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Creature Revenant
Affiliation:	Demon
Rank:	Lieutenant, Boss and Elite boss
Skills:	Aura of Weakness Double Strike Mass Pull Pull Shield Wall Shield Defense
Locations:	12 different locations (see article)
Appearances:	Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Dragon Age II

Revenants are powerful demons inhabiting the corpses of the fallen, and as such, share the same strengths and weaknesses as creatures like devouring corpses, and fanged skeletons.

Involvement Edit

Dragon Age: Origins Edit

Eleven revenants can be found during the campaign, as a part of four separate quests:

• The Black Vials: Six boss-level Revenants are trapped in glass phylacteries:
  • Caridin's Cross, Denerim, Circle Tower, Orzammar Royal Palace, the Lower Ruins, and the Werewolf Lair.
• The Mage's Treasure: Three boss-level Revenants in the Brecilian Forest, one in the west & two in the east. These are summoned by triggering gravestones.
• Arl of Redcliffe: A lieutenant-level Revenant is found in the Redcliffe Castle courtyard when The Warden breaks in to investigate.
• Unbound: Elite Boss Gaxkang the Unbound, who is found in Quaint Hovel (Dirty Back Alley in Denerim), switches between two forms: a revenant and an arcane horror.

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Edit

It is possible to encounter Revenants in the Blackmarsh after escaping the Fade. The various Fade Portals spawn various undead and demonic enemies, including Revenants, though at this point in the game they are only Elite level and far easier to dispatch of than their boss-level, Origins counterparts.

Dragon Age II Edit

Miscellaneous revenants can be found during the game, including:

• One on Sundermount during Act 1
• One beneath Harimann Estate, during Repentance
• Also in Act three, espically during the "Last Straw", Revenants can be encountered quite frequently during almost every battle involving the undead

If Aveline is in the party during the "Mark of the Assassin" quest, there is a possibility of unleashing several phylactery-bound revenants inside Chateau Haine during her personal quest.

Builds Edit

Skills Edit

Revenants have five different skills, and like party members, have conditions for their Combat Tactics:

Skill Used	Condition	Use Chance
Aura of Weakness	Any	100%
Double Strike	Surrounded by at least 2 enemies	50%
	Surrounded by at least 3 enemies	75%
	Surrounded by at least 4 enemies	100%
Mass Pull	Most enemies using ranged attacks	100%
	Most enemies using magic	100%
	Combat start	100%
Pull	Short–medium range	100%
	Medium–long range	100%
Shield Wall	Mana or Stamina ≤50%	50%

Other statistics Edit

Revenants have the following characteristics:

• High Armor, Health, and Regeneration.
• Immunity to Stunning and knockdowns.
• Immunity to Cold and Nature damage, although they can be frozen.
• Vulnerability to Fire damage; normal reaction to Spirit, Lighting, and (despite the Codex text) Physical damage.
• Highly resistant or immune to flanking and backstabbing.

Some of their basic strategies involve:

• Pulling or Mass Pulling ranged attackers and healers.
• Damaging multiple opponents in melee.
• Killing weaker party members in one blow (spiking).
• Wearing down the party with their allies (skeletons or lesser darkspawn).

Strategy Edit

Basics Edit

Killing a Revenant takes careful planning and a well balanced group, those fighting Revenants at lower levels will surely perish. Be sure to have plenty of healing (both from spells and items), at least one Tank, and at least one party member that can disable opponents. As always, a tanking Warrior should bring Weapon and Shield Talents to help keep aggro off the other party members.

Effective tactics Edit

• Use snares to stop the the Revenant and/or slow it down:
  • Snares include: Glyph of Paralysis,
  • You can set traps ahead of time (although the demon will often resist weaker ones).
• Slow down their regeneration: Curse of Mortality
• Make them miss: Misdirection Hex or Death Hex.
• Increase their vulnerability: Vulnerability and Affliction Hexes and Mark of Death.
• Have a mage activate Telekinetic Weapons to increase armor penetration. Sunder Armor, Shattering Blows, and Shattering Shot are also highly effective, espescially if you face a Revenant early in the game where they tend to have extremely high armor versus your physical damage output.
• Some Revenants spawn with undead allies. It might be best to cast Force Field/Paralyze the Revenant at this point and flee the battle area, aggroing its undead allies and dealing with them in a separate location. The party can then return at leisure and deal with the Revenant alone.

