I am still working on my gagized screenies for DAO for La Laifah. I am getting close to finishing the prolog pictures. However I intend to divide it up since I am looking at 35-maybe 50 for one post and that's before the prison itself. Lol. I'll try not to go crazy with my posts.
As far as DAI goes I am making great progress with Ullia Mint Tooth on Nightmare. I cleared the Mire almost with ease.
I found a good trick for the boss fight. When the fight starts I ran myself into a shaded cover (left or right) and switched to tactics and had everyone go into shaded cover too. this forced the archers to run to where I was which made them be easy pickings but I had to go "ATTACK MY TARGET" to ensure they all died in a jiffy. It took me roughly three tries but the third try was enough. I defenetly feel i am ready for CHAMPIONS OF THE JUST but I'll poke around for a few possible things before I do it. Once it's done i would need to make sure I can do more and get past level 10 because the venetori guys are not easy to beat at level 10 even though they are level 9's. Bloody spellbinders with ice mine, barrier buffs to gladiators and needing to flank gladiators.
So, I just learned that scars are out of the question on PS3 and Xbox 360. Wow! There are many games out there that look 10x better than DA:I on last-gen and it's embarrassing. I wish they optimized it more so certain graphics options take up less CPU and Memory. I thought it was ridiculous that you had to have like Mesh quality to Ultra to even get scars. All of this for scars is a bit much.
Is there a way to download mods for the XBOX 360 and PS 3 versions of DAI? Someone posted a new hair style thing for qunari people I want to use but when I downloaded it for my XBOX 360 it doesn't seem to be noticed on my zip. ><.
Yeah, it's about MP. I'm an idiot who refuses (or to be precise - is scared) to play with others so I play MP alone. It's true that newbie gear means (almost) instant death, but weekend community challenges were really helpful. Now I have Bloodwake for my mages and 10% HoK ring (I still don't know how I pulled it out from the smallest chest out there). I'm tempted to try PuG, but then I go into Multiplayer forum and that temptation goes away.
This is starting to feel to be my only course of action in order to play MP since I always get idiots to play with on MP. No one knows how to work the targeting system and no one ever played single player NIGHTMARE difficulty.
Oh, That quest. Wow. One of the shockingest moments of DA2, and also one of the reasons I love the game. Hawke's family is so flawed, with uncle Gamlen being such an ass most of the time, but in that moment, in the aftermath, he's actually a person... if you know what I mean. There really is some great writing in that game, and I am definitely gonna have to play it again sometime soon. It's your fault
But Fenris, dude, how tough can it be to put your arms around the woman and just shut up and hold her? You guys wasted three years...
.... but you made up for it
EDIT: Apologies, Melbella. I had to erase some of your emoticons.
Although I like that part where the Inquisitor talks with Maddox, and it is kinda cool to have Cullen along on a quest, I still much prefer the Shrine of Dumat when you side with the templars. It feels so much more mysterious.
Two Cassandras. Harold would be ecstatic! I can just hear him saying to Varric now, "Twins, Varric... twins."
Well I've never gotten all of the Skyhold decorations, in any category, excpert for the major upgrades where you need quyarries and logging sites. I've gotten those three. I've never collected all the different bottles, or songs, or seeds. I've come close on all of them, but never completed. My last game was the first time I've gotyten all the mosaic sets, and I really wanted to do that once before I finally put Inquisition down for good.
Meghan will be the first true Andrastian I've played. Harold was devout, but it was the kind of thing where he'd attend services as a child because his Mother made him do it. He didn't really believe until the events of Inquisition, and even then, he was only enjoying the attention in the beginning. His fairth grew as the game progressed. Meghan will be a strong believer right from the start, unusual maybe, for a mage, but there it is.
Ahh, that's a bummer, and I do agree in that it seems the graphics of this game could stand to be optimized. It's the only game I currently own that really makes my GPU work hard, and I dunno why. other games I own seem like they should be more demanding but aren't.
