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Post by melbella on Sept 21, 2017 1:07:08 GMT
Today I perpertrated what shall be known as the Great Snoufleur Massacre of 2017. I've been slaughtering these adorable sabre-pigs all day because, so far as i know, they are the only leather-dropping creature that drops leather every single time you kill them, and usually in stacks of 7-10, and tier 3 leather at that. Each stack of 99 sells for just shy of 1600 royals and if anyone knows a better way to farm money to buy the ridiculously overpriced schematics in this game I am all ears. Give me some advice and save a snoufleur's life. Today I perpertrated what shall be known as the Great Snoufleur Massacre of 2017. I've been slaughtering these adorable sabre-pigs all day because, so far as i know, they are the only leather-dropping creature that drops leather every single time you kill them, and usually in stacks of 7-10, and tier 3 leather at that. Each stack of 99 sells for just shy of 1600 royals and if anyone knows a better way to farm money to buy the ridiculously overpriced schematics in this game I am all ears. Give me some advice and save a snoufleur's life. Another good farming operation is to farm the resistance belts and other goodies at the forbidden oasis tombs. So long as you leave one item in the tomb - perhaps the raw materials used for rune-making - it will all completely replenish the next time you return to the oasis.
You can also farm rift drops in JoH the same way. Loot from Descent will bring in a lot of gold.
If you are on PC, there are store mods that will make shops give you full value for everything you sell instead of just a fraction of the cost like they normally do.
Once you can afford a few schematics, save your game before buying anything. Buy what you what, then go sync with the nug to upload them. Reload your previous save and buy a different set of schematics. Upload via the nug again. At this point, you will also download the first set you uploaded but since you will be reloading a previous save, you will go back to not having them yet. Repeat until you've purchased and uploaded everything you want. Finally, reload your original save, head to the nug one last time, and you will download all the schematics that you previously uploaded.
I got lucky in this respect. Before Descent and Trespasser were released, I had decided in the game I was playing at the time, to buy every schematic I could. There was initially a bug in Descent where the requisitions station at the main camp paid full price for all loot you sold there. So, I racked up the coin quickly and was then able to buy and (later, when the Nug patch was released) upload all the Black Emporium and JoH schematics I had purchased with my bug'o'gold.
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Post by House Targaryen on Sept 21, 2017 5:34:01 GMT
Curtain call, Valeria. End of Trespasser, in her words. One more fight. Viddasala dies or I will. Makes no difference to me any more. What do you mean Solas is an agent of Fen'Harel? I can't take this any more! Solas is mine! Nothing will stand in my way to get to Solas! No Qunari, no demons, nothing! *Solas explains* To bring our people back to their former glory? Let me help you. Solas: You would wish to lose everyone you know? Your friends, your loves? Valeria: I... No. I would not sacrifice my friends and Sera. I'm going to stop you, Solas. I will convince you, that you're wrong. I'm NOT disbanding the Inquisition! We'll become Divine Victoria's honor guard. With Sera as my left hand, we're going to find Solas and convince our friend to stop what he is doing. After the Exalted Council ends, Leliana has decided to retire... for health reasons. It looks like Harding will be moving up in the ranks.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Sept 21, 2017 5:42:23 GMT
Curtain call, Valeria. End of Trespasser, in her words. One more fight. Viddasala dies or I will. Makes no difference to me any more. What do you mean Solas is an agent of Fen'Harel? I can't take this any more! Solas is mine! Nothing will stand in my way to get to Solas! No Qunari, no demons, nothing! *Solas explains* To bring our people back to their former glory? Let me help you. Solas: You would wish to lose everyone you know? Your friends, your loves? Valeria: I... No. I would not sacrifice my friends and Sera. I'm going to stop you, Solas. I will convince you, that you're wrong. I'm NOT disbanding the Inquisition! We'll become Divine Victoria's honor guard. With Sera as my left hand, we're going to find Solas and convince our friend to stop what he is doing. After the Exalted Council ends, Leliana has decided to retire... for health reasons. It looks like Harding will be moving up in the ranks. Leliana retire? How does that come about? Also, who was your Divine? Cass or Viv?
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Post by q5tyhj on Sept 21, 2017 6:01:46 GMT
I read this Blog about Dragon Age and it makes me feel so guilty for not recruiting Iron Bull. I left him to the Qun How could you do that to yourself? Iron Bull is an all-time great DA/BW character (or even just all-time great video game character, period)- very well-written and well-acted. Good article, though- thanks for the link. Hopefully it has made you rethink the error of your ways.
