Bought and started playing this game today, so far so good. I picked Hard though, but I am starting to believe I'm regretting that choice; every regular encounter with the Templars in the Hinterlands feels like a prolonged boss battle. I keep chewing through my potions and the battles just go on and on and on and on and on.
Is the game supposed to be this hard this early, or am I doing something very wrong? I went for a 2-hander warrior, if that makes any difference.
Get the charging bull move STAT. It is seriously, IMO, one of the best warrior moves when dealing with mobs. Also the Rolling move to evade those Horror fuckers and many other attacks. And the chain pull move to deal with those Archers/Spellbinders.
Also make sure to get Solas learn Dispel to help you with the Rifts. Also make sure you clear out *both* the Templar near the waterfall and Rebel Mage in the Witchwood--doing so will cut down random encounters with both of them
significantly on the Hinterlands. If you don't do them, be prepared to be pissed off with random enemies appearing every 5 seconds or so when you're out adventuring there--often right on top of your own characters, even!
Just reached Skyhold and I am still having trouble wrapping my head around the War Table. Is there a strategy or consequence to Missions and Scouting, seeing that you are given different options? Why is the War Table used for quest structure, why not just have the Journal for quest tabulation. Hopefully someone can enlighten me on this as a game mechanic. Enjoying the game a lot but this aspect confuses me.
Yes there are various results depending on which advisor you sent on what mission--the one with the shortest amount of time is not always necessarily the best one. Sometimes you get different rewards, and sometimes you get no rewards at all if you don't pick the correct advisor.
But they're largely inconsequential to the overall story outside of role-playing purposes.