I'm going to divide this into parts:
1: I agree about Fenris. Naturma Dite was so ungodly smitten to the guy and wanted to be his dream girl but he played mister "i need to be mister lone wolf and all I'll ever do is hurt you". She was glad to have him stick around but the whole lovers on the battlefield thing needed to go beyond that.
2: For these multi quote posts I make I need to delete the bubble heads because the site limits how many bubble heads can be in one post. It would be best for me to delete all bubbleheads to ensure my posts get posted. Sorry all.
3: I kind of prefer the venetori side of this situation because Madox seemed like a die hard loyalist to Smason while the one mage guy was a "test subject" for Corypheus who I felt bad for. Not to mention you can anger your allies and recruit him as a Inquisition member or anger Liliana by killing him.
4: Amolla would of liked to have two Cassandras. I think Cassandra wouldn't of not minded either:
Cassandra: "I have been noticing you have been flirting with me."
Amolla: "I was. Is there something wrong with that?"
Cassandra: "Well...I didn't mind...but...I am a woman and....you are too so..."
Amolla: (Chosen) "Well if you want me to stop it's fine. i understand."
Cassandra: "Ok good. I do treasure our friendship but I want it to remain as such."
I think deep down Cassandra wouldn't of minded a woman to woman relationship so the way I look at it is if there were two Cassandras one would be into women while the other won't be.
5: I usually hit Val Riyoux any chance I get to try to deck out Skyhold and go for a certain theme. However at times I try to go for the DLC themes like Chasind which is a super cool set that easily fits a-lot of my characters I feel. However Chasind isn't buyable in stores but findable. As far as mosiacs there are a pain to get all. I always seem to miss the last piece of one. I was shocked to find all in Hissing Wastes for Malaioniss. You really really really have to look. You have to search dumb places like towers, camp grounds, obscure tree spots, unimportant cave spots, quest spots, mini quest spots, etc. It's dumb.
6: Amolla was a pure believer in Andrastae while Malaioniss was a elf that believed in Andraste and never elf gods. Chasimess was a pure hater of religion. She felt the chantry deserves to not be saved.
I always go for 'get it all' when I decide to play 'properly'. That's why I'm pretty mad about those bugged thrones of mine >.>
I still have to play today, but what I did yesterday?
I cleared out a bit of Emprise. Tower of Bone is mine and mine only! Ekhm... Then I proceed to do that one thing that happens only in Emprise - clearing black spots on map that I don't like but I know I can get rid of. Also, because of all those skill talks I ended up respeccing my whole team (except for Quizzy). You're all evil o 3o
I noticed a few things:
- I'm not used to having Dispel. I forgot it during my first rift fight, then dispelled only one demon during second one.
- There's combat music from time to time! Maybe one day we'll get it every fight, as it was intended.
- You can get every possible Fade-Touched material... except for Silverite... the right one.
- Yay for unlocking Cradle of Suledin!
- Why, oh why do I always have to fall into that damn hole in Valeska's Watch?!
Ohh that Valeska's Watch hole. ... I watched darkspawn in Origins, and in DA2, and they were pretty clumsy. I watched them leap across the hole in Inquisition, and I thought, okay why can't I do that? And then I realized it's the same reason I can't leap up on a waist-high rock to climb over it. I also gotta say i'm not a big fan of dispel for rifts. When the second wave is spawning you've got a few seconds to get near enough to one to use dispel, and I personally found that, more often than not I seemed I'd dispel one of those stupid wisps instead of something that might actually kill me, heh. So I'd rather us e a skill slot for something else, in the end. That's just me, though.
On This Episode of Dragon Age Inquisition...Realzing the eight slot limit is actually an eight slot limit.
My sad tale actually starts yesterday. I was in the Solassan Temple surrounded by Electric Glyphs, which really really hurt. So I decided to have Dorian dispel them, which he did not have Dispel ever cued up. So I swapped out Barrier for it, and tried it out, ironically the glyphs did not dissapate. So anyways I left it witout a thought.
