hits them. He comes back down, should be back up in another 10 seconds.

Second wave of adds just kill the big dragon first, he should be dead in 5 or so seconds. Kill little adds, boss back down, back up in 10 seconds.

Third wave of adds, do the same thing as the second wave. You get 2 dragons this time, but they should be dying quick.

Annnnd boss dead in 2 or 3 minutes.

[BubbleDncr]

I beat the high dragon on my first try....but it was a 40 minute long try.

[VampOrchid]

I'm all excited now. I'm on my second playthrough, so going to get that quest!

[AsaTJ]

Having finished the game now, I can say that I think this was probably the hardest fight (although I did miss Xenebabafufu or whatever her name is because I took all of the books.) Of course, shortly after this (before I fought Hybris) I dropped Hawke's shield and respecced him as a 'Serker/Vanguard, so maybe that's why.

Modifié par AsaTJ, 18 mars 2011 - 02:36 .

[Lenimph]

 So did anyone else do this battle without a healer? No just me... 

Between the duel with the Arishok and the High Dragon my Hawke needs a medal for running in circles. 

Modifié par Lenimph, 19 mars 2011 - 04:09 .

[thepringle]

Lenimph wrote...

 So did anyone else do this battle without a healer? No just me... 

Between the duel with the Arishok and the High Dragon my Hawke needs a medal for running in circles. 

Haha, me too, I really didn't feel the need for a Healer in this battle

[thepringle]

[Double post]

Modifié par thepringle, 19 mars 2011 - 04:30 .

[thekid2318]

First playthrough on nightmare this battle took like 25 minutes mainly because I walked into it blind. Ran down and then next thing I know is a high freakin dragon is flaming me. I had Merrill with me, and she went down quick. Aveline tanked for a bit and Varric was handling the mobs, while my DW/Assassin Hawke was kiting around backstabbing the dragon. Everyone except Hawke went down, but using Vendetta I was able to jump on the platform the dragon bombs you from and shank it to death from behind.

[Heather Cline]

Did this with Merrill, Aveline and Isabela, had to run around a lot on my mage playthrough. Goddess that High Dragon was a monster and a half to kill. Harder than the Arishok!

[ULTIMATEAGENERALSHEPARD]

anyone have any advice on how to combat and beat the high dragon in dragon age 2

[BY-TOR STORMDRAGON]

Aveline is a must, I also had Merrill and I think Varric at long range- and my lead just kept wailing everything in site and using the most powerful potion in the game, I also had all the characters using potions (including the resurrection) in their Tactics. Of course I was at level 50 so it was a matter of the ****** dragon taking it's time jumping on the cliff that made it seem so long, as you wail on the dragonlings and larger dragons. I cannot emphasize enough having potions in their tactics, and in the selection wheel of the hero. In my case he was a warrior, I am replaying again as a warrior to make opposite decisions, then I will try other classes. Good luck.

[Lumikki]

I had little problems with this, untill I desided to have all my characters with fire resistance (about 90%). That takes the High Dragons fire problem away. Then it becomes just normal hack and slash them all.

We are talking the High Dragon in Bone Pit mines, the second one. All other Dragons where very easy in normal difficulty.

Modifié par Lumikki, 29 mars 2011 - 08:46 .