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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 15, 2020 11:11:40 GMT
4) my patience varies with the day, sometimes I have these mellow days where I have the patience of a saint, and at other times I rage quit games after 5 minutes or less but in terms of waiting for mods...I'm quite patient in fact, I'm currently waiting for a certain mod to be released in regards to the ME trilogy see, someone made a very pretty mod which allows you to configure default FemShep in ME3, and they have plans to convert it to ME1 and 2 no estimate is given yet, but since I'll be busy with Dragon Age for a while, my hopes are that the conversions will be posted by the time I'm done 10) and yeah, apparently it's a nod toward Captain America from Marvel, have to admit the Marvel movies aren't bad, but the only one I frequently watch is the first Avengers one 11) its one of few reasons I tend to play rogues in favor over warriors. I mean, I have lock bash but it only works in the original and Awakening campaign for mages I now have the open lock spells mod I once linked, they work across campaigns except for the darkspawn chronicles one but in Witch Hunt you don't have a rogue in your party (Ariane is a warrior and Finn a mage)...so playing a rogue kinda rounds out the group in that campaign
12) Sten's hair...hm...I dunno, I'd try and make it more comparable to his look in the comic I mean, this one comes pretty close to what I'd want > link but it has horns (I mean the mod itself isn't bad, but to me Sten doesn't have horns ) however, ideally I'd love to make something like this > link (so pretty ) but as I said...I'm terrible at this kind of thing, else I would've made tons of things by now... 13) generally I'm also more simple minded when it comes to hair+eye combo's. My Tabris for example has red-blond hair and blue eyes as noted above, my Hawke has black hair and green eyes (I love that combination, though black hair and blue or grey eyes is also cool) but I'm not yet sure about my Lavellan...
and yup, that's my lineup mundane elf (rogue Tabris), magic human (Hawke), magic elf (Lavellan) and for DA4 mundane human (probably also a rogue, though that'll depend on the gameplay mechanics)
14) The one thing that's irritating is the fact you can't use attack spells whilst using healing aura, same goes for blood magic not allowing any healing spells while active 15) For team...I tend to pick at random depending on quests, at least in the first Act, after that I go with my favorites 16) I've recently used the console to manually add the Templar spec. to Carver (since I don't get why he and Bethany only gain their spec. after the first Act)
4) Nowadays, it is similar for me, but back in my teens, I was pretty easy to annoy in games. I have no experience with ME mods except for small things like modifying some configs for ME (more inventory space!) and some things I put on my friend's MEA install, like more research points per trip. That femshep looks good though, and it could give more consistent default across the games. Especially ME3's default looks rather different from the rest. 10) Never watched, possbly never will. I liked exactly one supehero thing: the first Kick-Ass film. I got that this guy is based on comics as well, but he's a vigilante in a dorky costume.
11) Don't remind me of the stupid traps in the (re)-visited Brecilian ruins. That was annoying. Otherwise, I have generally less issues if the game at least gives you a rogue party member to do stuff. Dwarf commoner OS works well, due to Leske. Dwarf noble not so much, as the treacherous scout is too low on CUN to detect traps (just like Daveth ). And the exile portion also has traps. And don't even get me started on Dalish/City elf/Cousland. Locked stuff and traps everywhere, but no rogues to be had. All this actually made doubly annoying for Cousland, as it is their frickin' house, they should have keys. To be honest, I sometimes just open the console and turn the warrior archers Tamlen/Fenarel/Lady Cousland into rogues. Soris is harder, as he's a shield guy. Oh, and while the mage origin has a rogue, there are no locks and traps. Well, Lily also an archery ability or two, but there's no bows to be found anyway.
12) Sten's top/middle hair portion seems to be pretty much the same, but it appears as if he let the sides to grow longer. Remembering the Arishok from DA2, I wonder if those "ear rings squares" are some kind of rank insignia. You like cords all over the place, eh? What do you think of the infamous braid of the hairstyle worn by Teagan.?
13) Please do not be offended, but between blue/grey/green, there's a bit of overlap at times. Of course, only some insensitive brown-eyed death glare fool like me would say that. I've got three Inq's, all females. Mage Lavellan (annoyed elf, around thirty), mage Adaar (a bit young at early-mid twenties, but secretly a bit power-hungry, lightning magic ) and a Cadash rogue archer (intended to be either no-nonsense or at least extremely deadpan organiser personality, with late thirties-early forties the oldest of the bunch). No melees yet, as I cannot keep myself motivated with these controls. 14) I guess the Cleansing Aura block on "offensive" spells was done for some sort of odd balance. As for things you can cast with it active: Arcane: everything except Crushing Prison Creation: everything Elemental/Entropy: nothing Primal: Rock Armor Spirit: only Dispel and possibly Death Siphon Blood Magic: uhm, nothing Force Mage: Everything except Fist of the Maker ... and there come the odd things, such as Sleep being very similar in function to Glyph of Paralysis (AOE disable/stun), but Sleep is blocked while being the weaker of the two (gamble-style success chances, friendly fire, various supernaturals like undead being outright immune...) In the ability database, there's a column used to specify an ability (the Cleansing Aura modal) that blocks the spell in question... so I got rid of the reference there for my mod, Sleep is now allowed, as well as Misdirection Hex and Petrification, as they are all some kind of disabling spell without a damage component. Blood mages being "immune" to healing is a thing I can understand though, as a heal would cost the mage less hitpoints than it restores. The thing with Cleansing Aura is, in early game versions it was apparently not mutually exclusive with the blood magic modal. While targeted heals and potions are nullfied by blood magic, the slow innate auto-heal that all characters have is not, and Cleansing Aura works by boosting this auto-heal.
15) You mean... after you have locked in frienship/rivalry with most characters. That's at least a point where I stop switching at the latest. Also, some characters switch their annoyingness around, i.e. Fenris can get better, Anders gets worse.
16) I guess that's for plot reasons, as Force Mage is seen as a speciality of the Kirkwall circle and templar abilities, well... If you get it before, Carver might have paid some kicked-out templar (like Samson) to share their knowledge, which is also how I think Hawke could acquire the spec. 3) Yes, Leaping shot, thank you. Forgot the name. Funny thing that further there are two huge lizards fighting and you need to kill them anyway but at the same time those asshole on the other side. So 2 h warrior Hawke with campion armor, the best bijouterie (play that DLC always before the final part of the game): - an archer with that leaping shot with explosives as well just wipes out my whole party (Scythe helps lot), but warrior Hawke can take several punches from that huge lizards and kiting helps. Guess those DLC enemies are just sort of preparation for DAI.
I as well make restriction, e.g. playing as DW AW mage use only spells wich can be casted with weapon in hand. And the thing is the are not many of them. Plus use only some protections but not that cheating AW protection as it makes each fight really easy.
5) In NWN it is easier. The main thing - just do not forget to talk to companions, that is all. Just talk after some quests and they will tell you different thing if trust enough, can give you quests for wich they give you useful things. Or right after some encounter talk to the Drow who can tell you she loves you e.g. (but to hear that you need talk/do somethinge.g.)
That NWN systeme is interesting and actually close to reality (not like 'kill the boy- give a nug" and she is happy).
7)Yep, take Zevran everywhere as an archer as well. PB,PB,PB are awesome with him.
8) Ah, good. Well, as Avelin says the city is always not safe. And people die anyway. Can happen anything..yeah...
10) Someone had to take that role. Stupid, brainless cheater who ends up dead in the end anyway.
3) Kiting with ranged attackers is something I get. How do you kite with a melee? Is it running in, attacking once/do a Mighty Blow/Whirlwind, then running away, rinse and repeat? Sounds tedious to me.
The wiki has a page dedicated to which spells can be cast with weapons in hand, and some are pretty odd, like both versions of Walking Bomb. I tend to select spells according to those lines as well, but there are also mods for making everything castable with weapon in hand, I suppose. With cheating AW protection you mean Shimmering Shield? To be honest, I tend to use this at times even when an AW is in "casting mode" and a horde of shield-bashers is coming in.
5) Sounds good. I hope I can get around to play it someday. Always enough stuff to do in games, but not enough time.
8) I suppose a chantry priest could easily trip over their own robes and stab herself on all the daggers she's carrying, if that Natalie from Leliana's quest in DAI is anything to go by.
10) Add Branka to the pool. Yeah, no dwarf can interact with lyrium veins, except her. She's hard enough without the clones, at least for me.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 15, 2020 11:32:20 GMT
melbella I took those statues as bears, or some creepy hybrid. I did not consider trials yet, but that sounds almost like tracking down bugs. -- Speaking of which, for some reason DAO CTDed while loading the shrieky camp attack, and since I thought it would be due to the infamous DAO memory leak and/or my exceedindly large savegame (120-ish hours), I applied a 4GB RAM patch. No success, and I was already on the road of making peace with my save being broken. Then I disabled all mods and the scene worked properly, so next step was enabling them again one by one and the culprit was apparently my ass-old warden armours mod, or more likely the replacement textures on Wynne's warden robes. Odd thing was that the textures were not packed in .erf or something, which also could be a reason.