Now I have been suspicious of this fact for a while. Despite your character 'knowing' the spell/ talent and despite them having it set up to active they don't actually use it unless it is in thier eight. I was laboring under the assumpetion that this was not the case even though I had have a growing suspicion.
These suspicions were confirmed today, because in battle after battle, time after time, Dorian would not cast a single Barrier. That made me awfully squishy indeed. Plus I can never recall an instance of him being in the party and casting revival. The other big spell from the Spirit tree that is needed.
Anyways though I went to go start the Jaws of Hakkon today, after a brief detour into the Hinterlands to seal off a rift that had appeared thanks to a war table mission. Man is the Frostback Basin tough, and man was it prohivitively so without barriers at first. But, did find a new armor for Iron Bull, and now he has five guard per hit, and more health...I do believe. Picked up a few schematics...crafted a helmet for Blackwall...then sold it later.
But cleared out rifts, met with the stone bear hold, cleared out Hakkonite camps, and then been getting some more experience and levels and trying some other things out. Still difficult, and then there was an amazing moment involving three pride demons bearing down on me...and my characters are now more tanky but still maybe not tanky enough.
Hey, I never thought of that. Good idea! Batting practice anyone?
I never let my other mages use dispel either. I think I've said before that i rarely even pay attention to what any of my companions are doing in combat, unless they're dying. Then I frantically mash the keyboard in the general area of the 9 key and hope I hit the healing potion for them ... you know, when they're being too moronic to use a healing potion themselves.
I don't mind eight slot limit, but I understand frustration of some players. It's especially shocking if you played mage in DAO then moved to DAI.
I'll not call it idiotic... but it's idiotic that you can have more than eight spells 'active' yet character never uses them. If you want to keep 8 skills limit, extend it to tactics. This way no one will hope to have that one more skill used.
I've learned hard way that for Dorian to use Revive you need to take control over him and auto-attack for a while for him to regain enough mana. He maybe once revived others by himself. Or maybe it was Solas? Hmnmn...
They never make it to upper floor. And I have all loot nicely under my feet xD
Hah, yeah. Their use of Dispel kind of reminds me of the way AI handles Mana Clash in DAO. Never when I need it xD It was kind of annoying, because DAO liked to crash after Mana Clash.
Oh? My companions use healing potions pretty wisely.
The only way you can have your A.I. allies use revive or dispel is by going to the tactics menu and mark them as "Top Priority" (Star). This really really really helps. Like for instance for the revive spell lets say I get downed. LITERALLY in the fraction of 0.2 to 0.3 seconds of going down I am INSTANTLY revived like going down NEVER HAPPENED. Dispel is a bit of a different case. It may take 30 seconds to a minute for a ally to cast it but the A.I. is smart enough to know that when it's recharged it will instantly cast it again IF the barrier is still up. However at times I wonder why they tend to cast dispel on armored targets? Anyhoo my suggestion is for BARRIER, the revive spell and DISPEL put these on "Star" or as you Rascoth, Sporkfu, and Al Foley said "These spells will never be used even though they learned them". i still feel the reason why is the games A.I. feels attack magic is the most important thing to use and never defensive magic. However I always put X on character specials since they use them on wrong guys every time and never bosses. The only thing I always put on X in the spirit tree is the MIND BLAST. It's a meh DAOE temporary stun.
... Bio should use that on the DA:I website (with proper credit of course)
Retour en haut
I try to put it off as long as possible but I don't like to wait too long because Hubert doesn't come back until after it's done. It seems silly to be running back and forth to the Bone Pit when the city is falling apart, but it is a good way for Hawke to get out of Kirkwall and clear her head. Killing stuff always helps. As for Gamlen, he goes right back to being as ass in Act 3. 
that's the party
... but I like that idea for the deep roads too; but if Bio were ever going to make a whole 
Stupid Warden/Hawke/Quizzy can never throw away anything!
The storage chest is ok, but it is really cumbersome to switch between inventory and storage just to decide what to equip because you have to take it all out and then put it all back. It's so much easier having everything available at once.