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Post by House Targaryen on Sept 21, 2017 6:12:23 GMT
Curtain call, Valeria. End of Trespasser, in her words. One more fight. Viddasala dies or I will. Makes no difference to me any more. What do you mean Solas is an agent of Fen'Harel? I can't take this any more! Solas is mine! Nothing will stand in my way to get to Solas! No Qunari, no demons, nothing! *Solas explains* To bring our people back to their former glory? Let me help you. Solas: You would wish to lose everyone you know? Your friends, your loves? Valeria: I... No. I would not sacrifice my friends and Sera. I'm going to stop you, Solas. I will convince you, that you're wrong. I'm NOT disbanding the Inquisition! We'll become Divine Victoria's honor guard. With Sera as my left hand, we're going to find Solas and convince our friend to stop what he is doing. After the Exalted Council ends, Leliana has decided to retire... for health reasons. It looks like Harding will be moving up in the ranks. Leliana retire? How does that come about? Also, who was your Divine? Cass or Viv? It would be in Leliana's best interest to retire. At the end credit slides its mentioned that she was grooming some of her top agents to take her place, plus she goes off and has time with the Hero of Feralden. My HoF romanced her in DAO. Cassandra as Divine.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Sept 21, 2017 7:22:04 GMT
Leliana retire? How does that come about? Also, who was your Divine? Cass or Viv? It would be in Leliana's best interest to retire. At the end credit slides its mentioned that she was grooming some of her top agents to take her place, plus she goes off and has time with the Hero of Feralden. My HoF romanced her in DAO. Cassandra as Divine. Oh, okay; makes sense. My last two Dalish Inquisitors made Leliana Divine because she liked elves and mages. She obviously wasn't about to retire from that.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 21, 2017 10:56:07 GMT
Today I perpertrated what shall be known as the Great Snoufleur Massacre of 2017. I've been slaughtering these adorable sabre-pigs all day because, so far as i know, they are the only leather-dropping creature that drops leather every single time you kill them, and usually in stacks of 7-10, and tier 3 leather at that. Each stack of 99 sells for just shy of 1600 royals and if anyone knows a better way to farm money to buy the ridiculously overpriced schematics in this game I am all ears. Give me some advice and save a snoufleur's life. I'm not exactly well versed in all things DA:I, but can't you just exploit the game using the Golden Nug? ^ This. Save, buy, interact with the Golden Nug, reload. You get your money back, but schematic is already saved for your profile.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 13:20:59 GMT
I read this Blog about Dragon Age and it makes me feel so guilty for not recruiting Iron Bull. I left him to the Qun How could you do that to yourself? Iron Bull is an all-time great DA/BW character (or even just all-time great video game character, period)- very well-written and well-acted. Good article, though- thanks for the link. Hopefully it has made you rethink the error of your ways. I thought since it was my 5th PT, I'd do well to start ignoring some characters to keep them fresh. Just as I've only played JoH and Descent on one character out of 5- I want to save them for "canon" characters, so I can feel out all their opinions about things. I'm kinda sad that the one time I did play these DLC, I was a friggen human. So elfy and dwarfy relevations totally wasted on her. Iron Bull outright tells you he's expensive--and a spy. Realistically the easiest companion to reject from perspective of the character.
