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Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Hints
Mother Combat Tips
1 of 7: The Mother's primary method of attack is via the four powerful tentacles that rise up at the start of combat. They like to surround characters and rapidly deal massive amounts of damage.
2 of 7: It'll be a real struggle to keep your characters healed while damaging the tentacles, even if you use your three new offensive powers on them. (Remember that the fourth new power is for instantly healing everyone in your party.)
3 of 7: Add to that the fact that a swarm of childer grubs is released every time you kill a tentacle.
4 of 7: What you should do is keep on the move to avoid tentacle entanglement, and focus your attacks (including Tower of Flame) on one particular tentacle until it dies. When it does, use the Tower of Trauma power to stun everything so you can get a good head start on smashing the grubs.
5 of 7: The bad news is that once you use a special power, it never comes back. However, don't hesitate to use them all early in the combat to make the starting part easier.
6 of 7: Once all the tentacles and childers are dead, you can focus your attacks on the mother. All she'll be able to do is spit at you when you get close and slap you with her tentacle arms when you get really close (and summon a few grubs every now and then), so you should easily be able to finish her off.
7 of 7: See below for a couple of good alternative strategies.
