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Why is the Blood Dragon Armor so Ugly?


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 You would think that Blood Dragon Armor (BDA) being downloadable content and all, the devs would have taken extra time to make it look nice as well as upgradeable like the warden's armor

I do not even touch it for any of my companions.

Sten - Juggernaut Armor
PC - Dragon Boneplate or Heavy armor
Alistair - Warden Commander Armor


I hope the devs take serious note here so that folks don't have this same experience with BDA in Mass Effect 2.

What a letdown I basically ignore that armor...

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Giygas Starman

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Okay...

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I like that it is fugly. It keeps me from using it early on when there is no good reason for my character to have armor that strong.

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Except for the Bug with female elves and the helm the Blood Dragon armor looks great. And since I hate helms and the bug is fixed (either by the patch or one of the texture mods I use) both are not an issue. BDA = best armor ingame. From stats AND from looks.

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I think it looks so strange because it is a mix between scifi setting of Mass Effect 2 and the medieval setting of DA. They only designed one armor for both games and through that they were forced to fit it to both games.

Modifié par Bfler, 17 décembre 2009 - 11:37 .


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Mod's make it more appealing, only for PC though
http://www.dragonage...file.php?id=183

I like to use bda hd alternative.

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I hate it, it's ugly and overpowered, especially considering that you get it for free from the start. It just doesn't fit, and the most I will use it for is to sell it as my noble character to represent their increased starting wealth for being a nobleman.

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Hmm...yes I always end up selling it as well. The way it looks certainly does not seem to fit in but I got it free with my copy of the game so I don't feel the need to complain too hard.

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Tirigon wrote...

Except for the Bug with female elves and the helm the Blood Dragon armor looks great. And since I hate helms and the bug is fixed (either by the patch or one of the texture mods I use) both are not an issue. BDA = best armor ingame. From stats AND from looks.


It's certainly not the best in either way on PS3. The stats on it are far weaker than the xbox/PC versions for some reason.

And looks... it makes my human male look like he's pregnant.

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It is a matter of taste!



I personally like it. My warriors usually wear it by level 5, then when I get Wade's Superior Massive Uber Dragon Armor I pass it on to Alistair.

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Cuthlan wrote...

Tirigon wrote...

Except for the Bug with female elves and the helm the Blood Dragon armor looks great. And since I hate helms and the bug is fixed (either by the patch or one of the texture mods I use) both are not an issue. BDA = best armor ingame. From stats AND from looks.


It's certainly not the best in either way on PS3. The stats on it are far weaker than the xbox/PC versions for some reason.

And looks... it makes my human male look like he's pregnant.


You do realise that skintight heavy plate armor would completely render you unable to move. Not that zevran would mind.

As for the looks, it's pretty awesome. It's a magical DRAGONSLAYER armor, ofcourse it looks magical and unique. If anything disappointed me graphically it was the helm of the deep.

And for the stats? Well you have to put everything into building strenght for the first 9 levels in order to wear it? It's not like you can equip it from the get-go. This should be fun to try to equip on an arcane warrior.

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Gracchio wrote...

Cuthlan wrote...

Tirigon wrote...

Except for the Bug with female elves and the helm the Blood Dragon armor looks great. And since I hate helms and the bug is fixed (either by the patch or one of the texture mods I use) both are not an issue. BDA = best armor ingame. From stats AND from looks.


It's certainly not the best in either way on PS3. The stats on it are far weaker than the xbox/PC versions for some reason.

And looks... it makes my human male look like he's pregnant.


You do realise that skintight heavy plate armor would completely render you unable to move. Not that zevran would mind.

As for the looks, it's pretty awesome. It's a magical DRAGONSLAYER armor, ofcourse it looks magical and unique. If anything disappointed me graphically it was the helm of the deep.

And for the stats? Well you have to put everything into building strenght for the first 9 levels in order to wear it? It's not like you can equip it from the get-go. This should be fun to try to equip on an arcane warrior.


It's not the fit of the breastplate that looks so weird... it's the goofy glowing heavyweight-champion-style belt. It looks weird enough on its own, but when you move it doesn't flex right and looks very weird. It sort of folds in the front like fat roll, and in the back it kind of waddles back and forth. Being that is is based on the dwarven armor, it might look better on dwarves I suppose. I might load up a save and see.

