How do I beat the ancient rock wraith (dragon age 2)?

I have a rouge character, ferris, the dwarf and a mage.

the mage has healing abilities.

I have been trying for hours to beat the ancient rock wraith on casual!!!!

he always manages to kill me early on though.



I've tried taunt and it didn't work

I've tried archery and it didn't work

Nothing works!!!



it's driving me crazy!

How have you beaten it?How do I beat the ancient rock wraith (dragon age 2)?
lol I became a pro after being beaten like 8 times. After knowing the strategy it was so easy.

Get your tank, the shield user Aveline(The toughest defence and life) to go after the ancient rock and attack the wraith first so that the wraith doesn't go after other companions, especially mages.

Use your mages to deal mass damage on a single enemy.
Always heal your companions especially Aveline when her health is about 50%.

When the wraith goes to the middle of 4 pillars after beating him a little, hide behind one of the pillars.
Now the wraith uses some skill that shoots in every places in the place. There is no good of surviving if you don't hide behind the pillars.

When the massive shooting ends, he summons some little enemies that attacks with some lightning magic. Looks like chain lightning. So if u don't have lightning magic resistance, your life will decrease very fast even for your tank.

Pause the game and make a strategy. Choose your companion and use your skills on the little lightning shooters. Don't attack them at once. They have very little life so try to go 1 vs 1 or 1 vs 2
with your companions. This way you will earn time to beat the wraith.

If you kill these minions faster, you earn more time before the wraith stoods up to attack you again.

These little monsters and wraith has high armor but little cold resistance so use cold magics.
It deals much damage but crushing prison or warriors do less damage since they are hard rocks.

So when the minions are dead, you beat the wraith. Place your other companion mages behind
and closer to the pillar in advance. If you have a healer or a reviver(spirit healer or anders) make sure to place them behind the pillar even if they can't attack. Never make them go down since this guys
can revive you endless times if u have mana. Meaning if this guy doesn't die, it doesn't matter how many times your other companions die.

Now the wraith will suddenly change it's shape. It will become a round rock trying to attack you.
It deals heavy damage if u get hit. I once placed all my companions in the same place and they
got bowling striked and they all died after he used something like quake.

So when it changes shape. Pause the game and move all the companions to the other side.
The direction where the wraith will roll is the direction, his face (his red eyes) are facing.

Now you can avoid that rock rolling attack 100% everytime. Then wraith will go normal bash
attacks. He will often do the roll attack for like every 5~15 seconds so always be prepared to
pause the game and avoid.

After a long time the wraith will go to the middle but this time he might do something like pulling magic that deals less damage then the shooting. You should still hide the mages but no need for warriors.

Then he will do the roll attack and some times he'd do that massive shooting attack again. Prepare
to hide behind the pillars.

This is all his attacks. No more strategy needed. You just need some potions or some healer. better if he could revive you companions.

If you lack mana to heal or revive, use rally with your warrior to give all the other 3 companions mana/stamina. then use bolster to gain stamina back.

You'd have endless mana to heal this way. You are totaly immortal against a single boss. this wyaHow do I beat the ancient rock wraith (dragon age 2)?
I know what I was doing wrong, is when he spawns all the little wraiths, beat those. I always tried to attack him, but I'm not sure if you ca even hurt him then. If you get caught in that thing where you are like paralyzed, and your healer is not, have them heal, or use healing potions



Good luck!How do I beat the ancient rock wraith (dragon age 2)?
Make sure that you and your team hide behind the pillars while the creature is charging up it's burst attack, and then make sure that you run out there and hit it a good number of times while it is recharging and laying in pieces.