The Harvester is dead. And, I defeated it with the Option - Game - Hard setting, for the REAPER and the GRIM REAPER achievements (XBox 360) both on the same playthrough.
If you are looking for help, here is what I did.
KEEP IN MIND, I STARTED IN "ORIGINS,' IMPORTED FROM ORIGINS TO AWAKENINGS AND FROM AWAKENINGS TO THE DLC - GOLEMS OF AMGORAAK.
Main Character was a ROGUE, female Dwarf Commoner, Dual Weapon user, not an Archer.
At the time, I entered the Forge:
(1) for WEAPONS, she was using, in her main hand, Heirsplitter, Waraxe, One-handed, Volcanic Aurum (Tier 9) equipped with a Darkspawn Rune (+12 damage), a Fire Rune (+7 damage), and an Elemental Rune, in her off hand, The Rose's Thorn, Dragonbone (Tier 7) equipped with a Darkspawn Rune, an Electricity Rune, and a Hale Rune;
(2) for ARMOR, she was wearing (starting from her head to her feet) a Quicksilver, Light helmet, High Dragon Hide (Tier 9), The Slippery Ferret's Gloves, High Dragon Hide (Tier 9), the Battledress of the Provocateur, Drakeskin (Tier 7) equipped with 3 Paragon Stout Runes, and Wolf Treads, Light boots, High Dragon Hide (Tier 9);
(3) for ACCESSORIES, she had the Cinch of Skillful Maneuvering, The High Regard of House Dace, Ring of the Warrior, and the Key to the City;
(4) her SKILLS were the following: Coercion IV, Stealing I, Survival IV, Herbalism II, Poison-Making IV, Combat Training IV, Runecrafting IV, Vitality II, [I should have used a Manual of Focus to rearrange them, but forgot.]
(5) for TALENTS,
in the Rogue set,
first row, three points, up to "Coup De Grace,"
second row, all four points,
third row, all four points [Device Mastery],
fourth row, no points at all in Stealth,
fifth row, one point in Heartseeker
a Ranger specialization, all four points;
a Duelist specialization, all four points;
Power of the Blood;
Legionnaire Scout, all four points;
in the Dual Weapon set, all the talents, 16 total;
no Archery;
finally, the Racial Ability, Dwarven Resistance.
REMEMBER, I IMPORTED FROM ORIGINS TO AWAKENINGS AND FROM AWAKENINGS TO THE DLC, AMGORAAK. Here is how it all looked,
Level 35 (Rogue)
Health 695
Stamina 371
Armor 21
Defense 167
Attack 143
Damage 53.8 [53.8/46.5]
Fatigue 6.8%
Strength 49
Dexterity 97
Willpower 25
Magic 18
Cunning 77
Constitution 87
Mental resistance 45
Physical resistance 129
Nature resistance 30%
COMPANIONS:
I used a Manual of Focus [Memoirs of the First Wardens] to reset Jerrik as an Archer, gave him the Heartwood Bow and Fire Arrows and turned on Accuracy. His armor was a combination of Light Armor I brought along from Awakenings, a Studded High Dragon Helmet, Wade's Superior Drakeskin Gloves, his Vest of the Nimble (Tempest Rune, Reservoir Rune, and an Immunity Rune), and Silverhammer's Tackmasters, High Dragon.
For Brogan, I gave him Dumat's Spine, Volcanic, and Partha (forgot to bring a better shield), Hirol's complete armor (forgot runes so he had to settle for 3 Tempest runes), the Girdle of Kal'Hirol, the Rough-Hewn Pendant (to ease some of that fatigue), and Rings of Resistance and the Warrior.
Here are some final mumblings from a mind still giddy why the death of that ridiculous Harvester.
First, an absurd amount of preparation was involved.
Here is some background. I originally took a heavy melee character to the DLC, a male warrior using a two handed broad sword with massive armor (etc.). That character I imported from Awakenings which was imported from Origins. With that character, I struggled just to get to the Forge. And, at the Forge, was summarily trounced! After hours (!) of attempts, I finally stumbled on to a strategy which allowed me to defeat the 'Thing' only to discover the Harvester had another form. I exited the game and refused to play for months!
When I could finally master myself, I went to the web and did some reading. Aha, I wasn't the only one.
I went back to Origins and created a human mage heavily influenced by several playthroughs of DA2. The mage's talents were mostly in the Spirit School with some Entropy spells. At the moment, I have forgotten which Specializations but NOT an Arcane Warrior and NOT a Blood Mage. Sorry.
I took that mage back to The Golems of Amgoraak and 'ate up' the opposition all the way to the Forge. The mage fared far better than my previous warrior. I made several attempts to get the two Achievements mentioned, but always failed during the Harvester's second form. If the little Head-Creature didn't get me, one way or another, then the skeletons did. Or, maybe it was both. In any event, I couldn't go farther. I was defeated again.
Subsequently, I went back to Origins to do a Dwarf Commoner character. The catalyst here was Sigrun. I wanted her reaction to a Hero of Ferelden, Paragon of Orzammar, Dwarf, Commoner, rogue, female [same reason I made a Dalish archer, i.e. for Valena's reaction, still playing that one]. So, the Dwarf Commoner was a female and a rogue who dual welded. As a side note, I can't remember having so much fun. But, KEY, to the build and playthrough, was always the thought that this character could go to Amgoraak. I saved all the Nature Suave, both the Lesser and the Greater. I bought the recipe to make the Greater Suave. I put 4 Skill points into Survival for the nature and physical resistance. And, I put 4 Skill points into Poison-Making for the poisons and grenades.
In Origins, the Archdemon does Spirit damage, but is susceptible to Nature attacks. Lo and behold, at the Forge in Amgoraak, the Harvester does massive Nature damage with the skeletons immune it, naturally.
So, all the way through, Origins and then through Awakenings, I kept an eye on how to deal heavy physical and elemental damage, also, building the Rogue to resist those two, especially Nature.
I saved everything I could from Origins, did the other DLC for the items. In Awakenings, I used the Level 4 Runecrafting Skill to make Paragon Stout Runes for the armor and Paragon Fire and Lightening Runes for the weapons.
All of that and more, much more. I have listed above at the start of this lengthy soliloquy all the stats.
This Rogue burned through the Harvester's first form, didn't lose a single companion, and then tore up the second form. Not one of the companions was lost. Not once did the golem revive anyone.
"It's over now."
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