How do you play Dragon Age Inquisition?

[binary solo]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

binary solo said:
Just finished my first playthrough as a dual wielding Qunari female rogue, Assassin specialisation. Playing on PS4. I really like the idea of the tactical view for battles, but the execution on consoles is not so great, so I pretty much used action mode most of the time and only used tactical mode when I wanted to instruct multiple characters. Or right at the beginning of an engagement to set up each character's first actions and targets. I also used tactical mode to select the spawning points at rifts to hit with dispel. So it definitely has its uses on console, just not as much as I was hoping. I might have to use it more often with my nightmare playthrough.

I'm playing on Xbox One. Its funny, but I use action only for smaller enemies who arent in groups and I use tactical view to beak apart groups of three or four.

Ie:

Rogue to enemy archers and rear attack while invisible for crit
Archer to main warrior enemy with poisoned arrows and specials before cool down
Mage with AOE every round before cooldown and protection spells
Warrior to main warrior as tank with special attacks

I control almost every move they do after everyones cooldown. I also place where they are on the battlefield. 

If I need to take out a specific limb of a Giant or Dragon, I make distance warriors spread out around the specific limbs and have the warrior to crit damage to the limb while the dragon  or giant is focused on him. Everyone else can raise hell. The whole point is to distract.

It will definitely help on nightmare. This is why I am trying to master it early. Works well thus far. I don't really die or lose much life because of it. Jar of bees is amazing as well.

Never used jar of bees. But that sort of thing comes in handing when fights are tougher on nightmare where battlefield management and controlling enemy behaviour becomes more important.

My typical party was an all chick affair. Me (my female Qunari), Cassandra, Vivienne, Sera.

Sera was my romance this play through. I don't know what romance option to take when I play as a human male mage. There's really no one you can romance for the trollz as a mage in this game, unlike romancing Fenris as a mage in DA2. When I play as a male I always have a heterosexual romance, so my options are limited. Whereas with female characters I go 50/50 homosexual/heterosexual, i.e  for my female elf warrior 2H weapon play through I'll romance a male character, if I do a 3rd play through that is. (I really enjoyed being a 2H (city) elf female warrior in DA:O, it was such fun running around with a weapon strapped to my back that was taller than me, with my skinny arsed arms laying waste to mutliple enemies.) Of course with naked boobies in this game you get double the eye candy if you have a homosexual female relationship. That was an eye opener when Sera and my Qunari got it on, I tell you I was not expecting that. Naked bums too. Wow so risque. I'm thinking a Cassandra romance is the closest to being a trollz mage romance. As a Seeker of the chantry She's as close to being anti-mage as the romance options get.

I suppose if I played as a female mage I could trollz romance Cullen (he is a romance option right?), though even he is sympathetic to mages.

I dislike Cole as a character, which means Rogue options are very limited among party members. On Nightmare it may be necessary to go dual mage party through most of the game, which means needing to have Sera as my rogue option. Or can we go triple ranged party with just one melee member? Once guard abilities are max upgraded the warriors become walking fortresses and are impossible to kill.