Hi all,
So I haven't played DA: I since early last year, but there's a ton of DLC, so here I am again.
However while I admire and respect people who can solo the whole game by themselves wielding nothing but a toothpick, i'm looking for an easy playthrough to get myself back into the swing of DA before I kick the difficulty up again.
Now I remember that once upon a time there was a build thread that collected all the 'best' builds per class. Does that still exists?
You don't need such things for lower difficulties. Some of those toggle ability upgrades are pretty damn broken if I'm honest. Below are some obvious examples I immediately thought of.
Mages:
winters grasp - winter ruins: amazing damage for what it is
fire mine - flamming array: triple fire mine spam with no prime time, what can possibly be better than this?
immolate: the upgrade removes any CD on this spell, and it's now your new basic attacks
barrier: an upgrade to effectively make it last a few seconds longer, useful stuff
spirit mark: the new upgrade makes you a machine gun turret , great synergy with static cage
Rogues:
Poison cloud: effectively party wide god mode. Let your characters dodge any 3 attacks and immune to dot damage while you have at least 1 stack of elusives
Throwing blades - precision targeting: over exaggerated damage bonus and sunder effect ever since the devs "fixed" it
leap shot: free stealth
elemental mines: bigger mines which applies statues effects are awesome, much less of a stamina drain monster too
hidden blades: skill is OP already, and making it AOE just made it even worse
all the tempests flasks: those flasks are what makes tempests tempests.
Warriors:
combat roll: ridiculous damage with sub zero CD and stamina cost
horn of valor: party wide 10% guard on hit is plainly ridiculous
livid: unlimited duration for dps warriors
Wombo combo for templar, dragon rage and devour, walking fortress and To The Death have always been OP right from the start.
awsome video pawspause, i may just be nitpicking but u should attack on ur rogue meanwhile showing off cassandra. if not soloing i think agro management is just as important when showing off ur tank or whats the point if ur tank lives for ever but cant keep agro, ie show me she can keep agro. one thing i noticed while soloing it almost feels like an easier gameplay because group management(not micromanagement) is thrown out the window such as agro management(both dps and tank), mob placement, etc. iono maybe its jus me, i like the mmo playstyle cuase i can play all the classes at once lol as supposed to a real mmo.
awsome video pawspause, i may just be nitpicking but u should attack on ur rogue meanwhile showing off cassandra. if not soloing i think agro management is just as important when showing off ur tank or whats the point if ur tank lives for ever but cant keep agro, ie show me she can keep agro. one thing i noticed while soloing it almost feels like an easier gameplay because group management(not micromanagement) is thrown out the window such as agro management(both dps and tank), mob placement, etc. iono maybe its jus me, i like the mmo playstyle cuase i can play all the classes at once lol as supposed to a real mmo.
Yep but it's buried beneath threads unfortunately. What class will you be playing as? There's really good builds on the first few pages on here so it shouldn't be hard to find. I've been testing out AI builds and so far I've had really good results. If you're curious feel free to check them out.
Probably mage or warrior. I know Rogues hit like a ton of bricks, but I just don't enjoy their gameplay.
You don't need such things for lower difficulties. Some of those toggle ability upgrades are pretty damn broken if I'm honest. Below are some obvious examples I immediately thought of.
Mages:
winters grasp - winter ruins: amazing damage for what it is
fire mine - flamming array: triple fire mine spam with no prime time, what can possibly be better than this?
immolate: the upgrade removes any CD on this spell, and it's now your new basic attacks
barrier: an upgrade to effectively make it last a few seconds longer, useful stuff
spirit mark: the new upgrade makes you a machine gun turret , great synergy with static cage
Rogues:
Poison cloud: effectively party wide god mode. Let your characters dodge any 3 attacks and immune to dot damage while you have at least 1 stack of elusives
Throwing blades - precision targeting: over exaggerated damage bonus and sunder effect ever since the devs "fixed" it
leap shot: free stealth
elemental mines: bigger mines which applies statues effects are awesome, much less of a stamina drain monster too
hidden blades: skill is OP already, and making it AOE just made it even worse
all the tempests flasks: those flasks are what makes tempests tempests.
Warriors:
combat roll: ridiculous damage with sub zero CD and stamina cost
horn of valor: party wide 10% guard on hit is plainly ridiculous
livid: unlimited duration for dps warriors
Wombo combo for templar, dragon rage and devour, walking fortress and To The Death have always been OP right from the start.
Well no, I don't NEED it. I just want to play for story, not for difficulty. If I could have Mass Effect's 'Narrative' option I'd use it.
I'm mosly curious about your comments about Combat Roll. I don't remember it being all that useful. What's changed?
Well no, I don't NEED it. I just want to play for story, not for difficulty. If I could have Mass Effect's 'Narrative' option I'd use it.
I'm mosly curious about your comments about Combat Roll. I don't remember it being all that useful. What's changed?
The new toggle upgrade with Trespasser DLC, "coming through". The tooltip states it does 250% damage, testing suggests that the tooltip is wrong (what a surprise in this game), and it does 500% damage. On a very low cooldown and low stamina cost. It is.... ridiculous!
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That's insane. Do you even need to swing a blade or can you just combat roll through everything?
Even without the toggle, Combat Roll is very useful on a 2H since it is the only practical way to completely avoid damage against some enemy attacks now. Charging Bull almost works, but you seem to be more likely to get tagged in the back (which matters less with Bear Mauls the Wolves of course). You can get away with just CB a little easier in a party. Block and Slash seems to have been nerfed somewhere... I have seen stamina costs in the 60's for blocking elite attacks. The other day at level 15 I blocked the attack from the Level 16 Behemoth on Drakon's Rise and had basically 25% stamina left (didn't look exactly where I started, but it should have been from in the 90's since it was after a CB/Gore and Trample -> Mighty Blow chain).
Awesome, so is there a generally considered to be 'best' 2H build or sword and board build? Like I said, I'm a bit rusty at actually building characters. Youtube is unhelpful given how very many pre-tresspasser builds exist.
I remember 2H builds being all about Devour back once upon a time.
Awesome, so is there a generally considered to be 'best' 2H build or sword and board build? Like I said, I'm a bit rusty at actually building characters. Youtube is unhelpful given how very many pre-tresspasser builds exist.
I remember 2H builds being all about Devour back once upon a time.
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