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[JD Buzz]

Just finished my second run of the DLC with Natalia, my DW Assassin. So much fun  A recap in photos!

 

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Cassandra looking badass with her holy ham and cheese arsenal:

 

 

Natalia meeting her predecessor:

 

 

The ugliest dragon in the world:

 

 

Natalia's not impressed:

 

 

Scout Harding knows one of the Inquisitor's guilty pleasures:

 

 

And she promises to keep a secret:

 

 

Now that peace has been restored, our heroine is still jolly and cracking a joke:

 

 

But her bestie suddenly has a migraine:

 

 

Lastly, lots and lots of monies!

 

 

 

[HurraFTP]

Really? I got my Artificer before doing that. I guess a random quillback gave me my third back spine.

 

Sometimes a normal quillback will drop a "back spine" but there's three alpha quillbacks on the map and those ones will give you a "back spine" for sure. /off topic (sorry )

[AtreiyaN7]

My minions built me another treehouse outpost, AND I got a spiffy T4 medium armor schematic (Prowler I think), so I'm hoping that Cole will soon be less squishy at long, long last. I also had Blackwall and Dorian fan me with palm fronds during a break from running around - whee!

[NaclynE]

I'm going to post twice because I got the Hakkon DLC and want it to be less confusing since I haven't finished Malaioniss yet and am running Vyre Dite (female human mage on NORMAL) on the DLC.

 

First post: Malaioniss:

 

Well dragon bashing is still disappointing me. Again for the second dragon in Du Lion and the Hissing wastes dragon I can still get them both to 10% health left then everyone drops the ball on me and I get GAME OVER. So I decided to hop over to DU Lion and do a garbage ton of quests.

 

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saved the Du Lion civilians and defeated Imshael. I had some minor problems but thankfully I took some useful potions (fire resistance).

 

[NaclynE]

Post number 2

 

VYRE DITE VS the Hakkonites.

 

 

Yeah Vyre Dite was kind of mad the me for putting her on hold for a long time. j/k. Lol.

 

I'm going to do two spoilers. First one will cover the playthrough if anyone wants to know.

 

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Sided with mages. (Mages became enchanters).

Logain was killed in fade.

Wardens kept to help.

Celene is still queen but rules alone.

Cassandra is to reform seekers.

Sera is a good friend to Vyre.

Cole is human.

Blackwall was exposed but Vyre had crazy respect so she kept him as a ally.

Vivianne's husband is dead.

Dorian did not reconcile.

Solas was as a good friend and problem causers were killed.

Charges lived.

Cullen is off Lyrium and is a love interest to Vyre (Romanced Cullen).

Jospehine is financially free by rising rival family to power.

Liliana spared rival sister and is now divine.

Samson was defeated and was treated as a friend to Cullen.

Vyre Dite obtained well and dragon.

Usually took: Iron Bull, Blackwall, Solas, Sera. Blackwall+Sera had really funny banter.

 

 

Ok now off to the DLC...

 

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So after a brief recap banter at the war table about Liliana being divine with Josephine, Cullen and Liliana it was off to where the succubus poseing as a human mage Vyre Dite to where she needs to go.

 

 

Vyre Dite was greeted by Harding and a archeologist. the archeologist mentions that the area Vyre is at is the site of where the first Inquisitor is. Interested Vyre said she'll find what she can find. After...

 

Sera: "The fade is whollify here."

Blackwall: "Don't you mean 'woolizy'?"

Sera: "Woolify...wooilly...woo...whollify."

 

It was like no crap to Vyre because the first fade portal she had to deal with was like EEEK GAD! After busting the portal...

 

 

Vyre Dite got told about some evil people known as 'Hakkonites'. I was like "Is a Hakkonite this?"

 

 

ROFL. Nm. 

 

Watch this....https://www.youtube....h?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

 

lol.

 

Anyhoo...

 

After some more ^&^%&%& portal busting Vyre remembered getting told about a missing agent. Well...

 

 

Vyre found him....what was left of him...She accepted his offer to help out. And....

 

 

Vyre Dite found Fred Flinstones car.  .

 

Vyre Dite traveled around, Killed a fade touched spider and defeated some hakkonites and certain forts and claimed some tree forts. After enough exploring..

 

 

Vyre Dite found a tollerable Avvar tribe. After dealing with all the SKYRIM refs she wanted to help out this community.

 

 

Vyre Dite was suggested to help a disgraced member out. So after enough pushing and shoving...

 

 

And a quick little joke from Sera and Blackwall:

 

Sera: "Ugh...stupid avaar he needs to be slapped silly."

Blackwall: "Then he needs someone to put a mustache on his face made out of charcoal."

