TerryLee81
Member
Saw one fighting a giant in Storm Coast. Flew away, no idea if and where you can fight it.
Edit: Here's some screenshots, quality as mentioned kinda crappy, but daaamn I love the Exalted Plains:
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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
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Saw one fighting a giant in Storm Coast. Flew away, no idea if and where you can fight it.
Edit: Here's some screenshots, quality as mentioned kinda crappy, but daaamn I love the Exalted Plains:
If I remember correctly, that was in the Storm Coast.
Yes you do... Emprise du Lion & Hissing Wastes are my personal favorites... Beautiful environments.
That was at the Storm Coast. It is one you can kill.
Edit: I couldn't be any more slow.
The Last Wizard
Member
You take a boat to get to it, the boat is in the red lyrium cave towards the end of the storm coast. Dragon is level 19.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
There are some fucking amazing look areas.
Thanks. Time to go hunting.
Hmm. I seem to recall taking a boat to another area with a dragon once already. Maybe I've already fought this one. Guess I'll find out.
Moff
Member
stormcoast in the part that needs to be unlocked first on the war table. something with red templars.
I have a question regarding the main story, for those who have finished the game / multiple playthroughs...
I sided with
at the beginning of the game ... If I instead seek out
, will that change the overall main plot?
Yes -- Don't be afraid to take your time and search everything... You'll have more time than you think.
I sided with
the mages
the Templars
Yes -- Don't be afraid to take your time and search everything... You'll have more time than you think.
fastford58
Member
Guys.
This game is too fucking big.
At 40 hours now and I've stopped doing all the little collectathon things to try and speed it along.
This game is too fucking big.
At 40 hours now and I've stopped doing all the little collectathon things to try and speed it along.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Yep, you can always return to the Hinterlands. Get out of there ASAP.
Square Triangle
Member
11 hours in and I'm still in Hinterlands. I selected the mages but returned to Hinterlands lol
Pyros_Eien
Member
Do a save early on. Do the whole thing, see what's going on. Then reload and redo it. That is, if you didn't get what you wanted. If you don't care about the sidequests and stuff there's no real reason, if you want to get the 2 collection quests done though you'll need to know exactly what to do. Alternatively follow a guide, though that would spoil some of the events there.
On the subject of schematics, some schematics are set to drop only in certain places or only be sold in certain places(such as runes, potion recipes, bianca upgrades, masterwork stuff). However most of the armor/weapon/upgrades ones are random drops, mostly from chests and some can also be bought. You can only have one schematics for any specific item, if a schematic sold by a vendor is randomly generated in a chest and you loot it, it disappears from the vendor list(I've confirmed that myself). That also means if you buy all the schematics, you reduce the pool of available schematics to drop from chests, which might give you stuff that was missing on the vendor.
For example I have all the T2 schematics I think, I went through several zones without seeing a single one drop(when usually they're relatively common). As soon as I hit T3 areas though, it was schematics raining from the sky again. Masterwork schematics I believe only drop in specific locations, though I'm not 100% sure of that, they could just be very rare as random drops.
If you want to farm all T3 schematics, you'll most likely want to buy as many as possible and leave some chests unlooted. If a chest isn't entirely looted, it resets its content when you reload it by leaving the zone. This means the best way to farm schematics is to find an area with a lot of chests, like these small mini dungeons, open the chests, then only loot schematics(and only if they have another item left in the chest after), then leave them. This way you can farm all schematics fairly easily. If you were to open every chests in the game, I don't think you'd be able to farm schematics anymore, as the droprate on mobs is inexistent/very low.
Rodney McKay
Member
I've left and done a few other areas (the Storm coast and the swamp area), but I just keep on coming back to the Hinterlands!
I haven't even sided with Mages or Templars yet, but I can make that choice whenever I want. I've only got ONE MORE cave/mission to do and I should be ready to head up to Redcliff (and get the last few shards in the area).
I caved and used the "Duplicate Valuables" bug / cheat that someone found on Reddit (apparently a similar bug existed in DA:O and DA2... convenient, I guess).
http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2n8u16/spoilers_ps4_duplicate_glitch_found/
It's listed for PS4, but works on PC as well.
If you're later in the game and want to cross off some open Requisitions, but the enemies that drop the materials you need to complete the Requisitions no longer spawn (because you've cleared the area), you can duplicate the necessary materials at any merchant stall. You're out of luck if you don't have the item at all, though. From my testing it only works to duplicate crafting materials, though, and not actual Valuables (like unique gems).
http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2n8u16/spoilers_ps4_duplicate_glitch_found/
It's listed for PS4, but works on PC as well.
If you're later in the game and want to cross off some open Requisitions, but the enemies that drop the materials you need to complete the Requisitions no longer spawn (because you've cleared the area), you can duplicate the necessary materials at any merchant stall. You're out of luck if you don't have the item at all, though. From my testing it only works to duplicate crafting materials, though, and not actual Valuables (like unique gems).
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
You know that feeling where you managed to beat level 12 rift with a party of level 6 characters? With that fucking Desire Demons floating around Kamehame-ing everybody to oblivion?
That feeling is GOOD. Even though all my party members in the end bloodied beyond measure, lol.
That feeling is GOOD. Even though all my party members in the end bloodied beyond measure, lol.
Charging Bull in the Vanguard tree. Low cost, low cooldown, AoE knockdown, builds guard. Against a medium-sized group, one usage can bring you from zero guard to full guard.
Between Charging Bull and Block & Slash, knockdowns are easy to get. You can then follow up with a big Mighty Blow. If you really need to control an enemy, you can use Mighty Blow for an extra knockdown instead of extra damage.
Later on, Earthshaking Strike is crazy. The description sounds mediocre, and without the upgrade it is indeed terrible. That upgrade actually results in massive damage, thoughso much that it almost seems bugged.
