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[Simmy Vicious]

I made a wishlist to Bioware quite a while back. I took some time to think how else the game can be improved. Mind you I am not being arrgoant when I say this, just a little earnest when it comes to sharing my opinion and thoughts, I guess. Anyway, I decided to make another wishlist. And here it is.

 

1. So many restrictions

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I cannot claim to understand what your reasons for including things like level and class restrictions. It must be that it's very reminiscent of an MMORPG game where you have to abide by level and class restrictions. In which case, I serious don't hope Dragon Age is not heading that way. Please remove the restrictions. I really hate having lug around a pile of junk that I have no use for, early game. They just clutter my already-small inventory.

 

2. More intelligent choice when opting for gear

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In the event that you remove class and level restrictions, you will need to give a reason why a warrior should opt for a light armor. In Origins, this was accomplished with a Fatigue system, which increased stamina/mana costs. I am not proposing a similar system. Every armor need to be unique in what they provide for the character. Such as light armor, comfortable and light (hence its namesake) to wear, slightly increase mana/stamina regeneration as well as full protection from armor peneration by physical attacks in exchange for low armor rating. Medium armor, designed for maximum mobility and equipped with extra padding, provides increased movement speed while also reducing damage from ranged attacks, better optimized for physical ones, and less for those of magical nature, but the wearer also takes more damage from melee attacks. Heavy armor, given it's superior protection, provides the best overall defense, highest protection against melee attacks moderate protection against magic, lower protection against ranged. But their sheer weight also wear down their wearer reducing movement speed and overall stamina (by a mere 10, don't get your knickers in a twist)

 

3. Crafting freedom

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As you get to higher levels, you find that you have little to no use for Tier 1 and Tier 2 crafting materials and schematics. In the game, the higher tier material you use, the higher bonus you get out of. While lower tier materials just around in inventory unloved and forgotten. I would like to see a crafting system where you can find a use for every material regardless of their tiers. For example, say you use Everite as the primary material when crafting your armor, and on a utility slot you use Iron, the result is given that both Everite and Iron provide Strength when applied to utility slot, it makes Strength more powerful than it would be if a Tier 2 or Tier 3 material was used in its place but slightly weakens armor. If Paragon's Luster was used in the utility slot, it makes armor stronger, instead, while Strength bonus is weaker than it would be mathematically. If Stromheart is used in the utility slot, no bonus at all. Just a regular Strength increase. This is what I propose. A crafting system that promotes synergy between crafting materials that possess the same or similar properties.

 

4. Vitaars, runes and fade-touched material

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The wish above mentioned how lower tier schematics were useless once you get higher level. Why not make fade-touched material that doesn't just slightly boost stats but allow them to surpass even Tier 3 weapons as though they were made with non-existent Tier 5 material.

 

In previous games, runes could be applied to both armors and weapons. But DAI has taken a step back and restricted runes for weapons only. This needs to change. The problem was runes on armors in the previous games could be negligible. DAA had a horrendous rune crafting system and in DA2 the rune was limited by what kind of armor it was applied to. BUt DAI doesn't have be that way. Imagine that a rune of spirit resistance. When applied to armor, it granted near-immune protection against spirit damage but considerably weakens armor at the same time. Or a rune of blood curse. It grants 10% damage bonus for all attacks. Each attack decreases your health, every hit you take restores your health by a small bit, instead of decrasing it. How much damage you take is relevant to how much damage you do. Give them an undeniably powerful buff with a penalty.

 

Vitaars need to be craftable. In my previous wishlist, I mentioned how the Qunari were the most unappreciated race in DAI gear-wise. They have no unique armor, their vitaars are not craftable (don't even get me started on lack of vitaar body armors), they can wear no headgear and to make matters worse you "preview" Helm of the Inquisitor but if you craft it you can never wear. NEVER.  never. never. At least, they shoud have craftable vitaars. This shouldn't just use regular crafting materials, mind you. Instead they should use concoctions made from various types of herbs and other alchemical ingredients. With a pattern that is not preset for that vitaar, you should be able to select what kind of pattern you want. Because if I have to stare at my Inquisitor vitaar "face paint" even in Skyhold, it should at least be the one I choose.

 

5. Expanded combo system

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I like how combos made their way to DAI but now thay rely too much on incapacitating foes. Why not devise an alternate system? The current system can remain but have alternate that relies more on status effect synergy. Such as sundering/weakening a chilled enemy, or vice versa, makes them brittle weakening their armor, suffer double damage from all attacks and with a small chance to die instantly from a critical hit. Or sundering/weakening a stunned enemy puts them in a disoriented state during which they will be staggered by every hit they take or their immunities will be removed for a short duration, letting you capitalize on them.

 

6. Day and night cycle

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Are there many open-world games that don't have a day and night cycle? If there are many, there is no reason why DAI shouldn't join them. If there are not, there is no reason why DAI shouldn't be one of the few that have it. Unless it is an engine restriction. I don't want this feature purely because it will add to realism. Imagine all the different things you can add to the game that occur in different times of the day. Ranging from challenging encounters to simple flora and fauna to quests. Not only it would add realism to the game but it can increase the game's lifespan by quite a bit.

 

7. Fifth skill tree

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In the event that you actually put Dual Wield as an option for warriors, other classes will need their own fifth class tree to be fair to all classes. And I have got a few ideas that you can use. Finesse tree for rouges, Entropy for mages.

