Any one has any strategies on how to play this build effectively? I'm thinking of going two-handed...
Beserker/Reaver build?
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Evange
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Posté 22 novembre 2009 - 09:52
Endgame13
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Same here I just made a 2h dwarf warrior today and I'd love to use these 2 specs.
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Posté 23 novembre 2009 - 12:49
Evange
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Any tips for stats distribution and talents picks?
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Posté 24 novembre 2009 - 10:10
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Str, Con, Will, in that order. Screw everything else.
Take 2h, if only so you can skimp out on dex.
Take 2h, if only so you can skimp out on dex.
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Posté 24 novembre 2009 - 10:40
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both berserker and reaver focus on stacking +damage.
So going 2h is probably not a great idea. dual wield is best for those specializations.
To be fair those specializations are better for 2h also because the other two warrior specializations just suck outright, but you mostly take them for the stats.
Your warrior is going to be a '2h warrior' by its defining qualities and the specializations wont really matter
Really warriors are tactics fighters you dont need to control them that often. For berserker you will need to manualy activate berserk when you want ti (it wont stay on forever because bioware hates convinience) so most fights you will just have it turned off anyway since its not really worth turning on for a bunch of random trashy minions.
As far as tactics. Just make sure it turns on its toggles and tell it smack stuff around, then spend the game playing as leliana or somthing.
So going 2h is probably not a great idea. dual wield is best for those specializations.
To be fair those specializations are better for 2h also because the other two warrior specializations just suck outright, but you mostly take them for the stats.
Your warrior is going to be a '2h warrior' by its defining qualities and the specializations wont really matter
Really warriors are tactics fighters you dont need to control them that often. For berserker you will need to manualy activate berserk when you want ti (it wont stay on forever because bioware hates convinience) so most fights you will just have it turned off anyway since its not really worth turning on for a bunch of random trashy minions.
As far as tactics. Just make sure it turns on its toggles and tell it smack stuff around, then spend the game playing as leliana or somthing.
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Posté 24 novembre 2009 - 11:48
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I personally loved playing my 2h berserker, unfortunately there just aren't a lot of good weapon choices, mostly used Trian's Maul cause its the best hammer and towards the end used the starfang just cause I was doing too much damage to worry about armor penetration. But stats wise- STR STR and a little bit of con and will.
and talents get indomitable, and the line for 2h sweep and the destroyer line and just plow through everything.
and talents get indomitable, and the line for 2h sweep and the destroyer line and just plow through everything.
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Posté 24 novembre 2009 - 12:56
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You can get Ageless relatively early and quickly by messing around with pressure plates in the Orzammer throne room before you pick a king, and it's very good, especially vs. darkspawn, the big downside is it doesn't have any enchantment slots. I'm wondering how Starfang stacks up against the Chastind Great Maul...(though Starfang is absurdly easy to get if you have Warden's keep and the Chastind maul is like 150 g)...
I did have fun finishing my 2h berserker/champion, but I can't help but wish I went dual-wield instead. DW has more interesting talents, it gives you something to do with all those cool 1h high-strength weapons you get at the end (it feels like such a waste giving Keening Blade to a tank...), and it certainly has more overall dps. I also didn't realize, because it was my first playthrough, that the game gives you TWO 2-handed warriors, so I didn't get to see all that much of Sten or Oghren outside of camp.
But I agree with the above, the bottom line is really key--2-handed sweep is the best/most fun skill, and then after that you grab Indomitable, as it's one of the skills that's really unique to this spec. And you can definitely put plenty of points in strength, which means you can where heavier armor, earlier. (If you have Blood Dragon plate, you can dispense with another tank for the middle part of the game.)
I did have fun finishing my 2h berserker/champion, but I can't help but wish I went dual-wield instead. DW has more interesting talents, it gives you something to do with all those cool 1h high-strength weapons you get at the end (it feels like such a waste giving Keening Blade to a tank...), and it certainly has more overall dps. I also didn't realize, because it was my first playthrough, that the game gives you TWO 2-handed warriors, so I didn't get to see all that much of Sten or Oghren outside of camp.
But I agree with the above, the bottom line is really key--2-handed sweep is the best/most fun skill, and then after that you grab Indomitable, as it's one of the skills that's really unique to this spec. And you can definitely put plenty of points in strength, which means you can where heavier armor, earlier. (If you have Blood Dragon plate, you can dispense with another tank for the middle part of the game.)
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Posté 24 novembre 2009 - 05:07
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I have a 2h Berzerker/Reaver and it destroys.
I had actually gone Champion/Berzerker first and was not satisfied with it so I rethought how I was going about building the charcter, went back to an earlier save and changed my spec from a certain point on and am immensely more satisfied with it.
A couple of pointers (and I'm going to disagree with a lot of other people's advice here):
Do not min/max and just ignore your other stats aside from str/con/will.
You do need all of your stats.
I personally have ended up going (before bonuses) 40 str/ 30 Dex, / Will and Con are both in their 20's and being worked up to 30 each and my cunning is 21 or 22.
If you can, get/do the Wardens keep DLC get the two abilities from there.
These synergise quite well with the berzerker rage ability and the Reaver abilities.
Max out the whole 2h ability tree and the top line of warior ability tree - I have completely avoided the 'precision' line as it simply goes against the point of this build - then max out all of the berserker/reaver lines.
Get a good regen going and then turn on berserker rage/ maintained blood ability from wardens keep/ and the maintained reaver ability and you will be a walking death machine - but if you start taking too much damage obviously turn off the abilities that drain your health. You do have to use some common sense/tactics.
I had actually gone Champion/Berzerker first and was not satisfied with it so I rethought how I was going about building the charcter, went back to an earlier save and changed my spec from a certain point on and am immensely more satisfied with it.
A couple of pointers (and I'm going to disagree with a lot of other people's advice here):
Do not min/max and just ignore your other stats aside from str/con/will.
You do need all of your stats.
I personally have ended up going (before bonuses) 40 str/ 30 Dex, / Will and Con are both in their 20's and being worked up to 30 each and my cunning is 21 or 22.
If you can, get/do the Wardens keep DLC get the two abilities from there.
These synergise quite well with the berzerker rage ability and the Reaver abilities.
Max out the whole 2h ability tree and the top line of warior ability tree - I have completely avoided the 'precision' line as it simply goes against the point of this build - then max out all of the berserker/reaver lines.
Get a good regen going and then turn on berserker rage/ maintained blood ability from wardens keep/ and the maintained reaver ability and you will be a walking death machine - but if you start taking too much damage obviously turn off the abilities that drain your health. You do have to use some common sense/tactics.