• A tank maintains aggro while the other party members whittle down the Revenant's health.

• For Mages: the Revenant is totally immune to cold damage from both staves and spells like Winter's Grasp, but Cone of Cold will serve to freeze it in place. The Revenant cannot be shattered.

• Another much easier but slower strategy, is to wait for the revenant to attack the most threatening member of your party and just make this character run, possibly around a pillar or some obstacles. Other members are free to hit the revenant with bows or staves while he is running to catch your lure character. The obstacle is very important because when the revenant is trying to pull your character you just fall down and he always has to catch you. Sometimes, you have to flee to another part of the map to find suitable ground for the fight. This strategy is very efficient, if you can manage to first kill the less dangerous skeletons.

• Any characters at long range will not be pulled in. Rangers and healers can all work like this.

Alternative tanking Edit

• Force Field: the tank uses Threat and Taunt to maintain aggro until Force Field is reapplied. The remaining party members keep their distance, using ranged weapons, spells, and fire bombs to deal with the demon. Ironically, bows work just as fine, as taking too much damage causes the Revenant to switch its attention from the tank to other party members.
• Arcane Warrior: Attract aggro by casting offensive spells and hexes on the Revenant; spend as much mana as possible.Switch on Rock Armor, Arcane Shield, Shimmering Shield and Aura of Might and switch to heavy armor and weaponry. Thus you can easily obtain 50+ armor and survive heavy attack while dealing some damage. Flank with the rest.
• Mage Tank: One unconventional method is to have a mage aggro the demon then run in circles around an obstacle. The other party members should be using ranged attacks to kill the Revenant. The mage can cast any heavy damage spell to attract attention; afterwards, good spells to use include Vulnerability Hex, Drain Life, and any method of healing.

Suggested groups Edit

With the right tactics, a group of any composition can defeat Revenants.

The following are suggested teams that have been proven more successful than others.

Notes Edit

• Revenants can attack several party members in melee simultaneously, so using only one melee fighter and keeping the rest of your party at range will limit the Revenant's total damage output, letting you heal more efficiently.
• Party members can use obstacles to prevent being pulled: when you see the spell cast, move them behind pillars or walls; characters will fall when they hit the obstacle and remain at a decent distance.
• In Redcliffe Castle, you can get help by opening the gate by pulling the lever (assuming anyone survived the Redcliffe battle).
• Because of the Revenant's ability to spike, it is worthwhile to adjust the teams self-healing tactics; the main tank should heal when at 75% health and other damage dealers at 50% health. If using Mages to snare and debuff, they should cast heal and self-heal more rarely, perhaps at the 25% mark instead of 50%. The spike damage comes mainly on his AoE melee ranged attack, so trying to move your party members accordingly will reduce it greatly.
• Early in the game, the Revenant is much less likely to use Mass Pull and almost only uses Pull against its main target, which should be your tank. Indomitable or Shield Wall will help protect the tank if pulled (even better if they also have Shield Expertise). Use Mark of Death or Vulnerability Hex plus frost/fire weapons.
• All Revenants, with the exception of the one found in Redcliffe Castle, are Boss-level characters in Origins. However, in Awakening, they are Elite rank.
• There's a medium range where you can stay safely and neither pull or mass pull will not be used even when most of your members are ranged, close enough to consider melee, but not far to be ranged. It works even on Nightmare and makes the whole fight really easy
• The Revenant you encounter in Redcliffe can be petrified and shattered.
• In addition to their constant drop, Revenants will also drop up to 3 random valuable items ranging from tier 3 and 4 health and lyrium potions to flawless grade crystals, heavy plate armor, or simply gold (varies with level).

Gallery Edit

A Revenant in Dragon Age II

See also Edit