Templar/Berserker vs Arishok - Dragon Age 2(Nightmare)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Taking down the Arishok with my Demon Hunter(Templar-Berserker)!
As I mentioned with my Bloodzerker, since the Two-Handed Warrior does not have any weapon that the Arishok would be weak to, fighting him with a Templar-Berserker takes a bit more skill, than just building the character right.
With a Reaver-Berserker or a Reaver-Templar, you have Devour that can not only heal you, but interrupt his heal. You also have Sacrificial Frenzy, which will massively boost your combo's damage. You saw this with my Deathbringer.
However, with a Templar-Berserker, you have no Devour or Sacrificial Frenzy, so you can have trouble facing him. He has insane armor and a ton of health. He also heals two to three times, which I was unable to interrupt, even though the timing was good.
So if you don't want to run around the pillar and wait for the Cleave/Scythe/Mighty Blow combo, then do what I did. Keep dodging him left or right. His attacks connect mostly in a straight line in front of him, and they can have insane range(so running away does not help), but if you side-step then they will miss.
3:54 His Impale attack is just straight up bs. I had to heal once because of this stupid nonsense(if I would have Devour I would not have used a HP). You can't dodge it, you can't avoid it. He can even grab you in the middle of doing a Mighty Blow. He will grab you and you will bleed. He will also follow it up with a massive attack, so you need to use Stonewall after that to avoid most of the damage. Running away is slower than Stonewall.
2:30 Don't try side-stepping with his Whirlwind attack(basically when he starts flailing around with his double weapons). That is an aoe attack that will get you no matter which side you try to dodge it, so you have to run out of its area effect, which is around 5m.
As I said, your weapon is garbage against him(even though I deal huge damage against other qunari, only my crits seems to deal decent damage on this guy), so I recommend Nature or Cold runes, and yes, I even use the Deathroot Poison(+nature damage) for additional damage.
Overall, I would say I did pretty okay here. I managed to take him down pretty fast without running around like a headless chicken. I also did it in this shitty Templar armor, and without spamming Bolster.
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As I mentioned with my Bloodzerker, since the Two-Handed Warrior does not have any weapon that the Arishok would be weak to, fighting him with a Templar-Berserker takes a bit more skill, than just building the character right.
With a Reaver-Berserker or a Reaver-Templar, you have Devour that can not only heal you, but interrupt his heal. You also have Sacrificial Frenzy, which will massively boost your combo's damage. You saw this with my Deathbringer.
However, with a Templar-Berserker, you have no Devour or Sacrificial Frenzy, so you can have trouble facing him. He has insane armor and a ton of health. He also heals two to three times, which I was unable to interrupt, even though the timing was good.
So if you don't want to run around the pillar and wait for the Cleave/Scythe/Mighty Blow combo, then do what I did. Keep dodging him left or right. His attacks connect mostly in a straight line in front of him, and they can have insane range(so running away does not help), but if you side-step then they will miss.
3:54 His Impale attack is just straight up bs. I had to heal once because of this stupid nonsense(if I would have Devour I would not have used a HP). You can't dodge it, you can't avoid it. He can even grab you in the middle of doing a Mighty Blow. He will grab you and you will bleed. He will also follow it up with a massive attack, so you need to use Stonewall after that to avoid most of the damage. Running away is slower than Stonewall.
2:30 Don't try side-stepping with his Whirlwind attack(basically when he starts flailing around with his double weapons). That is an aoe attack that will get you no matter which side you try to dodge it, so you have to run out of its area effect, which is around 5m.
As I said, your weapon is garbage against him(even though I deal huge damage against other qunari, only my crits seems to deal decent damage on this guy), so I recommend Nature or Cold runes, and yes, I even use the Deathroot Poison(+nature damage) for additional damage.
Overall, I would say I did pretty okay here. I managed to take him down pretty fast without running around like a headless chicken. I also did it in this shitty Templar armor, and without spamming Bolster.
I know it's been said before but DA2 bosses are real damage sponges
That they are. My least favorite being the High Dragon fight. 20 min of complete boredom. The fight is not even difficult. Just long as hell.
I don't know why but I feel like this is what a proper, experienced warrior should look like. Moving around, avoiding attacks, waiting for or creating safe opportunities to strike without being retaliated, but also just taking the risk of being damaged whenever it's safer to do it (AKA when HP is high). It felt like an actual duel rather than a cheese fest, and I commend you for it because it's way too tempting to just ring around the pillar while Cleave recharges.
Dobt get me wrong. This was one of the most entertaining fights with the arishok. The side steps, the dodges turning to his back and sttacking him
Looked like a proper duel. You even avoided the field of attack. (Dont know how though)
What was this effect on the weapo n ? Poison ??
