Just finished the game at around 65 hours. That's the longest I've spent on a game in.. a decade? Though I would've preferred if it was shorter. The filler and level/power gating severely hindered my enjoyment. I think it's a solid seven. Production values were through the roof. I was satisfied with the ending, though the story was once again teen novel stuff and without the philosophical questions that elevated Mass Effect. In the end I didn't romance anyone sadly, feels like it was bugged, because I was in a relationship with Sera but her final quest never triggered.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
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Man had I known this it would've saved me... hours most likely. I'm so pissed at Bioware they didn't build in a sensible ten second timeout.
DamagedInc
Member
Totally agree, I only found it by accident, it shouldn't be on by default as not everyone is bothered about MP.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Got it yesterday and I've been loving it
Can't quite work out how to do stuff in tactical view yet but the only thing I've encountered that was trouble was some ram thing in some cave that just charged my party to death
Can't quite work out how to do stuff in tactical view yet but the only thing I've encountered that was trouble was some ram thing in some cave that just charged my party to death
Blue Ninja
Member
I think I know which one you're talking about. You're not supposed to kill that one, that's why he's so tough. :lol
Man I like this game but they really hammed it up during one of Iron Bull's missions.
Kind of terrible writing for a forced choice when other missions are much better.
So Iron Bull arranges a Qunari alliance and we have to go protect a Qunari Dreadnought.
We arrive to Storm Coast, and have to fight some Venatoris, and eventually the Dreadnought makes it near to the shore. But oh noes, Iron Bull's chargers are going to be overrun by the enemy if we let the dreadnought get into the shore.
So I have two options. Let the Chargers escape and the dreadnought will be sunk, or l force the chargers to hold their position so the Dreadnought makes it.
All while Iron Bull and my inquisitor are calmly discussing either option from a cliff.
Worst part is that it is never really clear how many people are attacking the Chargers. From what I could see, it was just a thing of my inquisitor dropping down the cliff and assisting them to fight the venatori and all would have been good but alas, it wasn't an option. Eventually three (3!) venatori mages sink the Dreadnought. I can kill 3 mages in a second?! what the hell, man.
We arrive to Storm Coast, and have to fight some Venatoris, and eventually the Dreadnought makes it near to the shore. But oh noes, Iron Bull's chargers are going to be overrun by the enemy if we let the dreadnought get into the shore.
So I have two options. Let the Chargers escape and the dreadnought will be sunk, or l force the chargers to hold their position so the Dreadnought makes it.
All while Iron Bull and my inquisitor are calmly discussing either option from a cliff.
Worst part is that it is never really clear how many people are attacking the Chargers. From what I could see, it was just a thing of my inquisitor dropping down the cliff and assisting them to fight the venatori and all would have been good but alas, it wasn't an option. Eventually three (3!) venatori mages sink the Dreadnought. I can kill 3 mages in a second?! what the hell, man.
Kind of terrible writing for a forced choice when other missions are much better.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Lol, that's not an example of terrible writing--its an example of poor directing. Should've had a larger armor than just the random six people that popped up.
If anything, the major flaw is that
the mission doesn't give you a reason to choose the Qun. Like, the Inquisition is winning just fine without them, and there's no in-game draw backs to basically telling them to go screw. But you DEFINITELY lose the Chargers, an interesting group working under Iron Bull that add character to Skyhold.
I thought it was a decent mission.
Had this error. Let it download the whole thing since the most recent patch messes up the Play and Go PS4 functionality. If that doesn't work, d/l the game, but pause the update patch until the full game d/l.
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
one that was in a canyon with wolves?
I just thought he was some fat ram, got rekt.
anexanhume
Member
The greatsword schematic is in a tomb in a canyon in the hissing wastes. The wikia page on the masterwork serrated greatsword schematic has more info. I believe I got the pommel and grip questing in Emprise. The superb frost rune was one of the veil fire revealed ones. I used dragon bone, dragon webbing, silverite, everite and dawnstone. You need fade-touched silverite for the gain 5 guard on hit.
Melchiah
Member
Here's my uber weapon I crafted. Interested to see others.
Here are weapons with the highest DPS I've found. The Emprise Du Lion dragons in particular give very good gear.
I beat the hardest dragon in Emprise Du Lion with my Knight Enchanter, after the rest of my team had died after two thirds of the fight. So, I'd say it's pretty overpowered.
anexanhume
Member
Here are weapons with the highest DPS I've found. The Emprise Du Lion dragons in particular give very good gear.
I beat the hardest dragon in Emprise Du Lion with my Knight Enchanter, after the rest of my team had died after two thirds of the fight. So, I'd say it's pretty overpowered.
Yeah the lowest level dragon in Emprise leads to the Sulevin blade quest I believe (which is essentially just 4 revenant battles). He's level 19 and I beat him first try playing mostly real-time on my vita (which can be a pain to hit L2/R2 reliably). He also gives a crapload of dragon bone compared to other <lvl 19 dragons.
Bull is using the Sulevin blade now for me too. Next project is to craft a bow for Sera.
Melchiah
Member
I think I got the Sulevin blade elsewhere, but I could remember it wrong. I've been using this bow with Sera for a long time, as I haven't found better schematics.
Schweinehund
Member
Here are weapons with the highest DPS I've found. The Emprise Du Lion dragons in particular give very good gear.
I beat the hardest dragon in Emprise Du Lion with my Knight Enchanter, after the rest of my team had died after two thirds of the fight. So, I'd say it's pretty overpowered.