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Anyway, made some progress during the last few days. After being informed by a bearded smugass that Branka is essentially an obnoxious b*tch, Surana and party of Golem lady, painted elf and drunk dwarf went down into the Darkspawn-spumed tunnels. Killing Spawn and disarming their traps was the usual warden chore and there were also tons of worm-faced chicken dinosaur pop-ups around, on expecially regal example prompted Surana to question how much blood a Deepstalker actually has... Next cave turned out to be more blue that brown-orange, but same amount of slog. I guess I prefer Spawn over Golems though, as Ogres are not immune to blood magic. Another "for science!" moment had Surana trying to figure out how much blood a pride demon contains. Turned out that diary we were looking for was in a hive of skittering pop-ups with far too many legs. At least the cave had a nice bridge that could be trapped to explode some insects and the odd emissary. Mama spider, contrary to my usual habits, did not get rolled on her back and burned, but her inside turned outwards and then she exploded. While inside Bownammar, Surana played some Moorhuhn on a bridge. After killing some more Spawn and undead dwarves in less memorable ways, they found a rambling ghoulish dwarf called Hespith, who spent her time making creepy poems and eating Genlocks. Surana's revulsion got the better of her again, so as soon as the ghoul stopped talking, a fireball was on its way. Too bad those Branka supports are fast on their short legs. Shortly after, they found what the ghoul was teasing about; a titty Darkspawn lady. Turned out not to be a good host, that constant spitting was especially not lady-like, so she got Death Clouds put on her head and her kiddies slaughtered until she gave up, barfed and died. Eeeew. Surana was too grossed out to take pictures. Speaking about gross, the next bitch was waiting just around the corner. Next time, you'll play with those rock men yourself. Those 40-something traps we used to clear out that one hallway were not cheap! Anyway. Finally reaching the lyrium tentacle cavern, it was decision time. Since this is my first ever PT having Shale, I had Surana side with Caridin, so maniacal anvil-loving bitch was killed. The usual way. Surana had a mad idea of trying Animate Dead on her body and to everyone's surprise, it worked. Given Branka's gushing over an army of obedient brutes, I suspect some... karma at work. All this made some subsuquent scenes more hilarious But we were not finished yet, so the big guy took his small hammer and made an ugly hat for the next best king. Afterwards, Surana took that hammer and her best "smash stuff" face (she isn't experienced with these) and smashed the anvil into itsy bitsy pieces. The big guy decided to drop down a million cliffs with lava down below. Surana makes an odd face here. What is she thinking? Time to return to Orzammar before the Deshyrs can manage to destroy it and give the ugly hat to this guy... ...and be happy that he apparently likes the throne room decoration we left him some time ago. The party finished the day by letting the dog out to fetch the Duty helmet and something else, but he wasn't lucky beyond bringing back the bucket. His look really makes me sad. Going through the character records, I noticed that, after Jarvia ursurped the "most powerful foe slain" title from Piotin, she herself was pushed out by Laryn on Surana's record. Branka was suspiciously absent, and a eerie thought crept up... and yes, after a few clicks I saw that Oghren offed his ex. After some rest, Surana and Shale had a talk about the latter's past, so they set out to Cadash Thaig, accompanied by Zevran and Sten. Battling through some Darkspawn, pop-up pests and an Ogre who used to smallest room imaginable to attack, the party finally found another momunent in honour of dwarven volunteers. After some embarrassing talk, Surana quietly agreed that "crushing something soft and watch it fountain blood" is a girlish thing to do. Her definition of crushing is just slightly different. Now it was really time to finally leave Orzammar for good. Along the way, Surana had a bad dream of sickly dragon and was rudely woken by a band of squeaky nosferatu. Taking no shit, those were quickly bled dry and after everyone commented on the situation, it was travel time again. Next stop: Holy bucket of dirt.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 15, 2020 11:54:46 GMT
4) Nowadays, it is similar for me, but back in my teens, I was pretty easy to annoy in games. I have no experience with ME mods except for small things like modifying some configs for ME (more inventory space!) and some things I put on my friend's MEA install, like more research points per trip. That femshep looks good though, and it could give more consistent default across the games. Especially ME3's default looks rather different from the rest. 10) Never watched, possbly never will. I liked exactly one supehero thing: the first Kick-Ass film. I got that this guy is based on comics as well, but he's a vigilante in a dorky costume.
11) Don't remind me of the stupid traps in the (re)-visited Brecilian ruins. That was annoying. Otherwise, I have generally less issues if the game at least gives you a rogue party member to do stuff. Dwarf commoner OS works well, due to Leske. Dwarf noble not so much, as the treacherous scout is too low on CUN to detect traps (just like Daveth ). And the exile portion also has traps. And don't even get me started on Dalish/City elf/Cousland. Locked stuff and traps everywhere, but no rogues to be had. All this actually made doubly annoying for Cousland, as it is their frickin' house, they should have keys. To be honest, I sometimes just open the console and turn the warrior archers Tamlen/Fenarel/Lady Cousland into rogues. Soris is harder, as he's a shield guy. Oh, and while the mage origin has a rogue, there are no locks and traps. Well, Lily also an archery ability or two, but there's no bows to be found anyway.
12) Sten's top/middle hair portion seems to be pretty much the same, but it appears as if he let the sides to grow longer. Remembering the Arishok from DA2, I wonder if those "ear rings squares" are some kind of rank insignia. You like cords all over the place, eh? What do you think of the infamous braid of the hairstyle worn by Teagan.?
13) Please do not be offended, but between blue/grey/green, there's a bit of overlap at times. Of course, only some insensitive brown-eyed death glare fool like me would say that. I've got three Inq's, all females. Mage Lavellan (annoyed elf, around thirty), mage Adaar (a bit young at early-mid twenties, but secretly a bit power-hungry, lightning magic ) and a Cadash rogue archer (intended to be either no-nonsense or at least extremely deadpan organiser personality, with late thirties-early forties the oldest of the bunch). No melees yet, as I cannot keep myself motivated with these controls. 14) I guess the Cleansing Aura block on "offensive" spells was done for some sort of odd balance. As for things you can cast with it active: Arcane: everything except Crushing Prison Creation: everything Elemental/Entropy: nothing Primal: Rock Armor Spirit: only Dispel and possibly Death Siphon Blood Magic: uhm, nothing Force Mage: Everything except Fist of the Maker ... and there come the odd things, such as Sleep being very similar in function to Glyph of Paralysis (AOE disable/stun), but Sleep is blocked while being the weaker of the two (gamble-style success chances, friendly fire, various supernaturals like undead being outright immune...) In the ability database, there's a column used to specify an ability (the Cleansing Aura modal) that blocks the spell in question... so I got rid of the reference there for my mod, Sleep is now allowed, as well as Misdirection Hex and Petrification, as they are all some kind of disabling spell without a damage component. Blood mages being "immune" to healing is a thing I can understand though, as a heal would cost the mage less hitpoints than it restores. The thing with Cleansing Aura is, in early game versions it was apparently not mutually exclusive with the blood magic modal. While targeted heals and potions are nullfied by blood magic, the slow innate auto-heal that all characters have is not, and Cleansing Aura works by boosting this auto-heal.
15) You mean... after you have locked in frienship/rivalry with most characters. That's at least a point where I stop switching at the latest. Also, some characters switch their annoyingness around, i.e. Fenris can get better, Anders gets worse.
16) I guess that's for plot reasons, as Force Mage is seen as a speciality of the Kirkwall circle and templar abilities, well... If you get it before, Carver might have paid some kicked-out templar (like Samson) to share their knowledge, which is also how I think Hawke could acquire the spec. 4) Don't get me started, my mom often had to tell me to "take a break" because I was cursing at the screen, these days I've learned how to keep it inside mostly my brother though...damn does he have a potty mouth while gaming, especially with online gaming. One of his friends once said it isn't a lot of fun to play with him while he's in that kind of mood
10) nah, my favorite is Iron Man, he's kinda Marvel's version of Batman..but without the whole "I'm dark and broody" stick that guy has ending of the first Iron movie stays hilarious [press conference to talk about what happened between Iron Man and the main baddie]
random guy: just stick to the cards Tony Stark/Iron man: right sure... *goes to put on a show but gets triggered by a journalist* Tony Stark/Iron man: ...*looks at cards* the truth is...*throws away cards* I'm Iron Man They also have one of the most epic scenes ever in the last Avengers movie ( link I mean, come on...you can't say this isn't epic)
I'm generally not a big fan of super hero movies either...but as I said, the Marvel ones aren't so bad
11) which is why I prefer rogues for my Warden...mages come second place
12) Teagan's hairstyle isn't bad...but I kinda prefer the one Zevran/Nathaniel has Loghain has a similar one to Teagan but with braids on both sides, at least he ditches them in Inquisition
13) yeah I know, I have blue eyes but I've also been told they're grey or green...once had someone say brown...I can't see those last two though, there's no brown or green in my eyes (mine are a bit like this > link with the small brown-ish ring around the pupil)
14) yep, like I said...once had a full support mage Hawke all spells from creation, all from arcane except crushing prison, dispel magic + death syphon from spirit
15) yeah, I meant after maxing friendship/rivalry...most of the characters have quite a lot of influence gain during Act 1 (especially Anders and Varric)
16) I'm still pondering if I shouldn't just go with Force Mage...as much as I like Spirit Healer it isn't a very useful specialization...except during some of the fights in Mark of the Assassin (the Arcane Horror and Wyvern fights)
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Post by Sonya on Jun 15, 2020 12:59:04 GMT
3) Kiting with ranged attackers is something I get. How do you kite with a melee? Is it running in, attacking once/do a Mighty Blow/Whirlwind, then running away, rinse and repeat? Sounds tedious to me.
The wiki has a page dedicated to which spells can be cast with weapons in hand, and some are pretty odd, like both versions of Walking Bomb. I tend to select spells according to those lines as well, but there are also mods for making everything castable with weapon in hand, I suppose. With cheating AW protection you mean Shimmering Shield? To be honest, I tend to use this at times even when an AW is in "casting mode" and a horde of shield-bashers is coming in.
5) Sounds good. I hope I can get around to play it someday. Always enough stuff to do in games, but not enough time.
8) I suppose a chantry priest could easily trip over their own robes and stab herself on all the daggers she's carrying, if that Natalie from Leliana's quest in DAI is anything to go by.
10) Add Branka to the pool. Yeah, no dwarf can interact with lyrium veins, except her. She's hard enough without the clones, at least for me. 3) Your melee kiting description is right. In other words: just assess the melee situaltion. But you are very right in another thing as well; it is just f-ing tedious, thus if try to use it - only in some case. Hate it tbh. But with som enemies just can't do it, e.g. Uldred. No kiting with him in my PTs. Never worked. About mods: tend not to use such mods as would like to use what the game offers. Bug fix mods is another thing though. AW: yep, plus it just devours mana. And I need it actually. 8) Sound funny, thanks. 10) Already. Was interested in it myself. And could not find any explanation how that could be. She is hard enough not just to kill, but to shut her up while fighting those darkspawn from the tunnel. Really annoying. Next stop: Holy bucket of dirt. Do not forget to talk to Leliana after and tell her that. Hope nug or that flower are still in your bag. 16) I'm still pondering if I shouldn't just go with Force Mage...as much as I like Spirit Healer it isn't a very useful specialization...except during some of the fights in Mark of the Assassin (the Arcane Horror and Wyvern fights) Remember you wrote something about Hawke character and why she would be SH... Force mage is already another "person". Non?
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Buckeldemon, you have mentioned about kiting ranged enemies. You meant what? That you know how to avoide enemies guided arrows in DA games?