Yes, Deathroot Poison for the bonus nature damage. I also have nature runes in my weapon. The two-handed warrior does not have access to any elemental weapon that the Arishok would be weak to(unlike the W&S), so I need all the dmg boost I can get, since his armor is enormous(which reduces my physical damage greatly).
@AKisHerceg yeah. Makes sense
Anyway great fight :D
It's just funny to me how cheesy some fights gets in these older games. Circle around him so he misses and run around the pillar. Ofc there's more to it than that and I like your breakdown of how the fight was from your perspective
I come back to your videos every so often since D2, you always have some new combination or challenge going and it's refreshing from the other content I watch
Every time I watch Dragon Age 2 boss fights it makes me want to play Origins again. As much as I love the aesthetic changes made for DA2, the gameplay feels so dull, with everything being a damage sponge + the never-ending waves of enemies in every fight.
It’s a shame that DA:I didn’t allow the gamer to have multiple specialisations like the two previous games. Whether it was down to changing the games structure to be different to it’s predecessors or they simply didn’t have time, but it was a shame either way.
Imagine a 2h Champion/Reaver build? That would have been insanely good imo!
It did not allow because you would be too overpowered. Imagine an Assassin/Artificer. Reaver/Champion or a Rift Mage/Knight-Enchanter.
Plus your 8 ability limit would force you to only use skills/spells from the specialization.
That's not to say it would not be fun of course. I would love to do a Mark of Death/Hidden Blades Spamming AssassinArti. Or a Rift-Enchanter with massive CC spells while being next to impossible to kill. :)
@@AKisHerceg That would have been awesomely amazing.
I'm curious how an assassin rogue would handle the Arishok. Could he be the fastest or struggle a lot?
My record is 17 sec I believe. The video is on my channel. :)
@AKisHerceg i will check it out. Thanks for your work.
Why isnt a partial amount of your stamina being consumed by the Control Sustained ability?
There is. However, there is a visual glitch during the duel, if you enter the duel with a full party. When your party is removed and you are thrown into "solo mode", your health and stamina will look like as if they are equal in size, and your sustainable skills will not show on your stamina bar.
Regardless of the visual glitch, the sustainable skills are deducted from your mana/stamina pool.
never noticed that before, cool@@AKisHerceg
Do you have a resourse from which you check what enemies are weak to what attacks, or do you do your own testing?
Both. I played the game long enough now that I’m pretty familiar with the resistances. Still sometimes I glance at the wiki, because there is a detailed list there on enemy immunities and weaknesses. :)
@@AKisHerceg I have no idea how I missed that wiki page, thanks!
I am also currently replaying DA2 with a mage hawke, using blood/force mage with lightning damage and entropy spells.... embarrassingly enough, my first time playing on hard difficulty....
There was loot on the ground........LOOT. :)
Knowing DA2 it was probably 2 silver. lol
Something wrong 2hander next to no damage....
Nope, the Arishok has insane armor. Physical attacks are barely hurting him unless they are criticals. Sadly the two-handed warriors do not have access to elemental weapons in Act 1 and 2 that the Arishok would be weak to. Which is why the W&S warrior can nuke him in 18 sec, whereas the 2H has to mess around for 5+ minutes. :)
@@AKisHerceg thanks i seen vid like healer mage vs him pure benny hill show
@@abraduks11 Check my healer against him. There is no running around. My healer annihilates him in two minutes. :)
@@AKisHerceg ok will do that
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Again ... DLC item 😏 ... sir please don't misunderstanding me, But the arishok is one of the hardest bosses in games ... why he's not mentioned on famous sites like bosses from dark souls games. ... Melania from elden ring...etc .....
I'm completely not doubting you ... i even learning from your channel...
The Arishok is a real hard foe ... a real nightmare...
Sir please face him with normal equipments no DLC items ... warrior hawke...let the viewers talk fairly about this game.
If you want to face him without any dlc equipment, why don't you just do it? :)
There is no difference in terms of tactics if I would not use The Empress's Point(the only dlc item I used here). The only difference would be time. I would do the exact same thing, but instead of 6 minutes, the fight would be 10-15 minutes long by using some random greatsword I picked up. That's it.
I think you are the only person on the planet who would want to watch me hack this guy for 15 minutes, so if you don't mind, I would rather do something else with my time. :)
@@AKisHerceg i checked them ... DLC equipments at DA ll can make huge difference, But you're right on same tactics but longer time if using non-dlc equipments, But he's still hard boss ... i think most of the players knows that ... nvmd... gg anyway