And it doesn't take much to wear it... my 2h warrior was able to wear it while he was still in Lothering, and there is certainly nothing comparable to it available at that point. It's no big deal though, I don't like that so I don't wear it.

The magical stats are pretty mediocre on the PS3. From what I've heard, they're pretty powerful on xbox/PC, so I might actually use it if I were playing one of those. But on PS3, it isn't any better than even the weaker unique armor sets.

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I agree that BDA is ugly and I do not use it or have the mod turned on.





but it is an addon after all and not part of the core game.





There are like 100 or more addons in the mod section so I figure why **** about a bad addon that was free.



I'm sure they probably made it ugly on purpose so that u would not use it since it is cheating to get really good armor @ the beginning of the game.

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Legacy_QuEsT wrote...

I agree that BDA is ugly and I do not use it or have the mod turned on.


but it is an addon after all and not part of the core game.


There are like 100 or more addons in the mod section so I figure why **** about a bad addon that was free.

I'm sure they probably made it ugly on purpose so that u would not use it since it is cheating to get really good armor @ the beginning of the game.


If that's true, well, then that's rather.. silly. They could easily have made a less powerful and better looking armour.

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tru, but Dragon Armor was more of a PR pre-launch hype than anything else. They could have made it less powerful and better looking but then people would use it all game and not play the game and take some time to find real armor.



they made it ugly on purpose so that people would have to play the game and earn their armor.



it was a PR pre launch tactic, nothing more.

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Cuthlan wrote...

Gracchio wrote...

Cuthlan wrote...

Tirigon wrote...

Except for the Bug with female elves and the helm the Blood Dragon armor looks great. And since I hate helms and the bug is fixed (either by the patch or one of the texture mods I use) both are not an issue. BDA = best armor ingame. From stats AND from looks.


It's certainly not the best in either way on PS3. The stats on it are far weaker than the xbox/PC versions for some reason.

And looks... it makes my human male look like he's pregnant.


You do realise that skintight heavy plate armor would completely render you unable to move. Not that zevran would mind.

As for the looks, it's pretty awesome. It's a magical DRAGONSLAYER armor, ofcourse it looks magical and unique. If anything disappointed me graphically it was the helm of the deep.

And for the stats? Well you have to put everything into building strenght for the first 9 levels in order to wear it? It's not like you can equip it from the get-go. This should be fun to try to equip on an arcane warrior.


It's not the fit of the breastplate that looks so weird... it's the goofy glowing heavyweight-champion-style belt. It looks weird enough on its own, but when you move it doesn't flex right and looks very weird. It sort of folds in the front like fat roll, and in the back it kind of waddles back and forth. Being that is is based on the dwarven armor, it might look better on dwarves I suppose. I might load up a save and see.

And it doesn't take much to wear it... my 2h warrior was able to wear it while he was still in Lothering, and there is certainly nothing comparable to it available at that point. It's no big deal though, I don't like that so I don't wear it.

The magical stats are pretty mediocre on the PS3. From what I've heard, they're pretty powerful on xbox/PC, so I might actually use it if I were playing one of those. But on PS3, it isn't any better than even the weaker unique armor sets.


Xbox player here btw, guess it's different for each platform?

Aaaanyways, that weird champion belt is depicting a dragon mouth. Hence the 2 glowing slides on your chest.

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I like the BDA. Those extra 4 sovereigns at the start are handy.

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I'm more against Wade's Armor- Looks like freaking crap man, you go through all of that, it has badass stats, and it looks like a dragon had bled all over red steel armor.



So damn dirty looking I don't even bother wearing it.....

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 Well, Wade do say that was garbage after all ... ;) Even I do have no problem with it

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See it here!

http://social.biowar...033/polls/1004/

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I just don't like the glowing. Why is BDA has glowing spots, that's stupid!



I usually find some use for it, but it's definitely neither the prettiest nor the best armor in game.

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Well, if you are on PC there is a mod that changes BDA to use the Mass Effect version :)



http://social.biowar...m/project/2611/



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Blood Dragon Armor in DA:O isn't ugly. Though I like the ME2 version better.

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It's not really ugly, I agree, it's the glowing. Looks really out of place.

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there needs to be a mod made that places the dlc/promo items in proper places. found in approprite places chests, on people, etc

normally i just let the items sit in my inventory till i find a place where things could be found naturally. helm of the deep. somewhere in the deep roads for example

Modifié par nikki191, 03 juin 2010 - 04:19 .