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 15, 2020 13:11:24 GMT
16) I'm still pondering if I shouldn't just go with Force Mage...as much as I like Spirit Healer it isn't a very useful specialization...except during some of the fights in Mark of the Assassin (the Arcane Horror and Wyvern fights) Remember you wrote something about Hawke character and why she would be SH... Force mage is already another "person". Non? Meh, true enough
plus I don't feel like going through the prologue yet again
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Post by Rascoth on Jun 15, 2020 14:10:39 GMT
I did not consider trials yet, but that sounds almost like tracking down bugs. You should try them. Nightmare + Even Ground + Grizzly End = Best Hafter's Wood stroll of my DAI career
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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 15, 2020 18:02:09 GMT
4) Don't get me started, my mom often had to tell me to "take a break" because I was cursing at the screen, these days I've learned how to keep it inside mostly my brother though...damn does he have a potty mouth while gaming, especially with online gaming. One of his friends once said it isn't a lot of fun to play with him while he's in that kind of mood 10) nah, my favorite is Iron Man, he's kinda Marvel's version of Batman..but without the whole "I'm dark and broody" stick that guy has ending of the first Iron movie stays hilarious [press conference to talk about what happened between Iron Man and the main baddie]
random guy: just stick to the cards Tony Stark/Iron man: right sure... *goes to put on a show but gets triggered by a journalist* Tony Stark/Iron man: ...*looks at cards* the truth is...*throws away cards* I'm Iron Man They also have one of the most epic scenes ever in the last Avengers movie ( link I mean, come on...you can't say this isn't epic) I'm generally not a big fan of super hero movies either...but as I said, the Marvel ones aren't so bad 11) which is why I prefer rogues for my Warden...mages come second place 12) Teagan's hairstyle isn't bad...but I kinda prefer the one Zevran/Nathaniel has Loghain has a similar one to Teagan but with braids on both sides, at least he ditches them in Inquisition 13) yeah I know, I have blue eyes but I've also been told they're grey or green...once had someone say brown...I can't see those last two though, there's no brown or green in my eyes (mine are a bit like this > link with the small brown-ish ring around the pupil) 14) yep, like I said...once had a full support mage Hawke all spells from creation, all from arcane except crushing prison, dispel magic + death syphon from spirit 15) yeah, I meant after maxing friendship/rivalry...most of the characters have quite a lot of influence gain during Act 1 (especially Anders and Varric) 16) I'm still pondering if I shouldn't just go with Force Mage...as much as I like Spirit Healer it isn't a very useful specialization...except during some of the fights in Mark of the Assassin (the Arcane Horror and Wyvern fights)
4) I like it to make fun about cursing at screens if the PC is broken, but I can feel that. Did it a lot too. These days I tend to yell at designers at times. Oh don't tell me that your brother is still in puberty and one of those guys who cheat at online shooters and then flood the chat with phrases containing references to reproductive organs. 10) Its epic for sure, I just don't know who all these people are. I found it a bit awkward to get into the Star Wars Expanded Universe (before Disney nuked it), but in case of a franchise which started in the 50s (?) with comics... that's intimidating. I watched one Iron Man film quite a few years ago and vaguely remember that he's mostly an inventor and gadget user? This reminded me quite a bit of David Xanatos, just in case you know that name. 11) So you gave in to the games constant rogue pushing? Tsk tsk... Now you can feel esponsible for my next fun project: I'll try to add two-handed abilities to rogues and see how/if one can backstab with a big maul. 12) I also like the Zevran/Nathaniel version... but I would never use it to avoid double-ups. Oh, and I originally searched for a modded Leliana simple to give her a unique hairstyle so my wardens could use hers. But that was before tucked hair. 13) Yeah, that example is a solid blueish. It may depend on the lighting? My girlfriend has grey-blueish. Daddy has some odd combination of darker green with brown speckles (is that the right word?), though I got mommy's brown death glare. She can be a bit like this if she wants to...
14) Did you mess around with Dispel a lot? I found two main uses: Dispelling the healing aura of commander-type enemies (like templar lt.s) once they finished their twirling (when I dispelled them while twirling, they were just interrupted and soon started twirling again ). Second is Meredith's statues. It stuns then for a good time and shaves off some health. 15) True. If one wants to rival Merrill without being mean to her, bring her along when destroying the "Evil Tomes" in Act2.
16) Hah, for me it was the other way around. Spirit Healers allow to just outlast certain encounters. Whenever I tried to use purely force-based abilities, they quite often tended to do nothing. The thing with force-only abilities is that their force is fixed, so it does not scale well into the late game, when enemies scale up in health and fortitude. No issue for damage-dealing stuff, as force is calculated from damage there, which can be constanly increased via stats and better weapons. For my own mod, I increased the multiplers for force-only abilities (Tremor, Glyph of Repulsion, Telekinetic Burst, Pull of the Abyss...) and added even higher modifers to possible upgrades (with level requirments for those upgrades being increased as well), so now most normal enemies fly around nicely. I dare say that it is still more useful than an archer going for Assassin (bows cannot backstab) or the much-hated Shapeshifter. Wait, you did say you played one at some point. Was this purely for roleplay or did you employ the forms regularly?
3) Your melee kiting description is right. In other words: just assess the melee situaltion. But you are very right in another thing as well; it is just f-ing tedious, thus if try to use it - only in some case. Hate it tbh. But with som enemies just can't do it, e.g. Uldred. No kiting with him in my PTs. Never worked. About mods: tend not to use such mods as would like to use what the game offers. Bug fix mods is another thing though. AW: yep, plus it just devours mana. And I need it actually. 10) Already. Was interested in it myself. And could not find any explanation how that could be. She is hard enough not just to kill, but to shut her up while fighting those darkspawn from the tunnel. Really annoying. Next stop: Holy bucket of dirt. 11) Do not forget to talk to Leliana after and tell her that. Hope nug or that flower are still in your bag. Edited:
12) Buckeldemon , you have mentioned about kiting ranged enemies. You meant what? That you know how to avoide enemies guided arrows in DA games?
3) You seem to be rather patient though if you like to play on difficulty settings where it might be needed. I guess with Uldred it is his combination of Ogre-style melee moves and AOE spells which makes it hard getting in and out without being hit? Remembers me of the time when I faced Diablo with my Amazon for the first time in D2. Fire Nova with a range of two screens, and poor bow-azon ended up badly burned before even having a chance to shoot.
Well, the mana drain is the tradeoff for the uber-ness, pretty much like with Spirit Warriors. But these usually get Death Blow to compensate.
10) Oh, yes. Branka's babbling. Surana had at least two fireballs discharged into the Paragon's direction before she could pull herself together again...
11) She's currently at 52 approval if I recall right, and had shoe-talk with Surana. I've got two of the flowers and no nug yet, but I guess it won't matter in the long run, as I did not harden her after she offed Marjolaine and I plan to take her (and Wynne) along when pouring some blood into the bucket... 12) My wording was poor. I meant I do kite as a ranged character, sometimes for fun, like that one time when casting Curse of Mortality + Walking Bomb on a guy in the Proving, then running like the wind. What people call "guided arrows" in DAO seems to be the game compensating for character movement. If an arrow will hit or not is apparently determined when it is fired (and attack-vs.-defense calculations, dodge chance dice rolls etc. are done) and the game then steers the arrow into the character as to prevent it from, say, hitting the wall behing a moving target but still doing damage. There's one hacky thing though: Scattershot. I once had an archer lining up one of these and I tried to hide my character behind some obstacles, but the shot still connected due to the talents auto-hit coding once fired, it hit right through the wall. Only way to stop Scattershot from hitting seems to be preventing it from being fired off at all by interrupting the offender (death, stun, knockdown...). I did not consider trials yet, but that sounds almost like tracking down bugs. You should try them. Nightmare + Even Ground + Grizzly End = Best Hafter's Wood stroll of my DAI career Uhm, no. If even the game itself mentions these trial settings are glitchy... On the other hand... can you give a guesstimate how long it takes to bring down one bear with these settings? One hour? Three?
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You should try them. Nightmare + Even Ground + Grizzly End = Best Hafter's Wood stroll of my DAI career Uhm, no. If even the game itself mentions these trial settings are glitchy... On the other hand... can you give a guesstimate how long it takes to bring down one bear with these settings? One hour? Three? Once trials were introduced I always used them, but I don't remember encountering anything really glitchy with them on. As for how long it takes to take down one bear... depends on where you are (because you know in Hafter's Wood it's never one bear) and how long you run with trials. Once you get used to trials, it's not bad, but first time, well, you don't bring it down, it brings you down
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 15, 2020 18:53:23 GMT
4) I like it to make fun about cursing at screens if the PC is broken, but I can feel that. Did it a lot too. These days I tend to yell at designers at times. Oh don't tell me that your brother is still in puberty and one of those guys who cheat at online shooters and then flood the chat with phrases containing references to reproductive organs. 10) Its epic for sure, I just don't know who all these people are. I found it a bit awkward to get into the Star Wars Expanded Universe (before Disney nuked it), but in case of a franchise which started in the 50s (?) with comics... that's intimidating. I watched one Iron Man film quite a few years ago and vaguely remember that he's mostly an inventor and gadget user? This reminded me quite a bit of David Xanatos, just in case you know that name. 11) So you gave in to the games constant rogue pushing? Tsk tsk... Now you can feel esponsible for my next fun project: I'll try to add two-handed abilities to rogues and see how/if one can backstab with a big maul. 12) I also like the Zevran/Nathaniel version... but I would never use it to avoid double-ups. Oh, and I originally searched for a modded Leliana simple to give her a unique hairstyle so my wardens could use hers. But that was before tucked hair. 13) Yeah, that example is a solid blueish. It may depend on the lighting? My girlfriend has grey-blueish. Daddy has some odd combination of darker green with brown speckles (is that the right word?), though I got mommy's brown death glare. She can be a bit like this if she wants to...
14) Did you mess around with Dispel a lot? I found two main uses: Dispelling the healing aura of commander-type enemies (like templar lt.s) once they finished their twirling (when I dispelled them while twirling, they were just interrupted and soon started twirling again ). Second is Meredith's statues. It stuns then for a good time and shaves off some health. 15) True. If one wants to rival Merrill without being mean to her, bring her along when destroying the "Evil Tomes" in Act2.
16) Hah, for me it was the other way around. Spirit Healers allow to just outlast certain encounters. Whenever I tried to use purely force-based abilities, they quite often tended to do nothing. The thing with force-only abilities is that their force is fixed, so it does not scale well into the late game, when enemies scale up in health and fortitude. No issue for damage-dealing stuff, as force is calculated from damage there, which can be constanly increased via stats and better weapons. For my own mod, I increased the multiplers for force-only abilities (Tremor, Glyph of Repulsion, Telekinetic Burst, Pull of the Abyss...) and added even higher modifers to possible upgrades (with level requirments for those upgrades being increased as well), so now most normal enemies fly around nicely. I dare say that it is still more useful than an archer going for Assassin (bows cannot backstab) or the much-hated Shapeshifter. Wait, you did say you played one at some point. Was this purely for roleplay or did you employ the forms regularly? 4) nah, he just has a lot of pend up emotions that he can't vent in any other way (he turned 30 a few weeks ago) and I've never known him to cheat on any games...he's a lot better at playing on higher difficulties then I am
10) I only know the main ones, the Avengers (consisting of Thor, Iron Man, Captain American, The Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye (last two aren't in the scene), then there's Ant man (the huge guy in that vid who slams buildings and stuff), Spiderman, Valkyrie (the lady on the pegasus) and Black Panther (that movie is renowned for being the first super hero movie with a 90% black cast)
11) oh that should be an interesting concept. I'm always amazed when a character does a slow-motion death animation with a maul and make a stabbing motion (mauls are for smashing!)
