General Gameplay Discussion

The unique items are meant for specific builds (including companion setup sometimes), usually using more than one unique or with specific other gears. 

Lowering cooldowns for Rook is in a few places, including certain companion's passives on their support skills.

Even the Nugs?

Headshot them with your beam/ranged against humanoids (on basic settings/assists just aim snap and tweak slightly upwards and it there for crits until your mana runs out) , or use charged regular attacks, which is what the tool tip says.

Charged attacks (hold attack button), try to aim an headshot (or foot shot) or  us an ability (high stagger one open them for longer or anything that freeze or knockdown).

There is a rune that cause ranged attacks to break it on usage too.

If it's the one I think you mean, it's Lords of Fortune armour. You get some for completing the Hall of Valour fights and can get more if you level up the LoF merchant.

I took a quick sneek-peek at Taash's romance.....and for the very first time ever in the history of the franchise (since Qunari were a playable character/race) I decided to actually see if I could make a jaw droppingly gorgeous Qunari.....ANd I dare say I succeeded. Because I was gunning for the revealing armour set I decided to play as a Female Qunari Mage from the Lords of Fortune (not that that class/faction combination makes sense given the Lore and backstory, but why not?) And this time, this character has eyes only for Taash.


I find I'm having quite a lot of fun trying out the different Faction/Class and Race combinations and seeing what I can come up with. I am very interested in seeing how the story plays out with each character I've created. My first character is an Elf Mage from the Veil Jumpers (you all know about that one...she is romancing Belara), my second is a human female Rogue Duelist from the Antivan Crows (hoping to romance Taash), my third is a Human Female Mage from the Shadow Dragons (planning to romance Harding) and lastly is this new Female Qunari Mage from the Lords Of Fortune (planning to romance only Taash).

Going to see how the game plays out with each character....then decide which one I like best.

I thought charged attacks might be the thing. But I haven't been great at actually executing them.

Hi Ice Quin....I will second your comment about the Combat (within the DA Franchise) it's the best combat yet no matter the class. Have not played a Warrior yet...But Im having an absolute blast with both the Mage (I tend to use the Orb/dagger more than the Staff...but both are excellent) and the dual blade wielding Rogue....Both are so much fun!

To ansqer your question, I think the bonus is dependent on the weapon you have equipped. If uou have an Orb/Dagger that says Mana + Regen when that is equipped...then that Buff is for that slecific weappn set. Likewise if you have a Staff that says, I dunno.... Stagger -10+ Mana +5 then that Stat buff is for that weapon only....But I might be wrong though.

To be honest I dont really look very closely at Weapon Stats. If it's big and it hits hard, Ill use it.🤣

You really just need to hold down the light or heavy attack buttons. For light-charged, it will release them automatically, too, when fully charged.

I habitually go tap-tap-tap-hold for my regular attack loop, shield bearer or no, for that extra punch at the end.

But once again - for shielded enemies, really just lazily pointing your ranged beam at them and then roughly aim above the shield is way easier and deals vastly more damage. Plus there is nothing like recoil, so you don't even have to readjust your aim or anything. You just stunlock them and deal crits for days. It's basically how I took down all of the crossroads revenants.

I thought it was a ton of fun. It did get a bit repetitive for me super late game, however I think that’s more to do with lack of enemy variety. I think I gel with warrior more than rogue, but have only played a bit of rogue for comparison.

In my DA history I’ve only played warrior in DAO (which I found pretty meh), otherwise rogue in DA2 and DAI.

Hi, Andraste!       Wow...OK, sounds like you know the game quite well.  I will trust your advice/judgement and try playing a Sword & Shield when I am done the four PCs that I currently have on the go.