Dragon Age 3: Inquistion

[BerenTebogo]

I have volume off AND I skip cutscenes.

Got my horse though. Fuck yeah.

[Tyrath]

I have volume off AND I skip cutscenes.

The character interactions are one of the best part of any Bioware game

[Charismatic]

I understand Sath's mindset on here.
ARPG combat is one of my favorite things. Its literally the only reason I'm playing this game. I'm taking my time to enjoy the other aspects of the game but its take-it-or-leave-it as far as I'm concerned. If I muted the game and skipped all cutscenes I'd probably be having almost as much fun as I already am.

Just another one of those different strokes kinda things.

[sb]

Not sure how I feel about this game.

Playing as human rogue with bow, pretty early on. I spent like 10 hours in the Hinterland because I didn't really get that I wasn't supposed to clear the full map right away (okay, my bad). But what I took away from that is how annoying not having any realistic way to restore your health between battles / lack of healing magic is.

I get that it's probably supposed to add to the challenge, which is fine, but my AI characters are dumber than piles of shit. I gave the double dagger rogue evade and the roll dive, gave the tank the roll move, neither of them will ever even attempt to dodge getting smashfucked by a bear. Turning something I can basically solo into something that eats 2 of my potions. Annoying and pointless.

Fast forward to the undead marsh (not sure if I should've gone here, whatever). I can 2-shot the undead archers, cool, easy. Walk around thinking I must be appropriately leveled for the area -> get to rift -> 6 enemies and my tank focuses on 1 of them while the rest of them gangfuck me continuously. Tank does nothing.

This continues every time I hit a pack of enemies. If I can't solo an enemy before it gets to me it turns into a shitty kitefest, which these controls were not designed for. It's pretty much killing my enthusiasm for the game that it seems I can't really do anything but follow the linear path of the story because my team is too fucking dumb to keep their shit together when I stumble into a /slightly/ higher area.

Because let me tell you, after 8 minutes in I started skipping every single cutscene. Holy fuck I couldn't care less what is happening in this game, I just want to kill shit.

Have you focused your mages into Spirit/Barrier tree? Do it, it's key to staying alive. They can go elemental once you have Barrier skills maxed(and the spell that brings people back to life.)

Maybe don't go two rogue until a little later when your Wars and Mages are better at protecting and keeping guard and barrier up. Having two mages or two War in the beginning make life easier, as both classes have solid defensive play (dual mage in particular as you can keep and rotate party barrier).

If you are letting the cpu control a melee rogue, focus on defensive skills and set all their defensive abilities as priority use. In the beginning 1/3 of the game, it's one of the only ways to keep them alive, unless you are micromanaging them.

For your archer, stealth if you gain agro and they come to you, Explosive shot to knockdown for a few seconds, Sleeping powder, etc...

[Krandor]

Tbh I never bother with the resurrection spell. I've never found a situation where it would truly matter. Usually if someone goes down its because of a fucking bear that can be soloed by a tank anyway, or it's a situation where you're probably already fucked.

[Tyrath]

I haven't give any of my mages anything besides basic Barrier LOL

But I'm playing on whatevers below Nightmare

[Charismatic]

Tbh I never bother with the resurrection spell. I've never found a situation where it would truly matter. Usually if someone goes down its because of a fucking bear that can be soloed by a tank anyway, or it's a situation where you're probably already fucked.

I put the rez spell on my mage and it was pretty clutch in letting me cheese fights early on when I was just scraping by on some of 'em. Haven't had much use for it lately though.

[Anoat]

Resurrection is good for the dragon fights and that's about it. Vivienne is a good choice to bring for them for her "OH SHIT" focus move. It's like Aeris limit break. Full cure/resurrection.

[Koul]

Not sure on higher difficulties but the first few dragons (for me) were hard, kept having to spam wait out res timer, but once I got a rank 3 bow schematic I was able to melt everything down.

[BerenTebogo]

Life has been much easier since I got iron bull and gave him a crafted masterwork greatsword.

I think the dual rogue thing was a bad idea.

[Charismatic]

You can definitely scale back on the tankiness after a while and two rogues becomes god mode

[Teknique]

I dont understand why the fuck they didnt think a fucking storage box was necessary with their bullshit default 60 item limit inventory. Hell even with fucking 80 items, i was constantly forced to throw away decent items at the end of the game just to keep all the fucking "omgthisitemissosexypurplefuckyoueventhoughcrafted shitisbetter" from dragons. Honestly how fucking hard would it be to code in a fucking storage chest IN YOUR FUCKING CASTLE. ITS A GOD DAMN CASTLE AND I CANT KEEP SHIT LAYING AROUND IN A CHEST?

[Tyrath]

It's weird to me because they fucked this up in DA1 and then added a chest in DLC. Not sure why it's not here.

[Obsidian]

Can't say I ever ran into inventory issues, and I still have white accessories in my inventory.

[Teknique]

Shit from about halfway through the game, i was constantly running into inventory issues, and i maxed inventory size at like level 5

[Obsidian]

I still only have 75 spaces, haha. Once I replaced something I just junked it. No point in hanging on to stuff since old gear isn't reforgeable and there's no cosmetic slots for it to occupy. The only things I really kept several of were mage staves for those elemental barriers. But I haven't bumped into any of those in a while, and the only zone I have left to clear is the Fallow Mire, so I'm probably clear to discard those as well.

[Tyrath]

I still only have 75 spaces, haha. Once I replaced something I just junked it. No point in hanging on to stuff since old gear isn't reforgeable and there's no cosmetic slots for it to occupy.

Well I just wait till I max out and then I go on a cleaning spree. Cant be bother to toss things as I replace.

[noblemountain]

I just made a habit of dumping extras each time I was near a merchant...saved me from getting capped all the time.

[Tyrath]

Well it's an issue because I fill up long before I see a merchant. Maybe I just venture out for longer D:

[Anoat]

On normal, at least, you can attack the magical barriers with ANY element, not just its opposite, despite what the game tells you to do. That might help you on the inventory front if you are carrying around 4+ staves for your mage. I'm not sure if its supposed to be like that or just a bug, but w/e. One staff to rule them all bitches.