Dwarf Noble is supposed to be the best origin story, but as you say they can't be a Mage. There is no "gimped class" as such, but the mage is probably the most versatile. You do get two in the game to play around with magic, but that's a small number compared to the four+ warriors you get. If you've got your heart set on a dwarf, go for a rogue since you only get two of those as well. If you like the idea of versatility and experimentation with magic, go with the mage.CartridgeBlower said:
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Everybody has one except Zevran andvoltron said:
Loghain
http://wikicheats.gametrailers.com/index.php/Dragon_Age:_Origins_-_PC_PS3_XB360/Companions
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SailorDaravon said:
Enchantment!
So either my 360 is dying, or this game is bugging on me--twice in about an hour the screen locked and my console froze. I turned it off for an hour, then went back to try again and try for glitch number three.
Only to have the game totally surprise me--The save I'm booting from is right at the exit-to-map screen. So the past two times, I've exited to the map, selected a destination, and been dumped into one of the random encounter wolf-packs.
This time, blood-trail across the map starts, swords and sound effects pop up... And instead of being attacked by wolves, I run into a totally random and unexpected cutscene in a crater featuring, apparently, the Fereldan equivalent of
. Now I have a lump of metal ore that apparently, taken to the right smith, will lead to a unique item of some kind.
This never, ever happened in my first play through. I did run in to
in game 1, which I haven't seen yet... I wonder how many random one-off references like this there are. It does make me want to examine every random encounter now, to see if I'm missing some references.
Is the encounter with Zevran's
a set part of the storyline, then? It seemed random and detached enough I assumed it was his companion quest. Possibly because I'd ignored him most of the game, then got his approval to the point of 'romancing' him, then ran into that shortly after.
Only to have the game totally surprise me--The save I'm booting from is right at the exit-to-map screen. So the past two times, I've exited to the map, selected a destination, and been dumped into one of the random encounter wolf-packs.
This time, blood-trail across the map starts, swords and sound effects pop up... And instead of being attacked by wolves, I run into a totally random and unexpected cutscene in a crater featuring, apparently, the Fereldan equivalent of
the Kents finding baby Superman
This never, ever happened in my first play through. I did run in to
what appeared to be Frodo and Sam's corpses
_Xenon_ said:
Is the encounter with Zevran's
friend from the Crows who first tries to take him back, then tries to murder him and you
IMO:Alucrid said:
1) armor. At the early stage you gotta keep your tank live as long as possible and Morrigan can do the most damage
2) I just sold everything that I don't use. If you don't have the warden's keep DLC, you don't have much space to store them anyway. And money is always tight at the end of game (vendors begin to sell unique ring/weapon/etc, usually costs 100+g each).
_Xenon_ said:
Okay, sounds good. I did get the DLC but I suppose I'll only keep anything that looks good.
I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying the game, despite the laughable blood-all-over cut scene dialogue.Edit: Also, I'm playing a Warrior now, however I haven't come across anyone who can picklocks. I'm not far in the game though
at the tower right now, after becoming a Grey Warden
_Xenon_ said:
My 360 is officially dead, unfortunately. After another lockup, I booted a save from my first run-through, made it about five minutes. Rebooted again and just sat at the dashboard and the system suffered graphics corruption and froze, yet again.
Alucrid said:Okay, sounds good. I did get the DLC but I suppose I'll only keep anything that looks good.
If you've got Warden's Keep, I'd suggest doing it early in the game specifically because of te storage benefits it'll give you. It's the first post-Loathering thing I did on a second play-through, largely because of how many inventory issues i ran into the first time around.
I started playing as an Elf Rogue and got up to Lothoren, but I wasn't really feeling it, so I started a new Human Mage. Anyone got any tips?
I'm planning on speccing my guy out as DPS. What are the best talents to get for that? Then I figure I'll use Morrigan as a healer, Alistair as the tank and whoever else as another DPS.
I'm planning on speccing my guy out as DPS. What are the best talents to get for that? Then I figure I'll use Morrigan as a healer, Alistair as the tank and whoever else as another DPS.
dreamer3kx
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Anybody ever experienced the audio going out when in the middle of a conversation with any npc then resuming when that npc is finished talking, happened twice to me.
