Is Golems of Amgarrak supposed to be this hard?

[emanueljoab]

I finished DA: Origins as a mage elf level 22, played Darkspawn Chronicles and Leliana's Song without big troubles then when I tried Golems of Amgarrak I got wrecked.
Every battle is a challenge and I'm wondering if I should lower the difficulty to Easy.

Is it normal or just I suck in video games?

[fauxpas]

Golems is meant to be played after Awakening and is the "hardest" DLC, partly because the NPC sucks.

[ADEC Inc]

Yeah coming straight out of Origins will make it extremely difficult.

[fauxpas]

Yeah, my first time through I did it with a new character because I didn't have an old save and wanted the reward items for my actual playthrough.


It was torture.

[New Moon On Monday]

It is still hard if you bring a 35th level character to it. But much more doable.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Just wait until you get to the boss.

[Warlock]

I had trouble beating the boss, had to switch to Easy Mode so I wouldn't be bothered dying all time.
It's worth saying, that DLC is the worst because it's a story that doesn't advance DA further, it has no difficult choices to make, it felt like a dungeon delving typically to ESO's dull dungeon delves.
I think that being a mage would make it easier, to spam heal tank companion and use another character to switch levers to get rid of cannon fodder enemies.

[Steve (Dawn's Hubby)]

I was difficult for me as well, especially at the end of the game.

[Warlock]

It's a shame the ending meant nothing. The monster reincarnation only appears in DA2 created by Orsino, it really pissed me off how incompetent and easily corruptible Kirkwall Circle was. I sided with mages and already it resorted to blood magic at beginning of battle, Templars ultimately won

[Anonymusx]

Originally posted by Knight of Revan:

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I think that being a mage would make it easier, to spam heal tank companion and use another character to switch levers to get rid of cannon fodder enemies.

I mage, and kill me in 3 seconds, the other members 10 second... When attack me 5-6 golems...

[fauxpas]

The thing with msges is that there are so many ways to build them there is a massive power gap between two different characters.

Also Golems expects you to import a geared character since the gear a newly created character kind of sucks.

[Yhvh10]

Yeah. Pretty much.

Origins > Awakening > Golems of Amgarrak > Witch Hunt

With Lelianas Song technically being before Origins, and Darkspawn Chronicals i dunno just whenever.

Golems though is ultimately challenge driven. Unlike the others which is built around story, Golems is more of a challenge dlc meant to give the players one final brutal challenge for their Warden to overcome. Theres a reason defeating the end boss on high difficultly gives the player an incredible weapon worth hundreds of sovereigns right at the beginning of any new game.

Expect to get utterly smashed if your playing a new character or coming in right out of Origins.

[Federicocap]

It was the last dlc I Played, beated it on nightmare dificulty, granted I did it after origins, awakening and witch hunt If I remember correctly. Really though DLC.