How do you do this? my party is varric anders aveline and me as a mage. right off the bat he does that blood swirl attack and outright kills me varric and anders. theres barely and room for my party to spread out, and i get SWARMED by corpses in seconds if i try. even if i have aveline use a rally for magic resist, it makes no differece. on top of that, those weak mages start spawning which makes things worse. Also, if i focus fire on decimus with haste on, he just starts healing with blood magic and i make slow progress with swarms of corpses everywhere. it makes no sense. Any ideas?
Decimus fight on nightmare?
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Mike 9987
, juin 17 2011 05:09
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 05:29
mr_afk
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Hmm.. Have you tried rushing Aveline at him with a shield bash?
That's always good fun.
It should stagger him/disrupt his attack and allow you to either haemorrhage him or chain lightning him. Alternatively, instantly cast a petrify/winter's grasp at him then do an archer's lance or something if he's brittle.
If that's still not working just use pull of the abyss/telekinetic ring(?) to knock him over. That should give you the time to kill him.
Basically what you want to do is instantly crowd control him and spike damage him. He doesn't have much life so you should be able to kill him off pretty fast (as long as his blood magic heal isn't on). You don't want to try and tank his attacks- Go on the offensive and wipe him out fast.
From there it's a matter of letting your companions manage the corpses while you quickly target all the mages that drop down. They have next to no health so even your mage's dps should be enough to kill them off (with double haste on anyway).
If you're really struggling with the corpses I suppose you could run your party over to where decimus was (after you kill him) and drop a gravitic ring behind you (which is where most of the mages/corpses spawn.
Just remember, damage is the key.
edit: I realise that I'm sort of assuming you're a force mage. How silly of me. If you tell me your setup I can probably give you more relevant tips.
Hope this helps and good-luck!
That's always good fun.
It should stagger him/disrupt his attack and allow you to either haemorrhage him or chain lightning him. Alternatively, instantly cast a petrify/winter's grasp at him then do an archer's lance or something if he's brittle.
If that's still not working just use pull of the abyss/telekinetic ring(?) to knock him over. That should give you the time to kill him.
Basically what you want to do is instantly crowd control him and spike damage him. He doesn't have much life so you should be able to kill him off pretty fast (as long as his blood magic heal isn't on). You don't want to try and tank his attacks- Go on the offensive and wipe him out fast.
From there it's a matter of letting your companions manage the corpses while you quickly target all the mages that drop down. They have next to no health so even your mage's dps should be enough to kill them off (with double haste on anyway).
If you're really struggling with the corpses I suppose you could run your party over to where decimus was (after you kill him) and drop a gravitic ring behind you (which is where most of the mages/corpses spawn.
Just remember, damage is the key.
edit: I realise that I'm sort of assuming you're a force mage. How silly of me. If you tell me your setup I can probably give you more relevant tips.
Hope this helps and good-luck!
Modifié par mr_afk, 17 juin 2011 - 05:30 .
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Posté 17 juin 2011 - 05:54
Mike 9987
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mr_afk wrote...
Hmm.. Have you tried rushing Aveline at him with a shield bash?
That's always good fun.
It should stagger him/disrupt his attack and allow you to either haemorrhage him or chain lightning him. Alternatively, instantly cast a petrify/winter's grasp at him then do an archer's lance or something if he's brittle.
If that's still not working just use pull of the abyss/telekinetic ring(?) to knock him over. That should give you the time to kill him.
Basically what you want to do is instantly crowd control him and spike damage him. He doesn't have much life so you should be able to kill him off pretty fast (as long as his blood magic heal isn't on). You don't want to try and tank his attacks- Go on the offensive and wipe him out fast.
From there it's a matter of letting your companions manage the corpses while you quickly target all the mages that drop down. They have next to no health so even your mage's dps should be enough to kill them off (with double haste on anyway).
If you're really struggling with the corpses I suppose you could run your party over to where decimus was (after you kill him) and drop a gravitic ring behind you (which is where most of the mages/corpses spawn.
Just remember, damage is the key.
edit: I realise that I'm sort of assuming you're a force mage. How silly of me. If you tell me your setup I can probably give you more relevant tips.
Hope this helps and good-luck!
thanks this helped a lot. i am a force mage. i had varric stun him with a miasmic flask which game me the leeway i needed to set up. i used force mage abilities to keep him from casting too much and bursted him down. the rest was easy. Thanks again
