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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
- Thread starter shinobi602
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When you first TP to Haven, the vendor is closer to where you spawn than where the research table so even though I know sometimes I just go "fuck it".
I doubt the gain is that much anyways and I literally just ignore requisitions.
anexanhume
Member
I really like it after the champion specialization. After taking both levels of walking fortress, I can basically solo a dragon at my level or less on normal as long as my party gets him to about half health before they all go down. (some dragons leave for air attacks and give some time to resuscitate followers, others don't). That's with just the standard healing potions and no equipment targeted to the dragon's vulnerabilities. I waltzed up to the Emerald Graves dragon at level 17 (a level 17 dragon) just to see how hard he was and ending up beating him first encounter because my warrior is so hard to take down.
Otherwise, you normally only hear about Knight Enchanters or crazy bow damage to solo a dragon.
Most relevant valuables that drop in zones are for the requisitions from those zones, that's about it.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Bwaha, this definitely tickled my fancy. He does have a great singing voice.Cullen performing his dance number for the Sing-Quisition
Just bring Solas through any Veil-related sidequests as well as when you collect elven artifacts and you should be fiiiine.
Oh wow. Those screenshots are absolutely beautiful!
They'll make great wallpapers I bet.
UnObtainium17
Member
I want to leave him there.... But that armor and also a 2h sword doe.
yep just saw it.You're in for a surprise.
Once I realized how important Dispel is in closing the rifts, I ended up approaching rifts with two mages in my party and one tank (I was the rogue). Closing them became much easier after that - the rogue waits for the other party members to attack/distract the initial demons and then starts to disrupt the rift. The first wave is killed and then you switch to tactical view to have the two mages dispel the second (or third waves, if you go that far) of demons as they are spawning (if you wait until after they spawn, dispel won't work). Playing on nightmare this process made rifts much easier to deal with.
(Note, the mages obviously can't dispel all the demons in the subsequent waves, but they can cut down on the strongest demons (denoted by the brightness of the spawn site, if I understand correctly) and also the number.)
flatearthpandas
Member
Okay, I pulled the trigger on this game last night. $40 from Best Buy seemed like a decent price point and a Jimquisition video of all things convinced me I wanted it. Planning on creating an origin account and putting together a world view or whatever to import some data.
Hopefully this works out.
Hopefully this works out.
No, unfortunately not :/, I failed the mission probably 12 times in previous attempts. With this party build and strategy I got it on my first try, might save you time in the long run.
Wow. I need to try this dispel trick. Never even thought of that. Although I haven't had too much trouble with terrors as my character warrior - with hookshot/shield bash/charge you can basically keep terrors on their ass the whole fight. Also, combat roll is great for escaping their AoE and recovering from the effects.
jim2point0
Banned
S&B warriors can easily solo dragons as well -- it just takes a while as they don't do much damage (on the other hand, dragons can't hurt them, either).
I'm 100% completely overwhelmed with this game and I just got my horse. I have like 24 power and have done nothing with it. Maybe I should ignore all this side stuff and just start the main story
zkorejo
Member
So.. are Cowl schematics only for mages or can my warrior wear it too? I have a white cowl I equipped on my warrior but I was hoping to find a schematic and craft a better cowl. If its not going to work with Warrior then I would basically be wasting my time looking for schematics.
jim2point0
Banned
Yes.
Or at least go somewhere else. The Fallow Mire is one of my favorite locations in the game and can be accessed fairly early. The map is actually pretty linear (with some branching areas), but the atmosphere is great. Especially towards the end.
The Templar's Spell Purge ability also works, so with 2 mages and a templar rifts become really easy.
anexanhume
Member
Yeah, just pointing out walking fortress can make you pretty damn tanky. With things like mighty blow and whirlwind attack, you can lay on damage fairly quickly too.
UnObtainium17
Member
Blackwall..
Sorry breh.
i know youve changed and has been a huge help to the team but that wont bring back the lives you have taken.
