Thing is when you melee the tentacles they melee you back, so ideally you want mage + melee or range + melee defense. so melee armour is ideal. especially as you DO NOT MISS Ha'Aken's head even in negative mage attack bonus. Melee the range tentacles, theyre very weak to melee, ignore the mage ones unless there are no range ones, theyre resistant to melee. SOA the head whenever it pops up EZPZ