Sera: *Laughs* "Yeah. And he needs a pair of breeches." *Snickers*.

 

So i guess it would look like this?

 

 

Anyway So Vyre started doing things for that one guy and crushed the key hakkonite sites Vyre Dite came across the frost giant.

 

 

BLOODY HELL this took forever and also Photojen8 it was a pain in the hiney. It was annoying to be pelted by this guy. Worst thing though was this *%%$%^$%^ fade portal full of dispair demons. Holy uncoolness....I full stocked on stuff including ice resistance potions and busted that portal.

 

So after crushing the giant Vyre took a selfie...

 

 

And took a break to enjoy the sites...

 

 

 

Will do a part two soon.

[Ezra Watcher]

set the twelve hour research going for solos and find the hero of ferelen, then went and cut fire wood with the table saw for an hour just to kill time lol.

[Ezra Watcher]

have succeeded in waisting 9 hours on a 12 hour war table thing cos the game crashed when i went to the loo now its started over …. meh

[Gilli]

So, yesterday Bruce went to the Forbidden Oasis. He collected all Shards, closed 4 Rifts and finished nearly all quests, except Temple Solas'an and getting the stuff from the Par'as Cavern. (didn't want to fight that horde of Spiders again  )

 

Then Bruce went to the Hinterlands for some minor quests, when a bear decided that Lord Woolsley would be his lunch and chased him around. Bruce had to kill the bear and the possessed ram. 

 

Did In Your Heart Shall Burn, Bruce closed the Breach, met Corypheus and his ugly Dragon and walked through the snowstorm to Skyhold.

(just saw I took over 220 screenshots of that, omg   )

[themikefest]

I just finished my 12th playthrough. The only thing I didn't do was have  Cole as a companion. Everything else completed.  I came up short of level 28 by about 35 000 experience points. Had I did the playthrough differently, its possible I might have reached that level. There were many parts that did not give me experience points because I was at too high of a level. 

 

I will take a break for a few hours and load another character, maybe my dual dagger Inquisitor, to play the dlc.

[Nightingale]

Just finished my second run of the DLC with Natalia, my DW Assassin. So much fun  A recap in photos!

 

Spoiler

Lastly, lots and lots of monies!

 

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Is...is that hat the one from the weird owl music box thing when you fall under Skyhold?

[JD Buzz]

Is...is that hat the one from the weird owl music box thing when you fall under Skyhold?

 

Similar, but the one under Skyhold is bigger. I figure the hat in the vault is Scrooge McDuck's. 

[Gilli]

I'm working on my fem!Hawke in the CC and the lightning drives me crazy Dx

In the "dark" lightning she looks good, but in the bright, her chin bones look weird. >.<

[Melbella]

I also had Blackwall and Dorian fan me with palm fronds during a break from running around - whee!

Jealous!  

[SporkFu]

Quoting this again because....I believe I figured out the problem. So good news there. Bad news is: my cpu fan isn't spinning. At all.  I could barely move it manually as well. More bad news: I couldn't get it out in order to clean it (which might not help anyway) which means I'm going to have to remove the whole darn heatsink in order to replace the fan.   So, looks like a trip to Best Buy is in my near future. Sigh.....I hate being my own tech support. Makes me want to just buy a new pc next time.

Ack it's been so long since I've been keeping up on the thread. So many wonderful adventures to read about. It's great to finally have a day off and a pc that works -- so I can type on a keyboard instead of a phone, heh -- so that I can catch up. I ran outta likes again somewhere on page 215 I will catch up, though.... eventually

Glad to read that you got things sorta kinda maybe fixed for now, Mel. CPUs don't like to get too hot for sure.

As for me, I haven't had any issues since I re-slotted the RAM properly, and I've finally gotten all the essential stuff on the reformat finished... stupid work interfering anyway... and I've got the DA and ME games re-installed too. Now I just have to locate my saved games Maker hear my plea and I can get Kubrie out of limbo.

[SporkFu]

My minions built me another treehouse outpost, AND I got a spiffy T4 medium armor schematic (Prowler I think), so I'm hoping that Cole will soon be less squishy at long, long last. I also had Blackwall and Dorian fan me with palm fronds during a break from running around - whee!

I love them treehouses.One of my favourite parts of the DLC, after the

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Nox Morta

 

 

(just saw I took over 220 screenshots of that, omg   )

Amateur. ...just kidding

 

Now I have completed both DAO (with DAA) and DA2 (took 3 days for each game) and DAI makes so much more sense now! I'm about to conquer it again with a whole new appreciation and opened eyes! But first... it's time for Hawke to revive Corypheus and torment the Orlesians!

