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Post by azarhal on Sept 28, 2020 23:34:26 GMT
We are all kinda... predictable *Asajj Ventress voice* Ewyr already has 3 Nevarran Skulls. I've been thinking of making him a Necromancer because of that (faster than chasing stuff for the others), but giving him the same specialization has his future boyfriend seems wrong (I don't think couples acting like clones is cute). Rift Mage would be the most fitting with his made-up "background" and I might do that. Maybe with plenty of "guard on hit" and another mage in the party with Barrier, I won't need the KE defensive passives to survive, Rift Mage enemy damage reduction might help too (on Normal difficulty...with KE I can face-tank dragons thought ). He's currently Inferno/Storm and with crafted gear, deals way too much damage for his level . My main party plan is Blackwall, Dorian and a rogue (still unsure which one, Cole is the one I used less in previous PTs so it will probably be him, but Sera/Varric makes more sense in term of shifty smuggler Ewyr).
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 28, 2020 23:57:37 GMT
Boomstick? I mean, I made staves using two-handed sword models for DA2 and fireball-shooting poleaxes back in Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption, but those were intended to be kinda staves as well. 1) At least these were staves, not provisional bows 2) I mainly miss Decoy. Loved trolling enemies with it. Though my biggest dream is return of Mana Clash. Come back to me, my love 1) Not my fault that ranged weapons own. Get a crossbow, axeman.
2) Oooh, this one. It is still all in my head. Peaking around corners. Seeing a mage. Quicksave. Hope game does not CTD. Far better than frickin' templars pooping their lyrium on everyone ever since DA2 (at least this is my headcanon for the HS change). I sincerely hope this is kicked for DA4 and the spirit damage nova goes back where it belongs, to the Spirit Warrior. Oh, and in my collection of modded DA2 abilities, Dispel's "Transmute" upgrade had its damage increased from 2.69x weapon damage to 15.69 for good measure. Fuck you, sword twirly. I mainly miss Decoy. Loved trolling enemies with it. Though my biggest dream is return of Mana Clash. Come back to me, my love DAO had so many delicious spells, now forgotten... Even if Bioware does, I'll never forget all the fun, and be ready to rub it back under their nose. *drops a Death Cloud* Ewyr already has 3 Nevarran Skulls. I've been thinking of making him a Necromancer because of that (faster than chasing stuff for the others), but giving him the same specialization has his future boyfriend seems wrong (I don't think couples acting like clones is cute). Rift Mage would be the most fitting with his made-up "background" and I might do that. Maybe with plenty of "guard on hit" and another mage in the party with Barrier, I won't need the KE defensive passives to survive, Rift Mage enemy damage reduction might help too (on Normal difficulty...with KE I can face-tank dragons ). Been killin' too many Hinterlanders? I usually had faaaar to many wisp essences (I would not be surprised if one could be lucky enough to get three during the prologue). Don't ask me about deciding on specs. My Amell mage still had none by mid-DAA. Raelyn butted some heads with both Anders and Wynne this time around though. With the former about "freedom", seeing as Anders claimed mages had it worse then elves in alienages. ( Raelyn: Well, excuse you ) With the latter it was about mage freedom. After Wynne told her that the Libertarians were trying to free themselves from the Chantry Raelyn argued that was a good idea. Wynne didn't view it in the same light though, and neither did Anders...at least not yet.
DAA Wynne is #ruuuude. Probably already preparing her Holdo stint in Asunder.
1) Eh, Feynriel never goes anywhere else but the Dalish camp for me. And after reading what a (excuse language) fucktard Michel de Chevin seems to have become, I'm not gonna push another "elf-blooded" person into a human organisation if another choice is available. *plans to feed that dude to Imshael next time*
2b) Or just a guide? When I started playing DAO, I had a bad case of Disapproval Angst. Did not talk much with Alistair as a result. 3) Oooh, learning from the best are we? Well, have fun. Once you figure it out and I figure out how to get the toolset running finally, I might ask a few dumb questions.
3b) Why not? Just don't get jealous of my walking bomb. We surely can found a bomb-maker corner on the next Arlathven. 4) Hmm... could it be a display thing? My keep shows up as german and there's "Solona".
No Merigold in DA2 please. Aveline disapproves. Where do you get the name meanings from? Wikipedia is pretty short on this.
1) Same here...and yeah, Michel is a prick about that. Which reminds me... Slim Couldry is elf-blooded as well (I love that chap, he's so funny) 2b) it's mostly meta knowledge these days, combined with alt+tab to the wikia sometimes if I've forgotten how a certain conversation goes 3) mhm, she send me a few tutorials and such via the nexus site, I'll be taking a look at those tomorrow. 3b) Tabris: yay! *happily tosses in some grenades which explode with huge bangs* link (I head canon she learns some tricks from Dworkin ) 4) hm...maybe I'm misremembering from tv-tropes, they have a section with "meaningful names" <abbr>As for name meanings, I tend to use > link or link the latter also has as section with names by theme, such as names with color meanings, names that have to do with gods etc.</abbr> 1) Yeah, this guy got it right. I wonder if he did some shenanigans with young Sera...