12) same, the Carver I have for my main Hawke uses a variation on that style (pulled back but without the braids) have to say it looks quite nice on him but it does make it a bit confusing during the "Finding Nathaniel" quest if Carver is a Warden
13) heh, that's how I imagine my grandmother used to be like (she was 1.5m but according to my dad he and his siblings were always scared of her when she was angry) it's also how I imagine my Tabris looks when she's angry
14) have to say I didn't really use dispel a lot, I mainly used glyph of paralysis during that playthrough (glyph of paralysis and then let Merrill cast chain lightning or Anders with fireball)
15) yeah, I did that once when I wanted to rival her...but for some reason I don't like any of the characters when they're full rivals that's why I tend to cheat Carver to give him 50 starting friendship like Bethany, I know its due to story reasons Carver starts out with rivalry, but I just wish we could've chosen on our own what our relationship with our siblings was like (kinda like with the Ryder twins changing their relationship based on whether you lied to them or not)
16) for Shapeshifter I used the mod that changes the spider into a wolf, which gives them overwhelm and howl as spells...it was fun to maul enemies also flying swarm was useful for backtracking in an area in case I forgot to loot something I tend to use assassin on a dual-wield rogue...I mean, assassin works better in other games where there's a proper sneaking dynamic
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 15, 2020 21:17:47 GMT
So after doing a few more restarts Ailith finally made it to Kirkwall
Along the way we met Aveline and her husband Wesley, lost Bethany to an ogre and Wesley to the Blight and met with Flemeth who safely got them to Gwaren where they took ship to Kirkwall. Arriving in Kirkwall the family ran into some trouble, no more refugees were allowed into the city, and mother's brother Gamlen had lost all the family fortune thus had no way to help them enter either. However, he did have a plan, two of his contacts had enough money to pay some bribes to get everyone inside, but with the catch that Ailith and her brother had to work for said contact to pay of Gamlen's debt (Leandra disapproves -50) So first Ailith went to the mercenary Meeran, who wanted them to kill a man without giving details. Ailith decided to let him go, which made Meeran angry which resulted in the fact he wouldn't help them. Then she went to the elven smuggler Athenril who told them to shake down a merchant who owed her money. Aveline stepped in to threaten him and they got the money he owed Athenril. Uncle Gamlen then talked to the guard captain and the family was allowed entry into the city. (I always wonder what happened to Captain Ewald which allowed Jeven to take over )
For a year Ailith and Carver worked for Athenril until the debt was repaid. During said year several things happened, Meredith gained more power, some Qunari washed ashore...and the Blight was defeated ( Raelyn: You're welcome )
Ailith received word that a dwarf named Bartrand Tethras was going into the Deep Roads to find treasure, and figured she and her brother could hire on to help out and perhaps gain some of that treasure themselves. 'Course Bartrand refused, a pickpocket stole Ailith's well earned money and said pickpocket got nailed to a wall with a crossbow bolt. Said crossbow wielder introduced himself as Varric (younger brother to Bartrand) and promised to help them out, in return of investing in the expedition. Ailith's new goal was going to be...gain 50 sovereigns to pay her way into the expedition and gain Bartrand's trust.
Carver suggested going to Aveline who'd joined the city guard, who in turn told them of an upcoming caravan ambush she wished to investigate. And that's all for today
Have a screenshot A better view of Ailith together with her brother
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Tomorrow we'll be heading into town to stir up trouble and expand our merry band of misfits
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Post by azarhal on Jun 15, 2020 21:39:33 GMT
I need to stop coming here. Now I want to play DAO, DA2 or DAI...but I'm not done with MEA yet.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 15, 2020 21:49:39 GMT
I need to stop coming here. Now I want to play DAO, DA2 or DAI...but I'm not done with MEA yet. do it
or...you know...put it on your to-do list
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Post by melbella on Jun 16, 2020 0:51:09 GMT
or...you know...put it on your to-do list My to-do list keeps getting longer, and then I started playing something else that isn't even on the list! However, I think I am going to tone down the difficulty in my DAI game to easy mode (but leave trials on for goodies) because I just don't have time for fights to take all friggin' day. Running around in slo-mo (and picking all the elfroot) takes long enough as it is.
I cleared the mage stronghold and found the astrarium treasure (useless dagger, thanks Vints), then headed to Redcliffe to meet with Grand Enchanter Fiona, except now she apparently didn't invite me and someone named Magister Alexius is in charge?
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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 16, 2020 1:26:42 GMT
Uhm, no. If even the game itself mentions these trial settings are glitchy... On the other hand... can you give a guesstimate how long it takes to bring down one bear with these settings? One hour? Three? Once trials were introduced I always used them, but I don't remember encountering anything really glitchy with them on. As for how long it takes to take down one bear... depends on where you are (because you know in Hafter's Wood it's never one bear) and how long you run with trials. Once you get used to trials, it's not bad, but first time, well, you don't bring it down, it brings you down Well, I just had to remember how much time it took until that welcome wagon ogre in The Descent finally keeled over and died. Same for the emissary leader with that revenant-style helmet. Damage sponge. And that was on casual. 1) nah, he just has a lot of pend up emotions that he can't vent in any other way (he turned 30 a few weeks ago) and I've never known him to cheat on any games...he's a lot better at playing on higher difficulties then I am 2) I only know the main ones, the Avengers (consisting of Thor, Iron Man, Captain American, The Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye (last two aren't in the scene), then there's Ant man (the huge guy in that vid who slams buildings and stuff), Spiderman, Valkyrie (the lady on the pegasus) and Black Panther (that movie is renowned for being the first super hero movie with a 90% black cast) 3) oh that should be an interesting concept. I'm always amazed when a character does a slow-motion death animation with a maul and make a stabbing motion (mauls are for smashing!) 4) same, the Carver I have for my main Hawke uses a variation on that style (pulled back but without the braids) have to say it looks quite nice on him but it does make it a bit confusing during the "Finding Nathaniel" quest if Carver is a Warden 5) heh, that's how I imagine my grandmother used to be like (she was 1.5m but according to my dad he and his siblings were always scared of her when she was angry) it's also how I imagine my Tabris looks when she's angry 6) have to say I didn't really use dispel a lot, I mainly used glyph of paralysis during that playthrough (glyph of paralysis and then let Merrill cast chain lightning or Anders with fireball) 7) yeah, I did that once when I wanted to rival her...but for some reason I don't like any of the characters when they're full rivals that's why I tend to cheat Carver to give him 50 starting friendship like Bethany, I know its due to story reasons Carver starts out with rivalry, but I just wish we could've chosen on our own what our relationship with our siblings was like (kinda like with the Ryder twins changing their relationship based on whether you lied to them or not) 8) for Shapeshifter I used the mod that changes the spider into a wolf, which gives them overwhelm and howl as spells...it was fun to maul enemies also flying swarm was useful for backtracking in an area in case I forgot to loot something I tend to use assassin on a dual-wield rogue...I mean, assassin works better in other games where there's a proper sneaking dynamic 9) So first Ailith went to the mercenary Meeran, who wanted them to kill a man without giving details. Ailith decided to let him go, which made Meeran angry which resulted in the fact he wouldn't help them. Then she went to the elven smuggler Athenril who told them to shake down a merchant who owed her money. Aveline stepped in to threaten him and they got the money he owed Athenril. 10) (I always wonder what happened to Captain Ewald which allowed Jeven to take over )
1) Oh, good. I just got carried away by some cliché. But for playing that cliché straight, we still have Kai Leng... He's a an adult who basically behaves as I described, while thinking of himself as the anti-Shepard. What. A. Fail.
2) My uneducated guess: guys with special powers (or money and gadgets in case of Iron Man) band together to defeat the purple dude who is quite often referenced, but I have no clue what he is about. Cpt. America was apparently a historical propaganda mascot from WWII. The shield just looks ridiculous.
3) I did it!!! Rolled up a rogue for a test run through early Awakening, put quite some points into STR and added two-handed talents via console and it worked. Backstabs (and therefore Assassin passives) seem to trigger appropriately. The animation though is not "stab greatsword into shoulder", but more of a horizontal slash. Very easy to get three-digit damage numbers. (sneaking up on some Genlock here...)
Regarding maul weirdness, this is especially absurd on dragon kills. Instead of stabbing the head, the maul is "inserted". Now, someone could say the dragon has his skull smashed by dropping the hammer on it, but it still looks weird. A friend encountered this during the first ever playthrough and never ceases to make fun of it.
4) Ah, that is what pulled (back) hair is. Well, I learn something new every day. All these "partner looks"... I'm also rather fond of some of the hairstyles default Leandra uses, but alas. At least the iconic female Hawke harido seems to be unique.
5) Tabris has a different quality of glare, due to the contrast between eyes and hair/skin colour. Besides, you took her down. Do you backup your avatars somewhere? Oh, and as much as I like your Hawke and even the red/black apostate vest, the green variety is just eew. I pretty much prefer these myself: Vow of Pride and Black Dragon Hunter (the latter minus the hood, but I really like these pieces from MotA) 6) Good girl. GoP is very useful, though I tend to cast it right into a group (instead of placing it more like a trap) to make most out of the multi-target feature.
7) I usually have mid-high blue ratings as well, though Fenris usually ends up rivals with mage Hawke if I do not carefully manipulate his participation in certain quests. I only had Sebastian for one PT (on a friend's PC, as I did not got the DLCs) and he ended up red. Though it seems to me that he could be unlikeable regardless of path, as the choice seems to be between "preachy brother" (blue) and "Will take my birthright, regardless".
Does the twin's behaviour change if you adjust their approval? I took it as a reflection of their initial character/opinion basically. Well, to be fair, Warden!Bethany has some sort of a Ryder-style chance, given how pissy she is for having decisions made for her, again.
8) I have one that does this as well. The upgraded wolf uses Witherfang's model (a.k.a. "root wolf"/"vine wolf") and the upgrded bear is a great brown one instead of an icky ghoul bear. This mod also fixes some calculations for animal stats and the shapeshifting spells are almost instant. I just messed around most of the time, but kiting weaker melee troppers around and annoying archers while being a cloud of insects was fun. Stupid Scattershot still hits the swarm though.
9) It took me ages to find out that Hawke can interact with both. So for me, these days it is going to Meeran first, letting the Friedrich go (while killing his guards), thereby getting onto Meeran's bad side and go into the city via Athenril. She and her cronies have a good fashion taste. Too bad she switches the spiffy elven attire for a green Duster armor later. Once in Act1, Meeran demands payback and gets himself killed. Athenril offers a new job, but Hawke lets the urchin have the stuff, so Athenril gets pissed and herself killed as well. The quest isn't called "Loose Ends" for nothing...
10) My assumption? He either failed to kiss Meredith's butt real good, or he was ousted by a plot of Jeven's.
I need to stop coming here. Now I want to play DAO, DA2 or DAI...but I'm not done with MEA yet. Well, LadyofNemesis is a bit of a meanie in that regard. Pulled me in as well. Though this also means that Lels, Wynne and a certain bucket are coming closer to their destiny.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 16, 2020 1:38:14 GMT
I need to stop coming here. Now I want to play DAO, DA2 or DAI...but I'm not done with MEA yet. Well, LadyofNemesis is a bit of a meanie in that regard. Pulled me in as well. Though this also means that Lels, Wynne and a certain bucket are coming closer to their destiny. It was more all the masochists enabling Grizzly End in DAI... In truth, I've been thinking of doing a DA series replay for a little while, I even started a DAO playthrought a few months ago, but didn't make it out of the mage intro. I just moved to something else because I had my fill of party based games. Saying that, I think I might just play DAI this time. Although, it's been a while I've done a purple Hawke too.
