Dragon Age 2

[Isiolia]

I don't know how else you could solo him tbh... mage seems rough even w/ kiting since everytime he did hit me it did huge dmg.. and I could only imagine if I was in cloth.

Not hard at all, since Winter's Grasp freezes him more often than not. I'd just run, use that, if it froze him, hit him with Crushing Prison too if it was up or do a quick heal. Otherwise keep running. He does hit like a truck, and you need to be careful not to get cornered, but it's not really hard as you won't actually get hit very much.

[Elcura]

It's also how I solo'd the Arishtok >.> Took like 10+ minutes since he kept using HP pots (lol), but would just kite until assassinate was on CD > then goad him into atking and use assassinate and that arrow move that goes through multiple targets > go back to kiting.

I don't know how else you could solo him tbh... mage seems rough even w/ kiting since everytime he did hit me it did huge dmg.. and I could only imagine if I was in cloth. Not to mention he uses hp pots frequently and any high dmg mage spell takes a bit to cast and it seems like he would just heal to frequently. Warrior could prolly straight tank / dps him down though and just kite when you need to recover hp though

Mage it's quite easy with elemental and/or primal. Just keep away, use winter's grasp and cone of awesome whenever they pop up, if they don't freeze him they'll slow him down drastically while you pop shots at him. Add in some petrify and he can't touch you. While he's stuck you can lay down some aoe spells and that gravitation ring works well too. I dunno how well entropy works on him, but if you do it right you won't get hit at all.

[Slott]

Arishok can use 3 health pots total. He has a reaaaaaaaaally slow swing animation, so as a melee you can bait an attack, strafe left or right, and open up on him, archery is much easier however on him. I like double dagger more than archery however, you assassinate just as hard (I actually think you can assassinate harder with the right set up using 2 daggers), I have 45% attack speed(normal hits doing 100-500), 93% crit (passive) 270% crit bonus damage. Twin fangs also hits for about 4-6k, and backstab good for getting behind targets to flank. With the ability that gives you +1% energy per autoattack, I'm pretty much always full energy. Tried venturing further into shadow beyond the first ability but was never worth it, spec'd out of it. On pretty much any fight, I can one shot any mob/lieutenant, if it's something like a boss fight of sorts, if I can make it brittle with merill, then put mark of death on it, it's eating an 80k+ hit.

[Nitsuki]

How was the xp/gold glitch pulled off again? I seem to fail doing it on the pc. I don't wanna go through leveling my mage hawke.

[Elcura]

Just use the developer console, you can add whatever gold you want like that (and many more fun things).

[Slapper]

How was the xp/gold glitch pulled off again? I seem to fail doing it on the pc. I don't wanna go through leveling my mage hawke.

Why would you need to do gold/xp glitch on PC when you can just -enabledeveloperconsole

[Nitsuki]

Lol that works for me. Thanks

[Eanae]

Didn't see if this was posted but Yahtzee nailed it:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...-Dragon-Age-II

[LinktheDeme]

Not hard at all, since Winter's Grasp freezes him more often than not. I'd just run, use that, if it froze him, hit him with Crushing Prison too if it was up or do a quick heal. Otherwise keep running. He does hit like a truck, and you need to be careful not to get cornered, but it's not really hard as you won't actually get hit very much.

This soloing it on a mage on nightmare was an absolute joke if you know how to kite. Theres two pillars in the room you can figure 8 kite around them like kirin.

When I say joke I mean the difficulty, not the fact that it takes like 30 minutes to do because he has so many fucking potions and high HP.

[Atreides]

btw did anyone else spam the shit out of Haste in this game? Usually I'd let Anders cast it first then cast it myself when it wears off, it makes mages go absolutely fucking nuts. With the really expensive staves from Act II and Act III my mage was almost as powerful hasted with regular attacks as he was with spells

[Elcura]

Also, that rune that increases attack speed too. Shit was so nuts and awesome looking.

[Mizango]

Also, that rune that increases attack speed too. Shit was so nuts and awesome looking.

Damn right. My rogue was god mode with that.

[Atreides]

oh yeah, are there just some 2-handed weapons that can be equipped regardless of Warrior weapon proficiency? I found a greataxe or a maul that Aveline could equip at some point, but I was wondering if there were more options like that that existed. Anyone see any others?

[Eticket]

I have to agree that assassinate as a archery rogue is pretty broken. Whenever a named elite or w/e pops up w/ huge amounts of HP, I would just use pinpoint strike > assassinate > the ability where the arrow goes through multiple targets = dead mob. It's how I killed some of the tougher bosses that had wave and wave of adds. Would just handle adds w/Merrill (other 2 on boss) and everytime assassinate came off of CD I would just target the boss and then go back to adds lol.

It's also how I solo'd the Arishtok >.> Took like 10+ minutes since he kept using HP pots (lol), but would just kite until assassinate was on CD > then goad him into atking and use assassinate and that arrow move that goes through multiple targets > go back to kiting.

I don't know how else you could solo him tbh... mage seems rough even w/ kiting since everytime he did hit me it did huge dmg.. and I could only imagine if I was in cloth. Not to mention he uses hp pots frequently and any high dmg mage spell takes a bit to cast and it seems like he would just heal to frequently. Warrior could prolly straight tank / dps him down though and just kite when you need to recover hp though

I had my dog tank him and just plinked away at him with arrows. >.>

[noblemountain]

I had my dog tank him and just plinked away at him with arrows. >.>

He killed my dog so fast...I just kited him on rogue until backstab popped up. I solo'd him on rogue and shield/sword warrior, going to fight him as a party with my mage I think...just to mix it up.

[Souj]

What is it said that happens at the end if your Warden died killing the Archdemon in Origins? Like if he didn't die the game will say the Champion and Hawke have disappeared and theyre probably connected.

[Nitsuki]

Archery rogue feels like the pre-nerf rangers from like ffxi 2005 i think? Lol when they were absolutely overpowered.

[Katlan]

I never bothered w/ runes on my first playthrough. I guess I'm gonna need to on my 2nd run by the way you all are talking

[Slott]

There are some great runes, katlan. One increases damage done (weapon rune, can craft it at will), theres a +stat one (like +7-8 of every stat, can only equip one of that rune), +damage runes etc.

[Atreides]

yea they're super easy to get this time around, and relatively cheap, so it's always worth it to keep everyone stocked up with them. You only get 2 special runes, one from Sandal in the deep roads which has a chance to cause knockback, and another depending on how you end Varric's Act III companion quest that increases attack speed. Eventually everyone in my party had 1 Rune of Valiance (+ to all stats) on their armor and 1 Rune of Devastation (+ to all damage) on their weapons and then I just filled out the other slots with various damage/defense/resistance runes.

Btw in case anyone was wondering the description for Rune of Valiance says you can only use one, but that means 1 on all your armor *combined*. You can't use 1 on your armor and 1 on your helmet for example, likewise you can't give aveline 1 on her armor and 1 on her shield, you can actually set as many of that rune as you want but you'll only get 1 set of stat boosts.