Well i can't ditch Alistair, since he's my tank. And i don't want to dump my dog, he's my companion from the start (human noble origin story). Switching my dog for an extra mage would indeed be the best move party-balance wise i think. But i can't say no to those cute puppy-eyes.

Wynn? Did I accidentally kill her or something? Damnit. I could totally use another mage, though that would mean dumping Leliana, who I've become quite dependent on. I'd actually dump my main if I could.

I kinda messed things up yesterday, but it went fairly smoothly after all.

I decided to take on the High Dragon ("Andraste") first, since that fight was WITH Morrigan, and she's pretty vital to damage output in my party.

Didn't have too many problems with that fight, my main went down when i got grabbed and i couldn't 'cone of cold' the dragon to make him drop me. But it went pretty well, to my surprise.

So i went to camp, to exchange Morrigan with ... Leliana. I figured i was better off with someone doing ranged damage. I also took some special arrows i was saving (+6, chance to stun) and i decided it would be best if i would set my main as second archer as well. To avoid biting incidents as with the first dragon.

So i travelled from my camp to Flemeth's hut with a good battleplan... but a fight occured on the way (some assassins after Leliana). That fight took me a while, didn't go particularly well since i started on a small ledge open to an archer and some witch threw a fire ball at me. Needed some serieus healing there (pats Wynn on the back).

Now when i finally got to Flemeth, i seem to have forgotten what i was planning to do. I didn't switch back to the good arrows with Leliana, had her fire fire arrows (dunno if that's a great idea against a fire dragon). I kinda forgot i was going to keep my main out of the biting range and rushed in with my daggers. Result was that soon enough my main had died (no cone of cold, clueless how to stop the biting attack otherwise).

One ressurection and a couple of minutes later, Flemeth's health was going down quickly. Things were going smooth, apart from Alistair having troubles keeping the aggro (wing attacks and such sometimes seemed to throw him off, he couldn't get a lot of hits in). Dunno exactly what happened then, but suddenly Leliana was no more (probably been fireballed to oblivion) and my main found herself in Flemeth's teeth again.

So ... it was down to Wynn + Alistair against the big bad girl again. I finally discovered a spell to interrupt the biting attack and slowly managed to get her health down. Things started to look well when my ressurection spell finally became available again. Just when i was about to use it Alistair fell. Panic ... now what? I quickly managed to revive him, luckily Flemeth wasn't very near to Wynn so she came out unharmed.

A few minutes later, Alistair took her down.

Victory, finally!

Did i mention i liked the fights.

lol, congrats. I remember the first time I fought that chick.. she totally owned me. Allistair and Zevran were tryin to stab her with little luck while Leliana and my main were hitting her with arrows and getting the crap blown out of us. Twas a pretty major loss. My second fight was far, far easier.

Anyway, glad you made it. It's nice beating big, mean creatures to death.

Yeah the fights remind a lot of the BG2 dragons...optional, almost impossible at first and then you come back with better gear, higher level with more skills and a better understanding of your party and you manage to beat them...very rewarding.

Congrats J!! Loved reading the battle report. I had the same problem with Flemeth, Morrigan was pretty much an indispensable party member (and my only mage in general) so I had to adapt. Worked with me, Sten, another fighter and Leliana in the end. Shale had bitten it by then.

Enjoy your new armor(s) btw. You know where to bring the scales right?