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[Lynx7386]

I'm thinking of trying a female Qunari 1h/shield reaver on my next character. Any suggestions? Might do the sera romance since she seems to like Qunari women. Probably run with her, bull, and Dorian or varric.

Is there any change in story or character reactions when playing as a Qunari? Any difference in how companions react to you?

[Dabrikishaw]

If you're going with a Reaver that you'll want to be a 2hander instead because Dragon Rage is going to be your new auto attack button and it does %200 weapon damage when upgraded. But if you want to stay as a Weapon and Shield user go ahead and don't let anyone stop you.

 

As far as story reactions go, nothing plot relevant but some people will point it out.

[PapaCharlie9]

I'm playing a 2H Qunari Champion, male, at the moment. There are some small comments here and there, and as for all race choices, a special war table mission, but that's about it (so far, just about to start WEWH, might be more comments there).

But why double up on Reavers? For banter? If that is the case, you should run your 2H Qunari as a mage. For one, physical defense buff + vitaar makes for above average damage output for a mage. For another, the extra barrier will help keep IB and Sera alive before Skyhold. Having two mages is less unbalanced than 2 reavers, since they can have complimentary skills/specializations. Vashoth Rift Mage would be a good RP fit also.

See discussion here:
http://forum.bioware...ause-of-vittar/

[Lynx7386]

Suppose I could try mage, just figured reaver would fit a Qunari better

[Bigdawg13]

I'm thinking of trying a female Qunari 1h/shield reaver on my next character. Any suggestions? Might do the sera romance since she seems to like Qunari women. Probably run with her, bull, and Dorian or varric.

Is there any change in story or character reactions when playing as a Qunari? Any difference in how companions react to you?

 

There are little differences in the dialogue all over the place if you play qunari.  As for reaver (or any specialization), not much other than the few reactions your companions will give you.  The biggest difference is race.

 

 

Suppose I could try mage, just figured reaver would fit a Qunari better

 

If you are going for archetypes then a 2H reaver fits Qunari quite well.  Just look at Iron Bull.  On the other hand, Qunari Mage fits great too. 

[capn233]

If I were you I would play a warrior if you want to play warrior, or mage if you want to play mage.

 

As far as SnS v 2H for Reaver, I agree that when you get Dragon Rage, 2H is overall better, but you still have a large portion of the game before that where you could play SnS if you want.  You can always respec once you unlock your specialization, and probably SnS is slightly better early game anyway.

 

Regarding the party, that would work.  If I was going to run a party like that (and sort of did something similar through Wicked Eyes last night), I would probably just invest in a few of the Reaver passives on Bull, but otherwise limit him to vanilla warrior trees in order to build him into a semi-competent tank.  I don't like spinning him down to SnS from 2H, but if he is really supposed to tank he is probably better with SnS, at least early. 

 

Sera is probably a slightly better companion than Varric early if you have a better longbow than Bianca.  After specialization it will depend a lot on what upgrades to Bianca you have equipped and Varric's crit chance.  I prefer him then because of his party buffs and his power spam via Opportunity Knocks.  It is better for the AI in a "set and forget" fashion than Sera's flasks.

 

Dorian is fine, and he will be in my party fairly often because he is funny, but the Necro spec isn't really as good as Rift Mage.  I end up mainly using him to spam Barrier and Static Cage though, which are pretty helpful.  I go on the Energy Barrage side of the tree since I usually play with FF on.

[andy6915]

I would go knight enchanter if you're a qunari, for sure. Qunari are aggressive, they like to be in the thick of combat in the middle of all the limbs and blood flying. Knight enchanters tend to fight in the thick of combat alongside the warriors. It's a perfect fit.

[Lynx7386]

I was gonna go with the shield line mainly because I've already got a warrior templar doing 2h on another character, was just looking for variety.

[Bigdawg13]

I was gonna go with the shield line mainly because I've already got a warrior templar doing 2h on another character, was just looking for variety.

If you want variety try something other than a second warrior. Try a Mage or archer.

[PapaCharlie9]

I was gonna go with the shield line mainly because I've already got a warrior templar doing 2h on another character, was just looking for variety.

How is that going, btw? Got a feeling for which your prefer yet?

EDIT: And, what the heck, go for an S&S Reaver if you really want to! 2H Reaver is statistically better for min/max, but for fun factor, there's nothing wrong with going S&S.

http://forum.bioware...extremely-good/

http://forum.bioware...-reaver-advice/

[draken-heart]

If you want variety try something other than a second warrior. Try a Mage or archer.

 

Some people do not like mages or archers?

[Bigdawg13]

Some people do not like mages or archers?

How can you want variety yet only like one flavor?

[draken-heart]

How can you want variety yet only like one flavor?

 

There are varieties of warriors. 2 handed Champion, weapon and shield reavers for examples. Also, there are varieties of parties that can be used in place of creating a character people do not want.

[OrionAnderson]

Running an Inquisitor Reaver with Iron Bull works fine; just don't give Iron Bull any of his Reaver skills. Either respec him into a sword-and-board taunt machine or use him as a 2-handed utility warrior with chain grab and horn of buffing. If you get to high levels you can give him the reaver passives, his focus skill, and/or devour if you want. He won't be as good as Blackwall would be but he'll be fine.

 

Sword-and-board Dragon Rage is completely viable. You will have all the damage you need. The biggest problem is not lost DPS but that your DPS comes from more, faster attacks, which means you lose more health. The good news: Shield Wall is amazing and will keep you alive; Shield passives also go a long way. Guard on hit and heal on hit items also help mitigate the drain. Shield Bash is also huge damage if you have room for it. 

[capn233]

What do you mean by more, faster attacks?

[OrionAnderson]

An early maul like the sledgehammer (equippable at level 2) will display something like 88 DPS. An early longsword might be almost as high -- if you have the per-order stuff, the level 1 flamey inquisition sword has like 72 DPS. But the Maul has 88 DPS because it swings once per second for 88 damage. The inquisition sword has 72 dps because it swings 6 times in 5 seconds for 60 damage a hit. Dragon-Rage drains health per attack, not per second. So a reaver with a sword might kill someone almost as fast with a sword as with a maul, but they'd deal about 50% more damage to themselves in the process.

 

Axes and maces are even worse. 

[capn233]

Dragon Rage attack speed is the same regardless of weapon equipped, which is why 2H is better for DR dps than SnS, and in a vacuum mauls are potentially better than greatswords or greataxes.  It is all based on the equipped weapon's base damage number.  And as such, number of hits required to kill is lower and you will drain less of your health the higher the base damage of the weapon, target hp being equal.

 

When you auto attack, you won't be losing health, and that is the only point where the equipped weapon's swing speed will come into play on a Reaver.

[OrionAnderson]

"Dragon Rage attack speed is the same regardless of weapon equipped"

 

Wow, that is good to know.