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Post by pavellaning on Jan 3, 2018 3:35:39 GMT
Personally I like
Dorian, Sera, Blackwall, Inquisitor
Cassandra, Solas, Varric, Inquisitor
Cole, Vivienne, Iron Bull, Inquisitor
Not just because of the class/skill combinations but for the banter that they have in particular. Also, since Dorian is romancing my Lavellan I don't accidentially fire off the romance between him and Bull.
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Post by Nightscrawl on Jan 3, 2018 3:59:10 GMT
Dorian, Cassandra, Cole, with Varric sometimes subbing in for Cassandra. I like the relationship between these three. It's interesting to see how Cassandra softens toward both Dorian and Cole over time, and I also like how she and Dorian have something in common due to their family situation. Cole is a must for how he reads people and his Dorian banters are important for me.
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Post by vertigomez on Jan 3, 2018 5:51:30 GMT
Sera, Dorian, Bull. Team YOLO and by far my favorite combo. I also love Sera, Blackwall, and either Vivienne or Solas. I love Bull with Vivienne. I love Cole with pretty much everyone.
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Post by themikefest on Jan 3, 2018 5:57:39 GMT
Sera(if I'm playing as a mage), Dorian, Cassandra, Vivienne(when not playing as a mage)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 5:58:12 GMT
Sera, Dorian, Blackwall, Mage Inquisitor Solas, Dorian, Cassandra, Rogue Inquisitor, Solas replaced with Varric eventually.
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Post by cmoe on Jan 3, 2018 9:18:23 GMT
Sera, Dorian, and Bull are easily my favorite combination. As I've played so very many times I've had to switch it up a lot. Surprisingly to me, I like Cole, Solas, and Bull Sometimes if I'm a mage, I like to take Blackwall, Varric and Sera. I like my rogues apparently.
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Post by Exile Isan on Jan 3, 2018 14:51:46 GMT
Solas, Cassandra, Varric. Solas, Iron Bull, Cole. Dorian, Sera, Blackwall.
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Post by mikaelnovasun on Jan 3, 2018 15:22:46 GMT
Up until my current playthrough it was always Solas, Varric, and either Cass or Iron Bull. All of my completed runs are female elves of varying class who romanced Solas. I started a male Lavellen then settled on a female Qunari inquisitor who is my new canon, and with both characters Solas comes across as a back-handed complimenting bigot when not romancing him. And while there were hints of it with female Lavellen, it was overshadowed by their shared romantic interest. And then Sera....oh man I HATED her on my first playthrough, and kicked her out after she mocked my Lavellan's broken heart. As I played through more, Sera started to grow on me even as a Dalish inquisitor. After all she is right about Solas and Dalish history. On my current run I have come to understand her character even more, and I am enjoying her romance arc.
My favorite group has become Dorian, Iron Bull, Sera, and "Inky".
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Jan 3, 2018 15:46:30 GMT
Dorian and Sera, plus one other depending on Inq class and the mission (but normally Cass). Their banter together is just great. They also have my favourite specialisations for NPC's of their class.
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Post by pavellaning on Jan 3, 2018 16:18:17 GMT
Sera, Dorian, Bull. Team YOLO and by far my favorite combo. I also love Sera, Blackwall, and either Vivienne or Solas. I love Bull with Vivienne. I love Cole with pretty much everyone. Team YOLO is good if my romance with Dorian is culminated. Bull can't take my Lavellan's boyfriend.
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Post by dklpep on Jan 3, 2018 17:39:30 GMT
I like going with the characters most centrally connected to the story so I always try to pick the best companions story wise for every quest I do. My 3 most used are easily Solas, Varric and Cassandra. But I also use Bull or Blackwall a lot. Sera and Cole are really the two I use the least... in my opinion a double mage class is easily the best group to run. Ive played through the Game like 7-8 times now, I’ve played as everything and mage is always my favorite. I’ve probably been a mage inquisitor at least 4 different times. All my mage party members get their defensive ability’s tree filled out first. I make barrier their favorite ability and sometimes I’ll have them set to “defend” whoever my warrior is... and like I said, depending on the mission I switch it up. If I’m going into the fade or into elven ruins, I want Solas with me because I know I’ll get some extra story and dialogue. If I’m going to fight darkspawn or red templars, maybe I’ll take Blackwall. For dragons I always take Iron Bull...
