What did you do today in Dragon Age The Veilguard [Spoilers]

That's part of why Spellblade is so good. It has the dual-specialty of fire and electricity. I'm perfectly willing to swap implements between fights, so even my "Ice Mage" would be using gear tailored to each fight. I try not to waste skill points on unused abilities, but I will also swap skill loadouts when it makes sense to do so.

My Spellblade uses Meteor for on-demand damage + stagger + burning. Tempest creates a huge AoE in which foes get hammered into the ground by constant lightning strikes. It keeps enemies from reaching Rook while wrecking them. My third spell is Firewall, simply because I like to have a cooldown ability that doesn't use Mana. Often it's a "why not?" casting when something gets close; and sometimes it's an emergency button to get that momentary immunity.

I juggle staves and orbs to fit the situation. Eventually, swapping won't be worthwhile, since Rook will have crowds of enemies dying under layers of Burning, Shocked, and Arcane Bombs. Their resistances don't mean much under so many status effects and bombs.

Yeah though I love swapping abilities around. I have like 3 different builds I run to handle different situations. 

And picking up more abilities doesn't really hurt a build cause you get +15% ability damage each time you do. 

I only swapped my abilities for the...one fight in the Necropolis.

I didn't swap abilities at all on my warrior and rogue. I just found the 3 abilities I liked and used them for most of the playthrough.

Warrior: Driving Kick (then Blight Bane at 21), Titan Stomp, Grappling Spear
Rogue: Hurricane (then Toxic Dash), Thousand Cuts, Pilfer

They rely on physical damage though for most of their attacks (though late game you can get quite spam happy with abilities especially on Rogue since Momentum doesn't decay).

Mages rely on abilities and if you commit to building out a full Frost build for example, you'll struggle vs undead and fade-touched enemies on Nightmare, among other things.

Tbh I found it... immersive? 

My first dozen or so points on Mage went out to filling the entire Mage core and grabbing Frost Nova, Chain Lightning, and Wall of Fire. This established that my character is an elementalist who can use all 3 spell types. I avoid using any Necrotic damage cause that's not appropriate for the character I'm making.

My two main builds are:

Frost build: Entropic Spere, Frost Nova/Ice Blast, Dark Squall
Fire build: Arcane Shot, Fire Wall, Frost Nova/Ice Blast

I try to use Frost staff unless I'm running against Darkspawn and Undead then I swap to Fire staff. I used Orb and Dagger early on for mixed damage but I haven't had to use it much. I did just use the Fire dagger on the 2 dragon fight.

I'm currently pathing towards Meteor to pick up some cool passives and some fire damage. I'll use Meteor instead of Arcane Shot when I get it for mooks.

So forgot to mention a couple of things from my recent play sessions and probably some more that I continue to notice and think make this game even better. The chests don't really seem to RNG, I imagine there are still some RNG chests but said chests usually do seem to just be resources I guess. Seems you can be relied on getting the same equipment from chests and what not.

Well melee is now fun again, perhaps too fun in some ways. I just remember having so much trouble in my first PT here running from...well pretty much anything because I didn't have a tank or anything so they kept forcing me and just my attacks didn't seem to do much damage. But the bleeding effect with Cordova's toothpick just seems to utterly eat health. I have had it as high up as nine bleeding stacks on a single target at one point, and even during an encounter a guy had probably a quarter health at least, six bleeding stacks, and it just snapped up. Hesitant to do this because I have not really fought a boss with this build yet but man somewhat does sometimes feel a little boring a ttimes to do it this way but then its also super fun at times to do this, especialy against Darkspawn, and then you have that music blaring in your ear. Of course apprepro to almost nothing ultimatley but keeping in mind my future playthroughs and while this might tempt me to do this in the early playthrough and would match the brawler status...at the end of the day just not sure. Afterall while I like the game design this only applies bleeding on melee attacks, not ranged, so his archer ways would be a bit...useless here. If only I could add bleeding to my bow then I would be good.

Got up through recruiting Davrin with the wife's Rook, which you know what that means.

Sooo, I was curious and went back to my Low effort Rook, back to the auto save it does at the Point of no Return. I picked up every conversation and quest I could, in order to see what was still doable.

Seems like I can still finish every companion quest. The ones that aren’t tied to the main quest, they just start like they would have in act 1. I can even still romance everyone except Taash, who’s lock-in is missable and Lucanis, though I'm pretty sure that’s because I didn’t save Treviso.

Doing Emmrich's Lich conversation and it's pretty amazing how wildly divergent the whole thing goes based on how much you support the idea.

My Shadow Dragon Rook, while generally a bit chill about things, does not like the idea at all. Rook spent the entire conversation repeatedly insisting the idea was bad while asking questions to elaborate.

I meant like I'd fast travel to the quest zone, then fast travel to the map pin. That eats up a lot of banter potential if you don't go to the right triggers.