...okay, now I'm okay with his arc, an honorable death is acceptable. (What do you mean the whole game doesn't cater to my tastes how dare) >I will fight.
Gets us attacked by literally every Qunari in the room INCLUDING the Arishok. It's a lot more difficult! The option to duel him only happens if a) you have earned enough secret Respect Points from the Arishok (yes, that's a thing) or failing that b) you bring Fenris along and he uses his knowledge of Qunari custom to propose the duel.
Let's put it like this: he likes us about as much as it's possible for him to like anyone (I know what you're thinking: is there Arishok/Hawke smutfic? OF COURSE THERE IS)
>I will fight you. This is an "if they catch you, they will kill you" situation, because his attacks do like 1/4 of my health in damage. Luckily I realized I could use my dog as a tank, l m a o. How do these qunari feel about Hawke just fuckin pulling a dog out of hammerspace to fight the Arishok? I can actually summon INFINITE DOG because whenever the dog runs out of health it just despa- AH CAN YOU NOT (feebly kicks legs) weh.
What, cool mages who you love? :3 Hawke manages to knock him out with a fireball while getting knocked over by his giant fucking axe, so that is dramatic and cool.
Varric: "...and then Hawke called her other dog but while she was doing that the Arishok stabbed her and then flung her on the floor. There was blood everywhere. It was gross. The end." Cassandra: >8(
As I recall, I wasn't doing the run-in-circles dance so much as 'layer on movement stopping spells, spam attacks until cooldown ends, run if necessary.' How'd everyone else do?