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Post by Rascoth on Jun 16, 2020 5:35:10 GMT
Once trials were introduced I always used them, but I don't remember encountering anything really glitchy with them on. As for how long it takes to take down one bear... depends on where you are (because you know in Hafter's Wood it's never one bear) and how long you run with trials. Once you get used to trials, it's not bad, but first time, well, you don't bring it down, it brings you down Well, I just had to remember how much time it took until that welcome wagon ogre in The Descent finally keeled over and died. Same for the emissary leader with that revenant-style helmet. Damage sponge. And that was on casual. The Descent is completely different story Trial-promoted enemies are not as bad as them. Although I have to confess. Even though I might have been a little bit annoyed at the amount of hp enemies had in The Descent, at the same time I loved difficulty jump. The fact that my first pt of it was on nightmare just added flavour
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 16, 2020 8:40:43 GMT
1) Oh, good. I just got carried away by some cliché. But for playing that cliché straight, we still have Kai Leng... He's a an adult who basically behaves as I described, while thinking of himself as the anti-Shepard. What. A. Fail.
2) My uneducated guess: guys with special powers (or money and gadgets in case of Iron Man) band together to defeat the purple dude who is quite often referenced, but I have no clue what he is about. Cpt. America was apparently a historical propaganda mascot from WWII. The shield just looks ridiculous.
3) I did it!!! Rolled up a rogue for a test run through early Awakening, put quite some points into STR and added two-handed talents via console and it worked. Backstabs (and therefore Assassin passives) seem to trigger appropriately. The animation though is not "stab greatsword into shoulder", but more of a horizontal slash. Very easy to get three-digit damage numbers. (sneaking up on some Genlock here...)
Regarding maul weirdness, this is especially absurd on dragon kills. Instead of stabbing the head, the maul is "inserted". Now, someone could say the dragon has his skull smashed by dropping the hammer on it, but it still looks weird. A friend encountered this during the first ever playthrough and never ceases to make fun of it.
4) Ah, that is what pulled (back) hair is. Well, I learn something new every day. All these "partner looks"... I'm also rather fond of some of the hairstyles default Leandra uses, but alas. At least the iconic female Hawke harido seems to be unique.
5) Tabris has a different quality of glare, due to the contrast between eyes and hair/skin colour. Besides, you took her down. Do you backup your avatars somewhere? Oh, and as much as I like your Hawke and even the red/black apostate vest, the green variety is just eew. I pretty much prefer these myself: Vow of Pride and Black Dragon Hunter (the latter minus the hood, but I really like these pieces from MotA) 6) Good girl. GoP is very useful, though I tend to cast it right into a group (instead of placing it more like a trap) to make most out of the multi-target feature.
7) I usually have mid-high blue ratings as well, though Fenris usually ends up rivals with mage Hawke if I do not carefully manipulate his participation in certain quests. I only had Sebastian for one PT (on a friend's PC, as I did not got the DLCs) and he ended up red. Though it seems to me that he could be unlikeable regardless of path, as the choice seems to be between "preachy brother" (blue) and "Will take my birthright, regardless".
Does the twin's behaviour change if you adjust their approval? I took it as a reflection of their initial character/opinion basically. Well, to be fair, Warden!Bethany has some sort of a Ryder-style chance, given how pissy she is for having decisions made for her, again.
8) I have one that does this as well. The upgraded wolf uses Witherfang's model (a.k.a. "root wolf"/"vine wolf") and the upgrded bear is a great brown one instead of an icky ghoul bear. This mod also fixes some calculations for animal stats and the shapeshifting spells are almost instant. I just messed around most of the time, but kiting weaker melee troppers around and annoying archers while being a cloud of insects was fun. Stupid Scattershot still hits the swarm though.
9) It took me ages to find out that Hawke can interact with both. So for me, these days it is going to Meeran first, letting the Friedrich go (while killing his guards), thereby getting onto Meeran's bad side and go into the city via Athenril. She and her cronies have a good fashion taste. Too bad she switches the spiffy elven attire for a green Duster armor later. Once in Act1, Meeran demands payback and gets himself killed. Athenril offers a new job, but Hawke lets the urchin have the stuff, so Athenril gets pissed and herself killed as well. The quest isn't called "Loose Ends" for nothing...
10) My assumption? He either failed to kiss Meredith's butt real good, or he was ousted by a plot of Jeven's.
I need to stop coming here. Now I want to play DAO, DA2 or DAI...but I'm not done with MEA yet. 11) Well, LadyofNemesis is a bit of a meanie in that regard. Pulled me in as well. Though this also means that Lels, Wynne and a certain bucket are coming closer to their destiny. 1) Ugh don't remind me of him, once had the hope I could recruit and redeem him, then he killed Thane and I was like:"well f*ck him!" (that stab scene where Shep kills Leng is so satisfying)
2) this one goes in spoiler in case there are Marvel fans here that haven't seen the movie yet purple dude kinda killed half the universe in the previous movie from the one I linked (in an event called the Snap (which has become a meme with Spiderman saying "mister Stark I don't feel so good") Then there's some time-travel shenanigans involved (why wouldn't there be) they bring back everyone who was killed and take him down in a massive fight sadly a few people still die...among them Iron Man and Black Widow but knowing the Marvel universe they might be able to bring him back in some weird space-magic or other random way 3) yay! (this will always remind me of that maul carrying orc in Oblivion who worked for the Dark Brotherhood)
4) same, sadly on the one I use Leandra and Bethany have the same style Thankfully there are mods that can give unique hair to the player character
5) yeah, I save avatars in their character folder...speaking of which, I'm gonna change mine back to my Warden...at least until I can get a better one of my Hawke (I agree the green is a bit meh)
6) GoP gave me my "trap setting" achievement in Origins, I wasn't aware the game viewed them as traps and was spamming them with my Warden at the time when suddenly that achievement popped . Sometimes I cast it in choke points (like narrows pathways) with luck it can snare several before the effect wears of
7) same, but Fenris is actually quite easy to manage if you know when and where to take him in the first act
for example Wayward son can give him a max of +40 friendship
but only if you tell Thrask Feynriel is a menace, kill Danzig and the other slaver and sent Feynriel to the Circle (I tend to have 30 friendship on my mages since I sent Feynriel to the Circle because I love the idea of him escaping from under their noses in Act 2 )
I've also rivaled Sebastian once...he was...interesting, these days I only recruit him for the Leliana cameo in Act3 which requires either his friendship or rivalry to be 50+ to unlock
Carver is generally his usual self (also for some reason in Legacy I tend to have rivalry party banter with him and Bethany regardless of friendship level, though I'm not sure if Fenris being in the party as well is the cause of that since I tend to bring him along ), but does seem a bit more mellow in certain instances Most change is seen during the Finding Nathaniel quest because he seems genuinely happy to see Hawke, as opposed to "ugh, why are you here?" that you get with rivalry
8) I hate enemy scattershot, its almost as bad as enemy overwhelm (the children seem very fond of that)
9) same, but I love doing it these days you can also do it the other way around by accepting Cavril's bribe...but I just love using Aveline to threaten the bloated toad too much Generally I tend to just lie to Athenril during Loose ends...might be fun to kill her as well one of these days (but to me she seems more sympathetic then Meeran, so she tends to live)
10) hm, good thinking...I kinda liked him though. Speaking of which, that other guard isn't seen again either...maybe they died? I mean, Kirkwall isn't exactly safe...gangs, blood mages...other craziness, it wouldn't be far of for them to be killed in one way or another
11) Sorry not sorry
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Post by Sonya on Jun 16, 2020 13:28:28 GMT
3) You seem to be rather patient though if you like to play on difficulty settings where it might be needed. I guess with Uldred it is his combination of Ogre-style melee moves and AOE spells which makes it hard getting in and out without being hit? Remembers me of the time when I faced Diablo with my Amazon for the first time in D2. Fire Nova with a range of two screens, and poor bow-azon ended up badly burned before even having a chance to shoot.
Well, the mana drain is the tradeoff for the uber-ness, pretty much like with Spirit Warriors. But these usually get Death Blow to compensate.
10) Oh, yes. Branka's babbling. Surana had at least two fireballs discharged into the Paragon's direction before she could pull herself together again...
11) She's currently at 52 approval if I recall right, and had shoe-talk with Surana. I've got two of the flowers and no nug yet, but I guess it won't matter in the long run, as I did not harden her after she offed Marjolaine and I plan to take her (and Wynne) along when pouring some blood into the bucket... 12) My wording was poor. I meant I do kite as a ranged character, sometimes for fun, like that one time when casting Curse of Mortality + Walking Bomb on a guy in the Proving, then running like the wind. What people call "guided arrows" in DAO seems to be the game compensating for character movement. If an arrow will hit or not is apparently determined when it is fired (and attack-vs.-defense calculations, dodge chance dice rolls etc. are done) and the game then steers the arrow into the character as to prevent it from, say, hitting the wall behing a moving target but still doing damage. There's one hacky thing though: Scattershot. I once had an archer lining up one of these and I tried to hide my character behind some obstacles, but the shot still connected due to the talents auto-hit coding once fired, it hit right through the wall. Only way to stop Scattershot from hitting seems to be preventing it from being fired off at all by interrupting the offender (death, stun, knockdown...). 3) Will take it as sort of compliment. What you have written is "true" for fair fight. Though what I am patient about is "checking things if interested in something". As have mentioned: really hate kiting but check it from time to time with different enemies and classes if want - like those two lizards in DA2 knowing will die anyway, but simply interesting for me to know what can happen. One of such "patience" examples was solo-no-pot--2h warrior fight with Uldred (with team it matters nothing, plus tried melee Uldred before and after that). Spent the whole night only for him. What have understood: for now just can't kill Uldred in melee with mentioned above conditions. Mostly what had: "almost killed". But the closer the end, more spam and cheat I saw from Uldred. Still that whole night was illuminating in a way I saw what other cheats and spam the game can offer in this "Uldred encounter" in melee. Have learnt really much as used SO many different approaches, using different bijouterie, armor, weapon. Can describe more about that "melee Uldred encounter and his cheats and spam" but think the idea is clear. But I know there are players who did that solo-no-pot -melee-kiting Uldred encounter and not only as 2h warrior. I simply can't. Though with others use it and sometimes it is actually funny. 11) In that case indeed matters nothing. Your GW is very practical and actually does everything to destroy the real enemy w/o stupid "No!! How could you!!" and sending the whole world to hell just to save some pile of dust full of lyrium radiation AND already full of dragon blood. Really stupid behavior sometimes can meet. 12) A matter of luck, RNG, different names. But looks really stupid. But yeah, Scattershot will find you anywhere. 14) have to say I didn't really use dispel a lot, I mainly used glyph of paralysis during that playthrough (glyph of paralysis and then let Merrill cast chain lightning or Anders with fireball) Better use after upgraded (2) WB, Varric uses upgraded PSh, finish ASAP PSh'ed enemy and after simply enjoying the view. I only had Sebastian for one PT (on a friend's PC, as I did not got the DLCs) and he ended up red. Though it seems to me that he could be unlikeable regardless of path, as the choice seems to be between "preachy brother" (blue) and "Will take my birthright, regardless". That Sebastian is a real asshole. Chantry brother who wants to kill innocent people, the whole city for no good reason (with certain decsions in DA2 which I do not do but know of). Sebastian as other chatacters (Whynne, Leliana, Alistair etc. ) shows his true face with certin decisions after his own glorious speeches. Indeed a real true chantry brother.
