I've been carefully tracking my power and xp/level gains from quests this playthrough in an effort to make a written record of the most minimalist playthrough possible. I hope to post it when I am done, to assist other people who want to play a bajillion times with a lower playtime for each go or people who just want to keep it to the most interesting non-main quests. I am doing this on Nightmare so it should be feasible at any difficulty.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
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I've been carefully tracking my power and xp/level gains from quests this playthrough in an effort to make a written record of the most minimalist playthrough possible. I hope to post it when I am done, to assist other people who want to play a bajillion times with a lower playtime for each go or people who just want to keep it to the most interesting non-main quests. I am doing this on Nightmare so it should be feasible at any difficulty.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. You'd be surprised how fast you can go through a zone you've been through before. You know what quests are around, what level you can handle in most of the areas and what is important. I'm on my second run now and moving at much faster pace on a higher difficulty.
Crossing Eden
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This is good news.
Psychoward
Banned
Wow, Hissing Wastes is incredible. I can't believe how many people said they dislike it :/
That's awesome because this game deserves it. Already can't wait for the next DA
Jarrett Lee (Director of marketing) on the BioWare forums.
Nope. Just got done with a game where we steamrolled through everything, then the Demon Commander takes out 3 players with one shot and when the fourth player came to revive us, it took him out in one shot.
Rodney McKay
Member
Excellent! That would be very useful for future playthroughs.
The rewards are great, but the area is too big and empty for my tastes.
theprodigy
Member
so how are you guys liking the game, good enough to make your GOTY ballots?
RageWaffles
Member
So, my save file has 172 hours on it (actual playtime is maybe around 160 hours), and I've finished every sidequest. Currently all I have available are two war table missions and one story mission, the one that gives the point-of-no-return warning (
).
While I am starting to feel a touch of burn out, after I finish the story only one trophy, the nightmare mode one, will be between me and a platinum. Gotta get that.
So... for nightmare mode, which would be better: two-handed warrior, archer rogue, or dagger rogue?
Doom Upon All the World
While I am starting to feel a touch of burn out, after I finish the story only one trophy, the nightmare mode one, will be between me and a platinum. Gotta get that.
So... for nightmare mode, which would be better: two-handed warrior, archer rogue, or dagger rogue?
Considering there are videos of Assassin dagger rogues soloing dragons on Nightmare I'd say that.
so how are you guys liking the game, good enough to make your GOTY ballots?
#1 and it's not really close.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
so how are you guys liking the game, good enough to make your GOTY ballots?
It's definitely my GOTY. Then again the only other games I've played this year are Destiny and Advanced Warfare.
Dagger Rogues start off a lot slower than Archer. Archery is strong throughout the game, Daggers have the potential to be super strong but not until much later. My vote goes for Archery.
so how are you guys liking the game, good enough to make your GOTY ballots?
Really soured on the game over the last few hours of play. So probably not.
The first big story quest is going to Val Royeux. It has you in Hinterlands to get 4 Power so you can unlock VR through the war table. The game does a poor job explaining things like that but all the big story quests will have rifts above icons on the war table.
Thank you, I'm just running around on the storm coast. Hopefully it gets better.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Have you been using your journal?
A Serious Man
Member
Hissing Wastes gives me Far Cry 2 vibes, which is a good thing.
RageWaffles
Member
hm, then I might start out archery and then respec for daggers before locking in my specialization. Either way, rogue it is! Thanks!
Deified Data
Banned
What happened?
matrixman92
Member
ive been trying to go through the keep to set up a story for myself. I do not feel this is beginner friendly at all for someone that knows nothing about the series. Am I missing out on much if I just go into the game in the default world without transferring a save over? Thinking about picking it up while its on sale
He had to make a choice he didn't like
If you've never played either of the first two games I wouldn't bother with the Keep
Bad villain gets even worse, dumb reveals follow afterward. It's like a rapidly escalating succession of stupidities, and the later zones are all worse than the ones that came before. And dragons were too monotonous to feel like anything other than MMO elite mobs.
wolfhowwl
Banned
Apparently it is pretty buggy with the key failing to drop frequently.