The game was better than I expected, but very buggy (playing on 360). Froze on me once, and it consistently seemed to develop lag between kills and loot showing up. That and when an event was considered completed. I could kill a boss, and the quest icon or enemy icon on my map would remain for up to 30 seconds. Restarting the game fixed it, and the lag started building up again.
The game is far easier as rogue if you quickly invest in lockpicking. You get mad experience and loot for unlocking and disarming traps.
1. In my experience, stuff the merchants sell isn't any better than loot. Exceptions are Backpacks, Silverlite/Darkspawn Runes, and very expensive and useful rings/accessories. There's a ring I ran across in the Dwarve commons called Lifegiver that gives something ridiculous like +6 health/sec. Costs 80+ gold though.
2. Sell them.
The game is far easier as rogue if you quickly invest in lockpicking. You get mad experience and loot for unlocking and disarming traps.
Alucrid said:
1. In my experience, stuff the merchants sell isn't any better than loot. Exceptions are Backpacks, Silverlite/Darkspawn Runes, and very expensive and useful rings/accessories. There's a ring I ran across in the Dwarve commons called Lifegiver that gives something ridiculous like +6 health/sec. Costs 80+ gold though.
2. Sell them.
You get a healer as soon as you do the Circle of Magi after Lothering, so if you're ok doing that you might be better off building Morrigan as crowd control and general utility, since she gets a start in some of that already. I have Morrigan built for Blizzard, Mana Clash, Crushing Prison, and Mass Paralysis at the moment and it's a lot of fun. I probably manage her the most. I guess the DPS mage talents are mostly in the Primal section, but the Crushing Prison line is just so handy so get that too. The mage won't do as much sustained single target damage as a melee rogue. They make up for it with utility and AE damage.legend166 said:
The experience is nice, but the loot generally isn't.teh_pwn said:
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Fredescu said:
the game was in development hell it seems, the art style alone changed greatly between years, and that's just the stuff they released to the public, got knows what was happening internally with the gameplay mechanics.
Fredescu said:
Very true. I have yet to find much of any real worth in a locked chest, outside of some war paint for Dogmeat (my war hound).
Random question - is there any way to turn off helm graphics as there was in Mass Effect? Some of the helms look... a bit ridiculous on my human rogue.
I got the same problem as well. Pretty annoying bug especially when you have to wait 30sec ~ 1 min to loot a key or other quest objects.teh_pwn said:
And some of the quests are bugged badlg. Got crash in one and got stuck in another (quest doesn't update).
Are these early stage screen shots? Damn they look totally different from the final build. Pretty fucked up if it really took them 6 years (almost as long as WOW?)fizzelopeguss said:
Finished the game with human rogue and it's pretty fine. Max'ed all of rogue talents + 2 rows of dual weapon talents and my rogue contributed the most damage all time. Make sure to put paralysis rune stone on your main hand weapon. That thing even works on bosses.legend166 said:
sweetvar26
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Alright, just beat the game. It took me around 52 hours, I am level 21, most of my party members are 20. I still had side quests to complete, thought I would complete later. Just to let you all know, you can't play the game anymore after the final battle, no matter what choices you make. I wish I can though, I do want to complete the other quests I have, get my guy level up all the way to 25 or whatever is the highest.
Credits were long, 21 minutes in total. Good game Bioware, now make some downloadable content, that I will be able to play with my main character, that goes part with the story line or something, rather than just some side quests.
Credits were long, 21 minutes in total. Good game Bioware, now make some downloadable content, that I will be able to play with my main character, that goes part with the story line or something, rather than just some side quests.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
_Xenon_ said:
Those first 2 screens were before jade empires release. 2004, even then they'd been working on the game for a while. :lol
The 3rd screen was from a build close to "the witchers" release. so 2007, a huge gap. between info and media releases.
is it just me or does that guy look a little like oghren?
hope people don't mind me posting these, quite a fascinating glimpse of what the game looked like. i wonder if those old builds exist and are still playable?
Fredescu said:
Been playing my rogue most of tonight and they really do crank out damage. You can generally obliterate one target by yourself without it getting the opportunity to retaliate.
There are a lot of different ways to build a rogue in this game it looks like, but it looks like dual daggers with pumping the hell out of cunning (w/ lethality) is the highest DPS way to go.
I'm having trouble with the blood dragon armour DLC.