MF. Do his quests only for exp and loot, always rivals with him. But he does have rather interesting and different PBs with others - the only good thing about this character. Even Varric does not like him "you sound like Sebastian". Always have a feeling that DLC with Sebastian is unfinished, the character is unfinished, poorly made. Lack of time? Or simply wanted to show us again that annoying Lelaina face in that stupid quest as "fans"? And at the same time still can be LI spreding the chant of light or ruling the city as his "do not even know who". Rather strange Sebastian-romance.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 16, 2020 14:11:59 GMT
Well, I just had to remember how much time it took until that welcome wagon ogre in The Descent finally keeled over and died. Same for the emissary leader with that revenant-style helmet. Damage sponge. And that was on casual. The Descent is completely different story Trial-promoted enemies are not as bad as them. Although I have to confess. Even though I might have been a little bit annoyed at the amount of hp enemies had in The Descent, at the same time I loved difficulty jump. The fact that my first pt of it was on nightmare just added flavour Ah, okay. Though I hope I can get away with just repeating this 1) Ugh don't remind me of him, once had the hope I could recruit and redeem him, then he killed Thane and I was like:"well f*ck him!" (that stab scene where Shep kills Leng is so satisfying) 2) this one goes in spoiler in case there are Marvel fans here that haven't seen the movie yet purple dude kinda killed half the universe in the previous movie from the one I linked (in an event called the Snap (which has become a meme with Spiderman saying "mister Stark I don't feel so good") Then there's some time-travel shenanigans involved (why wouldn't there be) they bring back everyone who was killed and take him down in a massive fight sadly a few people still die...among them Iron Man and Black Widow but knowing the Marvel universe they might be able to bring him back in some weird space-magic or other random way 3) yay! (this will always remind me of that maul carrying orc in Oblivion who worked for the Dark Brotherhood) 4) same, sadly on the one I use Leandra and Bethany have the same style Thankfully there are mods that can give unique hair to the player character 5) yeah, I save avatars in their character folder...speaking of which, I'm gonna change mine back to my Warden...at least until I can get a better one of my Hawke (I agree the green is a bit meh) 6) GoP gave me my "trap setting" achievement in Origins, I wasn't aware the game viewed them as traps and was spamming them with my Warden at the time when suddenly that achievement popped . Sometimes I cast it in choke points (like narrows pathways) with luck it can snare several before the effect wears of 7) same, but Fenris is actually quite easy to manage if you know when and where to take him in the first act
for example Wayward son can give him a max of +40 friendship
but only if you tell Thrask Feynriel is a menace, kill Danzig and the other slaver and sent Feynriel to the Circle (I tend to have 30 friendship on my mages since I sent Feynriel to the Circle because I love the idea of him escaping from under their noses in Act 2 ) I've also rivaled Sebastian once...he was...interesting, these days I only recruit him for the Leliana cameo in Act3 which requires either his friendship or rivalry to be 50+ to unlock
Carver is generally his usual self (also for some reason in Legacy I tend to have rivalry party banter with him and Bethany regardless of friendship level, though I'm not sure if Fenris being in the party as well is the cause of that since I tend to bring him along ), but does seem a bit more mellow in certain instances Most change is seen during the Finding Nathaniel quest because he seems genuinely happy to see Hawke, as opposed to "ugh, why are you here?" that you get with rivalry 8) I hate enemy scattershot, its almost as bad as enemy overwhelm (the children seem very fond of that) 9) same, but I love doing it these days you can also do it the other way around by accepting Cavril's bribe...but I just love using Aveline to threaten the bloated toad too much Generally I tend to just lie to Athenril during Loose ends...might be fun to kill her as well one of these days (but to me she seems more sympathetic then Meeran, so she tends to live) 10) hm, good thinking...I kinda liked him though. Speaking of which, that other guard isn't seen again either...maybe they died? I mean, Kirkwall isn't exactly safe...gangs, blood mages...other craziness, it wouldn't be far of for them to be killed in one way or another 11) Sorry not sorry 1) Leng is still twiching after that... To be honest, the first time I saw this scene, I thought "If that asshole gets back up again, I'll quit the game right there.! 2) Yeah, time-travel-revival-retcon shenanigans are apparently a big thing there. Remembers me a bit of the X-Men running gag In-universe characters: "Oh no, Dark Phoenix is dead" Audience: "Well, just wait 'til next installment. Besides, with a name like that...." 3) The "DB oaf with big weapon" is a running gag then, given Astrid's nord brute of a husband having a large axe and being a werewolf. 4)
Bethany: "Mommy, I don't like that hairdo!!!"
Leandra: "Child, this is the official Amell family hairstyle, handed down through the generations. That's part of being a noble." Bethany: 5) Your Tabris shot had pretty good mix of lighting and colours, plus that bit of a sassy smirk. I also thought about putting some game character avatars online, but the rage demon tarot is pretty much part of my "persona", so to speak. Perhaps I'll make a signature image as a collection of some protagonists. 6) I was amazed by this as well, oh and rogues can disarm GoP's in DAO. There's also a pre-placed GoP in Jarvia's armory for some reason GoP in DA2 and GoRepulsion in DAO give such a nice "You shall not pass!!!" vibe. Oh, and I like the way how DA2 mages stab the ground when placing a glyph spell. (I gave this animation to Hemorrhage in my mod, as I hate these ridiculous "staff through chest" animations with a passion, especially on Merrill, given her torso is barely wider than some staff blades/heads.) But nothing beats enemies trying to to enter a DAO-style GoR, only to be flung into a set of leftover explosive traps. 7) True, though I'm not choosing that answer to placate Fenris. I'd also rather send Grace back to circle then Feynriel. Grace does not know what to do with her freedom anyway, given how she complains about not being properly "provided for" by Hawke. Of course, this learned helplessness is an issue for circle mages, but the game never explores it. Also, neither the circle nor the Dalish have much clue of Feynriel's dreamer magic, but the elves are at least slightly more nice to him, and apparently not dismissive because "your magic=evul because we don't know it", which is a pretty apparent circle shtick. Does he really escape successfully? In that regard, I might take that option once on a mahe Hawke.... perhaps. As for Danzig, well, Fenris can phase-fist as many slavers as he wants. He takes the kills, Hawke takes the loot. Regarding Carver... hmm, interesting find. I might mess around with approval a bit as well (Despite all my modding/cheating, I never messed around with approval much) When it comes to a reason for playing the Seb DLC content, I guess I would prefer the Act2 quest though. A creepy cellar filled with demons. Oh, and annoying him with certain answers is also amusing, as he does not seem to take purple Hawke too well. 8) Even the developers/level designers apparently noticed that, as encounters in Awakening for example only give Scattershot to one or two guys and not the whole group. Except Witch Hunt. I remember it having Scattershot on Darkspawn, which is unsual in the base game, except for certain alphas and the Forge Master. Eeeek. Woodlice cockroaches with baby heads. I very much suspect their behaviour is the reason for the high number of new "everyone around me dies" abilities DAA introduces. Massacre, Reaving Storm, the "arcane field" style spells and the entirety of Keeper and Battlemage. But yeah, changing Scattershot would be one of the things I'd consider if I ever get into modding DAO abilities.
9) Yeah, that is kind of a nice inversion. Athenril is framed as the superficially "evil" option, but apparently she at least does not kill random people for gold. And again, her initially sense of fashion... 10) Also possible, though the guy at the docks was a bit of an ass. Ewald felt somewhat indebted to Hawke for helping with the possibly blighted deserters (the blonde guy does not look exactly healthy), so he had Gamlen "arrest" and brought there. At least that is how I imagine it, given Gamlen's usual penchant for certain shenanigans.
11) "I hate you all, I was a slave!"
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 16, 2020 14:37:36 GMT
1) Leng is still twiching after that... To be honest, the first time I saw this scene, I thought "If that asshole gets back up again, I'll quit the game right there.! 2) Yeah, time-travel-revival-retcon shenanigans are apparently a big thing there. Remembers me a bit of the X-Men running gag In-universe characters: "Oh no, Dark Phoenix is dead" Audience: "Well, just wait 'til next installment. Besides, with a name like that...." 3) The "DB oaf with big weapon" is a running gag then, given Astrid's nord brute of a husband having a large axe and being a werewolf. 4)
Bethany: "Mommy, I don't like that hairdo!!!"
Leandra: "Child, this is the official Amell family hairstyle, handed down through the generations. That's part of being a noble." Bethany: 5) Your Tabris shot had pretty good mix of lighting and colours, plus that bit of a sassy smirk. I also thought about putting some game character avatars online, but the rage demon tarot is pretty much part of my "persona", so to speak. Perhaps I'll make a signature image as a collection of some protagonists. 6) I was amazed by this as well, oh and rogues can disarm GoP's in DAO. There's also a pre-placed GoP in Jarvia's armory for some reason GoP in DA2 and GoRepulsion in DAO give such a nice "You shall not pass!!!" vibe. Oh, and I like the way how DA2 mages stab the ground when placing a glyph spell. (I gave this animation to Hemorrhage in my mod, as I hate these ridiculous "staff through chest" animations with a passion, especially on Merrill, given her torso is barely wider than some staff blades/heads.) But nothing beats enemies trying to to enter a DAO-style GoR, only to be flung into a set of leftover explosive traps. 7) True, though I'm not choosing that answer to placate Fenris. I'd also rather send Grace back to circle then Feynriel. Grace does not know what to do with her freedom anyway, given how she complains about not being properly "provided for" by Hawke. Of course, this learned helplessness is an issue for circle mages, but the game never explores it. Also, neither the circle nor the Dalish have much clue of Feynriel's dreamer magic, but the elves are at least slightly more nice to him, and apparently not dismissive because "your magic=evul because we don't know it", which is a pretty apparent circle shtick. Does he really escape successfully? In that regard, I might take that option once on a mahe Hawke.... perhaps. As for Danzig, well, Fenris can phase-fist as many slavers as he wants. He takes the kills, Hawke takes the loot. Regarding Carver... hmm, interesting find. I might mess around with approval a bit as well (Despite all my modding/cheating, I never messed around with approval much) When it comes to a reason for playing the Seb DLC content, I guess I would prefer the Act2 quest though. A creepy cellar filled with demons. Oh, and annoying him with certain answers is also amusing, as he does not seem to take purple Hawke too well. 8) Even the developers/level designers apparently noticed that, as encounters in Awakening for example only give Scattershot to one or two guys and not the whole group. Except Witch Hunt. I remember it having Scattershot on Darkspawn, which is unsual in the base game, except for certain alphas and the Forge Master. Eeeek. Woodlice cockroaches with baby heads. I very much suspect their behaviour is the reason for the high number of new "everyone around me dies" abilities DAA introduces. Massacre, Reaving Storm, the "arcane field" style spells and the entirety of Keeper and Battlemage. But yeah, changing Scattershot would be one of the things I'd consider if I ever get into modding DAO abilities.
