Dam I'm so hooked to this game. I hope it'll sell millions.

Easily GOTY 2009 for me.

marcios thanks for showing that defensive stance and other tips. I beat the Tower of Ishal. I had big trouble with that ogre too, took me over two hours and maybe 20 tries to take him down lol.

I was playing this game on my pc yesterday.

After like half hour or so i just gave up. It is boring lifeless. Horrible. Just crap. I hated it to be honest. that being said i never made it out of that test thing because i just got bored of it.

Might try again later but god this game is horrible man. That being said i didnt like mass effect eva so i just guess i dont like bioware games.

Continue, man. It gets fantastic after the test, I promise.

Damn this thread is so filled with spoilers lol.

I play on normal difficulty but I tend to die a lot. On average I die 3-4 times/battle before I win. I wonder if it's the same for everyone?

I got this murderer into my party, plus that nun, but I don't want them lol. I wanna keep my dog. I love my dog! But I'm afraid he's not as good as a human, so maybe I will die even more in battles now?

@slimebeast

Dogs have some pretty good skills and items that only they can wear (the Kaddis and the collars), but it all depends on how you want to build up your party.

I went for a Tank, Healer, Nuker and DPS (rogue/assasin) strategy, that way I could cover all the weaknesses of my party and still plow through all enemies.

Zethran and leliana are both good assasins, but is your pic really ;)

What does the dog classify as?

@slimebeast

The dog is more of a mash up of characteristic between a pure Tank and a DPS Warrior. With skills like Death Howl, Overwhelm and Howl, you can inflict Stuns and debuffers in an AoE (Area of Effect) manner, thus allowing your other party members more freedom of movement.

I suggest that, if you're going to keep the dog as your party member, that you replace the DPS, because two mages are almost essential to any party and the Tank skills of the normal race warrior are just to good to pass up.
You'll end up substituing the Rogue element of your team then, which will mean no more access to the lockpick and steal functions, so you'll end up with lots of less items in the whole game

Hmm... will I miss lots of good loot?

How does steal work btw?

Steal works by approaching a NPC or target enemy (enemies can only be done with Stealth) and then using the skill per se.

I don't know if you'll miss out on rare, one-time only loot, but since there are many areas in the game that can be done one time only, I think that possibility exists.

So far my only major complaint is that the game is too linear. Although I didn't expect it to be open world of course.

The side quests feel just like playing a MMO. I like MMOs, but as this is a single player game you don't get the good features of MMOs (social interaction, groups and large battles). And I hate the concept with instanced areas.

Even the battles are just like playing a MMO, but they're much much funnier than I thought watching from trailers. The battles are very satisfying so far.