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mountaindewslave on 12 January 2015
pbroy said:
I'm trying to play through the first 2 first. Currently playing Origins off and on, but I'm such a completionist whore, I'm not enjoying it. So at this rate, maybe by the summer I'll be on Inquisition.


prepare for a disappointment. Origins is vastly superior in quality to both the 2nd game and Inquistion



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S.T.A.G.E. on 12 January 2015
Sunstrider said:

First playthrough with an Elf Warrior/Champion/Sword&Shield at normal difficulty(95hrs+), then playing now with a Human Rogue/Dual Blades and making him a Tempest at nightmare difficulty(16hrs+ in) and I'm now at Skyhold(finally!), also I'm playing with a contoller(PS3). Playing on PC.


How has being an elf affected your story tree? Also are you of the Dalish variety? 



S.T.A.G.E. on 12 January 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Main character

Male Human Mage- Knight Enchanter specialization with extra points in each of the other trees.

Cassandra- Tank spec, points in specialization tree, one handed + shield tree, and the taunt tree (can't remember it's name)

Cole- High DPS with threat reduction; Points in daggers, stealth, and Assassin specialization tree

Vivienne- Knight enchanter spec, similar to my main character, but with a few differences

I find tank Cassandra to be essential since I'm playing on nightmare, potions last longer if I keep most enemies' attention centered on her. Knight Enchanter seems to be the best mage spec for Nightmare, you're invulnerable to damage as long as your barrier is up (and Knight Enchanter keeps your barrier up alot longer), so AoE damage that hits tank Cassandra doesn't hurt you. I went with Cole over Varric or Sera because his DPS seems higher, helps to take enemies down as quickly as possible so that Cassandra takes minimal damage in each encounter. I'm about 56 hours in, Level 15 now and about halfway through the game. 


Sweeeeet. Someone here said Blackwall can make himself invincible. Thats insane. When you get the personal specialization tree you can find out for yourself what he does alongside Cassandra, since they both are weapon and shield characters. 



S.T.A.G.E. on 12 January 2015
shikamaru317 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Sweeeeet. Someone here said Blackwall can make himself invincible. Thats insane. When you get the personal specialization tree you can find out for yourself what he does alongside Cassandra, since they both are weapon and shield characters. 

Yeah, Blackwall has an 8 second invulnerability ability I think,and the cooldown on it isn't too long. But Cassadra specced properly seems to be just as good imo. She has high guard generation (you're invulnerable while guard is up), high armor (damage reduction), and I have 2 mages in my party that can cast barrier (which also makes her invulnerable briefly), so she's basically invulnerable to damage most of the time anyway. I also prefer Cassandra because her Templar specialization tree is geared towards fighting demons, and demons are the toughest enemies in the game so far in my experience, especially those annoying ones that pop out of the ground and do that AoE speell that knocks everyone in your party, with he abilities that boost damage for the whole party against demons I can quickly deal with Rifts. 


Cool, give him a clothing accessory buff that will lower the cooldown time for his special.



S.T.A.G.E. on 12 January 2015
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Played as a rogue assasin but people should pick tempest cause of that fucking badass ulti Thousand Cuts.

My main Team was Cassandra tank, sera and Dorian support/damage but i used all characters.


I miss A thousand cuts from Dragon Age 2. I should check around my skill tree to see if I purchased it with a skill point.



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Scoobes on 12 January 2015

Single playthrough; currently lvl 23 Elf Rogue- dual wield, assassin.

Completed the main story and killed the dragons. Trying to decide what sort of character I should play as next. thinking a Warrior of some kind as there are plenty of Mages.

Typical party usually consists of:

Me- Rogue, assassin; stealth then back attacks plus 'Mark of Death' for bosses.

Warrior- Normally Cassandra but I use Iron Bull if I want a laugh or am dragon hunting; typical tank role.

Archer- Varric/Sera. They have similar abilities and attack the way I've levelled them up so I just go through their ability list and poison strong targets.

Mage- Usually Viviene; her healing revival abilities are very useful for the harder bosses. She also seems to make the most snarky comments with other party members which is thoroughly entertaining.




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Sunstrider on 12 January 2015
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Sunstrider said:

First playthrough with an Elf Warrior/Champion/Sword&Shield at normal difficulty(95hrs+), then playing now with a Human Rogue/Dual Blades and making him a Tempest at nightmare difficulty(16hrs+ in) and I'm now at Skyhold(finally!), also I'm playing with a contoller(PS3). Playing on PC.


How has being an elf affected your story tree? Also are you of the Dalish variety? 


Not sure if it did affect anything but as an elf, the only thing I noticed is the dialogue of the NPC's, it has a different tone to it like when people are disgusted at you for being an elf leader, or when near the end drinking from the fountain my character would have a dialogue choice of "I should drink from it because I'm the descendant" or something like that.



             

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binary solo on 13 January 2015
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.



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daredevil.shark on 13 January 2015

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TheGoldenBoy on 13 January 2015

I wanted to Platinum in my first playthrough so I made a female human Knight Enchanter.