9) Yeah, that is kind of a nice inversion. Athenril is framed as the superficially "evil" option, but apparently she at least does not kill random people for gold. And again, her initially sense of fashion... 10) Also possible, though the guy at the docks was a bit of an ass. Ewald felt somewhat indebted to Hawke for helping with the possibly blighted deserters (the blonde guy does not look exactly healthy), so he had Gamlen "arrest" and brought there. At least that is how I imagine it, given Gamlen's usual penchant for certain shenanigans.
11) "I hate you all, I was a slave!" 1) well the muscles in a recently dead body do twitch a bit after all... link ( Gimli: of course he was twitching! )
2) yeah...and then there's the whole, alternate time-lines/worlds stuff they seem fond of...which is why I don't tend to be very fond of those things, far too confusing at least Dragon Age only pulls it once...at least let's hope so
3) yeah...seems right up there with "you're a prisoner! Escape from prison to proceed with the story..."
4) hah, lol I've recently given Anders a new (modded) hairstyle...mostly because his default one gave him their weird awkward bald spot near his temple due to the modded complexion I gave him (it looks good on him, but it also clips horribly with his armor)
5) I personally like this one of mine as well > link (she almost looks like she wants to say "I told ya so") I do have a character who's basically my persona...but I haven't drawn her in years...also because she needs a new look...again
7) hm...true, generally being nice to Fenris in his recruitment quest (+killing Danzig) and then giving him his gift in Act 2 is enough to get his questioning beliefs quest as well Though truth told, if there'd been an option to just kill Grace there and then, I would've taken it
oh yes, annoying Seb with sarcasm is fun however his Act2 quest does give a very good quote purple!Hawke: this is why the cycle of violence never gets broken Elthina: you jest, but that's the truth of it (she then tries to persuade him to stop his current quest only for him to ignore her)
11) Fenris: the markings would still show Varric: really? Through anything? That's...kinda cool
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Post by Rascoth on Jun 16, 2020 15:29:46 GMT
The Descent is completely different story Trial-promoted enemies are not as bad as them. Although I have to confess. Even though I might have been a little bit annoyed at the amount of hp enemies had in The Descent, at the same time I loved difficulty jump. The fact that my first pt of it was on nightmare just added flavour Ah, okay. Though I hope I can get away with just repeating this Shhhhhh!
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 16, 2020 19:57:17 GMT
Today Ailith expanded her band of misfits Started with going to the Chantry where they witnessed a man called Sebastian post something to the Chanter's Board, and having an argument with the Grand Cleric. Ailith took a look at his posting and decided to help him out to avenge his murdered family. She also had an argument with the Grand Cleric about the Blight. Elthina: the Maker sure did a good job ending the Blight Ailith: that would've been the Hero of Ferelden Elthina: the Maker works in mysterious ways, and its unknown who's hand he may favor, even an elf Raelyn Tabris: *somewhere in Ferelden* ...*twitches* Nathaniel: what's wrong Commander?
Raelyn: I suddenly feel the urge to hit something
The group then went down to the local tavern to chat with Varric about work possibilities, where they ran into Isabela who was beating up some guys who threatened her Isabela then hired Ailith to watch her back in an upcoming duel because she didn't trust her opponent to play fair. Varric suggested talking to a local woman who was helping out Ferelden refugees to find a Grey Warden who might know a profitable entrance to the Deep Roads. The group went to this woman and asked her about the Grey Warden, who she revealed to be Anders, who in turn was working on Darktown as a free healer.
After this Ailith and Carver headed home where they found their mother in a heated argument with their uncle about their father's will. Some talking later Carver revealed to Ailith their uncle had lost a bet to some slavers and had sold them the house, with their grandfather's will still inside. So of they went to find said will, and also found some interesting letters written by their father. Back home they showed the will to their mother, which revealed that everything had been inherited by Leandra, leaving nothing but a stipend for Gamlen (ya know, I can understand why he lied about it all)
By the time they'd gotten back it was already nighttime, so they went out and did some cleaning, clearing out several gangs (and also Meeran who ambushed them) Helped out Isabela with her problem after which she joined the team.
The next day the group headed up to Sundermount to deliver Flemeth's amulet to the Dalish Keeper, where the group was joined by the Dalish elf Merrill. Along the way they also took out the mercenaries send to kill Sebastian, and took care of the ambush for Aveline.
Back in the city Aveline's boss met their little interference with a lot of clamor, which prompted both Aveline and Ailith to consider something was wrong. Turned out the entire ambush had been a set up from the guard-captain, with another guardsman heading into another trap pretty soon. The group then headed to Anders' clinic where they met Anders. He revealed he had left the Wardens (Raelyn: ), but that he had gained possession of a Deep Road map, in return for Ailith's help he'd give the map to them.
Night time again they took care of the guard ambush, saving guardsman Donnic in the process. After that they met with Anso who directed them to the Alienage to uncover some stolen lyrium. 'Course that turned out to be a trap set by Tevinter Slavers who were chasing an elven slave named Fenris. Who in turn had some rather...interesting abilities. Ailith helped Fenris track down his master, but the man turned out to be already gone. Despite Fenris' reservation about working with mages he did join the team as well.
Lastly the party took care of Anders' thing, his friend Karl was waiting in the Chantry...but of course that too was a trap. Anders revealed there was more to him then met the eye, later revealing he was possessed with a spirit.
Ended the day with picking up some more side quests, talking to Fenris in his mansion, and Merrill in her new house.
Tomorrow we'll start weeding out side quests and main quests for Act 1
Today's party approval: And a pair of screenshots to finish my post
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Post by Iddy on Jun 17, 2020 12:32:25 GMT
Today Ailith expanded her band of misfits Started with going to the Chantry where they witnessed a man called Sebastian post something to the Chanter's Board, and having an argument with the Grand Cleric. Ailith took a look at his posting and decided to help him out to avenge his murdered family. She also had an argument with the Grand Cleric about the Blight. Elthina: the Maker sure did a good job ending the Blight Ailith: that would've been the Hero of Ferelden Elthina: the Maker works in mysterious ways, and its unknown who's hand he may favor, even an elf Raelyn Tabris: *somewhere in Ferelden* ...*twitches* Nathaniel: what's wrong Commander?
Raelyn: I suddenly feel the urge to hit something
The group then went down to the local tavern to chat with Varric about work possibilities, where they ran into Isabela who was beating up some guys who threatened her Isabela then hired Ailith to watch her back in an upcoming duel because she didn't trust her opponent to play fair. Varric suggested talking to a local woman who was helping out Ferelden refugees to find a Grey Warden who might know a profitable entrance to the Deep Roads. The group went to this woman and asked her about the Grey Warden, who she revealed to be Anders, who in turn was working on Darktown as a free healer.
After this Ailith and Carver headed home where they found their mother in a heated argument with their uncle about their father's will. Some talking later Carver revealed to Ailith their uncle had lost a bet to some slavers and had sold them the house, with their grandfather's will still inside. So of they went to find said will, and also found some interesting letters written by their father. Back home they showed the will to their mother, which revealed that everything had been inherited by Leandra, leaving nothing but a stipend for Gamlen (ya know, I can understand why he lied about it all)
By the time they'd gotten back it was already nighttime, so they went out and did some cleaning, clearing out several gangs (and also Meeran who ambushed them) Helped out Isabela with her problem after which she joined the team.
The next day the group headed up to Sundermount to deliver Flemeth's amulet to the Dalish Keeper, where the group was joined by the Dalish elf Merrill. Along the way they also took out the mercenaries send to kill Sebastian, and took care of the ambush for Aveline.
Back in the city Aveline's boss met their little interference with a lot of clamor, which prompted both Aveline and Ailith to consider something was wrong. Turned out the entire ambush had been a set up from the guard-captain, with another guardsman heading into another trap pretty soon. The group then headed to Anders' clinic where they met Anders. He revealed he had left the Wardens (Raelyn: ), but that he had gained possession of a Deep Road map, in return for Ailith's help he'd give the map to them.
Night time again they took care of the guard ambush, saving guardsman Donnic in the process. After that they met with Anso who directed them to the Alienage to uncover some stolen lyrium. 'Course that turned out to be a trap set by Tevinter Slavers who were chasing an elven slave named Fenris. Who in turn had some rather...interesting abilities. Ailith helped Fenris track down his master, but the man turned out to be already gone. Despite Fenris' reservation about working with mages he did join the team as well.
Lastly the party took care of Anders' thing, his friend Karl was waiting in the Chantry...but of course that too was a trap. Anders revealed there was more to him then met the eye, later revealing he was possessed with a spirit.
Ended the day with picking up some more side quests, talking to Fenris in his mansion, and Merrill in her new house.
Tomorrow we'll start weeding out side quests and main quests for Act 1
Today's party approval: And a pair of screenshots to finish my post I kinda like her thick eyebrows. They make her more expressive.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Jun 17, 2020 12:59:03 GMT
Nah, you already disclosed this sufficiently on your own 1) Will take it as sort of compliment. What you have written is "true" for fair fight. Though what I am patient about is "checking things if interested in something". As have mentioned: really hate kiting but check it from time to time with different enemies and classes if want - like those two lizards in DA2 knowing will die anyway, but simply interesting for me to know what can happen. One of such "patience" examples was solo-no-pot--2h warrior fight with Uldred (with team it matters nothing, plus tried melee Uldred before and after that). Spent the whole night only for him. What have understood: for now just can't kill Uldred in melee with mentioned above conditions. Mostly what had: "almost killed". But the closer the end, more spam and cheat I saw from Uldred. Still that whole night was illuminating in a way I saw what other cheats and spam the game can offer in this "Uldred encounter" in melee. Have learnt really much as used SO many different approaches, using different bijouterie, armor, weapon. Can describe more about that "melee Uldred encounter and his cheats and spam" but think the idea is clear. But I know there are players who did that solo-no-pot -melee-kiting Uldred encounter and not only as 2h warrior. I simply can't. Though with others use it and sometimes it is actually funny. 2) In that case indeed matters nothing. Your GW is very practical and actually does everything to destroy the real enemy w/o stupid "No!! How could you!!" and sending the whole world to hell just to save some pile of dust full of lyrium radiation AND already full of dragon blood. Really stupid behavior sometimes can meet. 3) A matter of luck, RNG, different names. But looks really stupid. But yeah, Scattershot will find you anywhere. I only had Sebastian for one PT (on a friend's PC, as I did not got the DLCs) and he ended up red. Though it seems to me that he could be unlikeable regardless of path, as the choice seems to be between "preachy brother" (blue) and "Will take my birthright, regardless". 4) That Sebastian is a real asshole. Chantry brother who wants to kill innocent people, the whole city for no good reason (with certain decsions in DA2 which I do not do but know of). Sebastian as other chatacters (Whynne, Leliana, Alistair etc. ) shows his true face with certin decisions after his own glorious speeches. Indeed a real true chantry brother.
