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[Prsut]

Two questions:

1. What was your toughest battle so far? One that made you frustrated or caused you ti reload a few times?

2. What battle was most anti-climiatic? One where for whatever reason you expected something really hard or it was built up so much threat then when you actually had the battle you were left wondering WTF was that? That was nothing!


For me:

1) Ser Catheryn when I tried to smuggle Anora out. She hits damn hard and her line of archers kept owning me. Not to mention there was no build up to her encounter - it was by surprise. After relaoding several times I decided to right away fall back into the bedroom anora was in to take care of melee (including Ser Cathy) separately, then go back for the ranged folks.

2) The Broodmother(fat blob) in the trenches.  Just seeing it got me scared and I expected a really tough battle. But then I quickly realized all I needed to do was sit back and use ranged weapons and it was a cake walk. You jsut sit back and fire arrows/staves at it and when the tentacles pop up, pound them down with melee and when they die/retreat continue the ranged attack. So easy

Modifié par Prsut, 11 février 2010 - 04:18 .

[mosspit]

Toughest: World map white wolves encounter just after leaving Lothering.

Anti-climatic: Archdemon. Hard to imagine a female right-hand woman is tougher than an Old God but there you have it.

Edited.

Modifié par mosspit, 11 février 2010 - 04:26 .

[travisco_nabisco]

Toughest: The bandits just south of Denerim, probably because I did this at Level 5 or so.



Anti-climatic: Broodmother

[soteria]

It depends on the run, but I'd say a fight that has been consistently annoying is the one with two genlock emissaries and a bunch of spiders just before the broodmother. I'd say the most underestimated fight is the genlock forgemaster--he hits like a truck. Ser Cauthrien is hard, but only if you put artificial limits on yourself, so I don't really count that one.

[teh_shogun]

i didn't much trouble with the broodmother. just have morrigan or another mage cast cone of cold on her tentacles, and force field on alistair if he gets grabbed by a tentacle. shale is also good for this as well as dog. since they can't get grabbed. toughest fight would have to be the very first time i fought branka as a first-time warrior.

[Jaredor]

My toughest fight was the first time I faced the High Dragon on the mountain top, mainly since it was my first playthrough and I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing or what to expect. When that thing landed on top of my PC I nearly paniced and died shortly after lol.



Ironically enough I thought the most anti-climatic fight was the Archdemon. Although Wynne did get killed instantly right in the beginning which made it a bit more challenging.

[Vanderbilt_Grad]

Everything was harder on the first playthrough, as I learned the system and what to expect. Story wise after Lothering I went to the Brecilian woods and got roped into the Nature of the Beast quest without fully understanding what was going on. My PC was level 5 when he started that quest. One of my two toughest battles in that game came at the end of the quest when I got to the werewolve’s lair. After 20 or so tries, I finally lowered the difficulty and was able to squeak by. Then having saved the Dale elves at a ridiculously low level I trigged the random encounter where a couple of elf scouts are being ambushed by darkspawn. I think that it’s the Ravaged path. The mass of archers just overwhelmed my group time after time, and I eventually had to turn the difficulty down to beat this one too. More than any other combat in the game that Ravaged Path one stuck with me as being the hardest. On subsequent playthroughs, doing the battle at a higher level with a better understanding of the game, made it much easier … but that first time, oh my. In general the random worldmap encounters were hard that game.



I see everyone complain about the archdemon, but I personally found that fight very cinematic and neither too hard nor too easy. If pressed I would say it could have been more difficult and still have been OK, but it was far from being “easy” or any sort of a letdown.



Easiest fights of the game were in the fade. Everything seems nerfed to accommodate the solo play there. I don’t remember any of those battles as being challenging or memorable.

[Herr Uhl]

On first playthrough of course.



1: Bounty hunters outside Orzammar.



2: Whole Redcliffe.

[islander91]

On my first playthrough i would have to say



1. Klaxking or what ever his name was ( the hollow in denirim)

2. would be Jarvia just when I thought I cleared the room 4 or 5 more would just appear



also the archdemon was such a let down didn't even have to use one potition

[Random70]

soteria wrote...

It depends on the run, but I'd say a fight that has been consistently annoying is the one with two genlock emissaries and a bunch of spiders just before the broodmother.

First one that popped into my head. Half a dozen solo runs and I've yet to do this one without at least one reload.

[SuperMedbh]

I think the fights I wasn't expecting to be all that difficult got me on my first play through. So, Jarvia surprised me, as did the blood mages in Denerim. The Archdemon was hardly a let down, but I went into that with all my potions and spells ready and primed.

Objectively speaking, I think Branka was the hardest. She's tough, and so are her golems. Single bosses like the ogre and the high dragon were much easier not to get mobbed on.

Modifié par SuperMedbh, 11 février 2010 - 06:15 .

[errant_knight]

Both of the fights I find most difficult are in the endgame and too qual to choose between: the battle(s) in the Denerim market (that's a lot of ogres and emmissaries, and the general is tough), and the fight outside Fort Drakon (it's the layout and emmissaries that make this one hard). Once you get inside Fort Drakon, it's a lot easier, right up through the Archdemon battle. On the other hand, I have to plan ahead to have enough poultices, even with Sandal's appearance. I've always had Morrigan to do the bulk of the fighting against the Archdemon, while the rest of the team fights the darkspawn until it lands in an accessible location at the end. If I didn't have her, that battle would be a lot more challenging. (Sidenote: there's a weird little side hall that a character can get trapped in on the roof. One time, I wasn't paying attention to what the rest of the team was doing while Morrigan fought the Archdemon, then realized Alistair wasn't fighting. Went to look for him, and there he was, trying to get out of this little area, and unable to do so. Tried to get him out for a while, but it wasn't possible, so I had to start the battle over again.)

