Im at the tower of ishal.. fighting a giant orge thing

[ToryJJ]

And I just keep dieing..
Im only on medium...
Like.. what am I doing wrong...?
My main char is a rouge...
level 6...
I've done all the quests I can.. did I ♥♥♥♥ up?
Did I start this battle sequence too soon?
Should I grind?... idk where to grind.. figured the swamps I cleared everything and that was good enough...?...
:/............

[ToryJJ]

want a response asap on this plz :/

[RobedSoul]

If you are a rogue, make sure you are behind the ogre to get a backstab bonus. You'll know when your backstabbing when the attack animation changes. Make sure Alistar has Shield Defense on, and try to make the ogre focus on him, as he is the tank. If you turn on Threaten for Alistar, this menas that enemies are more likely to attack him rather than your squishy rogue.

[Ilja]

There is a way to make this very easy. You will just have to take control to what ever character is being targeted by the creature.

- Set all your characters to ranged mode.

- When you come in to tower, send them all to other corners of the tower, so that massive attacks can't target them all.

- Ogre will target one of the characters. Start running in circle, while it chases after it. It is slow, but has a lot of reach, so keep the circle wide.

- When one of your other characters causes enough threat with ranged attacks, ogre will then turn after them. Send the previously chased character to one of the corners and start running the circle with the character that is now chased.

- Repeat, until the damn thing is dead. You can send one of your melee fighters to finish it of for a cool screenshot.

- If you have dog in your party, then try to caught ogres attention with it, but don't spend too much time with that. Otherwise ogre will kill it. Dog is faster than other characters, so it can lead ogre around even more. Just guide it carefully.

[ToryJJ]

nvm I figured it out
Abused the ai and made it follow me around while the mage killed it...
._.
If the fights are gonna be this hard but then abusable with kiting then maybe I should've just chose a ranged build.................

[Tycho]

Originally posted by Tory:

nvm I figured it out
Abused the ai and made it follow me around while the mage killed it...
._.
If the fights are gonna be this hard but then abusable with kiting then maybe I should've just chose a ranged build.................

This is the only hard-to-kill Ogre you'll encounter in the game.
There probably won't be many tough fights until much later in the game.
The following sentences are spoilers. Read at your own risk.
(At least for me there weren't 'til I had to kill that dude who wanted to defile the ashes of Andraste)
Oh, and in the Redcliffe castle if you try to kill the boy the armors will obilerate you. I think those are the only enemies I've never defeated in my 112 hours. So do not even try to do that. You're much better off asking the Circle or the blood mage (not recommended, Alistair will get really pissed)

[Ilja]

That is pretty much the only big abuse and kite match. You are more powerful with following matches, having more options available than now.

You don't need to invest to archery for your main character. Just make sure that all characters available have some sort of ranged weapon in their secondary weapon slot. That will make some of the battle a lot easier, when you can use ranged weapons to intercept or kill certain characters, without running thick in to traps, spells and kiting enemies.

My last character was Cun/Dex Assassin/Duelist. He managed just fine in Hard difficulty. I did give him Critical Shot, but that was mostly to take another snipe against spell casting enemies, after coming out of stealth.

[biogoo]

Originally posted by Tory:

nvm I figured it out
Abused the ai and made it follow me around while the mage killed it...
._.
If the fights are gonna be this hard but then abusable with kiting then maybe I should've just chose a ranged build.................

The ogre fight is way too hard at the start. It gets more balanced. On medium, it should not be a huge problem for a new player. Of course, some fights will be tricky, but kiting should not be needed.

[Set-115689]

Isn't there a spot you can hide where the ogre can't go? The ogre fight is really hard if you are new to the game.

[ToryJJ]

Originally posted by biogoo:

Originally posted by Tory:

nvm I figured it out
Abused the ai and made it follow me around while the mage killed it...
._.
If the fights are gonna be this hard but then abusable with kiting then maybe I should've just chose a ranged build.................

The ogre fight is way too hard at the start. It gets more balanced. On medium, it should not be a huge problem for a new player. Of course, some fights will be tricky, but kiting should not be needed.

he ass ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me literallt 5 times
and I was like..
Ok.. change positioning ..ok try agian..
ok agian.
Ok.. this working.. ok I cant go back and grind anything for a level or something..
Ok...uhhh.....welp.
Ok try kiting.. Ok it worked...
yeah like... :l
I was kind of like
"welp don't really think I did this fairly but I'll take it"

[ToryJJ]

Originally posted by RobedSoul:

If you are a rogue, make sure you are behind the ogre to get a backstab bonus. You'll know when your backstabbing when the attack animation changes. Make sure Alistar has Shield Defense on, and try to make the ogre focus on him, as he is the tank. If you turn on Threaten for Alistar, this menas that enemies are more likely to attack him rather than your squishy rogue.

oh no it wasnt about me dieing.
It was the fact he always threw a rock at my mage and bow user while my dirty fighting was on cooldown so I couldn't stop it :/
And then I just kited him while they shot and it worked.. i didnt know it would stay aggroed to my rogue i figured if I have no threat generation it'll just swap to whatever is attacking it currently but it followed me for 20+ seconds then died.
Was really anti climatic honestly.
Its all good I love this game.
I was just being an idiot is all.
Obviously I should use kiting more often, simply MY OWN LACK OF SKILL :)

[Xerica]

Hey...if this girl warden monk can fist punch the orge after dying mutiple times you can do it! I belive in you . Sorry. made this video as a joke ><

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥&list=FLdZdLIUCL10nHjKrkaCE0Qg

Not sure why the embed isnt working. having a horriable time with this thread and posting in general. the link is correct. dont know why it wont play however.

If really interested just search girl warden monk-orge adventure for a laugh.

[Terrible Norwegian Gaming]

Just barely killed that boss on my first try, had only my mage left, but boss at low health. Did a timing bomb spell on him and ran around until he exploded. Satisfying

[Gyrmadet]

I think the first boss fight was made ridicolously hard on purpose to give a better feeling on the grim future that awaits the player, inducing thoughts like "wow, if THIS is the first boss I can't even imagine how incredibly powerful the next ones will be"

[ToryJJ]

now im in there werewolf lair and these bosses are redick hard lol.

[ToryJJ]

Originally posted by Gyrmadet:

I think the first boss fight was made ridicolously hard on purpose to give a better feeling on the grim future that awaits the player, inducing thoughts like "wow, if THIS is the first boss I can't even imagine how incredibly powerful the next ones will be"

he wasnt hard, he just has too much hp and does too much damage.

There's nothing difficult about being 1 shot.