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"Bull's dialogues and banters are intriguing because of their deceptive transparency. In the end, every single one of his interactions can be boiled down to an attempt by Bull to give people what he perceives them to require. Partly because it's what he's been driven since childhood to do—and partly because it's the best way to potentially manipulate them now or in the future." Steering this into a slightly different direction because the comments are interesting, but I'm also trying to avoid reading that article fully because I'm still in Hinterlands and will be spoiled. But, I've noticed a similar trait in Sten except to less subtle and manipulative degree. Sten: Alistair draw your sword. Alistair: No. Sten: (with approval) So you have a spine after all. Show it more often. It's like he's poking humans with a stick to see their reactions and analyze them. I've never disposed of a feeling that it's a psychological study of the enemy for a future invasion authorized by Arishok. At the same time it's respectful of his study subjects and he's trying to help in a peculiar way. He even shows compassion. If you have him in the party when you're going to magi tower, he praises Cullen for withstanding the torture. I was surprised, since Warden is the only other person in the entire Ferelden Sten deems worthy of an open compliment. Sometimes I get this funny feeling that Sten is like Wynne distributing advice in his own manner.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 14:16:49 GMT
Ugh... maybe I'm just grouchy today, but I found myself severely at odds with DA2. I went through a quest where Hawke gets tranquility documents from Templar Alreic (or what's his name). While breezing through Gallows, saw Cullen minding his business and I obviously can't walk by indifferently without poking him. When suddenly, this option 'show him the documents' pops up. SCENE SENCE MAKE YOU NOT! Cullen is like 'not gonna ask where you got personal items from a recently murdered Templar.' Me: WHY NOT?? So you feel nothing for your colleague's death and don't want to interrogate or if you're friendly with Hawke at least to gather information about a murder case? I know Cullen is wacked in the head in DA2 about mages, but I thought his work ethic still remained honest. This is so against his whole personality to put personal sentiment over what's right. I had Anders in my party, so when Cullen ignores the documents, Anders snaps about it and Cullen tells him, 'Stay out of this, MAGE.' Soooo... He isn't dumbly blind after all. For a guy fanatical about his job who probably knows every legal mage in town via face control, he should know that this guy is not here legally. Not to mention Ander's face should be at this point on every wanted poster - which a person who's serious about his job would know about! All he does, is tell Anders to shut up. Next Cullen proceeds to sputter heretical Meredith brainwashing policy along the lines of, 'It's the mages fault for being so out of line lately that restrictions against them have be tightened. More of them should be tranquilised.' At this point Anders is FURIOUS and shouts that Cullen is no better than that Templar they've gotten the document from. Ok? WHERE IS JUSTICE??? Taking a nap?!? At this point Cullen and Anders should be rolling around on the floor murdering each other. Instead my Hawke is like: *slap forehead* HAHAHA Look at the time. We're late for a tea party. *stuffs Anders into a bag and drags him away* Have a nice day, Cullen. Cullen: Maker Bless you, Hawke. ME: WTF????????????????? Was that???????
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 14:43:21 GMT
I made the silly mistake of believing I could buy a physical bound copy of all of Knight Errant in one book to arrive this last monday (brain really changed the date on me, it won't come out until next year!)
So, I bought the digital copy to read RIGHT NOW.
Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style: What, we're jumping back 50 years; oh no we're not. Oh, Vaea is pretty-- oh, wait no she's not. Maybe? ooo Kirkwall. Wait, did they change the geography on me again? thought you had to get to the Gallows by boat. Elven racism still rampant, good. Hardly got any in DAI Varric makes me laugh again in his first friggen sentence. Glad to see DAI didn't kill his humor after all. But his art representation has changed again. I think I prefer his last comic depiction over this one. But maybe they just want to imply he's older and wiser and such. Do like the return to more normal looking clothes for everyone. Frostbite sheen removed, it looks more medieval.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 14:56:00 GMT
Knight Errant, Comic 1, Impressions Continued: I find the premise concerning Meredith to be very OOC for what I know of the woman, but whatever. Onwards. Oh, see, now it's showing a boat to get to the Gallows. So what was that place when they first sailed in? It was kinda amusing to think the BE had taken her body for collection, but her still being there is actually kinda...sad. I have never in my life seen Varric kiss a lady's hand, nor ever would have believed he'd be inclined to do so. *frown* RAWR By order of Alistair himself! Gosh darn it, keep a tighter rein on those nobles, Alistair, I expect better! *snort* nug jokes. I approve. Onwards to Comic 2!
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:09:10 GMT
Knight Errant Comic #2 Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style:
If that's Charter, she's an obnoxious assuming ass and I don't like her anymore. And honestly... dont know if I like Vaea much either, at least the young version.-- nope. Her older version isn't much better. Sigh. This story is coming across as a bit forced. I guess it suffers from being a comic and needing to shove a lot of narrative into as few panels as possible- too much convenient plot connections are happening. Stuff happening too fast.
