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[MindRaven]

Varric narrating:  "And then Hawke opened up a can of Arcane Whoop A**!!"

[JFarr74]

@Andar91



so....does that mean magic will count for a mage's melee damage with a sword/staff? Could you contact this Peter Thomas guy and find out?



Also, can a mage Hawke do the attack where he/she can tear enemies apart? I saw concept art for it in one of the trailers

[Dhiro]

JFarr74 wrote...

@Andar91

so....does that mean magic will count for a mage's melee damage with a sword/staff? Could you contact this Peter Thomas guy and find out?

Also, can a mage Hawke do the attack where he/she can tear enemies apart? I saw concept art for it in one of the trailers

It's the finish move of Crushing Prision. If you use it when the enemy is a really low health, hands of ripping doom.

[andar91]

JFarr74 wrote...

@Andar91

so....does that mean magic will count for a mage's melee damage with a sword/staff? Could you contact this Peter Thomas guy and find out?

Also, can a mage Hawke do the attack where he/she can tear enemies apart? I saw concept art for it in one of the trailers

Magic could mean that, but the system may have changed by now.  Peter Thomas is a gameplay designer that sometimes comments on the forums (though not often).  If you want to try and send him a private message, the link to his page is at the bottom of the forum page; click on the name.

The ripping apart thing a mage can do (yes, they can do that) isn't a spell, it's a finishing move.  Have you played Origins?  Moves where a character would use a special animation for a deathblow, such as when a warrior leaps up onto an ogre and stabs them.  Mages now have finishing moves, triggered by spells, that play special animations appropriate to the spell that triggered them.  The spell Crushing Prison brings those hands into being to rip an enemy apart.

[MindRaven]

although, doesn't summoning Giant Hands to rip/pull you apart seem kind of the opposite of Crushing Prison??



shouldn't the hands........y'know..........crush the guy to death instead? lol

[andar91]

MindRaven wrote...

although, doesn't summoning Giant Hands to rip/pull you apart seem kind of the opposite of Crushing Prison??

shouldn't the hands........y'know..........crush the guy to death instead? lol

Hast though forgotten the Rule of Cool?

[klusps]

So can anyone provide a link that says that Crushing Prison has that finishing move seen in the trailer? Sorry if I seem skeptical, but I just like to see proof.

[andar91]

klusps wrote...

So can anyone provide a link that says that Crushing Prison has that finishing move seen in the trailer? Sorry if I seem skeptical, but I just like to see proof.

I have no idea where the quote is, but I am 100 percent positive that that was confirmed.  Take that as you will.

[JFarr74]

Yea..r u sure that's the finishing move for crushing prison.....also when do you unlock the armor you see for each character class at the beginning of the game?

[andar91]

JFarr74 wrote...

Yea..r u sure that's the finishing move for crushing prison.....also when do you unlock the armor you see for each character class at the beginning of the game?

I've got no clue about anything like that.  I'm sure about Crushing Prison though.

[Maria Caliban]

Dragon Age 2 will be the first game since Quest for Glory where I'll play a mage.

[crimzontearz]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Dragon Age 2 will be the first game since Quest for Glory where I'll play a mage.

noooooooooo maria!!!

don't fall for it, you are a warrior/rogue girl at heart!! 

[bsbcaer]

JFarr74 wrote...

Yea..r u sure that's the finishing move for crushing prison.....also when do you unlock the armor you see for each character class at the beginning of the game?

from what has been mentioned, I believe that the armours in the exagerated sections are top/high level armours, so I would guess closer to the last third of the game?

[JFarr74]

Are you actually able to use melee attacks with sword/staffs like the staff of panthalan?

[crimzontearz]

JFarr74 wrote...

Are you actually able to use melee attacks with sword/staffs like the staff of panthalan?

yes, once enemies are in melee range you just whack them with the staves

[HighMoon]

Mage girl here, I play mainly warriors for my first play throughs, but the thought of the possible mage dynamics in this game appealed to me way too much to pass up the chance. Even though a team of mage sisters won't be possible I still look forward to run-ins with templars and sibling rivalry with Carver. Plus I get to use the staff of Parthalan! Woohoo!

[MindRaven]

in regards to the Ripping Apart finishing move, I believe it was during one of the PAX interviews that one of the devs ( was it Gaider? ) casually mentioned that the move was in the game and was the finisher for Crushing Prison.



that being said, when I watched some of the leaked gameplay vids from the conventions, I did see Bethany do that finisher on the Ogre. However, I'm not 100% certain that it was caused by Crushing Prison. In one case, it looked like she just hit the Ogre with the basic staff blast range attack, and since it was the finishing blow, it triggered the Hand Ripping animation.



now, mind you, that was quite awhile ago, so I could be mistaken. Plus, that was an early build, so who knows what they've changed.



in fact, since then, I haven't seen or heard anything re finishing moves..............

[crimzontearz]

MindRaven wrote...

in regards to the Ripping Apart finishing move, I believe it was during one of the PAX interviews that one of the devs ( was it Gaider? ) casually mentioned that the move was in the game and was the finisher for Crushing Prison.

that being said, when I watched some of the leaked gameplay vids from the conventions, I did see Bethany do that finisher on the Ogre. However, I'm not 100% certain that it was caused by Crushing Prison. In one case, it looked like she just hit the Ogre with the basic staff blast range attack, and since it was the finishing blow, it triggered the Hand Ripping animation.

now, mind you, that was quite awhile ago, so I could be mistaken. Plus, that was an early build, so who knows what they've changed.

in fact, since then, I haven't seen or heard anything re finishing moves..............

there is one in the latest vid

[JFarr74]

@ crimzontears



What and Where is the latest vid?

[MindRaven]

forgot about that, if it's the one where mage Hawke electrocutes the quanari with his staff.



it's in the latest Dev vid about the story.



although it's not clear if that was a cutscene animation or an actual finisher animation that we can trigger in combat.



if we can trigger a finisher like that in combat, that will indeed be very awesome!!

[RaineAmell]

Hawke's firin' his lazor.

[JFarr74]

can u actuallly fire a laser thing with a staff/sword?

[JFarr74]

u can use melee attacks with the sword/staff right?

[andar91]

JFarr74 wrote...

u can use melee attacks with the sword/staff right?

Yes.

[JFarr74]

what about with a regular staff. I saw in a gameplay video (one that said it was from Ingroim or something?) and the guy was controling Bethany and fighting darkspawn with the staff up close, and was meleeing them i think. the point is r u able to melee with just a staff up close?