Strategy Requirements
Main Character= Warrior
I choose to use a shield and 1 handed weapon. I max out the vanguard tree first. I like Might. To me having a shield is good enough to tank and having battle syngery and taunt is pointless to me. Not saying those strats dont work but using regular stun abilities worked better for me and i gain the advantage of not having to use taunt or sustained modes other than might of course, In my experience in playing i found it easier just to chase down the stragglers and shield bash them or hit them a few times to gain attention away from the mages. It really was easy for me to hold aggro and in the Dragon age 2 instruction manual it does say that stunning enemies causes them to search for others to attack and since im stunning them they attack me more times than not. And the good thing about making a tank that does a lot more damage is it gives u built in threat. So threat was determined in 3 ways.
1. Whos doing the most damage
2. Whos wearing the highest armor
3.whos closests
And since my tank vanguard fit the role i keep aggro every time.
Stats= 2 strength 1 constitution and after about 30 constitution i went for cunning instead. Its adds defense and crit damage which is nice. I dont think i need to explain the value of doing crit damage.
Abilities= All vanguard. Bolster and second wind (upgraded to the max) the rest is up to u because its flexible. Shield bash
I use bolster because its overpowered it allows the ability to have infinite stamina, second it makes upgrading willpower useless unless u plan on using many sustained modes which i dont. However i think bravery is a good one I plan on using it as well and suggest using it if u want to experiment with this. Second wind is used to help spam cleave and assail and shieild bash which is awesome to have to cause constant stagger. Used with a mage like anders using chain reaction and martyr its damage out the wazoo. o and I found that making anders use venegance makes him a better healer. if he uses it with martr then he can use heal way more often. and since i completely hold and contain all threat he never gets hit which means he never needs to heal himself. And if anders is a rival of yours then he gets plus 50% health regen which is awesome alowing him to use martr even more and yes i know i misspelled it but i dont care im sure someone will post how to
.I think its pretty basic but let me explain why i think its better to use a sword and shield then 2h with this build.
1.Shield bash
2. Way more protection
3. U benefit from more damage so using two handed weapons to me in my opinion is overkill and will get u killed more because u take more damage. Who needs to use 2h unless u plan on using brittle?
4. 2h weapons hurt allies adjacent to them if they are in range which puts nearby tanks into even more danger.
I use aveline and make her use the same things i do so i can almost maintain stagger 100% of the time on anything. and She does very great damage, has a shield too which draws aggro away from the mages because she has higher armor ratings, and she still tanks great. i think since there are two tanks doing great damage it causes enemies to be out of luck because we kill fast, can take large amounts of damage and me and aveline are splitting the damage the other guys do because they are seperately attacking me and her causing neither one of us to take that much damage and even if we do anders is healing us before we can even call for it =p =).
Not to mention anders is doing his part with haste, support weapons spell, heals etc, and chain reaction my fav. i also suggesting getting crushing prision for added damage to specific targets like bosses and assassins and lieutenants etc.
And last but not least u choose the last char u bring with urself. I suggest bringing another support mage like bethany because she can heal unlike merril and she uses haste so the party is always attacking a godly speeds with great damage. but sadly she cant use chain reaction which merril can! it really matters not who u pick just go by the situation if u need extra heals and constant attack speed go with bethany. plus dont forget to bring crushing prison it works wonders. But merril is great too u cant go wrong with this build try it u might like 1 handed weapons with shields more than 2 handed weapons for damage if u see just how effective this works.
Thank u, the strat is simple absic and extremely effective against anything even bosses like rock wraith and dragons varterrals u name it i beat it
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