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[ashwind]

Thanks for clearing that up. That's exact what I was looking for. So just to be clear "guard" is the extra health that is depicted by the thicker silver bars that overlay the persons red health bar. Correct?

 

Yeah. 

[Gnoster]

Unfortunately, tactics aren't nearly sophisticated enough to accomplish this without keeping a fair amount of control over your companions.  They have taken a huge step backwards since DA2.

Yeah, I know it is incredibly bad tactics system compared to especially DA2, was just hoping someone had found some smart settings ways since let us face it, Bioware doesn't explain anything about how tactics actually work, e.g. what does setting a skill as "preferred" actually mean? E.g. I have set my mages with Revival as preferred meaning they ought to save mana for that spell if a party member is downed, however they never ever uses the skill manually (of course half the times I use it manually, it doesn't work even though the mana is spend, so maybe it could be due to bugs).

[Gnoster]

Just finished my mage playthrough on hard a couple of days ago and found the final boss fight to be kind of a pushover. Didn't use a single health potion. Just kept barriers up. Three mages and Cass and you can't go wrong.
 
To challenge myself I decided to try out nightmare mode as a warrior (tank) and quickly found myself in some deep trouble..
Maybe I just suck at playing the warrior, but I kinda died countless of times to the pride demon at the temple of sacred ashes since it was almost impossible to shake off the lesser shades and disrupt the rift to destroy the guard. And of course I make sure not to taunt anyone and let Cass do the heavy work, but still.. I just can't seem to get it right.
 
Any help?

I completed my first playthrough as a SnS warrior, though it was on Hard and not Nightmare. I mainly used him as a dps warrior and then brought Cassandra/Blackwall as main tank. I learned through the game that aggressive use of War Cry (AoE taunt) and Charging Bull (charge which gives Guard) where essential to building a good dps warrior, because the shield alone is not enough protection.
If you want to offtank/maintank some mobs, the Shield Block (the skill where you don't attack but just hold the shield up in front of you) becomes really critical to learn to use. E.g. If tou taunt a pride demon, make sure to use the skill a all telegraphs of big hits. Yes, it requires a lot of practise because combat is so flashy it's almost impossible to see telegraphs.

However an easy mode to come through the pride demon at the end of the tutorial on nightmare is not do anything except kill adds and stand ready to disrupt the rift. That makes that fight trivial.