Deified Data
Banned
So. Qunari are able to preview helmets with bits specifically cut out to make room for the horns, no clipping or anything, but they can't actually wear them. What is this?
Damagewise, I don't think anything tops dual wielding rogue, even without the Tempest + Thousand Cuts glitch?
I clearly remember doing 10k+ critical damage per hit with deathblow on a downed dragon, and that was without the best daggers...
I respeced from an archer to dual wielding around level 11, I clearly did more damage with my dual daggers.
anexanhume
Member
Yeah, I saw those videos - crazy stuff. My mighty blows with just a dropped loot weapon are around 1.5K for crits. Whirlwind attacks do multiple 120ish damages per second. Not optimized at all but still fairly straight forward with walking fortress.
Stolen from Reddit:
Most characters have great scenes that can trigger if your approval with them is cratered, and may leave your party on the spot.
BIG, GIANT, SPOILERS: Most of these trigger only in the last quarter of the game and reference a bunch of plot points.
Blackwall - http://youtu.be/Aq-E965L-NM
Cole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEh3P__RI4
Dorian - http://youtu.be/6sqb30p-3Pk
Solas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4OkZun3VA
Cassandra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZOvgKcwk8
Most characters have great scenes that can trigger if your approval with them is cratered, and may leave your party on the spot.
BIG, GIANT, SPOILERS: Most of these trigger only in the last quarter of the game and reference a bunch of plot points.
Blackwall - http://youtu.be/Aq-E965L-NM
Cole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEh3P__RI4
Dorian - http://youtu.be/6sqb30p-3Pk
Solas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ4OkZun3VA
Cassandra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAZOvgKcwk8
Fushichou187
Member
So I've just gotten to Skyhold so no specialization for my Inquisitor yet, but I did clear out all the rifts in the Hinterlands, Fallow Mire, Storm Coast, and the Oasis before progressing to that point and it definitely felt like I'd hit certain rifts that were just level walls i.e. they became easier once I advanced to the next level even though my stats didn't really increase.
I'm playing a dual-wielding Rouge w/ a lot of points in Subterfuge. I go invisible and move towards the rift and let my party aggro the creatures so that when I start closing the rift they won't take a shot at me to interrupt the processes. Most of those rift creatures (terrors, demons, shades) are susceptible to Sleep so I use Knockout powder if one gets too close. I also completely ignore the OT's title and tried to grind as much experience as I can out of stuff before moving on with the main story missions because Nightmare can be pretty unforgiving.
I just keep all valuables that have flavor text attached as they can likely be turned in at some point.
Heh?
I seem to remember I had a few dialogue choices about that.
Also, the dialogues heard from the guard before (or was it a codex parchement?) talk about Leliana being tortured, so I wasn't too much surprised to see her like that.
I finally get the side quest to get the red Lyrium's on the north west part of Stormcoast,I go in there ,do the quest and all but there is a locked door that tells me I need a Templar key or something to open,and there's the last 3 Lyrium in there...where do I get the key...? should it of dropped off one of the mobs in there...? I hate stuff like this...
Also there is a stupid shard in Exalted Plains,sitting on a roof of a small destroyed house and I see no way to reach it...getting a little tired of those collect-a-thons now,I think once I finish the Dalish Favor quest in there I will do the main story...still have Emerald Graves to do and Emprise du Lion and the Haste something area to explore...
And its not a Rouge,its a Rogue for crying out loud lol...
Also there is a stupid shard in Exalted Plains,sitting on a roof of a small destroyed house and I see no way to reach it...getting a little tired of those collect-a-thons now,I think once I finish the Dalish Favor quest in there I will do the main story...still have Emerald Graves to do and Emprise du Lion and the Haste something area to explore...
And its not a Rouge,its a Rogue for crying out loud lol...
There's like a broken wall or something you can run up. It was a bitch but you can do it.