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Post by Catilina on Sept 21, 2017 15:10:39 GMT
Ugh... maybe I'm just grouchy today, but I found myself severely at odds with DA2. I went through a quest where Hawke gets tranquility documents from Templar Alreic (or what's his name). While breezing through Gallows, saw Cullen minding his business and I obviously can't walk by indifferently without poking him. When suddenly, this option 'show him the documents' pops up. SCENE SENCE MAKE YOU NOT! Cullen is like 'not gonna ask where you got personal items from a recently murdered Templar.' Me: WHY NOT?? So you feel nothing for your colleague's death and don't want to interrogate or if you're friendly with Hawke at least to gather information about a murder case? I know Cullen is wacked in the head in DA2 about mages, but I thought his work ethic still remained honest. This is so against his whole personality to put personal sentiment over what's right. I had Anders in my party, so when Cullen ignores the documents, Anders snaps about it and Cullen tells him, 'Stay out of this, MAGE.' Soooo... He isn't dumbly blind after all. For a guy fanatical about his job who probably knows every legal mage in town via face control, he should know that this guy is not here legally. Not to mention Ander's face should be at this point on every wanted poster - which a person who's serious about his job would know about! All he does, is tell Anders to shut up. Next Cullen proceeds to sputter heretical Meredith brainwashing policy along the lines of, 'It's the mages fault for being so out of line lately that restrictions against them have be tightened. More of them should be tranquilised.' At this point Anders is FURIOUS and shouts that Cullen is no better than that Templar they've gotten the document from. Ok? WHERE IS JUSTICE??? Taking a nap?!?At this point Cullen and Anders should be rolling around on the floor murdering each other. Instead my Hawke is like: *slap forehead* HAHAHA Look at the time. We're late for a tea party. *stuffs Anders into a bag and drags him away* Have a nice day, Cullen. Cullen: Maker Bless you, Hawke. ME: WTF????????????????? Was that??????? Justice doesn't coming out, if Anders able to controlling himself. Only he emerges, if Anders out of control, or perhaps, if he needs help. Anders was able to handle the situation. This situation wasn't dangerous, Cullen only was idiot, but not attacked them. Why? This is a very good question... bad writing... (how I hate this "explanation") Okay, PERHAPS there's a possible explanation: Anders the healer in the Darktown, and his work can keep relatively calm the refugees. Perhaps, this is a reason, that the Templars doesn't intervene.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:15:44 GMT
Knight Errant Comic #2 Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style Continued: Like, why would the owner of this inn even allow this all to happen... Aw. I got sad face. Ser Aaron is obviously awesome and not the sap she thinks. On to comic 3
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:26:34 GMT
Knight Errant Comic #3 Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style: Oy. If that's the real story of Ser Aaron, then I'm in love. *laughs* oh Vaea. You're so ignorant and dumb it's funny. at least here. No where else. Also, weird for Varric to use the same words as Vaea, like they've had a conversation about this very thing before but they totally didn't. Oh. My opinion of Sebastion goes up a strong tick. even if his hair in these panels has gone horribly horrible wrong. WEll. Obviously Sebastion needs to fire someone. I'm not certain if that form of landing is actually a good method, but the artists are sticking to it.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:36:37 GMT
Knight Errant Comic #3 Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style Continued: *laughs* Still loving Ser Aaron. Wow. I don't recognize these two at all. Did they even try to keep the same body shapes from one comic to the next? Oo, look at you Sebastion. if only you were so cool in game. And ya, Vaea. Ser Aaron is cool. Let him view on the world seep in on you a bit eh? Onwards to comic 4!
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:47:03 GMT
Knight Errant Comic #4 Impressions in a Text Based Let's play style : Sebastion needs to invite nicer people to parties... Criminy. @_@ That just happened. That random knight may be dead, but I'm becoming inclined to believe that Starkhaven is full of pretty pretty men. Oh no. Ser Aaron looks sad. Look at what you did, Vaea. Onto Comic 5!
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 15:56:20 GMT
Knight Errant #5:
That was... I dunno. It left on a high note, that's for certain. Still hate this version of Charter. Don't think Sebastian is that gullible but maybe.
