My party's level nine and I die horribly...alot. My main is a human warrior aiming at being a tank. I've done Redcliffe and castle and my second stop was the Dalish camp, at which part I'm in the middle of the ruins right now. I've been experimenting very heavily with my party to try and find a sweet spot to enjoy. I've done my tank, Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliara, specced as a tank, supporter/controller, and ranged archer respectively. I've been tilting the stats of my main character between str, dex, and con (something like 20 con right now, 29+ str and 22+ dex), and otherwise appropriate stats for the other characters. I'm only level 9 so my equipment is what I've got...heavy tier 3 armor on my main, medium on Leliana/Sten.
I just...get the feeling I must not be doing something right when almost every fight feels like complete, overwhelming murder. Even on normal this seems to hold true, and easy only makes the white cons more trivial; the yellows and oranges still eat me for breakfast. Let's take the current dungeon for example...
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Three chambers in a row, a virtual army of white con skeletons jump us. My main, with sword and board, always has threaten and shield wall active, and has 3X the armor value of the next closest character (in this dungeon I've tried using Sten as a melee DPS, wearing whose 2handing in splint mail). She's ahead of the rest of the part, and attempts to run in and hit them to gain aggro. At least three run RIGHT past her, before I can even pull off a threaten, and pound on Sten usually, if I've managed to stop Morrigan from running in to do her fear prematurely. I had thought the high armor value along with threaten should've negated this, but I guess not I keep Morrigan and Leliana at a distance, having all three of those characters focus their fire while my main tries to land in those threaten hits. Because of shield wall and threaten she has almost no stamina to do anything but the very rare taunt, but without either of those she seems to fail in a matter of seconds.
Almost every ability bought has been in the shield and sword tree, the few that aren't were in the warrior line up to Bravery. Now when the skeleton swarms on my main, a few always leak off to attack Sten or the others. If its Sten, he usually dies in a matter of seconds, even if I have him become a health pot fiend, which is somewhat counter productive anyway since he's not hurting anything while chugging. Meanwhile Morrigan's maintaining the icy swords and the either the single or AoE vulnerability hex(to help with the icy swords I imagined, or whenever she throws in attack spell to help burn the huge swarm down fast enough) as well as occasionally hitting that PBAoE 1 second stun spell, and Leliana's maintaing rapid shot and song of valor.
A few of the swarm die, but usually Sten always gets mobs I can't pull off of him who murder him before he can do much of anything. Once he's down my main is now usually falling like a brick, sometimes saved by a timely forcefield leaving ONLY an auto-attacking Morrigan and Leliana to try and pick off the rest before the forcefield falls and they murder my main. If I've forcefielded before this, Sten always grabs aggro in seconds and is murdered. Actually, every other fight is a pretty approximation of this formula, just replace armies of undead with a single revenant (with or without the overkill army of undead with him...) or the lone dragon I've faced. i tried mixing it up with Alistar acting as a sort of off-tank (or vice-versa) to try and distribute the hurt better, but usually one tank dies way too quickly and obviously the DPS isn't quite enough to endure.
And that's pretty much been my experience so far. Almost every fight involves needing to use injury kits afterwards, as its only those rare, disarmingly easy fights that seem random that this isn't true. I feel that the level of crushing difficulty I'm seeing is a bit off, even for hard so I must be doing something wrong...I'm pausing almost every other action, I've gone through various tactic sets including the default ones provided, I just seem to be insanely overwhelmed almost every fight that I don't win in seconds. Please, is there any advice or strategies that I'm just maybe missing? Does it just get better later on if I somehow miraculously survive now? I'd be very appreciative of any help
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