:lol yeah I didn't even talk to him. I think once I got him down I killed him at the very first option.Pankaks said:Nope. I barely made it through that fight because I kept getting stunned and bombarded with arrows. I iced that motherfucker, after he told me all he knew >.
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Dragon Age: Origins |OT| Letting The Fade fade out of memory
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firehawk12
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Doytch said:
Wynne teaches it to you as well though, I think?
firehawk12
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Oh yeah, totally stupid question... but does anyone in the game actually say "Truly, this is the age of dragons?" I don't think I heard that line anywhere. :lol
Respecced my characters (via the respec potion mod) and tried the broken tactic of the game:
fighter goes towards enemies, pulling aggro -> taunt -> mage casts force field -> all enemies now try to hit the un-moving fighter -> storm of the century where fighter is.
So very very broken and I can see how having 2 mages in the team is a potential for some really bad broken design. It makes the game dull since taunt->force field works on any level of enemy due to the stupid AI design.
So I respecced again - respecced Morrigan to be an offensive caster with only cone of cold as the crowd control spell. It's working out pretty nicely so far.
It made for a far more traditional RPG game where the mage holds all the most offensive options but require the fighters and rogues to hold down the enemies while she casts storm of the century on the unsuspecting mob.
I still do the usual taunt to group the enemies together for the spell effect, but instead of using force field I use anti-magic ward (it's like a much shorter version of force field and doesn't protect you from physical attacks).
So far it forces my party (PC d/w duelist rogue, templar tank Alistair, bard archer Leliana, offensive mage Morrigan) to use all bag of tricks and items to beat the difficult battles in the game.
It really made the game much more fun this way - the joys of seeing a rogue throw out 2 bombs on a group of enemies before backstabbing the mage, have Leliana do scattershot, Morrigan does blizzard, and then having Alistair the tank go up to the enemy mages to cleanse magic with anti magic ward is fucking awesome.
It really is a much harder to earn fight but it's really cool seeing how useful the items crafted throughout the game are (rock salve, various bombs, various poisons, cold resistance salve).
So to all those who say mages are too easy to use, yeah, the broken game design makes it possible so don't combine the broken spells since it will just make your gameplay experience very boring.
fighter goes towards enemies, pulling aggro -> taunt -> mage casts force field -> all enemies now try to hit the un-moving fighter -> storm of the century where fighter is.
So very very broken and I can see how having 2 mages in the team is a potential for some really bad broken design. It makes the game dull since taunt->force field works on any level of enemy due to the stupid AI design.
So I respecced again - respecced Morrigan to be an offensive caster with only cone of cold as the crowd control spell. It's working out pretty nicely so far.
It made for a far more traditional RPG game where the mage holds all the most offensive options but require the fighters and rogues to hold down the enemies while she casts storm of the century on the unsuspecting mob.
I still do the usual taunt to group the enemies together for the spell effect, but instead of using force field I use anti-magic ward (it's like a much shorter version of force field and doesn't protect you from physical attacks).
So far it forces my party (PC d/w duelist rogue, templar tank Alistair, bard archer Leliana, offensive mage Morrigan) to use all bag of tricks and items to beat the difficult battles in the game.
It really made the game much more fun this way - the joys of seeing a rogue throw out 2 bombs on a group of enemies before backstabbing the mage, have Leliana do scattershot, Morrigan does blizzard, and then having Alistair the tank go up to the enemy mages to cleanse magic with anti magic ward is fucking awesome.
It really is a much harder to earn fight but it's really cool seeing how useful the items crafted throughout the game are (rock salve, various bombs, various poisons, cold resistance salve).
So to all those who say mages are too easy to use, yeah, the broken game design makes it possible so don't combine the broken spells since it will just make your gameplay experience very boring.
RoodyPooUS
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Is there a mod to unlock all the specializations? I happened to miss the blood mage unlock and wanted to get it as my second specialization.
ElectricBlue187
Member
I made a black human character and both of my parents were white :lol
is this because I turned a white male preset black? Are they still white if I use a black preset character?
is this because I turned a white male preset black? Are they still white if I use a black preset character?
There's now a Dragon Age Nexus site up for mods. People into modding Bethesda's games probably know tesnexus and fallout3nexus, they're the primary mod repositories for their respective games these days.
firehawk12
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Ploid 3.0 said:
Well, everyone in Fereldan seems to be white - even the elves and dwarves. It's one of my pet peeves with Fantasy settings, to be honest.
AndyD said:
Yeah, I do remember that... just don't remember hearing the line in the trailer. The game really doesn't do much with the whole "Dragon" thing other than the fact that you have to kill them.
Question for those of you using the 360 version.
Are any of you finding the auto walking to be annoying? I find when I'm fighting that I push up with the stick to close this distance, hit A to begin combat my main will take a swing at him then break off immediately and continue walking forward.
Are any of you finding the auto walking to be annoying? I find when I'm fighting that I push up with the stick to close this distance, hit A to begin combat my main will take a swing at him then break off immediately and continue walking forward.