The series started strong, ended strong, gut muddy in the middle. Still think it's better than Magekiller, but definitely not as good as the Alistair/Varric/Isabela comic story arc.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 17:29:42 GMT
Ugh... maybe I'm just grouchy today, but I found myself severely at odds with DA2. I went through a quest where Hawke gets tranquility documents from Templar Alreic (or what's his name). While breezing through Gallows, saw Cullen minding his business and I obviously can't walk by indifferently without poking him. When suddenly, this option 'show him the documents' pops up. SCENE SENCE MAKE YOU NOT! Cullen is like 'not gonna ask where you got personal items from a recently murdered Templar.' Me: WHY NOT?? So you feel nothing for your colleague's death and don't want to interrogate or if you're friendly with Hawke at least to gather information about a murder case? I know Cullen is wacked in the head in DA2 about mages, but I thought his work ethic still remained honest. This is so against his whole personality to put personal sentiment over what's right. I had Anders in my party, so when Cullen ignores the documents, Anders snaps about it and Cullen tells him, 'Stay out of this, MAGE.' Soooo... He isn't dumbly blind after all. For a guy fanatical about his job who probably knows every legal mage in town via face control, he should know that this guy is not here legally. Not to mention Ander's face should be at this point on every wanted poster - which a person who's serious about his job would know about! All he does, is tell Anders to shut up. Next Cullen proceeds to sputter heretical Meredith brainwashing policy along the lines of, 'It's the mages fault for being so out of line lately that restrictions against them have be tightened. More of them should be tranquilised.' At this point Anders is FURIOUS and shouts that Cullen is no better than that Templar they've gotten the document from. Ok? WHERE IS JUSTICE??? Taking a nap?!?At this point Cullen and Anders should be rolling around on the floor murdering each other. Instead my Hawke is like: *slap forehead* HAHAHA Look at the time. We're late for a tea party. *stuffs Anders into a bag and drags him away* Have a nice day, Cullen. Cullen: Maker Bless you, Hawke. ME: WTF????????????????? Was that??????? Justice doesn't coming out, if Anders able to controlling himself. Only he emerges, if Anders out of control, or perhaps, if he needs help. Anders was able to handle the situation. This situation wasn't dangerous, Cullen only was idiot, but not attacked them. Why? This is a very good question... bad writing... (how I hate this "explanation") Okay, PERHAPS there's a possible explanation: Anders the healer in the Darktown, and hes work can keep relatively calm the refugees. Perhaps, this is a reason, that the Templars doesn't intervene. Justice doesn't coming out, if Anders able to controlling himself.That's the problem though, Justice comes out for lesser crimes and baits than that. Cullen basically professes support for the tranquility in a no sugar coat way and Anders is shouting a really angry retort, and he's comparing Cullen to the man he went berserk over. If he's as bad as that guy, by Justice logic he needs to be dead. Okay, PERHAPS there's a possible explanation: Anders the healer in the Darktown, and hes work can keep relatively calm the refugees. Perhaps, this is a reason, that the Templars doesn't intervene.
I'm extremely unclear about the rules that apply to apostate mages. Apparently it's not enough to carry a big staff on your back to automatically set a horde of Templars chasing after you. Something needs to be triggered before they react. In which cases do Templars invoke the law to take an apostate to the Circle and in which cases they ignore an apostate standing right under their nose? While being an apostate, from the lawful Templars, does not automatically provoke an attack, it still is Templars' responsibility to find apostates and take them to the Circle. Obviously the Templars show no mercy to the malifecarum who have reports or suspicions against them harming civilians, but if the apostates are not known for specific crimes, than sometimes Templars don't attempt to take them into custody, at least not immediately. I have no idea based on which grounds. Also, I've remembered a detail from the quest where we save Cullen from a possessed recruit. I had Bethany with me and when Cullen punches the recruit, she speak up against him. To which he says something along the lines of, 'I don't need advice from an apostate how to do my job.' So, he IS aware that she's a magic user, but back then makes zero attempt to get her. However, he does show up later if Hawke doesn't take her to the Deep Roads. I guess you could explain that Cullen saw what Hawke could do during the battle and doesn't want to pick a fight 1 vs 4 over an apostate who just saved his life when he has vital information that needs to be reported. But, later you stroll with mages in front of him and he doesn't react either, but neither do all those other Templars. So... I really don't get the rules in which cases the Templars can take a suspect apostate into custody. While it makes little sense, obviously, I'm glad that a fight didn't occur between those two as I like them both. In this case I can't even guarantee I would have backed Anders. Right now I'm FURIOUS with Anders. During that confrontation with Ser A, Justice MURDERED that poor mage woman. Prior to that Justice killed his Tranquil friend. It's interesting how Cullen gets a reputation for harassing mages, but for all the shit he says, I have not yet encountered a scene (I'm not confident there will not be one in the future as Cullen is a psychological mess. I sincerely hope not.) where Cullen would attack a tranquil or run a sword through an unarmed mage who is begging for mercy. Of all the people... Anders does that. I was so angry about it, I kicked Anders out of the party for two rl days. I don't want to see his face. Justice murdered two innocents whom he professed he was defending. When I finally came to see Anders he's like ... 