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Dragon Age II Hints
Orsino Combat Tips
1 of 9: Run your party past Orsino and into the NE or NW corner of the room, then have them hold position there.
2 of 9: Set everyone you can to do ranged attacks, and get them to target Orsino if they don't on their own. He'll probably be focusing on the templars and Meredith, so you'll have some time to get in some free attacks.
3 of 9: He's particularly vulnerable to electrical and spirit damage, especially at first, so have your mages hit him with that.
4 of 9: Unfortunately, Orsino is likely to start shambling over to your ranged attackers at some point. When he does, move them all to another corner of the room and try to keep him occupied with your warrior(s).
5 of 9: When he's nearly dead, his head will detach and zoom around the room, animating a bunch of corpses. After you smash all of them, the head thing will attack you. It's *much* faster than the body was, so you'll have to work harder to keep up with it and keep it distracted from your ranged-attack guys.
6 of 9: If you can corner the head beast with a couple of warriors, you can probably hack its health down without it being able to do anything except jump up and down. Otherwise, you'll have to keep chasing it, and it may be able to raise up more corpses and an arcane horror several times.
7 of 9: After it's nearly dead, it'll rejoin with the body, which will then have a few new attacks, such as spewing blood all over someone.
8 of 9: Your basic strategy will still be leading him around with your warrior(s) while your ranged-attack guys hit him with all they've got. However, note that he can summon corpses every now and then, some of which may appear near your ranged guys. If so, have them shoot the nearby corpses down, then return their attention to Orsino.
9 of 9: He'll also use his "blood drain" effect more often, but hopefully you can keep him interested in your toughest warrior, who'll have a lot of hit points and will be easy to heal with health potions. When Orsino goes down this time, it'll be for good, and you'll get a *huge* chunk of XP.