People have solo'd dragons on their assassin rogues and I'm sure someone has on their reaver. It's all relative. This game is also pretty easy compared to origins and especially DA2.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Thanks for that. I WAS intending to sell LBP3 to help pay for this game but I doubt I'll get much for it now. I'll definitely pick it up at some point though.
The mural in the room that Sola hangs out in gives you a pretty good indication.
anexanhume
Member
Sulevin is an elven temple (dungeon) quest, unless there's some other way to get it. I can't remember how exactly it's triggered. I think it's finding notes in the wild in Emprise.
LurkerPrime
Member
The multiplayer lacks the fun factor and staying power that Mass Effect 3's had. I doubt there will be many people playing it long-term unless Bioware completely overhauls how it works.
This is, of course, ignoring the myriad of connection problems you can have while playing DAI multiplayer to begin with.
Edit
That's a great observation!
Depends when you do the quest, really. I believe I did it after Skyhold but before the next round of big missions, so dissolving that alliance over the Chargers actually made me feel like a terrible leader who had just risked his organization over sentimentality.
Ravensmash
Member
So aside from playing the previous games for a brief few hours, I'm fairly new to Dragon Age.
Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, even the sidequests seem to take significant amounts of time.
I'm completely new to the lore and story also, so I'm hopeful that it continues to make me feel welcome.
Do people tend to switch between the party characters and play with them at length, or just keep with their main PC?
Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, even the sidequests seem to take significant amounts of time.
I'm completely new to the lore and story also, so I'm hopeful that it continues to make me feel welcome.
Do people tend to switch between the party characters and play with them at length, or just keep with their main PC?
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I tend to switch to the characters that need more babysitting. Assassins and 2H warriors for example.
Ravensmash
Member
See I think I'm starting to do that now myself. It also means I get a nice bit of variety in terms of combat.
My mistake years back with Origins is that I didn't switch at all.
Yeah, that was intense.
Its probably the only companion quest I can think of where I was like "damn, this dude really deserves to die".
Finished the game.
Where was Sandal?! Blasphemy!
The Chantry probably confused him for a tranquil and have him out weeding gardens.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Tried thousand cuts yet? Dropped the highlandravager from full to a third in 2 seconds. 160k damage
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Well, that's in your head, tho. In reality, it doesn't make any missions more difficult.
For me, the Inquisition seems to stand or fall based on the strength of me and my companions, not any actual conversations with other nations.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Spoiler tags brehs. ;p
GhostRidah
Member
Anyway to hide the ui on pc? Just trying to take some screenshots.
UI.DrawEnable 1 or 0
Well, that's role-playing for you. I like to inhabit my character's psyche a little more than simply what reactivity allows.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Same issue, on PS4.. is this because PSN is down?
I assume it is, same issue here on XBL
Edit: disconnected from the internet, doing this will make it stop connecting after a minute or so and enable offline play
Deified Data
Banned
What Pride Had Wrought question:
Can you judge Calpernia? In my game she killed herself before being taken prisoner. Did I have to choose to spare her?
Some Nobody
Junior Member
No, that's certainly fair. I was just making the point that since the game didn't seem to have a way to punish me for saving my friends, I chose to save them rather than let them die. A conversation with Varric not long after doing that mission where you can ask if he really believes you're the herald kinda makes my point more plainly. He says that you're either the herald or have extremely poor luck, then goes on to list all the things you've survived or accomplished over the course of the game up to that point.
All of those things occurred pretty much because your Inquisitor is just THAT much of a bad-ass, not because of any ties you had to any governing powers. With that in mind, it also reminded me that I was seen as the hope and savior of these people--how could I keep calling myself that and choose to
side with the Qun and let the Chargers die?
That's what came from my own deliberation and "role playing", but I like that other people could come to a completely different conclusion.
So, whenever PSN comes back online and I can grab the recent patches, I'm gonna give my first playthrough a go (SO damn excited).
Just HAVE to ask:
What's the most OP class so far (w/o question)?
I'm hearing Knight enchanters are amazing, but I love melee (reavers are supposed to be 2nd best).
I just want to play something that feels the most powerful
Just HAVE to ask:
What's the most OP class so far (w/o question)?
I'm hearing Knight enchanters are amazing, but I love melee (reavers are supposed to be 2nd best).
I just want to play something that feels the most powerful
Poodlestrike
Banned
So, whenever PSN comes back online and I can grab the recent patches, I'm gonna give my first playthrough a go (SO damn excited).
Just HAVE to ask:
What's the most OP class so far (w/o question)?
I'm hearing Knight enchanters are amazing, but I love melee (reavers are supposed to be 2nd best).
I just want to play something that feels the most powerful
Knight Enchanter and Assassin are shaping up to be the 2 most OP classes. Reaver is pretty squishy, but when it comes together it can work. Defender probably beats it out, though, due to sheer toughness.
ACESmkII
Member
Been playing for the last two days, and I like the way my character turned out, except it looks like he has some extreme lip gloss on under certain lighting conditions. Are you able to edit your character later on in game?
If not, then I may start over and start a warrior class as Cassandra is pretty fun to play as.
If not, then I may start over and start a warrior class as Cassandra is pretty fun to play as.
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Do you need all the agents for anything? I saved ritts and can't find her to recruit now. Varrick was there but I didn't get the dialog option and don't have a previous save.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
You cannot. In fact, anything short of the far left extreme in the lip reflectiveness slider will make your inquisitor look like he's a spokesperson for Chapstick.