How to Beat Uldred in Dragon Age
Alright, very rarely do I do this but since I was stuck on this part for an hour or so I felt I should pass this along.
In Dragon Age, I’m commanding a fairly chaotic good party. I border on the good so I can retain Alistair in the party as the main tank (Sten is too much maintenace). Being that, I have to turn against blood mage support characters in order to keep this character positive and stay with me. I had to kill Wynne in order to proceed into Uldreds chamber at the top of the Circle Tower.
Without a mage, this battle is basically impossible.
However, you can (and I’ll admit, this is a flaw of game mechanic) change party members basically anytime you want. Uldred seems to be very weak to cold based attacks, so before you go in switch out Wynne and bring in Morrigan. Fortunately for me, I had her specced in cold magic and her equipment totals 20% additional cold damage. The cone of cold spell makes this battle a LOT easier. While you keep Morrigan on him assaulting with cold spells and cone of cold when its ready, use your main character to block Uldreds spells with the Litany of Adrella. Also put hexes on him to lower Uldred’s resistances. If any Abominations join the fight, try to stun them with Mind Blast, Horror or anything better than that. Once you get a good rhythm, all Uldred can do is melee on your tank and you should get through the battle without much trouble.
I realize this is over basically everyones head and only 3 people are going to know what the hell I am even talking about. But I can say this, D&D based games consume my soul I know that much. If only I knew how to do other things as well as I know how to dominate RPGs.
Dragon Age is a very solid offering from Bioware. I wouldn’t say its as great as Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 (probably my favorite PC games ever, favorite RPG ever) and the graphics feel dated a few years, but the action, feel and gameworld are definitely there and top notch. I think they borrowed the engine from Mass Effect (another terrific Bioware game) because a lot of the close up dialogue scenes look very similar.
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