I went to dragonage.bioware.com/redeem and entered my code. After it is redeemed it then says start DAO and log in to your EA account. How do I do that ingame? Or do I do that on my PC? The downloadable content menu in the game doesn't mention the armour? So how do I install the armour? Any ideas?
I went to dragonage.bioware.com/redeem and entered my code. After it is redeemed it then says start DAO and log in to your EA account. How do I do that ingame? Or do I do that on my PC? The downloadable content menu in the game doesn't mention the armour? So how do I install the armour? Any ideas?
kyo_daikun
Member
Meier said:
This game has made clearing my backlog pretty hopeless, 15 hours in and im only upto redcliff village...
sweetvar26
Member
For those who finished 'The Landsmeet', got a question.
Was anyone able to recruit Loghain and still keep Alistair in the party? No matter how I do it, I am only having one by the end of all the conversations.
kyo_daikun
Member
panda21 said:
All the reviews said 360 had a better frame rate whereas the PS3 has better textures, im 15 hours into the PS3 version and haven't noticed any frame rate issues what so ever.
Fragamemnon
Member
The earliest parts of the game after your origin were some of the few parts that would stutter a bit on my GTX 260 (no 5850s in stock anywhere QQ). So if you're just hitting some chop there it'll probably clear out later on in the game on the PS3.
I've only done one DPS melee in my games so far, but one of the problems I'm having (on nightmare, where I think the enemies get a bit of a bonus to defense) is miss rate outside if you aren't flanking. This usually means a lot of time spent positioning and not as much killing.
I'll probably respec Leliana to melee and give it a whirl to see how that the damage compares to the hassle-free sustained DPS of rapid fire+master archer+shortbow.
I've only done one DPS melee in my games so far, but one of the problems I'm having (on nightmare, where I think the enemies get a bit of a bonus to defense) is miss rate outside if you aren't flanking. This usually means a lot of time spent positioning and not as much killing.
I'll probably respec Leliana to melee and give it a whirl to see how that the damage compares to the hassle-free sustained DPS of rapid fire+master archer+shortbow.
sweetvar26
Member
Fragamemnon said:
I have 'Rogue' as my main character, however, I still did not do a damage of 250 yet. I am level 20, have my strength/dexterity as 35/38, cunning/willpower both 20+. Any ideas of how I can do more damage per single blow while using duals? I am trying to get the achievement for it. Any specific talents/skills that I will have to use?
playing this for over 30 hours now
. its good, but now way its a successor to baldurs gate. why? presentation is ugly (man the game looks like a bad ps2 port) and the universe is kinda generic. i dont know why, but even a setting in the forgotten realms would be more intresting.
and killed the high dragon and found andrastes ashes
akachan ningen
Member
I've been playing a couple of hours, I'm now at the tower. Anyway, my dog caught on fire, how do I put him out?
kyo_daikun said:
:S its really bad
its still playable but in open areas if you do anything other than look at the ground its very jerky, like single figures in some places.
is the 'radar' direction thing always really jerky on the pc/360 even when the framerate is ok (like it updates slower than the actual framerate) or is that actually how bad the framerate is?
can you zoom out the viewpoint in the console versions? they did it in the pc quicklook but i cant figure out how to on ps3
_Xenon_ said:
I feel I have passed the point of no return as far as getting companion quests for
Sten, Ohgren, and Wynn
I assume gifts are required to nudge them past certain coversational road blocks? And as I am at the end of the game (about to do final battle), and gifts as a finite resource have dried up, Im shit outta luck?
Ah well, at least I banged Lel & Morr.
I'm not sure how you missed Oghren because the game forces him to your party at one point and he will stick with your party regardless. Unless you pissed him off really hard after the event. About others, well ... good luck next play through I guess ...voltron said:
Actually I believe you can get most of personal quests with conversation only. Approval rate is easy this time (except Sten I guess). And about gift, you gotta find the right thing for the right guy/girl. The effect of gift decreases each time.
FormallyMegadrive
Member
So I just got into Dragon Age today and holy crap. I didn't think I'd like it but I started playing just after lunch and it's um, nearly 1am. Yeeah. This game rocks. I made an elven ranger but I decided I didn't like it at about level 9 so I'm about to restart and make a two handed warrior.
Hopefully it turns out more my style.
Hopefully it turns out more my style.