Ahh, glad to see you played the first two games

[Magdalena11]

Well, I was gonna ask for some opinions on whether I should do the Emerald graves or the Exalted Plains next, but I think now I'll put off the giants and the brontos for awhile, so...thanks

Really helpful survival tip for Firewater Garden (where the giants are.) Approach slowly and carefully, and you can isolate and pick off most of the brontos ahead of time.  You can go in during combat to change tactics if someone has an AOE that might cause trouble, like the Archer's Lance upgrade or either burst shot.  I have to watch Dorian and his chain lightning.  Then, it's just one giant at a time, pretty much.  Their vision doesn't seem too good and I was able to work on brontos in sight range of the giants, but that might require experimentation on nightmare.  You can hunt a bronto with another standing almost next to it, and not trigger the neighbor's hostility.  Both they and the giants respawn, but I was able to clear the area in one go first time around with only the one health pot Dorian took before I could slam a barrier on him.  I was just coming from Chateau Onterre, and was on such a rush that I really only went back because I was out of inventory (started with 7 items, finished with 75.)  I had no idea how much fun that place could be.  I had KE Inq carrying lyrium pots and healing mist, Blackwall tanked out with regen and Antivan fire, Varric with regen and jar of bees, and Dorian with regen and lyrium.  My mages were using staves doing 115-130 DPS, Blackwall had 260 on his crafted axe and a crafted shield, and Varric had a master corruption rune and was upgraded to 118 DPS.  I was level 18 too, which didn't hurt.  I think doing it right out of Skyhold at level 11 would be suicidal.  14 is tough, but doable.

 

Those bears in the Hinterlands....  I don't know if there's a way to check, but I think they're scripted to gang up on you with the prowlers.  What I don't understand is why the bears leave the prowlers alone.  Maybe because the prowlers aren't bothering the bears either, but I wasn't exactly poking them with a stick.

[Magdalena11]

Just found an area I missed so many times before in DAI.

 

Loving that DAI had a haunted place like DAO (Orphanage) and DA2 (Bartrand's home). Chateau d'Onterre was damn creepy! Cole's added dialogue did not make it any better either. The corpses were bland and repetitive, and the boss fight was mundane (like the Rage Demon in DAO), but the codex entries, notes and seeking out the clues to find the balcony key, added with the lights turning on and fireplaces lighting was just damn awesome! Having it at night would have made it even better!

I love those corpses!  They're stupid, slow, and perfect for unleashing all the new tricks you've been dying to try out.  Never manage to trigger your CCC detonations?  You have lots of time to set them up and see how they work.  I got some really spectacular visuals and cool explosions.  I also find blowing up enemies in as excessive way as possible highly cathartic.  I prefer not to bring Cole there, though.  His comments are...unsettling.  I liked that the boss fight was in the sun, because there's so much darkness in Thedas.  It would have made a pretty dramatic ending to have the courtyard under a black cloud that lifted when the arcane horror was killed, so you make a good point.

[Gilli]

Amateur. ...just kidding

 

I always feel like I'm spamming the Forum with all my screenshots, so I try to not take too many 

 

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Yesterday was a lazy day for Bruce. He explored Skyhold, talked to his friends (avoided Vivienne  ) started some of their Inner Circle Quests and met the specialists. Bruce had a very long and confusing conversation with Your Trainer, but he still wants to become a Rift Mage.

[Al Foley]

So Kara is finally an Assassin.  Yey.  Feel like an utter idiot now.  But, I finally have completed my quest.  And I am now level 15 and still have most of the game to look forward to.  Done very little of the companion stuff (though I did just trip my first proper quest today, All New Faded For Her), all ten dragons still to fight, and still have not talked to my Hawke in Crestwood.  (poor girl probably has sore legs from standing there.)  Anyways so whats next is probably two Dragons to kill (I hope), crafting, and then maybe more crafting depending on what I do with the Dragons.  

 

But anyways...in celebration.  I talked to everyone, all my companions and advisors...and even Krem...in Skyhold.  Got a bunch of really cool cut scenes, tripped the House of Repose Quest.  Played Chess was Cullen, gah....grrr...I am in a role playing dilema...I want to romance Bull, but Kara and CUllen are just so cute together.    .  And then there is Dorian...yes yes I know he's gay (she dosen't).  All these men in her life.  And back in Ostwick all she had was stuffy nobles.  Speaking of stuffy nobles another role playing quandry, Josephine was in trouble (as she is known to be) so I had to go tell her, and then two character traits came into conflct, Kara hates nobility and silly political gamesmanship but she really cares about her people.  I did not realize the quandry until after she clicked the 'I will help' response but I wonder if she could have done something different?  Came down a bit hard on the 'Comte' in compensation.  Also did the neat bit with the Memory stones in Under My Skin.  That was cool.  

