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[Merengues 1945]

I faced that dragon at level 10 on Casual and it wasn't casual. I used up all of my potions, had to revive each of my companions at least once, and finished the encounter with so little health I couldn't see any on the screen. And there were two mages in my party (myself included) who would cast Barrier every other day of the week.

 

Your level and equipment plays a role in dragon fights. I defeated that one on level 13 at Hard difficulty and I didn't suffered much. Even without using my KE powers. I started a new game on casual and I brought her down as soon as level 11 with just a little fuss.... The ones on Emprise du Lion, those damned beasts are the ones to reckon with.

[Kenshen]

I have bounced between normal and hard and I admit I have been completely humbled at times.  I often make the mistake of rushing into battle without checking the level of what I about to fight.  I think the best advice one can give in reguards of combat is if it is to hard now just leave for another area and return when you get a little stronger.  Even 1-2 extra levels can really make a difference.  

[Malu Cap]

The combat is difficult/annoying for a few reasons

 

-The companion AI is terrible and requires micromanagement in a lot of fights. Your ranged people will stand there in a dragon's face and not fall back to a safe distance, they can't seem to decide on a target and in one specific fight I had Cole, Cassandra, and IB running back and forth between two lesser enemies (who were on opposite ends of the battlefield) as a group attacking one and then attacking the other no matter how many times I switched to tactical mode and moved them/assigned them to attack the more powerful enemy in the middle, they would run off and start their dance between the weak ones (which kept appearing until the strong one was killed) right after. They also will often forget to use potions and require you to switch to them and do it manually.

 

-You can't set tactics like you could in previous games

 

-There's a LOT of combat

 

-You can't change your mapped abilities in the middle of combat and you can't use the radial menu to use other abilities anymore

 

-No healing magic and extremely limited potions

 

-When trying to target something on a higher elevation with certain types of spells, the spell wouldn't just pop up the cliff, you had to trail it around a hill or path like you were walking instead of aiming something.

 

-You also can't change weapons or equipment during combat...I hope your melee fighters don't need to attack something on an unreachable platform because that emergency bow will do you no good.

 

-It seems like there are fewer abilities and spells than previous games (the "upgrades" pad out the skill trees and make it seem like there are more but...)

 

It's worth playing for the story, characters, role playing, and beautiful environments but I absolutely hate the combat. My advice is to keep it on the casual setting, bring a lot of warriors and one mage, and try to keep yourself overleveled. That way you wont have to take much notice of it most of the time.

 

I agree. One of the reasons why I play on casual is because I don't like to micromanage much, and with RPG games, specially for those with parties, the higher the difficulty level, the more you need to micromanage. With the tactics for previous DA games, you could pretty much program them and that eliminates the micromanagement for casual players.  This is not the case for DAI, even on casual mode. But I still highly recommend it because of all the things Nefla mentioned.

[revan017]

Hi!

 

I'm a casual completionist player who likes looking at strategy guides when playing. Yes, it's not necessarily a walk in the park -- I died at a Fade rift at the Hinterlands Farm when I was underlevelled and the first dragon was hard.

 

Then I became a Knight Enchanter.

 

And that's all he said.

 

PS: I am 85 hours in the game, not even close to finishing, and loving every second of it!