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[b4ld5h3ph4rd]

In a Newly Opened Passage with a friendly golllum selling wares, I found an Evil Tome chose to accept its terms for reading it. +Merril friendship. Then I checked the wiki to see that it adds +2 attribute points. The wiki also says that it is bugged ( Forbidden Knowledge ). Is this old information, or still applies? The wiki suggests that it will be total 50 rivalry( ? ) with Merril. But I'm more interested in if this amounts to total +10 attributes for destroying all 5 books.

[mr_afk]

I'm not sure if it is bugged or designed that way, but if you take one of the earlier tomes the rest of the questline becomes unavailable. xp and gold wise it's best to destroy all but the last one (1000xp quest completion, 750xp for destroying earlier tomes, and a bunch of xp from all the demon fights), however no matter what method you use, you can only get +2 attributes.

To avoid dampening your relationship with merrill, just leave her behind until reading the last tome.

[b4ld5h3ph4rd]

I think I just want to read it and get +2 attribute points and a single +5 Merril. This is because I think that Dragon Age 2 uses level scaling like Mass Effect, and I base that on a feeling that with these games, if a situation is unwinnable with a setup of non-optimized stat choices by the player then there are other options ( runes, more expensive weapons, poisons, grenades, use different followers ). What's been carrying me through waves is Merril's un-upgraded Walking Bomb and Nature Damage runes. Haven't had to use poisons / grenades yet. Thank you for your help!

[caradoc2000]

As pointed out, you get the best results by destroying the tomes. You get more xp and a nice hidden boss fight at the end. You also get a good blood magic boosting staff (Voracity) from that fight.

As a side note, you won't get anywhere near the level cap regardless of what you do.

[mr_afk]

I'm not so sure about your mass effect comparison, but you're right in that level-scaling will keep things mostly balanced throughout DA2. You're also right in that on normal and casual difficulties, the game shouldn't drop you into any unwinnable circumstances. Lengthy wars of attrition, yes, but nothing a bit of kiting won't solve.

However, until you reach ~lvl20s you won't have unlocked/upgraded all of the more useful abilities, which limits the number and effectiveness of the strategies and game mechanics you can use. It might just be me, but that's kinda the entire point to the combat aspect of the game - to improve and refine your various strategies and setups as your party becomes more 'experienced'.

Skipping quests, xp, and loot, does seem like an odd way to play a rpg, but I'm not going to judge. Each to their own. Well have fun and good luck!

[b4ld5h3ph4rd]

You know what, I WILL destroy the tomes. Because experience -> level up == 1 more skill point and 3 more attribute points. But mainly the skill point so that I will have another spell for Vasectomy Hawke. Hope that hidden boss is tough, thanks carodoc. I'm playing on Hard difficulty, but what I meant about Mass Effect was that it's consistently challenging, dying is very possible, but still doable and there are options.

I just wish that Dragon Age didn't push this guilt on me. Sorry Merril, you will have to be absent so that you don't know what I've done to your blood magic sources.

[caradoc2000]

b4ld5h3ph4rd wrote...

Hope that hidden boss is tough

If you want a really nasty hidden boss, play Legacy.

[Magdalena11]

Have fun with the tomes. They aren't in places that you can't come back to later if Merrill is with you and you don't want to annoy her. When you've found the last of the quest ones and are ready for the boss fight you'll get a codex entry that says something like "Tarohne's notes have revealed the location of a hidden lair deep beneath Kirkwall. Go there to destroy this ancient evil."

I 'm sure you'll enjoy the boss fight. I thought it was pretty challenging on hard.