'Woe is me, I'm so sorry I killed that poor woman. I hope her relatives will think the Templars are responsible for her death..." He can take his fake sorry and stick it where I want to put his staff. Because for all his sorry, if I were to tell him that Justice is using his body to commit crimes and he needs to consider the means of separating Justice from him, I have no doubt Anders would fight me to death. My Hawke is the one to talk because I'm RPing the darker one. She refused to save one of the three dwarven brothers in favour of a sword and then lied about it. That's why (well that and I NEED a mage in my damn party) I added Anders back. But, I'm not happy with him atm and I don't want him in my party, just his skills. Next game I will take Topor's deal to have an excuse to attack Justice in the Fade. He has overstayed his welcome in Ander's body and needs to be kicked out of there. Although, I very much doubt he'll be killed in that act. DA2 is vexing me at present. Me at the start of the game: Hurray! I get 3 mages to choose from! Bethany - dies in the Deep Roads. Anders - I murder innocents! xD (Hawke - get out of my party!) Merill - The magic talent tree you've trained me in is USELESS. Also, *grab Hawke's throat* GIMMEGIMMEGIMME back my creepy artifact! I want to fix an obviously demonic looking mirror!!!' I don't trust that blasted mirror. It seriously looks EVIL. I don't trust that crazy kid not to pickpocket my Hawke either for that artifact. I kicked her out of the party too. My Hawke is a useless rogue. I walked around in a crippled party for days that consists of four physical DD because I only half-trust Fenris, Avelyn and Varric. Everyone else is absolutely unreliable. Even my evil Hawke wants to get away from the crazy mages. It's very annoying since that's my favourite class and I heavily rely on mages in fights to get the job done.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 17:40:48 GMT
I was so angry about it, I kicked Anders out of the party for two rl days. I don't want to see his face. Justice murdered two innocents whom he professed he was defending. When I finally came to see Anders he's like ... ' Woe is me, I'm so sorry I killed that poor woman. I hope her relatives will think the Templars are responsible for her death..." He can take his fake sorry and stick it where I want to put his staff. Because for all his sorry, if I were to tell him that Justice is using his body to commit crimes and he needs to consider the means of separating Justice from him, I have no doubt Anders would fight me to death. OMG, I'm so glad I'm not the only one that heard that. It's out of scene and folks were saying they'd never heard it, and then defended his saying it as well, when it was the most disgusting cowardly thing ever to say. EVER. @_@
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Post by cmoe on Sept 21, 2017 17:49:51 GMT
The Lion is all cleared out now... Just the Forbidden Oasis left.. All 10 high dragons down. Poor guys. I really wanted to just let the big guy sleep. It's awake and not happy about it. Last dragon I don't know if this is any better than being on fire. Whoa, close enough there big guy.
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Post by phoray on Sept 21, 2017 17:56:58 GMT
adonnielAre you rivaling Anders? Because you'd be surprised what he'd admit to in Act 3 regarding the merger.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 18:16:04 GMT
adonniel Are you rivaling Anders? Because you'd be surprised what he'd admit to in Act 3 regarding the merger. I can't understand what I'm doing with Anders atm. At first he was rising into friendship, but lately I've been giving him anger options because I'm angry about his actions and it began declining into rivalry, but it's low level of rivalry. I didn't want to model Hawke's actions based on a collective approval and as a result most of my meters are either slightly into rivalry or slightly into approval. Except for Fenris being 100 approval and Bethany also used to have 100 approval. My actions seem to randomly give pluses and minuses into both directions. It's inconvenient because most of my companion's personal skill trees are still locked. At present my need to have a variety of skills in combat and practicality trumps over the characters' personal beliefs and the characters have conflicting views, so I always get plus from one minus from the other and reverse five minutes later.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2017 18:24:54 GMT
I was so angry about it, I kicked Anders out of the party for two rl days. I don't want to see his face. Justice murdered two innocents whom he professed he was defending. When I finally came to see Anders he's like ... ' Woe is me, I'm so sorry I killed that poor woman. I hope her relatives will think the Templars are responsible for her death..." He can take his fake sorry and stick it where I want to put his staff. Because for all his sorry, if I were to tell him that Justice is using his body to commit crimes and he needs to consider the means of separating Justice from him, I have no doubt Anders would fight me to death. OMG, I'm so glad I'm not the only one that heard that. It's out of scene and folks were saying they'd never heard it, and then defended his saying it as well, when it was the most disgusting cowardly thing ever to say. EVER. @_@ Anders says it when you go to see him at the apothecary after that quest. It's not in the murder scene. He also flees from Hawke's party during that scene. In the Awakening, Anders is probably my favourite party member. Going into DA2 I wanted to be on his side, I really wanted to. Also, I cared for Justice in the Awakening. But, at this point I believe Justice has been corrupted into a demon. Anders needs to be rid of the possession.
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