 

Lets see...anything else?  Oh yes Pranks with Sera, again a bit of a role play disconnect...but I am really enjoying this Inquisitor she is growing on me and character conflict is good rather then bad.  Lol.  But that is pretty much it, probably the Ferelden Frostback is next, and then may putter around and see if I can't wrap up more companion stuff and then off to Adamant.  

 

Enjoying this playthrough.  

[Ezra Watcher]

i was looking at a thing "top 10 inquisition perks" and half of them i personally don't agree with but what ever. what i found most interesting is that the person said that on average by the end of the game you will have 12 inquisition points/perks. and here i am only just left hawk in the fade and i still have that huge desert to work through while i do war table content and I've already got 16 and I'm a third of the way into the next. and I'm wondering did he just go story story story and skip everything else?

 

anyway only just loved into the game so time to set war table things then off to the massive desert.

[BraveVesperia]

My pace has slowed to a crawl, because I'm trying to do two characters at once!   My male Lavellan, Cathair, has gone to the Western Approach with his friends. I would use a mount here, since there's never any banter, but the beasties! I must kill them for experience and leather. I'm always short on leather. Since the team is only level 9, they're getting brutalised by some of the enemies. Setting up camps is the priority. Both Lavellan and Cole are dual-wield rogues, they take a lot of punishment compared to Dorian and Blackwall (Beardy is invincible, I swear! ). And both are to be assassins.  I should probably respec Cole as an archer, but I can never change the rogues' weapons.

 

They headed into the Still Ruins, quietly thankful that the enemies weren't able to attack them. There was a huge mage at the centre who gave them some real trouble, but in the end they were able to escape with a lovely staff for Dorian. Cole told him that Dorian's clothes remind him of the Fade.  That's two people now that have mentioned his outfits. At least he's not wearing bright yellow and turquoise this time! Cole is much brighter in that lovely plaidweave.

 

...

Mostly I decided to go on my very first Inky, Rhiannon Lavellan. (Jaws of Hakkon, no story spoilers)

 

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She's been called to the Frostback Basin to deal with Avaar and a strange nerd that Harding is babysitting. "Ruins. Yay?" Ok, so she's not overly interested in the ruins, but she loves being among the trees.  These treehouses are calling to her. Maybe they can just forget about Skyhold and live here instead? If they can get rid of the spiders...

 

The party didn't encounter any enemies for a while, so Rhiannon decided to murder some poor innocent hippos for loot. Of course, they spawned no loot, only hippo tears.  Then Cole scared the hell out of Rhiannon by materialising just in front of her. She ran straight into him and gave an undignified squeal. Or I did.   

 

Since they were able to close a rift in the far north with minimal difficulty, the party tried the rift next to the starting camp. Oh wow, was that a mistake. It didn't help that Rhiannon couldn't use Firestorm. I kind of used it accidentally against a group of Avaar (and then wondered how the Avaar were able to use Firestorm  ). In my defence, it's been a while since I played her! So that rift will wait. They discovered some kind of keep, but didn't explore it yet. There's a tunnel leading underneath - maybe a stealthy entrance? Sera started talking about how the Fade "feels wobbly" here, and Cass even joined in! Ha, serves Solas right for up and leaving without a word.

 

I'd forgotten how much I love exploring new areas for the first time!  I like to explore things methodically in a grid formation. So places that are pretty flat (like the Emerald Graves) or straight-forward (Fallow Mire) are easy for me. But this place has so many layers, it's all random! I keep setting off down one path, only to see three possible paths, then three more. It's kind of daunting, and Rhiannon keeps leading the party in circles.    I'm really enjoying it though, all wonder and adventure! And I haven't even done anything story-related yet!

[AtreiyaN7]

Well, I seem to be constantly rewarded with new T4 schematics and random epic weapons in chests. I'm now kind of regretting buying those two exorbitantly expensive schematics that I picked up at the Black Emporium - woops. Last night I just ran into an Inquisition outpost (not an actual camp with a marker on the map) and noticed a chest. I opened it and got a level 23 epic bow - lol.

 

Then I wandered around, looted some old corpses (or something) and got a T4 Grey Warden shield schematic! Wheeeeeeee! Now, if only I had that kind of luck in MP. I did get one epic shield for my legionnaire (and templar), but it actually has berserk on it, so I don't really want to use it (even though I've read that they lowered the ridiculous amount of damage taken on weapons that have berserk).