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[Tonya777]

I can't beleive the slow rate of responses , I thought alot of you play arcane warriors and stuff?



What lvl is this ACTUALLY going to become like the guy in that video who soloed Gaxkang w/o falling below 90% health? What the hell was he doing differently?



I just got killed in the fade by a stupid hurlock & hurlock emissary because they did curse of mortality but I've noticed my character doesn't seem overpowered yet , in fact I feel my regular mage is more powerful and more capable of handling themself than this armor wearing sword swinging one is

[Tonya777]

WTF I got killed in the fade AGAIN!



This is worse solo than my regular mage or warrior ever was!



Whats with the bs hype about this bs specialization? "Durr I can solo everything on nightmare!" I'm getting killed on ****ing normal mode!

[OgrynFlesh]

I get dispelled all the time. And horrored. And stonefist... ed. Eh.



Goddamn circle healing too... ugh. Strangely, those tactics only happened on one playthrough.

[OgrynFlesh]

I never got how people could solo either. Shimmering shield needs you on level 14. Most of the game is gone by then.

[Tonya777]

Well , could you elaborate on this magical forumal of how to play this spec class right?

[Ginnerben]

Gecon wrote...

thisisme8 wrote...

Use the link below to be able to make three AW/BM. Enjoy:

http://www.dragonage...s/file.php?id=4

That one is completely awful.

You have to respect each and every character that ever joins your party.

Why wouldn't you want to?  Have you seen what the auto-level does to your characters?  I would prefer mine pure like the driven snow.  May have to get that mod.  

[Tonya777]

I read this



http://www.gamefaqs....le/920668/58247



Found it very helpful

[Tonya777]

^On Xbox 360 you can kind of cheat upgrade your armor periodically

I got warden commander armor at lvl 8 or 9 and it was steel but then cheated to upgrade it to veridium at like lvl 10 and I will keep upgrading it every time I can and it will one day be dragonbone

I'm going Arcane warrior/Spirit healer

The last Spirit healer abilitiy is a sustained that constantly heals you , group heal can be used as extra heal even if you are solo so it helps with cooldown times , revive is priceless when actually using a party , they are incompetant fools who get killed alot so I can revive them , then lifeward is a good help too

How good is that spell absorbing thing? Does it get rendered useless by the arcane warriors small mana pool?

Modifié par Tonya777, 27 novembre 2009 - 11:02 .

[Tonya777]

Hmmm I just found "Libertarians cowl"

Its +12 (holy crap right? lol) defense and +0.5 mana regen in combat

It looks absolutley stupid but I'd say that beats my veridium heavy dwarven helm right? lol

Modifié par Tonya777, 27 novembre 2009 - 11:25 .

[Doude]

Arcane Warrior is great fun. Personally i prefer Heavy Armor because it makes practically no additional fatigue but Massive Armor is more overpowered since you can add a huge chunk of damage reduction on top of the heaviest armor in the game, making you practically immune to melee.



A Warrior gets 5 from Shield Wall, and his gear.

The Arcane Warrior gets 15 from Shimmering Shield and a variable amount from Rock Armor, lets say 8. So that's 23, 18 higher than a Warrior tank (!).



With heavy armor, you're only at the same Armor level than a Warrior tank with Rock Armor running. WIth Shimmering Shield, you get much higher than a Warrior tank again, of course, but 7 less than an AW in massive armor.



Stats, you mostly want Magic. Hitting stuff can be a problem but running Miasma should be enough, not much need for Dex.



Shimmering Shield use is a bit dubiuous at the moment as it doesnt turn off when out of mana - i suppose it should turn off then. I turned it off when my AW ran of mana. But, your mana will last for a while with Shimmering Shield running and while you have it up, your character has the best defensive stats possible. You'll have to decide if you want to keep it running even on 0 mana or turn it off then. Gameplay will change because of that because if you decide to keep it running even when out of mana, your AW becomes simply a supertank with 0 mana. Kind of boring but insanely overpowered.



Gameplay wise, the strongest approach is to start a fight by pumping out spells, and when low on mana, turn on your combat buffs and go fighting (unless you want to drink pots i guess). How much turning on/off of buffs you want to do is up to you. I didnt switch all that much, left most of the buffs running. It puts a strain on your mana of course but you can still cast some stuff before going to fight. It'll get better with higher level when your mana pool increases.

Also note that you can get high Armor with very low fatigue so you could simply be a heavily armored pure mage.



Spells to take, hmm... Miasma is great. It helps you hit stuff, and it creates aggro helping with tanking a bit. Then you want Rock Armor of course, and probably Arcane Shield (you can reach very high Defensive values). Apart from that you'll want some nice spells which you can spend your mana on, some CC or damage whatever you fancy. Normal, nice spells that you would also take on a normal mage...