 

Fencing is not an idea that had not been used in the world of Dragon Age. The first is Riordan. in DAO, in the siege of Denerim, we see Riordan charging off into battle with a single sword in hand and a free off-hand all the while using rogue abilities. The second is the Inquisitor's duel with the Antivan Prince or Duke or something in Val Royeaux. These suggest that Thedosians are not strangers to the art of fencing. Why not put a tree for rogues that desire to be duelists? They can focus on fighting their opponents head on like warriors. Relying purely on their foot work and agility.

 

Entropy has existed in the world of Dragon Age since the first game. And it is without any doubt that the Breach could lead to fascinating breakthroughs in Entropy school. Weakeing enemies and breaking their will is not the sole province of blood mages and necromancers, an entropy mage can wield them as weapons just, as well. Since there is already a tree that focuses on buffing allies, there should be one that focuses on debilitating them. For more offensive mages.

 

8. An extra "health" bar for rouges

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If duelist are going to be included in DAI, they will ways to defend themselves just as warriors do. But I am not going to ask another for inclusion of guard for duelists. Instead they need to be a way that rogues can be protected from harm. Despite all the power they possess, rogue are by far the most vulnerable. They should have something like guard but it shouldn't function like guard. I don't have a name for it but it should protect the rogue from and any physical effects but build very slowly. If the rogue is hit, in the process of this build up, they are not protected from physical effects but receive reduced damage. It should build with every attack but very slowly, like one percent for each attack.

 

9. Expansion, Expansion, Expansion

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I elaborated why I wanted a full-blown expansion. I will keep adding this to my wish lists as long as I keep making them, and as long as there is no expansion on the horizon. At least until I get banned for making the same request a thouand times, being an unbearable annoyance and killing at least one president. Don't ask why. Or how.

 

That's it.

[Duelist]

On point 8: OFFENSE is a Rogue's greatest defense.

The ability to kill the most dangerous enemies instantly and outmanoeuvre anything else is what allows them to survive, not guard or barrier.
With the killing power that rogues have at their disposal, making them Difficult But Awesome is pretty much the only means of balancing them since they're pretty much the only class capable of turning an otherwise difficult fight into a quick, one sided curb stomping.

[Domiel Angelus]

On point 8: OFFENSE is a Rogue's greatest defense.

The ability to kill the most dangerous enemies instantly and outmanoeuvre anything else is what allows them to survive, not guard or barrier.
With the killing power that rogues have at their disposal, making them Difficult But Awesome is pretty much the only means of balancing them since they're pretty much the only class capable of turning an otherwise difficult fight into a quick, one sided curb stomping.

 

Point 8: They also have a lot of defensive options in each kind of rogue. I don't know if the Parry change was universal or not but if it was you can run and parry arrows with daggers in SP as well; Archers get Leaping Shot very early; Stealth, Evade and Knockout Powder are both effective means to stop someone from eating your face, plus you can get Evasion but it is a low % chance; Caltrops are nice for slowing people up; The Artificer gets Spike Traps to slow people down and Fallback plan as an Oh S*#% button; Assassins get Knock Out Bombs and Cloak of Shadows; the Tempest gets Frost Flasks for raw Damage Reduction

 

Rogues deal far more in situation based awareness and active mitigation instead of activating defenses beforehand like a mage or gaining defenses through combat like a warrior.

 

Plus you can also kit yourself out in SP to allow for you to gain guard on hit or % chances to trigger one of the invulnerability powers.

 

In Single Player, the rogue is pretty much king if you actually scout out the terrain and enemies before taking that first shot. 

[Duelist]

Point 8: They also have a lot of defensive options in each kind of rogue. I don't know if the Parry change was universal or not but if it was you can run and parry arrows with daggers in SP as well; Archers get Leaping Shot very early; Stealth, Evade and Knockout Powder are both effective means to stop someone from eating your face, plus you can get Evasion but it is a low % chance; Caltrops are nice for slowing people up; The Artificer gets Spike Traps to slow people down and Fallback plan as an Oh S*#% button; Assassins get Knock Out Bombs and Cloak of Shadows; the Tempest gets Frost Flasks for raw Damage Reduction

Rogues deal far more in situation based awareness and active mitigation instead of activating defenses beforehand like a mage or gaining defenses through combat like a warrior.

Plus you can also kit yourself out in SP to allow for you to gain guard on hit or % chances to trigger one of the invulnerability powers.

In Single Player, the rogue is pretty much king if you actually scout out the terrain and enemies before taking that first shot.

I agree with all of this as a rogue player myself.
It's just that with all these tools at their disposal, I think that something akin to guard is unnecessary.

In fact I'm surprised that rogues werent nerfed especially after Rogue Hawke.

[Domiel Angelus]

Points 1 and 2:

 

The biggest issues with points 1 and 2 are they would have to change the fundamentals of how the game runs entirely. The reasoning behind level restrictions is rather obvious, there is now no player agency in stat progression. In DA:O your weapons and armor were based on stats and not levels or class; without stat progression there has to be some sort of gating or there's no reason for character progression with a leveling system.

 

Also you can make gear in latter portions of the game that have no restrictions with the right materials. As for gear granting you bonuses based on the type, that probably wont happen until they do something about the utter lack of baked in bonuses beyond your racial modifier. 

[Domiel Angelus]

I agree with all of this as a rogue player myself.
It's just that with all these tools at their disposal, I think that something akin to guard is unnecessary.

In fact I'm surprised that rogues werent nerfed especially after Rogue Hawke.

 

 

They did heavily change the tool-kits but it wasn't enough to make them any less versatile.