Dreadwolf Game Design discussion and question thread

As yet we haven't had a single weapon style. In DAO Warrior had 4 Weapon style trees: Weapon & Shield, Two-handed, Archery, and Dual Wield, da2/I halved the warriors weapon options.

It wouldn't be difficult to have 3 weapon trees in DAD by returning archery or dual wielding (probably with a different flavour than the rogue versions eg. long bows vs crossbows, big weapons vs daggers), or by giving them a new one entirely. For example: polearms (spears, glaives, etc); single weapon style (though i tend to associate swashbucklers and duelists more with rogue); Javelins/thrown weapons; or for that matter Chain fighting, not a common style but the warrior used one in one of their DAI abilities so they could expand that concept out.

I'm thinking something along the lines of this:

Warrior:


Rogue:


Mage:

yeah all the hand wringing on various things and all I'm seeing is Inquisition 2.0. For good and ill.

I remember when I first played Final Fantasy 10 like 20 years ago, I fell in love with the sprawling skill tree with all the possible paths and choices. A decade or so later when I opened Path of Exile, I had that same feeling of wonder. It's genuinely my favorite type of progression. I don't care that there are generally optimal routes. I just like having the choice to go wherever I want and do whatever fits the RP I assign my character.

If this is where Dragon Age is heading, I'll be quite happy. I mean I'm already happy there's some new for Dragon Age. Looking forward to see and hear more.

ANother interesting point. I think respeccing abilities is pretty much ingrained in modern game design and BioWare games. And given...forget the exact word choice but something in there about how they want us to mix and match suggests they won't. But now that the possibility has been raised and given the other comparisons to Path of Exiles it can't be discounted.