I had also had the dispelling line, Spell Shield is situationally useful to protect yourself from casters and goes well with the "invincible" concept. But its certainly not a must have.

Dispell Magic i used quite a bit when another char got caught in a Crushing Prison mostly. But again, it's rather situational.

I used Crushing Prison a lot; its nice because you dont need to put away your weapon and it casts fast; a nice mage killer. But there might be better options, anything above white named breaks free very quickly, and the spell is rather expensive...

I also had Mass Paralyzis which has a very strong effect but takes a long time to cast - and towards the end enemies seemed to break free pretty quickly.

[Tonya777]

Thanks for that elaborate response , thats the kind of responses I've been looking for

Modifié par Tonya777, 27 novembre 2009 - 11:35 .

[Tonya777]

I regret learning lightning and shock on this character



For some reason I was under the impression that cone spells could be cast with weapon still in hand



Apparently not , now I have 2 basically wasted talent points but oh well I guess , I'm not restarting this character now

[StupidWiz]

I hate Dispel Magic, It made my Arcane Shield + Rock Armor + Combat Magic + Shimmering Shield + Miasma + Haste + Telekinetic Weapon disappear in just a second.. =(

[Scar9533]

I hate that some of the cheats dont work for me >_> I play on PC so cant use WK chest to lvl gear, Bella in Redcliffe doesnt sell things repeatedly for dirt prices so cant make money there.



I feel good that I actually have to play the game but at the same time it sucks because half of some peoples process of this n that abuse these cheats to no end



I pretty much just buy enough lyrium dust to kill a small nation and abuse two mages as SH due to lack of funds to buy eh gear until I can get the good stuff as silverite/dragonbone/skin/thorn.



Enough small/lesser mana pots makes life easy.

[Tonya777]

I'm still seriously dissapointed that I went 2 points into the lightning branch
They need to let characters respend all stat skill and talent points somehow , even if its a 1 time per save thing or something
I used 3/4 tome of arcane techniques already too (Bodahn restocks one last tome in the castle before the end of the game)

I'm looking at this roughly :
13.Spell shield
14.Shimmering shield
15.Group heal
16.Fade shroud
17.Revival
18.Lifeward
19.Cleansing aura

**** an A............

Then I still need Miasma (3 points) (Lvl 22)
Rock armor (1 point) (23)

By then it would basically be the end of the game AND I'd have absolutley no glyph spells either

Glyph of warding (2 points) (25)

Though after some quests they give you a talent point (After redcliffe castle , and maybe some others)

This explains to you all why wasting a mere 2 points on lightning crap has upset me D:

With those 2 points I could have gotten flaming weapons instead which would you know... ACTUALLY be useful? I guess I'm stuck with frost weapons forever.... (I hear the fire one does up to +10 dmg a hit D: )

Edit :

Final tome of arcane technique = Fire blast
Redcliffe free point = Flaming weapons

Of course I'm not nessicarily doing this stuff in this order but that is the stuff I hope to finish having by the time this characters done

Modifié par Tonya777, 28 novembre 2009 - 03:19 .

[StupidWiz]

My Flaming Weapon does +14 to +16 damages, does frost weapons do the same? =)

[Tonya777]

WTF!



What level does it do that at?



Maybe I should just get THAT sooner than later

[StupidWiz]

at the end I think, when I got caught in Fort Drakon, maybe due to my high magic status that made it so.. I've got.. about 52+ in magic by then.. maybe, I'm not sure =/

[Tonya777]

52 isn't especially high or anything though but if it consistently adds over 10 damage a hit thats alot of added dmg

So I guess I might do that sooner and get glyph of warding later down the road (Or possibly never because I might not even get to lvl 25 , all my characters before this haven't reached 25)

Edit : What mode did you play that save on? I think that might make a difference but if its doing that much on normal-nightmare then wow

Modifié par Tonya777, 28 novembre 2009 - 03:29 .

[deathwing200]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: AW is a mediocre spec if you're not soloing. You're basically a low DPS, autoattacker without threat generation and tons of survivability. When you solo, you need that survivability to survive certain parts of the game. When you're not soloing, all your mages should be nukers, as you have no excuse to have them die with a dedicated tank. Plus playing without AW, will give you tons of experience on how to survive WITHOUT AW, since some parts of the game require you to go caster (when soloing).l

[StupidWiz]

Telekinetic Weapon is also useful, I compared my damage to Loghain (assuming he's wearing heavy/massive armor) my Telekinetic Weapon total damage is slightly greater than those flaming weapons, even with +14 damage..



Like this :

Flaming Weapon >> 33 + 14 = 47

Telekinetic Weapon >> 50 + 3 = 53 (+ 3 comes from Spellweaver's electric bonus)



CMIIW