Flemeth the Shapeshifter

Strategy
In combat, Flemeth takes the form of a High Dragon. Like other dragons, she is able to breathe fire, perform wing buffets, fly rapidly from place to place, and perform powerful melee attacks. She is a very difficult encounter if your "main tank" is not high on constitution and fire resistance. She is extremely difficult to maneuver and usually does not stray from her spot on the knoll on which she perches. Melee characters should flank her, but be advised that she can use powerful tail sweep and hind leg attacks. Mages and archers should stay well away from the melee. Archers should use their highest-damage talents, while mages should focus on healing, buffing, and direct-damage spells (in that order). The fight may take a few minutes, but it is very survivable if you make sure to control which characters Flemeth hits with her flame breath.

Another strategy, if you are playing a Mage character, is to use prolonged damage spells such as Inferno and Tempest. If you cast them, heal, re-cast, it should be lengthy, but possible to defeat her alone.

One simple way to kill her is choose only Wynne and archer companions for the battle. Flemeth will be standing on a platform and therefore she will be unable to attack characters who are not on the platform with melee attacks. She will only be able to use fire blast on them. The way to survive this is to either heal the character being attacked or equipped potions. She can use an attack to suck the characters to her, but simply walking off the platform will make sure she cant attack you.

Another easy way to beat her is to use Shale. Shale's Stoneheart talents and high fire resistance, with appropriate gear, makes it excellent for surviving Flemeth's attacks.

Alternatively, set many traps down on the ground where she will spawn, dealing a lot of damage to her.

If killed by a melee attack, as with all high dragons, there will be a special execution animation for Flemeth's death. Observed with Zevran, who ran along her back to her head and hacked into her skull with his swords. As a two-handed warrior, rode on head and did a flip off her head, hacking it off on the down swing.

Skills

 * Massive Attack Strong melee attack.
 * Sweep Attacking those close in front, sweeping them away.
 * Buffet While a short bit in the air, breathing fire.
 * Fire Spit Spitting a small ball of fire, that explodes when it hits its target.
 * Grab Nice animated attack where a party member is grabbed, shaken and thrown away. For them to be dropped, the creature must be incapaciatated in some way such as frozen, stunned, or paralyzed. Shale cannot be targeted by this attack.

Loot

 * Flemeth's Key
 * Potent Lyrium potion

Locations

 * Flemeth's Hut