Yea good strat. I was a tank so i was stuck with one mage. The only real problem in the fight is when the dragon picks ur tank up and swings him around like a ragdoll then slams him on the ground. Then u need to spam heal.

someone please tell em what you guys mean by a "tank"

a tank is your biggest warrior that has the tank talents (the talents with stone heart, bellow, stone roar).

A Tank is a warrior who uses a Shield and abilities like Shield Wall, Shield Defense, Shield Cover, Threaten and Taunt to force enemies attacks upon himself. He's the damage-absorbing sponge of the team, allowing free movement and liberty to decide what will the other teammates do, without worrying about getting hit most of the times.
A Tank coupled with a good healer backing him up will make most fights a breeze, since you'll have two or three teammates doing heavy attacks on the enemies, especially if your other characters are Ranged or DPS like Zethran or Leliana with a dual sword combo (should you go for that skill tree).

Let me guess you never played a MMORPG in your whole life ? :)

Otherwise I have completed the game as male human noble and as a female elf magi so far and done pretty much every quest you can possibly do..( DLC included). I think the only quest I have yet to complete that I know off if the love letter collection (I have yet to find 12).

I would rate the game 9.5/10, better than Demon souls for me ( Demon Souls combat system is better but that game lacks the interaction with all the NPCs that make DA so good).

For party members I have recruited them all but I usually end up rolling with Alistair, Leliana, Morrigan , Shale or Wynne...( depends what class my character is). And I have romanced everthing that can be romanced in game ( and slept with everything that can be slept with too lol).

Best romances are hands down Morrigan as a male character and either Alistair or Leliana as a female ( Leliana is fine as male too but I prefer Morrigan so much...)

I rather Bioware works on DA DLC and DA2 than KOTOR :P

PS : based on my experience, if you play without friendly fire ( casual or normal) the game is a tonn easier if you control a mage...

PS2 : based on all I have seen so far I am pretty certain which of the endings Bioware will say really happened in DA2..( and glad it will be that one !).

Is the DLC worth buying? I have the stone prisoner, but not Bergen's Keep (or whatever it is)

Wardens Keep is really worth it imho.

After you complete it you get a *Spoiler* Storage Chest

BTW this site has its reviews of the game up. Well once again i see why i come here. They have givin the game almost the same review score i do. 9.2 ( i said 9.5 ) for the PC and 8.5 ( i said 8 ) for the console version.

a little off topic here but i wanted to say this.

See alot of people talk about review system being broken and all. I kinda agree in the fact that metacritic is pointless, but if you can find a site or some reviewers that you share tasts with then reviews can be very helpfull. This is one of thoes sites for me. It dosent mean there reviews are the end all be all or the final word, its just that i share there tastes.

Okay, I am actually playing AC II at the moment, because I know I can get that finished within a reasonable time period! But once I get through that and get the platinum, then it will just be constant Dragon Age, I can buy that next month, and probably the other DLC... this game is going to cost me a lot!

oh thanks guys, I have NEVER played a MMORPG so I didn't know what the hell you meant by tank

I thought you got a tank in the game lol....which is odd considering the time period!

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ANYWAY....played an hour more....WOW its so fun shapeshifting from huge rock monsters to mice to flaming men & now to a spirit

everything makes sense as I have each form now, whats left is to go through each respective door & defeat the "mini boss" at the end of each section to open up the passageway to sloth

Loving the tact the combat system has & loving shapeshifting

Played 12 hours of it now.....as of now its my GOTY 2009, surpassing Uncharted 2!

Wow. Now thats a statement!