LurkerPrime
Member
You'll be fine with a default world state. Once you know the characters and history of the setting, then consider reading up on the plot of the previous games and making a custom world state.
The world states are nothing gamechanging, but they're really nice to see in action if you've set that history up yourself.
This is a nice, succinct post of DAI's problems.
matrixman92
Member
A Serious Man
Member
Corypheus sucks but I disagree about the zones. One might get burned out on the type of content available in all the zones but the quality of them is consistent throughout.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Good to see.
Did Bioware seriously butcher the party AI just to make the tactical camera a thing?
Range enemy character do seem to try to get away from people stabbing them in the face... there really is no excuse not to have this feature with the party AI.
I think the combat is pretty good for the most part. But the way they tried to layer Tactical mode is pretty lousy. First of all even on nightmare the game doesn't seem to warrant the feature since it's not that difficulty to begin with. I'm sure the biggest usage for the tactical camera is moving and having rangers hold a position. This is something that could have easily been part of the pause function or better yet an AI option that forces the AI to stay the hell away from meele range enemies.
Range enemy character do seem to try to get away from people stabbing them in the face... there really is no excuse not to have this feature with the party AI.
I think the combat is pretty good for the most part. But the way they tried to layer Tactical mode is pretty lousy. First of all even on nightmare the game doesn't seem to warrant the feature since it's not that difficulty to begin with. I'm sure the biggest usage for the tactical camera is moving and having rangers hold a position. This is something that could have easily been part of the pause function or better yet an AI option that forces the AI to stay the hell away from meele range enemies.
Psychoward
Banned
Anyone know where I can find T3 Masterwork two handed pommels and/or hafts?
Concept art for major DA2 character ;__:
Really wish he'd been in DAI - having to choose between
in the Warden mission would have been nice.
Really wish he'd been in DAI - having to choose between
Anders and Hawke
I don't remember recruiting hobo Jim.
Deified Data
Banned
Would have been a really easy choice.
I was hoping he'd appear as the leader of Corypheus's mages or something, would have been a good end to a great and subtle villain. As it is I doubt we'll ever get any closure.
Mashin Haters
Member
Just some thoughts on the game. This game feels like it will NEVER end! I feel so stressed out choosing important actions especially when i had to choose
But im having fun with the game. I really like the concept of building an army and having constant connections with your party members.
who to side with when there was that assassination attempt on the queen or Orlais.
But im having fun with the game. I really like the concept of building an army and having constant connections with your party members.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Couldn't we get that closure by straight out killing him in the second game?
Deified Data
Banned
I guess. You'd just think that letting him live would have some sort of effect on the world.
It's pretty rough concept art like...he only has one arm omg. This image is stirring up a lot of crap on tumblr rn for what people don't get is a piece of concept art. Then again that portion of the fandom doesn't surprise me anymore. I wish he had made an appearance in DA:I if we spared him, if only to see what he's been up to. Though if it were between him and Fenris I'd pick more Fenris and his brooding face.
Poodlestrike
Banned
If we ever make it to Tevinter or Par Vollen in the future, I'd expect a Fenris appearance. Dude wasn't a bad character, could even be pretty funny at points.
Give them the skills that dump aggro or let them evade/escape. They tend to be pretty smart about using it when they have to.
And your tank is failing if enemies are frequently sticking on your range characters. No amount of running will help it when a melee enemy has aggro on your casters.
Just finished up Here Lies The Abyss:
Also hot damn, that voice acting for
blew me away.
I chose to leave behind Hawke. I had Varric on the team and Hawke told me to tell him goodbye, so that was odd. Varric also asked where Hawke was when we left the Fade as if he didn't already know.
Also hot damn, that voice acting for
the Nightmare