MF. Do his quests only for exp and loot, always rivals with him. But he does have rather interesting and different PBs with others - the only good thing about this character. Even Varric does not like him "you sound like Sebastian". Always have a feeling that DLC with Sebastian is unfinished, the character is unfinished, poorly made. Lack of time? Or simply wanted to show us again that annoying Lelaina face in that stupid quest as "fans"? And at the same time still can be LI spreding the chant of light or ruling the city as his "do not even know who". Rather strange Sebastian-romance. 1) Well, patience or a kind of perseverance is a good thing, isn't it? I like to experiment as well, but in different areas. Like placing all those traps and then watching as the hostiles charging in were flung into a "leftover minefield" by a Glyph of Repulsion. Too bad it was too fast to take pictures.
2) I will address the bucket dilemma in my next update.
3) True, especially as those arrows tend to end up getting stuck in the sides or even back because of that, even if the archers are facing the players. Having the arrows anticipate character movement instead of following would have looked better, I suppose. If you aim at a moving target in real life, one usually "leads" the shot. Heck, as mage in DAO, I need to do it everytime I use fireball against charging melee, and sometimes I miss. 4) As far as I remember, he puts up a fuss if he does not get Anders' corpse, and he tries to blackmail Hawke right on the spot. As long as Anders is dead, he will even support Hawke against Merrydeath, as odd as this is for him.
Yeah, I very much assume that the Leliana cameo was mostly fanservice. Someone wanted her in the game, so some "evil mages" were placed for her stab, but that's it. Of course, her focus being solely the Resoluntionists does not put the bigwigs at ValRoy in a good light, i.e. they did not care about Meredith's growing idiocy.
If a portion of fanservice solely revolves around a single divisive character, it enters disservice territory quickly for some players. Just take LotSB...
1) well the muscles in a recently dead body do twitch a bit after all... link ( Gimli: of course he was twitching! ) 2) yeah...and then there's the whole, alternate time-lines/worlds stuff they seem fond of...which is why I don't tend to be very fond of those things, far too confusing at least Dragon Age only pulls it once...at least let's hope so 3) yeah...seems right up there with "you're a prisoner! Escape from prison to proceed with the story..." 4) hah, lol I've recently given Anders a new (modded) hairstyle...mostly because his default one gave him their weird awkward bald spot near his temple due to the modded complexion I gave him (it looks good on him, but it also clips horribly with his armor) 5) I personally like this one of mine as well > link (she almost looks like she wants to say "I told ya so") I do have a character who's basically my persona...but I haven't drawn her in years...also because she needs a new look...again 6) hm...true, generally being nice to Fenris in his recruitment quest (+killing Danzig) and then giving him his gift in Act 2 is enough to get his questioning beliefs quest as well Though truth told, if there'd been an option to just kill Grace there and then, I would've taken it oh yes, annoying Seb with sarcasm is fun however his Act2 quest does give a very good quote purple!Hawke: this is why the cycle of violence never gets broken Elthina: you jest, but that's the truth of it (she then tries to persuade him to stop his current quest only for him to ignore her) 7) Fenris: the markings would still show Varric: really? Through anything? That's...kinda cool 8) Elthina: the Maker sure did a good job ending the Blight Ailith: that would've been the Hero of Ferelden Elthina: the Maker works in mysterious ways, and its unknown who's hand he may favor, even an elf Raelyn Tabris: *somewhere in Ferelden* ...*twitches* Nathaniel: what's wrong Commander?
Raelyn: I suddenly feel the urge to hit something 9) The group then went down to the local tavern to chat with Varric about work possibilities, where they ran into Isabela who was beating up some guys who threatened her Isabela then hired Ailith to watch her back in an upcoming duel because she didn't trust her opponent to play fair. Varric suggested talking to a local woman who was helping out Ferelden refugees to find a Grey Warden who might know a profitable entrance to the Deep Roads. The group went to this woman and asked her about the Grey Warden, who she revealed to be Anders, who in turn was working on Darktown as a free healer. 10) And a pair of screenshots to finish my post 11) Smiling Fenris is the best
1) Yeah, I also thought fo Gimli's axe controller/joystick. At least I hope this was the case for Leng; you never know with these kinds of characters. 2) As someone who watched some Doctor Who, I hope they do not drop the Wibbly-wobbly Timey-wimey ball. On the other hand, I remember that Alexius mentioned certain rules, i.e. since his time magic relied on the Breach, he could not use it to undo the events which created the Breach, as Coryp demanded. DA avoided the dreaded grandfather paradox in this case. 3) Well, sometimes, some players also expect these things after they got used to it. And guess what happens if the formula is changed for once... 4) Horrible clipping? I suppose with his collar, or... how long did you make his hair? 5) Yes, this one is either confused or glaring... I cannot decide Well, fortunately I doubt I can draw a rage demon cuter than the tarot one... I mean the lava puring out of the eyes makes it appears as if is crying. Somebody obviously threatened it with Cone of Cold. I just made that makeshift mask for it. 6) Yeah, I just used other chances to accumulate blue with Fenris, if I recall right. I will have to redo my "Blood mage Hawke+Fenris friendromance at some point, and document it in here, for everyone's amusement. Rivialling him is ridiculously easy with mage Hawke though, +20 possibly for the post-quest dialogue alone. Though I also like the twist that you can treat his recruitment quest just as a job and then part ways with him. Oh, that's just purple Hawke's hidden wisdom peeking through all the trolling. 7) Nah, the part I mentioned (minus the slave) is a commonly employed in a joking manner in english use apparently. I do use the german version ("Ich hasse euch alle, ich war ein Sklave!) rather regularly in real life when annoyed. 8) Oh... good thing that I forgot that apparently. Racist old cunt. Anyway, remember me why I do not care much about her getting blown to bits later... 9) You mentioned sometime ago that you use a mod which allows Isabela to be recruited before Anders, right? Given that both quests use the Chantry, how is that done? From your description, it appears as if Isabela appears earlier, so I guess the one you talk to first has the NPCs and triggers for the Chantry encounters set up first as well, and only if that quest is finished, the other quest gets activated? 10) You are very good in capturing sass on screenshots.
11) Is that the sound of a cracking face?
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 17, 2020 17:06:12 GMT
I kinda like her thick eyebrows. They make her more expressive. I'm glad you like her, and I prefer putting thicker eyebrows on characters for the reason you mention. Also my own eyebrows are also somewhat thicker, and people tend to say I have good eyebrows 1) Yeah, I also thought fo Gimli's axe controller/joystick. At least I hope this was the case for Leng; you never know with these kinds of characters. 2) As someone who watched some Doctor Who, I hope they do not drop the Wibbly-wobbly Timey-wimey ball. On the other hand, I remember that Alexius mentioned certain rules, i.e. since his time magic relied on the Breach, he could not use it to undo the events which created the Breach, as Coryp demanded. DA avoided the dreaded grandfather paradox in this case. 3) Well, sometimes, some players also expect these things after they got used to it. And guess what happens if the formula is changed for once... 4) Horrible clipping? I suppose with his collar, or... how long did you make his hair? 5) Yes, this one is either confused or glaring... I cannot decide Well, fortunately I doubt I can draw a rage demon cuter than the tarot one... I mean the lava puring out of the eyes makes it appears as if is crying. Somebody obviously threatened it with Cone of Cold. I just made that makeshift mask for it. 6) Yeah, I just used other chances to accumulate blue with Fenris, if I recall right. I will have to redo my "Blood mage Hawke+Fenris friendromance at some point, and document it in here, for everyone's amusement. Rivialling him is ridiculously easy with mage Hawke though, +20 possibly for the post-quest dialogue alone. Though I also like the twist that you can treat his recruitment quest just as a job and then part ways with him. Oh, that's just purple Hawke's hidden wisdom peeking through all the trolling. 7) Nah, the part I mentioned (minus the slave) is a commonly employed in a joking manner in english use apparently. I do use the german version ("Ich hasse euch alle, ich war ein Sklave!) rather regularly in real life when annoyed. 8) Oh... good thing that I forgot that apparently. Racist old cunt. Anyway, remember me why I do not care much about her getting blown to bits later... 9) You mentioned sometime ago that you use a mod which allows Isabela to be recruited before Anders, right? Given that both quests use the Chantry, how is that done? From your description, it appears as if Isabela appears earlier, so I guess the one you talk to first has the NPCs and triggers for the Chantry encounters set up first as well, and only if that quest is finished, the other quest gets activated? 10) You are very good in capturing sass on screenshots.
11) Is that the sound of a cracking face? 1) I love that scene, also the one where he and Legolas have a drinking contest after the victory at Helm's Deep Legolas: *looks at his hand* I feel a slight tingling sensation, I think it's affecting me Gimli: *to Eomer* hah, you see?! The elf can't hold his liquor *goes cross-eyed and passes out* Legolas: *innocently* game over?
2) Thank the Maker for that at least
3) They did spice it up for Elder Scrolls Online, instead of a prisoner...you're a prisoner, but your soul has also been sucked out and was given to a Daedric Prince...good luck getting it back
4) yeah with his collar...as for the length, it reaches somewhat past his shoulders, its still in a similar style though...just a bit more messy...I think it suits him (screenshot from the mod link )
5) it's from the Joining scene with Mhairi, Anders and Oghren, I also have one from when she closes the Deep Roads passage beneath the Keep but its not as pretty
6) tv-tropes does say Purple!Hawke might be one of the saner people of Kirkwall and yeah, depending on your answer to Fenris you can gain up between 5 to 20 rivalry after his recruitment quest with a mage Mine only got 5...picked "survival"(rivalry +10) as my "what kind of mage are you?" answer, then when asking why Danarius wants him back used the diplomatic answer to gain +5 friendship
7) actually Varric uses it in dialogue with Fenris, which is why I quoted the other two lines that come after it
8) yeah, it only works once in the first Act though, and if you have Sebastian you need to leave the Chantry once and then return for her to have this dialogue (since the first dialogue she has in that case is about Hawke witnessing "that disgraceful scene by the Chanter's board") I don't remember what she says in case of a Surana though...I believe them being a mage trumps them being an elf
9) Well, first you have to do Isabela's quest allowing her entry into the Chantry, however you need to do this before talking to Anders in his clinic the first time because he auto-dialogues when you approach the Chantry for his quest. They both use different instances for the Chantry at night, but Anders' quest takes precedence over Isabela's because that's how it normally is. In my playthrough as noted above I did Isabela's first, did some "day" quests, came back to Kirkwall after recruiting Merrill, and did Anders' quest after finishing Fenris' quest
10) I'll take that as a compliment (its an effect of using the flirt line with Fenris)
11) I also find it cute Fenris laughs at most of purple!Hawke's jokes. He has a surprising good sense of humor
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