Inquisitor - DW Tempest
Cassandra - Tank and general awesomeness
Solas - Barrier/CC mage
Dorian - Fire/Lightening mage ... and general awesomeness
Inquisitor - DW Tempest
Cassandra - Tank and general awesomeness
Solas - Barrier/CC mage
Dorian - Fire/Lightening mage ... and general awesomeness
My current Rift Mage is running with Blackwall as a pure tank, Cole as an assassin archer and Vivienne as a buffer with some nuke potential.
I call them Team BWB (Beardy, Weirdy and Bitchy). They're fantastic.
inquisitor = whatever archer, dual dagger, 2 handed...
blackwall = punching bag doing the boring job that no human being in his right mind should feel compelled to do
vivienne = spiriting the blade through every guard / barrier in front of her, using the aggro of the punching bag to AoE with her blade
Dorian = using death siphon to fuel a rain of spells.
Cadash(templar) and Cassandra are the tanks, but Cassandra is currently my secondary tank, until she get better armor. Varric is the range stealth dps. He has managed to save our asses quite a lot. I sometimes switch Varric in for Cole, who plays the melee dps, but he's always dying on me, but I like having around. Dorian is a lightning/necromancer range dps, but he manages to back up everyone with barrier.
Cassandra, Varric, and Solas, with an Archer/Artificer Inquisitor.
Cassandra because she's a badass plus my canon romance, Varric because he's Varric, and Solas because he's my most outfitted mage by the time I get Dorian, and he has Barrier by default.
I'm a 2 hand warrior
Sera
Blackwall
Solas
If my main is a non tank
Solas,
Cassandra,
Varric
If my main is a tank
Solas
Sera
Cole
My main is 2H champ. I run with an all ranged team.
Solas
Sera
Varric
Inquisitor: Tank - Champion
Cassandra: Tank - Templar
Solas - Rift mage
Sera - Archer
For dragons I prefer to bring Solas, Dorian and Vivienne.
Inquisitor- 2H Reaver
Thom "Blackbeard" Rainier- Pure SnS tank
Dorian "the handle stache' " Pavus- Support Necro
Varric " The chest hair " Tethras- Sh*** and giggles
Team hair is their official dub
My inquisitor is sword and shield specc'ed champion, so I usually just go with Iron Bull, Dorian, and Varric. Sometimes I'll switch out Dorian and Varric for Vivienne and Sera. I love the party banter in this game
Solo
because i hate micromanagement :33
I would have liked to build a team around skills and utility.
But I began an area with Blackwall, Iron Bull, and Solas. And even with the banter bug, I have completely exhausted their dialogue with each other because I could not. Stop. Laughing. Couldn't swap them out with anyone else. It started with wanting to bring Solas to elfy areas and Blackwall had my best tank gear and we're heading to a Warden keep anyway... and then...
I would have to [ spoiler ] an entire forum. If you have not had these three in combo, omg stop reading and go. Now.
Blackwall and Iron Bull start an epic bromance that has more nuggets than a Silverite farmer. Seriously do not leave the screen for more than half a second with them together, make sure to put the game in a pause menu, I don't care how bad you need to bio. Blackwall and Solas have a surprising amount of comedy. Iron Bull and Solas is where it gets all seriousface, but it's good stuff and it's also a good safety measure because if all you were exposed to were the other interactions, you would die.
(This was on a Rogue Inq, so I did not need to worry about locks.)
Edit: one sample for those who don't mind spoilers. Do not click lightly, it's one of the best in the game.
Inquisitor: KE Mage with fire frost (I love to freeze ppl, put fire mine under him, and kaboom)
Blackwall: Tank, best defence line, combine with vanguard (purely tank spec)
Dorian: Necromancer Mage with Spirit built, self healed and can res fallen mates
Varric: Archer and trap, love his multi element bombs... When combined with my fire mine and Dorian curse mark, the whole place can explode in bright colourful fireworks
Inquisitor: KE Mage with fire frost (I love to freeze ppl, put fire mine under him, and kaboom)
Oh yeah. The Rift Mage version of this is slap down Pull of the Abyss under a group, 3 or more for best results and comedic value, then place Fire Mine (with Searing Glyph) at the center of it. By the time the group is at the center, the Fire Mine has armed...
As a mage (on Hard):
Cass
Varric
Solas
As a rogue (on Nightmare):
Cass
Blackwall
Solas or Dorian
As a warrior (on Hard):
Archer Cole
Dorian
Solas
Viv's AI is too stupid to use her KE specialization correctly (I don't even invest points in it). Otherwise, I'd use her.