Honorable mention.... I always have a hard time fighting all the Howe knights and hounds when I come up out of the dungeons to go to Anora's room. There's just so darn many of them, and I'm usually low on poultices by that point. One time, everyone but Alistair died and he had to take out the last ten or so by himself, that was a real nailbiter.

Most anticlimatic? Well, probably the battle with the second general in the alienage. The market battle was so challenging, I was expecting the alianage battle to be of comparable difficulty, but it was much easier, mostly because Morrigan can take out so much of the darkspawn force while they're on the other side of the gate with a distance spell like blizzard. Like the Archdemon battle, though, it would be much more challenging without Morrigan, and players who've decided not to do the ritual have to be able to get through the endgame, too.

Modifié par errant_knight, 11 février 2010 - 06:08 .

[maxernst]

Toughest: defending Redcliffe village (Pilotin and Branka would probably be 2nd and 3rd). The one that caught me by surprise most was one of the "surrounded by wolves" encounters.



Most anticlimactic: Dragon in the Brecilian forest ruins. OMG, a dragon! Oh, it's dead.

[errant_knight]

maxernst wrote...

Toughest: defending Redcliffe village (Pilotin and Branka would probably be 2nd and 3rd). The one that caught me by surprise most was one of the "surrounded by wolves" encounters.

Most anticlimactic: Dragon in the Brecilian forest ruins. OMG, a dragon! Oh, it's dead.

Heh, that's a 'starter' dragon, kind of like training wheels.

[DJ0000]

Branka/Caradin and Gaxkang are easily the hardest.

The most anti climactic is dragon in forest.

Modifié par DJ0000, 11 février 2010 - 06:02 .

[flixerflax]

Toughest battle was Gaxkang the Unbound. Fighting a Revenant in close quarters like that meant my healer/DoT mage was slaughtered immediately. Constant dispelling of magical effects meant my arcane warrior was stripped of all buffs and rendered a baby.



Most overestimated battle was Flemeth, plain and simple. I confronted her at level 12 and reloaded after I saw her transform. Went back at level 17, and she went down without knocking out any of my party.

[blademaster7]

Toughest: Ser Cauthrien and her archers, no questions asked. It's almost impossible to beat her in the room. You need at least 2 mages to even stand a chance. Leaving the room and exploiting the fact that the archers won't follow is a whole different story however.



Anti-climatic: Archdemon. For a final boss I expected a lot more. The concept of the final sacrifice is really amazing, but dying in a fight that seemed a cakewalk just leaves a lot to be desired.

[Sylvius the Mad]

Jarvia. And Caridin when Shale betrays you. Those were my hardest fights.



Anticlimactic: Dragon in the Orzammar throne room.

[n2nw]

blademaster7 wrote...

Toughest: Ser Cauthrien and her archers, no questions asked. It's almost impossible to beat her in the room. You need at least 2 mages to even stand a chance. Leaving the room and exploiting the fact that the archers won't follow is a whole different story however.

Ditto.  Taking the fight out of the room makes it a cakewalk.

Anti-climatic: Dragon at Hightower (the cult dragon - maybe not hightower, can't remember the name).   Stay at a distance and keep hitting it with Crushing Prison and Winter's Whats-it-face and you only need a mage.

Modifié par n2nw, 11 février 2010 - 06:18 .

[n2nw]

Double posted when editing

Modifié par n2nw, 11 février 2010 - 06:18 .

[mosspit]

n2nw wrote...

blademaster7 wrote...

Toughest: Ser Cauthrien and her archers, no questions asked. It's almost impossible to beat her in the room. You need at least 2 mages to even stand a chance. Leaving the room and exploiting the fact that the archers won't follow is a whole different story however.

Ditto.  Taking the fight out of the room makes it a cakewalk.

Anti-climatic: Dragon at Hightower (the cult dragon - maybe not hightower, can't remember the name).   Stay at a distance and keep hitting it with Crushing Prison and Winter's Whats-it-face and you only need a mage.

NM Cauthrien can be done with a single mage without retreating.

[Vuokseniska]

Toughest: The tevinter female elf slave trader in the elienage. I hate those damn archers

What i mean is this one:

Easiest: Gaxkang.. killed him without any deaths

Modifié par Vuokseniska, 11 février 2010 - 06:57 .

[AlmondBrown]

First pass, Branka was so tough, I opted to let her live. The result at end game was great. Her creations made the Archdemon the easiest, most anticlimatic Boss battle.



I am reversing things this time so it should be interesting how it turns out this time. Branka and the Archdemon will both perish this time. LOL

[soteria]

mosspit wrote...

n2nw wrote...

blademaster7 wrote...

Toughest: Ser Cauthrien and her archers, no questions asked. It's almost impossible to beat her in the room. You need at least 2 mages to even stand a chance. Leaving the room and exploiting the fact that the archers won't follow is a whole different story however.

Ditto.  Taking the fight out of the room makes it a cakewalk.

Anti-climatic: Dragon at Hightower (the cult dragon - maybe not hightower, can't remember the name).   Stay at a distance and keep hitting it with Crushing Prison and Winter's Whats-it-face and you only need a mage.

NM Cauthrien can be done with a single mage without retreating.

That's very impressive for a solo, even an AW.  Nice.


Here's my no mage/potion version.


I thought of another really hard one--Caridin, if you bring Shale along as your tank.  One extra golem to kill and no tank = trouble.

Modifié par soteria, 11 février 2010 - 07:27 .