No, it's AE.Doytch said:
I agree with this in general. It took me a little while to realise that enemies in groups aren't linked, so in a lot of situations you can peel off individual enemies from their groups if you're cautious. I started doing this, but found it boring and slow. I went back to just running in and agroing everything and it was fun again.Arde5643 said:
Dorrin said:
I didn't experience autowalking. Are you using an older controller or have you tried using a different controller? I wonder if the joystick might be getting stuck in the forward movement direction.
I have a tendency to get carried away and spam A, however, so it might be happening and I'm just not seeing it since I'm pressing A multiple times.
firehawk12 said:
Except for Sten, but I suppose he doesn't count since he's not from Fereldan. (Although Sten is a lot darker in the commercial than he is in the game.)
rayner said:
I expected there to be some mention of the fact that I'd lied in my ending wrap-up, but the narrator just said that Morrigan
had slipped away ("perhaps with child" - even though I refused her offer of pre-endgame nooky). Flemeth was never mentioned.
Would be cool to have some post-ending DLC focusing on what happened with Morrigan.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
i like the decision-making a lot. after the redcliffe castle quest, i chose to
make a deal with the demon, so that everyone's happy at the moment, and the demon will repossess the boy years later.it's a really complex decision there. i feel guilty, the family is calling me a savior, and there's just something really satisfying about the ambiguity of the choice.
LiK said:
Re the codex - I only ever found one error. Re Redcliffe:
I chose to save the boy and his mom by fighting the demon in the Fade. The codex refers to the tragic sacrifice of Arl Eamon's wife. But she never died in my playthrough.
firehawk12
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luxarific said:
If the Dragon Age world is modeled after Europe, I imagine that Antiva is Spain, hence Zevran's darker complexion... and whereever Sten is from is like Northern Africa or perhaps the Middle East.
Which makes me want to see an Antivan sequel more than anything else. The other places in the world, even Leliana's fake France, just seem infinitely more interesting than the Ren Faire setting of Fereldan.
luxarific said:
Not really codex related, but:
When allister is giving reasons as to why loghain should be killed, he mentions that we were tortured by him. Except that I wasn't, I killled all the guards that were supposed to capture me and therefore never got imprisoned and tortured.
firehawk12 said:
Yes, Antiva, Orlais, or Par Vollen would be fantastic as DLC. I'm trying not to imagine possible DLC scenarios though, since I inevitably tend to be disappointed by how short they are (e.g, Fable 2). If we get something as long and detailed as the Fallout 3 DLC packages were, I'll be pretty happy.
firehawk12
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luxarific said:
I can't imagine that DLC will take us anywhere different based on how they've set up the DLC mechanically and just the resources required to create new assets.
Snapshot King
Member
There a rogue fix yet?
demosthenes
Member
A little birdy told me Dragon Age will be $44 next week @ Target.
firehawk12
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Ploid 3.0 said:
So BioWare is saying that black people are animals or the undead? DA is more racist than RE5!!!!
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
So I checked the content page on the XBLM for Dragon Age and there's already a DLC pack for 1200 points, but the description said that certain copies of the game would have a voucher in them to download this for free. Is that still the case?
Gonna jump on Dragon Age on BF.
Gonna jump on Dragon Age on BF.
Woo-Fu
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markatisu said:
Actually, it is easy to beat her without a healer, heck I did it and used only 3 lesser health kits.
Flemeth can't move. Put your tank just out of melee range of Flemeth, with a bow. He should have as much fire resistance as you can give him. I had 75% at the time, lol. Have him shoot her while using as many of his aggro generation abilities as work.
Meanwhile, the rest of your team should be much farther back, also using ranged attacks.
Flemeth hits the tank with flame spit and dragon fire, but the rest of your party is far enough away from your tank that it doesn't touch them.
Just keep shooting until she dies. Your tank eating health kits as required. With armor in the mid 30s, defense in the 80s, and 75% flame resist, no attack from Flemeth took off more than 10% of my tank's health. This was on Hard, btw.
Meanwhile, the rest of your team should be much farther back, also using ranged attacks.
Flemeth hits the tank with flame spit and dragon fire, but the rest of your party is far enough away from your tank that it doesn't touch them.
Just keep shooting until she dies. Your tank eating health kits as required. With armor in the mid 30s, defense in the 80s, and 75% flame resist, no attack from Flemeth took off more than 10% of my tank's health. This was on Hard, btw.
firehawk12
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Domino Theory said:
Yeah, this is the Shale quest line. All new copies will have it.
Snapshot King
Member
AndyD said:
Im talking how the last time I came in here, I read that there was a bug where dex wasn't being properly applied to daggers and bows which is why rogues were so underpowered, but the hotfix fucked up the game balance if there were archers around.
Minsc
Gold Member
Snapshot King said:
That's a matter of opinion really. All it does to the game balance is make enemy archers a danger, which is not necessarily a bad thing, if how they were before was irrelevant.
I've read a lot of people post they played though Nightmare and it was too easy for them, so anything to make the game a little more challenging is likely a good thing.
Snapshot King
Member
If it does end up being too hard, is there a way to uninstall hotfixes?
Snapshot King said:
Well the hotfix made bows and rogues use more dexterity than strength. Since it made bows stronger, all bows are stronger, friendly or enemy.
I think it works pretty well, I play an archer myself. I have yet to feel overwhelmed by enemy archers in a way that I feel is broken.