KJRage
Member
I'm stuck on the
part in nightmare difficulty. Of course, like an idiot, I didn't make a save before and I can't go back to my previous save because it is from 20 hours before.
The constant adds is driving me crazy and I don't want to turn down the difficulty because I was hoping to go for the trophy.
Have IB, Cassandra, and Dorian in my party. I am a rogue archer. Any advice as far as the boss, or a good spec for either of those characters? Thanks for any help
Aspect of the Nightmare
The constant adds is driving me crazy and I don't want to turn down the difficulty because I was hoping to go for the trophy.
Have IB, Cassandra, and Dorian in my party. I am a rogue archer. Any advice as far as the boss, or a good spec for either of those characters? Thanks for any help
Ploid 3.0
Member
Just had a awesome PUG Perilous party. Beat it our first run and just kept the party going and even had fun with Alchemist's Elemental Mines + Pull of the Abyss + Disruption Field (tome stop bubble) combo which made the elemental mines float in mid air moving in slow motion. So pretty, so ineffective.
Keeper is fun, fun is keeper. It feels very useful, though I still get the least rank because I'm busy taking care of people. I'm a awesome raiser if anyone should fall on the boss.
Perilous is so good for exp and money. Loot everywhere, and the chests seem to cough up items more often than not or maybe it was just luck, would rather money though. It was good for mats at least. Nothing ever wasted.
Keeper is fun, fun is keeper. It feels very useful, though I still get the least rank because I'm busy taking care of people. I'm a awesome raiser if anyone should fall on the boss.
Perilous is so good for exp and money. Loot everywhere, and the chests seem to cough up items more often than not or maybe it was just luck, would rather money though. It was good for mats at least. Nothing ever wasted.
wolfhowwl
Banned
Is holding the entry room on the final area pretty much what everyone is doing?
molnizzle
Member
Hmm, well the vendors are at least static. They get new stock (and there are sometimes new vendors) after clearing story missions. It's obviously static, they'll get a new set of armor for all 3 classes at the appropriate level of the story. Since the quality of the gear you craft is completely based on the materials you use, that should be more than enough even if you're really unlucky.
Either way, the point is you shouldn't buy armor or weapons ever. =P
Nah, it only slightly changes. It's nothing like Witcher 2's Act 1 choice, that's for sure.
texhnolyze
Banned
Standard in-game screenshots are in PNG format. So it depends on your Fraps option (PNG/GIF/JPEG).
Ploid 3.0
Member
I was in a similar situation, Iron Bull kept dying. I went through my fight so many times it felt like I was in a groundhog day nightmare. I eventually found a way around my constant adds problem, it wasn't a non stop add supply (not sure about your situation as I never been to the spoiler area I think). I just put my people as far away from my archer as possible without them spawning close to me, then spawned the boss. Worked on the adds by pulling them further away from the boss, and found a choke point. The boss wasn't willing to go there so I just dealt with the adds. Iron Bull still managed to die but it was less hectic without the boss. I was happy that was over, never not saving on multiple files constantly again.
Nah, some like to just roam or move in circles around the circular rooms with hallways. Like a ninja or a off tank would deal with the archers which is the reason people use the rooms. Archers are so powerful especially in huge numbers, and being out in the open just makes yourself a easy target for them. The room is just very nice to funnel everything into a nice damage zone (walking dead trap gif).
You missed one.
Pyros_Eien
Member
The easiest one to miss is probably Storm Coast, since you can only get access to it later in the game after you've done a war table mission in the zone that unlocks late in the story.
Huh, looking at my journal it says I have 10/10 high dragons slain but on the achievement it only shows 9/10. Guess the achievement is glitched.
I dunno, you're likely to know it's there because you see it pretty early on.
I personally missed the hissing wastes one.
Yea unfortunately the game is awful with trophies/achievements. Best thing people can do is save before you know you should be getting one. I had to kill my last dragon a few times before it gave me the trophy.
figadapaura
Member
Finished my second playthrough. Just need to kill all the dragons.
And now I really want to play Origins again.
And now I really want to play Origins again.
See?! I'm not the only one!!
IDKAboutThat
Member
This game has me fucking hooked. I was kinda uninvested, but then I
just got my ass kicked out of Haven, so I've got a reason to fucking do shit now! INQUISITOR ON THE WAY TO TAKE YOU DOWN, CORYPHEUS!
There's a screenshot thread? Doesn't show up in search.
figadapaura
Member
Dragon Island (I think? Something like that) at the Storm Coast.
You can only get there by boat after you kill a bunch of Red Templars. I assume you've already killed them.
Hope it's not a bug. 2handers desperately lack damage otherwise unless they go reaver.
Actually that is a huge help. I know next to nothing about computers and had this one built for me. I was afraid it was failing. Now that I know it's just the game I can rest easy.
50 hours and I know I'm not halfway through the game.
Delta Assault
Member
The design doc since DA2 seems to be to emphasize 2hand Warrs as AOE DPS. I haven't been using them personally, but that's the niche they seem to fill.
Mr_Antimatter
Member
On the subject of the Temple in the Oasis:
Is it actually worth collecting all those shards to open the doors? Can you open all of them, or are there only enough shards in the game to fully open some of them?
Mr_Antimatter
Member
I had this problem wit the first few, then it went away. I wonder if the game wasn't fully done caching to the hard drive during the first few scenes.
Yankee Ruin X
Member
56 hours and I just got to Skyhold, how far through is that?
To be fair I think about 12 of those hours were because I hit the Playstation button on the PS4 thinking it pauses the game as your on the dashboard, turns out I don't think it does.
royox
Member
Skyhold is just the beginning of the real game lol.