Dragon Age Thread(Spoilers)

[Palum]

Which of the following 2 statements would you associate with this game:

Diablo II: stop everything you're doing and go buy this game RIGHT NOW
or
KOTOR II: I found it at walmart for 20 bucks and it was pretty cool

[Needless]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Duncan dying pretty much made me rage. Way to kill the badass of the story.

[Axire]

Originally Posted by mek

At 7 you can 1 specialization point, and at 14 you get a second. You can spend them whenever you like (eg. save them for when the specs you wanted are unlocked.) You can pick any two.

After you have the specialization bought, you can buy the spec-specific talents at future level ups.



It was just normal dialogue options. As soon as I met the true form, it asked me if I was willing to talk, I said yes, and then a few conversation options later it was making me an offer.

If codex entries are linked to dialogue options, I did find a codex on the hierarchy of demons in one of the Chantries.

Are you actually a caster though? I had to play it through with the Shapeshifter (one with claudia blacks voice) as that was the only "caster" I had to send into the place. Maybe thats why I didnt get the option.

On a side Note, just picked up the healer woman and the game is sooo much more easier, although not being able to open one out of every second chest since I have no rogue type in my group is a bit of a fucker.

[Axire]

Originally Posted by mek

BTW, I have definitely confirmed that codex entries unlock dialogue options - and therefore reading books is quite important. As an example, I read a book about the Orlesian Empire which had a bit about bards, and then could talk to Leliana about it in detail. So it wouldn't surprise me to know that you need to know about demons before you can bargain with one.

Ahh thats a bit of a fucker then, cant ever become a Blood Mage because I didnt read a book Its even more shitty due to the nature of being able to take any route you like through the game.

To comment on the games difficulty yeah its a complete cunt, even on normal, sometimes I find that when you get a fuck ton of mobs swarming you then you just drop like a sack of shit, im finding myself sometimes just cheesing one mob at a time out of a pack by taking advantage of caster/ranges huge range to only agro one at a time. Just because if the whole lot come some fucking caster drops an aoe bomb and wipes my group out in one go heh.

Finding myself saving after every pack of mobs I kill, sometimes you fuck up on dialogue from no fault of your own (shapeshifter mage made some comment to the healer woman and the whole mages group attacked me in the tower so i lost out on having the insane healer/support npc in my party, thank fuck I had just saved it before heh).

[Needless]

Neither, its pretty good so far though.
I havent had a game where i'd absolutely coerce somebody to get nor would i say its meh wait until its $20.

One thing i kind of dislike is how slow the fucking 2h weapons are. I understand theyre slower but shit its like theyre swinging a concrete pillar around.

[AtwaKom]

Originally Posted by Palum

Which of the following 2 statements would you associate with this game:

Diablo II: stop everything you're doing and go buy this game RIGHT NOW
or
KOTOR II: I found it at walmart for 20 bucks and it was pretty cool

Just DL it ( not that I endorse that!) and try it and if you like it, go scoop it up. 7.72G is a lot of downloading though =(.

[NativityInBlack]

Originally Posted by Palum

Which of the following 2 statements would you associate with this game:

Diablo II: stop everything you're doing and go buy this game RIGHT NOW
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I had to setup a VPN to USA to get it running TODAY from Brazil instead of 6th (to unlock my Steam fucking right away).

Man it's worth it, loving every second of it.

[Talineth]

How hard is Soldier's Peak (Warden's Keep DLC)?

Can I attempt it right away at level 8'ish?

[Dandai]

I haven't gone to the quest area for the Stone Prisoner yet, but I can tell you that by modifying the xml file and activating the content as instructed previously in the thread I have received all of the items and all DLC is flagged as "Active." I'm glad there's a work around for people who actually bought their CE, not that the extra items are that big of a boost.

[possible]

I don't get why NPC's get unique hairstyles... that one looks better than any of the actual options when making a character.

[Tonic]

Went out and bought the game at Target for PC, brought my computer to work after leaving the CD home and now I can't play due to requiring a CD to boot up. FAAAANtastic.

[nosf]

Originally Posted by Talineth

How hard is Soldier's Peak (Warden's Keep DLC)?

Can I attempt it right away at level 8'ish?

Yep, just finished it at the same level.

[Pyros]

Originally Posted by possible

God damn what the fuck at this games difficulty. Has anyone done the Dalish elves storyline? I'm in the ruins and have no idea how to beat the boss that summons skeletons, it's just too much damage vs not enough damage.

I've finished it, and it was difficult as hell. I guess I can't complain that for once not everything is easy, but damn that's just Normal too. The fight you're talking of, I've found relatively easy actually. I just nuked the big guy as hard as possible, he doesn't have a lot of hp, and by the time he was dead, so were my 2 melees(Alistair and Sten), then I kited the rest of the skeletons with my main(mage) and the rogue bitch, took a while but skeletons are slow so it was easy.

The end of this questline though is pretty epic. Gonna spoiler it so I don't ruin the story choices:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I basically told the elf he needed to talk to the werewolves, then they talked, and he went emo, summoned 3 treants+2evil ghosts things, I went in a corner where he couldn't reach me, and killed everything with my mage chain healing, and throwing fireballs at the trees, managed to kill everything without any deaths on the 2nd try(first try only the mage was up) then went on the elf guy, he ran into the middle of my group, did his bloodmage shit and killed my archer right away, but managed to keep the rest up with regen+heal+pots and beat his ass. Took like 15mins total and pretty insane fight, but the difficulty was insane

Hopefully the difficulty isn't progressive, cause that questline was already quite fucking insane and it took a lot of consumables and pausing to get through.

On another note, anyone feel like there's no good mage spec for them? I wanna blow things up, but one relies on melee, another on shapeshifting to melee, another on heals, and last one is a mix of CC and nukes which also require you to lose hp. Wish I could have taken a spec based on my points invested, like Primal Mage > Elementalist. Also for people who have done Shapeshifting already maybe, can you cast any spells while in shapeshift form?

[mek]

Yeah, the mage specs are all support-oriented, which must have been a conscious decision. I'm at level 9, and the aggro system is quite punishing, so I'd imagine a mage that could specialize in being a glass cannon would find themselves dead after 2 spells in every battle. That may be the reasoning behind it.

[Talineth]

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