Not Rift, Dragon Age!Follow

Nope, this is the first time I've had access to the DLC. So, this is the first time I've done Warden's Keep.

Hell, I'd be happy with an unpaid internship in that sector...

wha? Zam posts are not going to get me a job? Shiii... there goes my career planning

So youtube makes fighting Flemeth look easy. I just got the quest last night, and haven't headed down there yet. Anyone care to share their experience?

(all my chars are around level 9-10ish atm and debating whether this is something best put off for a while).

Edited, Apr 16th 2012 8:20am by someproteinguy

I let her go and told Morrigan that she's dead.

I'd happily take that job for a ham and cheese sandwich.

I just remember getting some mileage out of the protection glyph, if I could get Alistair to stay in it. I don't remember how early in the game I did it, but I wasn't managing my party very well at that point, so I had a bit of difficulty getting the ranged to stay at range, etc. Leliana kept switching to melee mode and running in and getting killed, IIRC.

I had the opposite issue in that, last time, I was staying at range casting spells and it was all I could do to keep Alister and Sten from running back to hump my leg every fifteen seconds.

"Fight's over there, guys..."

I believe (I think it was in this thread) that it used to be better and got nerfed.

Once you complete the game and DLC once, subsequent runs are a lot less thrilling for gear. "Here's your fancy leather armor, here's your bow, here's your end-game robe, let's go get the armor from Warden's Peak/Ostagar..."

Hold position command, remove Leliana's daggers, and turn off any personal range abilities. :P

Flemeth is definitely a tough fight if done traditionally, since she has an overwhelm-like ability, fire attacks, tail sweeps, and leg kicks. This allows her to deal out substantial damage in both AoE and to the tank.

But she also has a huge weakness--she has next to no maneuverability, and her only ranged options are fire attacks.

An all ranged party with fire resist gear/warmth balms can take her out fairly easily, as long as you are careful to actually police their range (hold position, manually move them back into range). Of course, you can't bring Morrigan, so your options are only Wynne, Leliana, and Shale for the naturally ranged-specced. Dragons are weak to cold damage, iirc, but IDK if there are any frost poisons. But you might have given Wynne Frost Weapons.

I wouldn't worry. There are really a ton of ways to clear that encounter. I honestly don't think the intent was for it to be a normal fight. They intentionally created this huge boss with a very low area of movement. They made the encounter one you have to initiate, so it's not like you can't avoid it when your setup wasn't ideal. Etc. It's meant to be a fight you approach with a specific strategy in mind, without dungeon shenanigans to interfere with your choices.

All ranged party with fire resist is one option.

Another is to deal with the AoE damage by flanking her (hopefully with at least one of your two dps as ranged), but minimize your tank's damage by keeping him out of melee range (manually position, use a bow and arrow with massive armor, spam taunt, use fire resist gear/balms).

The hilarious strategy I've never used, because it doesn't work on the PS3, is to pepper the landscape with as many traps as possible. When Flemeth shapeshifts, she'll take damage from all of them.

If you can get Wade's best gear before this fight, you'll be in a much better position.

I've never fought one after the other to have a fair comparison, but I'd say the "real" dragon fight is tougher than Flemeth since that one actually has range of movement and isn't glued to a hilltop.