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[Jaison1986]

Is that even possible? That thing kills you the moment it appears. I'm playing a rogue so I can't use templar talents, thought I suppose they wouldn't work anyway, since that thing is immune to Tallis ability to silence it. It's actually immune to just about anything, horror, stun, petrify, nothing works. Talk about an cheap and very poorly designed boss battle.

[Elhanan]

First thing that should help are Spirit Resist armor runes; useful for Arcane Horrors. Also, do not amass in a single location and move when the effect begins to appear. For a Rogue, using quick movement abilities (eg; Back to Back) can be helpful for evading the AoE.

It is also helpful to recognize when it is simply waiting and doing nothing. Perhaps there are strategies posted on the Wiki for further details.

[caradoc2000]

If you are feeling cheap, take everything except the book. It won't appear in that case but you will still complete the quest.

[themikefest]

When I play as a mage, I use crushing prison on the Horror and then I use cone of cold on the minions letting my companions smash them to bits. Thats what I usually do. It's worked well for me playing as a mage.

 

When playing a a rogue, I just kept moving from one target to another and switch to my bow when dealing with the Horror.

[Gtdef]

I'm assuming you do this on Nightmare. On easier difficulties just stay near the spot Horror blinks and nuke him silly, don't bother with cc and get some spirit resistance in case you were slow and he had time to cast.

 

If you are under level 16 leave and come later. It's impossible as a rogue Hawke.

 

You will need a fully upgraded assassinate (depending on how you planned your specializations you get this at late act 2/early act 3.

Your mage should have a surefire way to cause brittle. Upgraded petrify is the ultimate spell for the fight.

Tallis/Support rogues should have fully upgraded fatiguing fog and if you feel like, get upgraded chameleon's breath as well. Also having all the autoattacking boost talents helps as well, unforgiving chain, varric's attack speed passives etc.

 

It's been a while since I did the fight and I don't remember the exact sequence of the enemies, but I do remember that if you damage the Arcane Horror fast enough, he will blink out of area and won't do anything till he blinks back again.

 

Don't bother with cc the horror, you shouldn't have to anyway. Your gameplan is to nuke the Horror hard, forcing him to blink and manage the elite enemies till Horror comes back, then repeat.

 

You should keep your party near shrine cause you always need to be close to the arcane horror but outside of the aoe range if he casts it on his feet (more on that later).

 

I'm assuming you are using Anders, Hawke and Tallis. Your last party member can be whatever. I personally prefer a rogue, but a mage will do as well. Warrior is the less useful.

 

At the start of the fight, immediately use upgraded petrify on the horror, and blink on him with Hawke and assassinate (blink means target him so Hawke jumps on him, and immediately use assassinate). If it's done correctly, a brittled assassinate should take away at least 25% of Horror's health and he will blink out. Don't try to cast haste first, do the petrify, then haste.

 

The only thing that can go wrong with this, is that the arcane horror may cast the aoe on his feet killing Hawke. If you do it fast, you shouldn't have that problem but you may want to get some spirit resistance to survive this just in case.

 

Then you need to deal with the swarmers. That's the reason you need good autoattackers. You can't afford using your skills on them because you need them to deal with the horror. Since the area is small, a fatiguing fog should make you unkillable for it's duration. obscuring the ones taking melee damage and debuffing all the enemies.

 

Then the difficult part comes. I don't remember the fight exactly cause it's been a while, but the Horror comes back after you kill a number of elites. Every time you kill an elite, the moment he does pause and check if the Horror came back. If he did, use petrify again, and assassinate. If it's on cooldown, use Tallis' assassinate for the brittle bonus, and use twin fangs with Hawke.

 

Anders should be spec'd into martyr for less rng. Casting one or two martyrs should make sure that you have petrify when the horror comes back. This is important cause you need the brittle to minimize the actions needed to send him blinking out of the area..

 

You will have to repeat this process for at least 2 more times. In case there is an assassin elite and you need to kill it, you can use Hawke's explosive strike. It's not that useful for the horror itself cause it's a situational skill due to the stacks so feel free to use it on the swarmers as you like.

 

The most important part to remember, is to pause instantly after killing an elite and checking if the Horror blinked. Practicing the Petrify into Assassinate is a good idea as well.

[Jaison1986]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I just discovered the fail proof strategy. I had my party consisting of Bethany, Aveline, Tallis and rogue Hawke with an bow.

 

The Sky horror does 3 things: It teleports from the shrine entrance to the shrine itself, it casts an gravitic ring around it and casts an spirit cloud near enemies. 

 

I speced Aveline with elemental aegis and enchanted her shield with 3 spirit resistance runes. With this she pretty much becomes immune to magical damage. I enchanted Hawke's champion armor with spirit resistances runes just in case.

 

Now, the strategy: The moment the fight starts I set everyone to hold position and go to the far corner in the left and the right of the shrine were the cultists spawn, then I have Aveline taunt the horror to focus on her, and then I simply spam my best abilities against the sky horror until the fight is over.

 

Phew, that was an tough one.

[SmilesJA]

I haven't tried it yet, but I think you should bring Aveline with you to tank if you're a mage or a rouge. It was an uphill battle for me, my party consisted of nothing more than rouges and a mage.

[Hydwn]

Elemental Aegis is good.  The only problem with spirit runes, though, is you have no chance to change your rune setup in Mark of the Assassin - unlike Legacy that lets you leave before the point of no return - and I really need nature runes for all that wyvern spit

 

I've managed to beat this guy twice on Hard.  Mostly it involves ranged attacks, and throwing everything you have at him when he's not using Exhaustion (the blue-glow drain), and then running when his hands turn blue, which means he's setting it up.  I always have the whole party selected so that I can get them to break off combat and fight one of the adds on a moment's notice (I understand that repositioning is easy on PC, but on console the companions are quiet stupid about standing in a glowing blue nightmare). 

[Gallimatia]

The Sky Horror reenters the fight when you clear the field of elites. You can leave one alive and heal up aswell as wait for the cooldowns you need to quickly deal with the Sky Horror (petrify, assassinate, drop dead etc). Since assassins don't use stealth attacks when they are alone a lone elite can't do anything but chip damage to your team so you have as much time to prepare for the next wave as you want. Ideally you wait until everything is off cooldown then you use haste immediately before executing the last elite. That speeds up the drop dead animation and what not.

[AutumnWitch]

Its pretty easy if you have Merrill and you are a Mage. Those two stay back and AOE constantly  and keep using Horror and Petrify as much as you can then Ave or Isabela and Tallis do the rest. Also a good place to use your dog. I used to have fits with it but the AOE stuff wipes out the lessers pretty fast and you can focus on the boss when it comes in to fight. I always have most of my companions with 50-100% spirit resistant as well.

[Magdalena11]

I usually concentrate on the minions first and get them out of the way, since the sky horror's behind the shield and I can't touch it.  Then I lay into it with everything I've got, and even on nightmare, it goes down eventually.  There are definitely better strategies, but simple works for me.