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[SherryGold]

The only role playing games I played before dragon age origins were Oblivion and Skyrim, and instead of studying the game first and paying attention to the tutorials, I just plunged in not knowing how deep the water could be. I mean I played on easy. How can you not make it till the end? Well, my PC died countless times and never could get past Loghain. At this point, I really wanted my money back. I wouldn't even have gone that far without all the health potions that the warden and his team were drowning in. Below are the examples of my numerous failings.

 

I raised magic attributes of my S&S warrior, thinking at some point, if magic score is high enough, the warden will be able to throw magic about.

I had no idea what the tactics were for. Everyone was playing with the preset tactics they have when they joined the team. So well, I sold all the lyrium potions, I mean the mages never ran out of mana.

I gave Zevran a shield until I realized he couldn't use any of his talents.

Didn't realize Sten needed to be given armor and weapon so he was fighting with bare hands. Then when it finally occurred to me he needed to be given armor and weapon, I gave him a longsword and shield.

If one of the team members were down, I reloaded the scene because I thought they were gone for good like in Skyrim.

 

Do you have any memorable blunder during your first play-through?

[Heimerdinger]

My first playthrough was back in 2010, damn, that's over half a decade ago. Some of my blunders that I still remember:

 

- my 2 handed Warrior build was not bad but I was playing it wrong, aggro management was horrible for example.

- I didn't understand fatigue and upkeep, I was out of stamina constantly.

- warden died more times than I can remember.

- injuries all over the place, every companion had them.

- tinkered with the tactics settings, messed them up. My mages were killing me with friendly fire. Other stupid things were also happening. 

- barely survived the attack on Redcliffe village.

- got stuck in the Fade for about a million years or so.

- couldn't beat Jarvia, had to go back to camp and get Sten. 

- couldn't beat Loghain, had to reload and equip the Armor of the Legion, which was on Oghren. It's a miracle that I had all the pieces, no idea how I got them.

 

I was playing on Normal difficulty.

[themikefest]

I don't recall any, which doesn't mean I didn't have any, but I know it took time for me to get adjusted to the controls.

[kimgoold]

Ugh, my first playthru as a Surana was brutal, went to the dwarves first and died so many times at level 10 or 11 fighting that brood mother. 

[ArcadiaGrey]

It was my first proper RPG experience.  I sucked so bad.  I almost quit actually, and I think the biggest issue as a newbie is having to get a basic grasp of ALL the skills.  For every companion, so that you can accurately set the tactics and understand what's going on.

Warriors and rogues aren't so bad but the mage spells are mind boggling.

 

Still, I persevered because I was in love with Alistair enjoying the game.  I randomly chose sleep for Morrigan, and set it to get all enemies at medium to long range.  It was a game changer, and one of the most difficult fights in the game (Ser Cauthrien) was a breeze as she put everyone to sleep.  Then I started to get it, but I'm still learning and I've played 4 times now.

 

Sadly I don't have much patience and play on casual.  I love the DA2 combat, but Origins is a kind of difficult that just isn't fun for me personally.

[ArcadiaGrey]

Ugh, my first playthru as a Surana was brutal, went to the dwarves first and died so many times at level 10 or 11 fighting that brood mother. 

 

Big flaw with Origins right there, they should've locked off Orzammar until you'd cleared 2 other areas so that newbies don't unwittingly go there first and get smeared all over the deep roads.

 

I shouldn't have to use the wiki to know that it's a high level area, the game needed to explain it more clearly.  Obviously it nudges you to Redcliffe and the Circle, but it's still possible to do Orzammar first.  Goodness knows how many did only to rage quit.

[Dutchess]

DAO was my first ever RPG so I was pretty terrible. I was determined to play on Normal mode but my poor elven mage died a lot, as did all her team. I recently loaded up her save and I believe she had 18 recorded injuries and Alistair over 20, haha. And those don't count all the times my entire party got wiped. The silliest thing I did was looting a sword in the Tower of Ishal, comparing its stats to Alistair's, going "oh, more damage!" and equipped it on him, not realizing it was actually a twohanded blade. Then I kept wondering why he could no longer use any of his abilities. 

I also didn't know you only have a few opportunities to purchase the recipes for health poultices and the like, and with all the dying my characters were doing I was always short on healing supplies. Pretty much every boss battle took forever and I didn't even dare to take on the High Dragon that time. 

[capn233]

Pretty poor.

 

DAO was the first game of its kind that I played.  It was a struggle for me to get through Normal at the time.  That did motivate me to learn about the mechanics and get things like Detailed Tooltips for the next run.