Combat is vital in Dragon Age, since every ability\spell you can pick during level-up is one that can only be used in combat. Non-combat skills = gone. That means the focus is indeed combat.
I rarely use more than five abilities for my Inquisitor. The way they handled the passives this time around is a massive improvement. Eight ability slots feels like plenty, even for a mage build.
The gameplay focuses more on the utility of each ability rather than using one hundred abilities as utilities for the point-and-click engagement. That’s why things like the Rogue’s dodge and the Warrior’s Shield Wall don’t have cooldowns. Its more skill based and less about a large slow strategy.
I know, I know, that's bad, because Origins. But Dragon Age II mage will always be my favourite.
I rarely use more than five abilities for my Inquisitor. The way they handled the passives this time around is a massive improvement. Eight ability slots feels like plenty, even for a mage build.
No way. I'm almost level 23 on my KE, and not being able to use my entire arsenal ****ing sucks.
Not entirely accurate. While all spells/ abilities seemingly may be used in combat, the Passives add to the various Attributes which could be helpful outside of battle. And Fade Step is useful outside of combat, as is Evasion; perhaps others.
Where are the passives helpful outside of combat?
Where are the passives helpful outside of combat?
Uncertain; reason I said could be used, as I do not have Floating Text or background equations activated visually. But if there are any such challenges, the increased Attribute scores could prove useful. Even so, Evasion may be used in a variety of ways during exploration and scouting trips, or to simply help avoid falling damage.
What challenges are those? I never saw any that had anything to do with your attributes.
What challenges are those? I never saw any that had anything to do with your attributes.
Several abilities can be used outside of combat.
I found all the treasure and landmarks in Emerald Graves without fighting a giant because of stealth.
Stealth is technically a combat mechanic
I think I may be thinking about an ability you toggle. Stealth, is it a passive for scouts or are you referring to inquisition perks?
Is that some kind of catch-22? You cannot use an ablity outside of combat, to prove use outside of combat, because even if you are not fighting it is still combat because of some arbitrary ruling that it is a combat mechanic? 
Anyway, I am on the fence regarding the eight slots. It forces me to make a choice beforehand, which is more strategic and somewhat like when we had to memorise spells, but on the other hand I will have dump cool feature.
I think I want more than eight.
It didn't destroy the game. But I think it is safe to say it was one of several things that kept the game from being a great one. One can live with it, but it certainly didn't do the game any favors.
No way. I'm almost level 23 on my KE, and not being able to use my entire arsenal ****ing sucks.
Stealth is technically a combat mechanic
I think I may be thinking about an ability you toggle. Stealth, is it a passive for scouts or are you referring to inquisition perks?
Stealth is a "combat" ability that I used outside of combat (via Tac-Cam and placing the other characters "far away" on hold) to manuever around the giants for looting and claiming landmarks in the Emerald Graves.
The only reason you'll run out of slots is if you're building a jack-of-all trades, and that isn't optimal. It's a party based game: use the party.
As most know in the previous versions of the game, you could set each party member up with tactics and certain behaviors and not have to worry about them standing in aoe spots or have a ranged toon run up and try to melee. Gone is the ability to do that. If you want that to happen you must micromanage your game using the tac cam, which sucks for PC especially inside. The spells have always been imbalanced in DAO/DAII, but they seem to be even worse now. KE needs but 3 or 4 active spells to run the game solo on nightmare. There are other classes that can do that as well. Many spells are horribly broken and as far as I know still are. The combat and overall controls (at least for mouse and keyboard) seem to be rushed when they made it and the combat mechanics were made to be as easy as possible.
At this point, I don't think adding more slots would do any good. The overall combat mechanics, party AI, and Spells, need to be reworked. It's not going to happen for DAI. Maybe it will in the next version, but I doubt it. There is a trend of EA/Bioware games getting easier and more console oriented. Gamers now days want easy and want it on console. That is where the money is, so that is where they are going to go.
The only reason you'll run out of slots is if you're building a jack-of-all trades, and that isn't optimal.
Not at all, my focuses are in the Knight Enchanter tree (every active except for the focus ability), and Inferno (every ability except flashfire). Beyond that are one-to-two level dips for Barrier, Fade Step, and Energy Barrage. The only spells here that aren't pure DPS are Disruption Field, Fade Step, and Barrier.
Wall of fire is hardly pure DPS.
I think that focus abilities (the one from specialization, the mark itself) and Aegis of the Rift should be assigned to the wheel L1 on PS4. That'd gain us 3 free slots. BioWare has really messed up with the abilities slots tbh.
Wall of fire is hardly pure DPS.
Drop it in a Static Cage for extra damage and forcing enemies to keep on burning, while the panic debuff lets Sera crit on every attack. Whatever it's non-DPS uses are, I have no need for them. Similarly, Fade Cloak could also be considered a utility spell, but with Inferno and Spirit Blade it becomes a flowchart nuke.
You guys are actually inspiring me to play some Dragon Age again soon. I want to test this out myself. I like min maxing and I at the time could see no viability for a mage other than being barrier battery/KE solo-it-all.
Drop it in a Static Cage for extra damage and forcing enemies to keep on burning, while the panic debuff lets Sera crit on every attack. Whatever it's non-DPS uses are, I have no need for them. Similarly, Fade Cloak could also be considered a utility spell, but with Inferno and Spirit Blade it becomes a flowchart nuke.
Yes, I see what you mean but you don't start out with all the end-tree ablities. I find using wall of fire early on as CC rather useful. Almost like cheating.
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