Don't do this...

So I made a start on Jaws of Hakkon yesterday, and was surprised at how much trouble I was having. I've played the expansion twice before and didn't remember it being this brutal.

Cassandra, who is my primary tank, just kept losing a tonne of health and dying constantly. That damned ice giant absolutely wrecked her time after time before I was able to down it. Rifts were giving her trouble, with massive damage spikes. Even a band of Hakkonites almost managed to kill her.

I just couldn't understand what was wrong. She'd gone through the whole base game without ever needing to be healed, save in the very early sections. Even the notorious Hissing Wastes dragon couldn't even scratch her - yet here she was suddenly made of glass, was it her gear? Did it need updating?

Back to Skyhold, to the Undercroft and I made some Battlemaster armor, using dragon bone, dragon bone legs and arms, using every high end material I had,  to boost her health and cold resistance to ridiculous levels, including the healing masterwork. She now had over 300 armor, and a tonne of HP....

.... I also decided to make her a new shield.

..... It was then I took a proper look at her existing shield that I'd equipped on her fairly recently before starting the DLC.

It had the BERSERK modifier.

Doh!