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[CosmicGnosis]

I'm very curious about this because both of my playthroughs have been mostly completionist. If you essentially skip all the side content (I consider companion quests to be story), would your levels match up with the game's recommended levels?

[capn233]

I haven't done an actual minimalist playthrough, but the lowest level I have gone to fight Corypheus was 17.  In that run I skipped Fallow Mire and Emerald Graves outright, only picked up some armor for Solas and the agent in Exalted Plains, but I think I had a couple knowledge / xp perks (at least Nobility, I might have also had one more).  I did most of the companion missions, and only killed one dragon.  In that case, I think I was actually above level for Hushed Whispers, but more or less on level for the rest of the mainline missions.

 

In a little more detail:

 

HInterlands:  Did most side missions, recruited all agents, did not close all fade rifts.  Varic's mission, Dorian's meeting.

Storm Coast: Recruited Bull and Blades of Hessarian, completed Astrarium puzzle, and picked up a few shards.  Bull's loyalty mission.

Fallow Mire: did not visit

Forbidden Oasis: Went pre-Skyhold, picked up the shards, and unlocked the level 1 Ice, Fire, Spirit resistance

Crestwood: Did most side missions (capture keep, rift in the lake, save town, etc), and killed the dragon

Western Approach: met with Hawk and captured Griffon Wing.  Pick up warrior armor at the quarry.

Exalted Plains: Dalish quests to recruit agent, and get Ancient Elven Robes for Solas.  Unlock Lost Temple area

Lost Temple of Dirthamen: finished this dungeon

Caer Oswin: Cassandra's mission

Emprise du Lion: took Valeska's Watch and Suledin's Keep

Hissing Wastes: Raided 2 tombs, set up a couple camps (close to canyon for access to the store)

Emerald Graves: did not visit... so could not do the Samson red lyrium armor mission

Valence Cloister: Leliana's mission

[PapaCharlie9]

Level 12, as shown by this Nightmare speedrun.



No companion side quests in this, though.

There are some inconsequential skips involved, but the game is structured in such a way that you have to complete all of the main quests with no skips. You can do a lot of the main quests underlevelled, so no, the recommended level ranges don't really track to the minimum necessary to complete.

[thewatcheruatu]

I don't understand how you can get away with doing only story quests. I mean, I kind of tried it, and thought it was working okay. Then I got to Skyhold. I've got something like 4 power, and I need at least 8 to advance the story at all, I think. And I feel as though I've already done everything that's even remotely interesting to me in the locations I've unlocked.

 

Really frustrating game for me. I'm just not interested in anything that isn't a main storyline quest in Inquisition, but the game design constantly gates me so that I have to run a bunch of BS errands before you can do them. I don't know...in Dragon Age 2, for example, I actually wanted to do the side quests, because they always so good, regardless of the shortcuts they took with dungeons and such (also, combat was fun as hell to me). Not so here. To me it all seems like stuff that's put there to force you to take longer to complete the game than you really want to.

[PapaCharlie9]

I don't understand how you can get away with doing only story quests. I mean, I kind of tried it, and thought it was working okay. Then I got to Skyhold. I've got something like 4 power, and I need at least 8 to advance the story at all, I think. And I feel as though I've already done everything that's even remotely interesting to me in the locations I've unlocked.

You are right. You do have to do something to get the power needed to advance to the next chapter of the main story, but you don't necessarily have to do side quests. However, the alternatives to side quests, like Requisitions, are even more tedious/boring than actually doing side quests, so it's best to just pick the most interesting least boring side quests and do those. If nothing else, just whack away at rifts in the Hinterlands, there are plenty of them.
 

Really frustrating game for me. I'm just not interested in anything that isn't a main storyline quest in Inquisition, but the game design constantly gates me so that I have to run a bunch of BS errands before you can do them. I don't know...in Dragon Age 2, for example, I actually wanted to do the side quests, because they always so good, regardless of the shortcuts they took with dungeons and such (also, combat was fun as hell to me). Not so here. To me it all seems like stuff that's put there to force you to take longer to complete the game than you really want to.

You are not alone. A lot of people have pointed to a filler problem in DAI.

It's not so much to force you to take longer, it's to force you to appreciate all the work they put into level design and side stories, even though those have very loose or no real connection to the main story.