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Wow he is so good to play!

[themageguy]

What do his spells actually do?

[KalGerion_Beast]

Care to elaborate?

 

I got skywatcher from the free chest, and isabella from a drop from the dragon, but yet to get Zither.

Very interested to hear about him.  Not much of a fan of the original 4 mages, and hoping Zither suits me more.  

[ALTBOULI]

Nerf Zither!

[Kenny Bania]

Nerf Zither!

 

The new AW?

[SabreTastic]

I completely agree!

Zither was my freebie and he's been fantastic so far. I haven't got his xp system figured out yet, though...unless they did away with support xp and I missed it?

 

But his dialogue is hilarious and the combat has been quite enjoyable. My only major critique thus far is mostly aesthetic because I was hoping that--even if a staff would be required instead of a new weapon class--you wouldn't actually see it anywhere since he is holding his musical instrument. (Yes, I was hoping he could shoot bolts of magic using his lute-thing)

 

Quick explanation of Zither (I'm sure you'll get a better one tomorrow from someone and please note numbers may not be accurate):

Spoiler

1) In lieu of different skills to slot, Zither has three chords (fire, electricity, and cold) and one 'Song of Magic.' Make nice with those buttons because as far as I can tell, you aren't getting any others. xD

2) Zither's trees are made up of passives (we know what these are, yes?) and songs (which are different combinations of the three chords).

3) Each Song is made up of three Chords (the last three you've played which are displayed for your convenience just above the hp bar). The order does not seem to matter (thus far, not having memorized all of the songs, I suppose it might eventually become important) so fire/elec/elec has the same effect as elec/fire/elec.

4) Each Song has a different effect.

5) The default songs are (without proper names, so please excuse me) 'Barrier' (you get...10% barrier), 'Haste' (party moves 35% faster), and 'Hot Riffs' (400% Weapon Damage scattershot spell). 3x a single elemental chord per.

6) There are other party buff spells such as attack reduction, armour buff, elemental weapons, and a 2%? heal-on-hit (with a sort of death siphon upgrade which is 10%? per enemy death inside the bubble).

7) There are also some 'big attack' songs more in the vein of the initial 3x Fire spell.

8) While the Chords seem to be free, the Songs cost mana to perform.

9) You can auto-attack (I think), use Chords, and perform songs while running. I was very enthusiastic so I may be misremembering, but with 3 Virtuosos and 1 Duelist, we pretty much ran through the zones and everything was dead.

10) Cooldowns are negligible, mana seems to be the limiting factor from my hour or so tonight.

11) I forgot to mention/explain that he has a constant 8m? 'bubble' around him which seems to be visible only to him (I couldn't see the other Virtuosos bubbles, anyways). That is your area-of-effect for songs that buff the party or have a proximity attached to them. 'Hot Riffs' is a ranged spell, but others will 'do more damage inside the bubble.'

 

 

Nerf Zither!

 

How dare you?!

[Aetika]

I don´t know about others, but I am pretty pissed some people can already play new content, while I am stuck at work. Can´t you people at least have a decency to claim that new characters suck and servers are down or something?

[ALTBOULI]

The new AW?

No idea I havent tried him yet

[SofaJockey]

I haven't figured Zither out yet, but it's just so clever...

 

And don't forget in your excitement to un-equip their Inquisition staff 

[Sir Perkins]

I don´t know about others, but I am pretty pissed some people can already play new content, while I am stuck at work. Can´t you people at least have a decency to claim that new characters suck and servers are down or something?

Feel your pain! only troll these forums while stuck at work..am currently 5 hours into a 24hour shift and drooling over these new character/content threads ..can't wait to get these mits around one of my greasy xbox controllers and death into The castle map n kill sum dragons some time in the distant future of tomorrow. .

[MariNia]

in fear i sound stupid ,i must ask where are dragons ?is there some link i can read more about daimp dlc? ty

[Innarra]

Basically, Zither casts barrier like an Arcane Warrior. On the entire group. And keeps it up. And up.

 

He has a barrier b%ner, and he should see a doctor about how long he's been keeping it up.

[Aetika]

in fear i sound stupid ,i must ask where are dragons ?is there some link i can read more about daimp dlc? ty

 

You need to craft special Dragon call item and then use it on stage 3 of Ferelden Castle map(allegedly there is some gong where you do that).

[MariNia]

You need to craft special Dragon call item and then use it on stage 3 of Ferelden Castle map(allegedly there is some gong where you do that).

ohh thx didnt know that   

[Eyecon74]

I played all 3 new characters for a bit this morning, they are all pretty cool!  

 

Skywatcher feels like a beefed up Katari, very nice mechanics on the elements too, Craft his other armours to get them massive horns, looks really cool!

 

Isabela moves very much like an assassin but with added extra of that little crossbow, again, crafting the other armours will give you that captains hat..

 

Zither...lol, his banter is so cool, the songs are pretty useful too..

 

Ferelden Castle, very nice location and finally a use for the resistance tonics!

 

We did kill 2 dragons on Routine, gave me a Dragon Long Sword, blue weapon..