Fushichou187
Member
The codex (or whatever, some text that comes up when you click on it) says that they've been using her blight resistant skin and blood to keep Alexius' son alive. Well, hers and other peoples, but hers lasts best. Which probably helps explain why she's quite so keen on killing Felix
Though I do find the lack of dialogue on that a little odd. I half suspect they added that texture in following the fan reaction to the trailer that showed her looking oddly perfect post torture. Though the official story was that her appearance was a spoiler
Though I do find the lack of dialogue on that a little odd. I half suspect they added that texture in following the fan reaction to the trailer that showed her looking oddly perfect post torture. Though the official story was that her appearance was a spoiler
Grinchy
Banned
I saw someone mention earlier that later in the game you can make armor that's not class-specific. So like a warrior could wear light armor.
Maybe you can make armor later on that's not race-specific too? I'm only guessing here, I have no idea.
Some area's have some pretty mean pop-up issues(Western Approach for example) but besides that,its pretty solid...only crashes I had was getting kicked out of the game with a PSN error message,after the results of a Multiplayer game...
And thanks guys for the answers before,I will try that.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
For Blackwall trying to decide between:
Counterstrike
or skipping it and going for Unyielding and then Walking Fortress.
What do you guys think?
Really solid. Its pretty dang gorgeous too.
Counterstrike
or skipping it and going for Unyielding and then Walking Fortress.
What do you guys think?
Really solid. Its pretty dang gorgeous too.
anexanhume
Member
Walking Fortress. Make it preferred. Laugh as enemies try to down him.
ToVenusAndBack
Member
Was finishing off the Hissing Wastes quests today and thought I may as well try my hand at the dragon there (called Sandy something). Well, all I can say is ha! It absolutely destroyed my party and I could barely scrape any health off it. Looks like I'll be coming back for that one
Teleport back at the nearest camp. Travel back to the door, on the way a new corpse will apear near two boats, with the key on it.
If it's the one I'm thinking about, you have to do a bit of (tricky) climbing through the destroyed house right beside the one you want to climb on.
That's how I did it at least.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Ha I like the sound of that.
Two-Handed Champion was my spec for my first playthrough, and I found it an incredibly fun and versatile spec.
Seeing most of the posts on abilities, I suspect no one plays with activated friendly fire... ?
I turned it off after 60+ hours, it was a bit frustrating: it's impossible to play with a 2H warrior + another melee fighter, as the warrior will always friendly fire the other melee fighter.
Most of mages spells are AoE, so also not a good idea to use them.
I turned it off after 60+ hours, it was a bit frustrating: it's impossible to play with a 2H warrior + another melee fighter, as the warrior will always friendly fire the other melee fighter.
Most of mages spells are AoE, so also not a good idea to use them.
Fushichou187
Member
Absolutely not. I'm extremely thankful that Bioware didn't include some sadistic trophy connected to it. Nightmare mode is plenty.
anexanhume
Member
I don't see a reason to. The game doesn't give you enough granular control or predictability of position to do friendly fire right. And in pen & paper, friendly fire from melee isn't really a thing anyway (at least not in 3.5 PFS).
For AoE, there are typically items that allow mages to eliminate allies from the affects, so just assume your mages all have that
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
The VA that did the
is just fantastic stuff. Love his voice.
Also the
looks pretty amazing visually.
Nightmare
Also the
Fade
Wow made it to the part where you have to turn the trebechet right before 'The Elder One' appears. Man as a L8 that fight seemed really tough! Finally come up with a good plan and prevailed after 2-3 deaths
pretty pics
Well, I skipped DA2 and expected/wanted to play Inquisition like Origins. I also played with tactical cam only for quite some time.
Boy was I wrong, eh?
On the downside, the game was pretty challenging on hard + FF + tactical cam only. The game became a breath after I switched to full action...
Begaria
Member
Ha. Fantastic. I got on everyone's good side by the end of the game. I love the Approval/Disapproval system in DA:I.
bananafactory
Banned
Wait, some valuables aren't junk? I've just been selling everything in that category
My daughter was asleep on the sofa and his booming voice woke her up. She went straight upstairs lol.