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Post by fylimar on Jan 3, 2018 18:06:42 GMT
Sera, Dorian, Bull. Team YOLO and by far my favorite combo. I also love Sera, Blackwall, and either Vivienne or Solas. I love Bull with Vivienne. I love Cole with pretty much everyone. Team YOLO is good if my romance with Dorian is culminated. Bull can't take my Lavellan's boyfriend. I think, the Bull/Dorian romance only occurs, if you don'r romance one of the two. I often have Bull and Dorian in my group, but I have yet to see the Bull/Dorian romance. I romanced Bull on my last playthrough and he and Dorian only had friendly banter. DAI is the first DA game, where I like all characters, I don't like Morrigan and Oghren in DAO and Sebastian and Merrill in DA2, but in DAI, I try to have every companion in the group around the game. I like Vivienne with Varric, he is not intimidated by her and she respects that and they have some nice banter. Cassandra and Cole are great too. Sera and Solas is a bit too bitchy for my taste, but Sera and Dorian are fun.
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Post by Tittus on Jan 3, 2018 18:12:07 GMT
Cassandra, Vivienne and Sera. I like their banter, specially if I'm romancing one of them. And all of them are very useful.
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Post by boxofscreaming on Jan 3, 2018 18:36:25 GMT
Cassandra, Blackwall, Varric and mage Inquisitor. Largely because the warriors require little babysitting and Varric is Varric.
I don't judge on banter because it hardly ever triggers.
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Post by Jarovbees on Jan 6, 2018 5:01:45 GMT
Dorian, Sera and Iron Bull is never not entertaining. I've also switched him out with Blackwall, since he and Sera have some good banter.
I also love Cole, Iron Bull and Solas. All the dynamics involved are rather interesting.
For dragonslaying, I always have Cassandra, Iron Bull and Vivienne. The ladies are death machines and Iron Bull is always so giddy at seeing/fighting dragons.
If I really want antagonistic banter, it's Blackwall, Vivienne and Sera. Or Sera, Vivienne and Solas if I'm playing a non-mage.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Jan 6, 2018 5:23:57 GMT
Defintely Blackwall and Sera (my favourite companion combination!) but after that I have trouble choosing. If Inky is a mage, then adding Iron Bull to the mix is fun. But if they're not, I have trouble picking between Dorian and Vivienne.
I mix things up a lot, though - I've had a different core team for each of my eight play throughs so far, and within that I switch things aroud a lot for companion quests and such.
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Post by Lazarillo on Jan 6, 2018 22:59:16 GMT
I use pretty much every companion to some degree to another, and usually adapt my party based on currently active missions and where I am in the story. For "general" use, though, my preferred usual mix is Varric, Dorian, and [love interest if applicable], mostly because I like to make the companions that carry across games a major part of my party in both games they appear, and I figger Dorian will be the carry-over if/when we get DA4. And even if not, it results in some pretty sassy, lovable teams.
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Post by ewigDunkelheit on Jan 7, 2018 19:20:17 GMT
Inquisition was the first game where I wasn't able to specifically select all of my favorites into one party configuration. I don't really put the squad together based on banter scenarios, but how I feel about the characters as individuals. My two favorite party members are Iron Bull and Vivienne. I also am a big Blackwall fan, despite letting him be executed. This is my primary team, which is not optimized for gameplay, since it is so melee oriented with a Champion, Knight Enchanter, Reaver, and Templar. I also sub in Dorian and Varric for certain quests (these two fine gentlemen also replace my Divine Vivienne and dead Blackwall as the game progresses). I also like using Cassandra for In Your Heart Shall Burn and the Adamant Fortress for some all warrior party shenanigans. I really like Cassandra as well, but, lucky for me, Aveline is so awesome that Cassandra can't compare, and I am able to avoid needing to manage a full six party members.
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Post by mictlantecuhtli on Jan 8, 2018 14:24:38 GMT
I tend to use the starting party until I am able to solo everything.
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Post by Sah291 on Jan 8, 2018 15:19:05 GMT
I mostly used Cass, Cole, Varric, Dorian, and Solas, in various combinations, for my main Inquisitor.
I choose party based on RP reasons a lot, so other than character side quests and such, I didn't use Viv, Blackwall, Sera, or Bull much. I didn't see my main Inquisitor as being as close to those characters, and she had a bit of a friendly rivalry with Sera and Viv. Blackwall and Bull were just too darn hard to please with the choices I made, and I could barely finish their quests in time.
Out of the advisors, Cullen was probably closest as a friend, and she went with Josie most often for the diplomacy on the war table.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 12:07:58 GMT
Cassandra, Varric, Dorian.
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Post by LukeBarrett on Jan 9, 2018 18:00:31 GMT
Bow Rogue Tempest Inq, Sera, Dorian, and Cassandra. All my playthroughs were on Nightmare and I like abusing flask of lightning by playing the game as Cassandra and letting those two Tempests unleash the machine guns
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