 

Looking forward to get home and go at it some more!

[ALTBOULI]

Basically, Zither casts barrier like an Arcane Warrior. On the entire group. And keeps it up. And up.
 
He has a barrier b%ner, and he should see a doctor about how long he's been keeping it up.

That sounds overpowered

[Aetika]

ohh thx didnt know that   

Also, if I understand correctly, the actual dragon should appear on stage 5 instead of boss.

But I should warn you, I am just gathering all info from here as I didn´t have a chance to play yet, so I can´t be 100% sure.

[KalGerion_Beast]

That sounds overpowered

20% barrier at a time, and it consumes 25 mana.  Seems like a real hassle to try and get barriers all the way filled.

[themageguy]

Zither sounds like my kinda support class

Sky watcher is kind of the dragon age d3 barbarian.

nearly finished work, cant wait to play!

[SolarSpaghetti]

20% barrier at a time, and it consumes 25 mana.  Seems like a real hassle to try and get barriers all the way filled.

It is, but the various mana regen passives help immensly

[themageguy]

Wish my Inquisitor could learn Zither!s spells lol

[Kungsarme]

My thumbs hurt from playing zither, it is awesome! Once you get the hang of memorizing the chords, I pretty much run in circles keeping heal on hit and heal on kill, strum, change chords and hit attack speed buff, change chords and hit armor buff, repeat until reds are gone, dump my speed buff on and sprint to the next encounter. Zither is like using mortal kombat combo attacks.

[Ispan]

My thumbs hurt from playing zither, it is awesome! Once you get the hang of memorizing the chords, I pretty much run in circles keeping heal on hit and heal on kill, strum, change chords and hit attack speed buff, change chords and hit armor buff, repeat until reds are gone, dump my speed buff on and sprint to the next encounter. Zither is like using mortal kombat combo attacks.

 

Yeah my hands are really tired after playing Zither for a few hours but I don't mind because I love him.  As the night wore on though I found myself missing my keys more and more often, and of course everyone can hear that awful sound when you try to strum with the wrong notes

 

I completely agree!

Zither was my freebie and he's been fantastic so far. I haven't got his xp system figured out yet, though...unless they did away with support xp and I missed it?

 

But his dialogue is hilarious and the combat has been quite enjoyable. My only major critique thus far is mostly aesthetic because I was hoping that--even if a staff would be required instead of a new weapon class--you wouldn't actually see it anywhere since he is holding his musical instrument. (Yes, I was hoping he could shoot bolts of magic using his lute-thing)

 

Quick explanation of Zither (I'm sure you'll get a better one tomorrow from someone and please note numbers may not be accurate):

Spoiler

1) In lieu of different skills to slot, Zither has three chords (fire, electricity, and cold) and one 'Song of Magic.' Make nice with those buttons because as far as I can tell, you aren't getting any others. xD

2) Zither's trees are made up of passives (we know what these are, yes?) and songs (which are different combinations of the three chords).

3) Each Song is made up of three Chords (the last three you've played which are displayed for your convenience just above the hp bar). The order does not seem to matter (thus far, not having memorized all of the songs, I suppose it might eventually become important) so fire/elec/elec has the same effect as elec/fire/elec.

4) Each Song has a different effect.

5) The default songs are (without proper names, so please excuse me) 'Barrier' (you get...10% barrier), 'Haste' (party moves 35% faster), and 'Hot Riffs' (400% Weapon Damage scattershot spell). 3x a single elemental chord per.

6) There are other party buff spells such as attack reduction, armour buff, elemental weapons, and a 2%? heal-on-hit (with a sort of death siphon upgrade which is 10%? per enemy death inside the bubble).

7) There are also some 'big attack' songs more in the vein of the initial 3x Fire spell.

8) While the Chords seem to be free, the Songs cost mana to perform.

9) You can auto-attack (I think), use Chords, and perform songs while running. I was very enthusiastic so I may be misremembering, but with 3 Virtuosos and 1 Duelist, we pretty much ran through the zones and everything was dead.

10) Cooldowns are negligible, mana seems to be the limiting factor from my hour or so tonight.

11) I forgot to mention/explain that he has a constant 8m? 'bubble' around him which seems to be visible only to him (I couldn't see the other Virtuosos bubbles, anyways). That is your area-of-effect for songs that buff the party or have a proximity attached to them. 'Hot Riffs' is a ranged spell, but others will 'do more damage inside the bubble.'

 

 

 

How dare you?!

 

It was nice double-Zithering with you in a few games tonight while I figured him out   I, too, hoped for a flamethrower lute.  Coolest idea ever!

[Shevy]

Spoiler

Zither as defensive support with attack speed buff, health reg and armor is really amazing. But he shines or falls with the group. They have to stay together for an effective support, especially barrier. On random routine I'm mostly running between the teammates to save their lives because they are all over the place.

 

For a coordinated team he could be a little bit too powerful. With a keeper to give a full barrier inbetween you could focus on keeping up the 5 support buffs.

[TormDK]

He can health regen? holy hell.

 

I was under the impression that general health healing in DA;I was banned from a design perspective.