2b) Well, since I've got DA2 running, might delve into the Bloodmage Hawke+Fenris friendmance project again. So it'll be look-up time as well. 3b) Dworkin does it right. random panicked human: "Aahahahaahaa Darkspawn!!!!! We all gonna DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Dworkin: "Hold. My. Lyrium. I have to bury a mine." 4) Ohhh, thanks. God is still not gracious with me though.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 0:33:57 GMT
Ewyr already has 3 Nevarran Skulls. I've been thinking of making him a Necromancer because of that (faster than chasing stuff for the others), but giving him the same specialization has his future boyfriend seems wrong (I don't think couples acting like clones is cute). Rift Mage would be the most fitting with his made-up "background" and I might do that. Maybe with plenty of "guard on hit" and another mage in the party with Barrier, I won't need the KE defensive passives to survive, Rift Mage enemy damage reduction might help too (on Normal difficulty...with KE I can face-tank dragons ). Been killin' too many Hinterlanders? I usually had faaaar to many wisp essences (I would not be surprised if one could be lucky enough to get three during the prologue). Don't ask me about deciding on specs. My Amell mage still had none by mid-DAA. I have always been unlucky with the wisp essences except once. I even had a case where the assured drop in the mire didn't work, only 2 enemies spawned, I had to leave and come back for the 3rd one. But the worst are the Venatori tomes for Rift Mage. DAI drops are so weird. My ex-Elven mage got lots of drops in the intro and Haven, but my dwarves got almost nothing (but now I installed a "more loot" mod, screw you game you will give me loot).
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 29, 2020 1:37:00 GMT
1) Nah, I just have exactly one of these. Was I close? Careful. Expelling loyal members for heresy makes you that much more like the templars.I know. And I headcanon that she apologized for it when she looked in the storage chest. (She totally didn't, though. ) Sorry. I mainly miss Decoy. Loved trolling enemies with it. Though my biggest dream is return of Mana Clash. Come back to me, my love DAO had so many delicious spells, now forgotten... But they live on in our hearts. Especially Storm of the Century. Took me a second to get what you mean, because for me Amell will forever be Lyall I had to look it up for the sake of the joke. I don't bother with default names either, usually. My Amell is Sarai, and as far as I'm concerned that's Amell's name. ---- Thomas Hawke headed down some stairs into a courtyard, and more templars poured in to join the fun. Merrill immobilized them with Wounds of the Past, and then cast Tempest on the courtyard to help soften them up. When the remaining templars regained the ability to move, they immediately went after Merrill, since she'd basically proven that she was made of death... but by that point, there wasn't much left of them either. Thomas helped finish them off, and then another wave came in. Merrill hit the new wave with Cone of Cold just as they were closing with Aveline, and hit one with Walking Bomb. Thomas killed that one with an arrow, and that helped kill most of the rest of them. There was only one templar left when the door to a different wing of the Gallows opened, and four or five abominations trooped onto the field. Thomas waited for them to close with Aveline, and then hit them with Miasmic Flask while Merrill cast Tempest on the field again. He started picking the abominations off, and got the last templar while he was at it. The gang probably could have left at that point, and faced whatever the templars had waiting for them, but Thomas was drawn by the idea of looting whatever was in Meredith and Orsino's offices... I mean killing whatever monsters might be lurking there so that there was no chance they'd slip by the templars in the confusion. Thomas walked into the hallway those offices sat in, and saw an Arcane Horror across the hall and pressure plates for a trap feet from the entrance. He hit the Arcane Horror with Pinning Shot and then disarmed the trap. Aveline tried to run up to the Arcane Horror, but he had her hang back a bit while he walked forward. Sure enough, there was another line of pressure plates. Thomas disarmed them and let Aveline rush forward to attack one of the skeleton archers closer to the hall, then rushed forward to disarm another line of pressure plates. By this point Aveline and the dog had finished the skeleton he was letting them handle, and were sprinting towards the Arcane Horror. He decided not to call Aveline off, since even if there was another trap he thought it was likely the dog would trigger it. And sure enough, a flamethrower sprayed down on them both. Thomas helped them finish off the Arcane Horror and the two skeleton archers, and then looted Orsino and Meredith's offices. Meredith had a... Ceremonial Templar Cummerbund? Really? They have those? Apparently it's inlaid with verses from the Chant of Light as a cheatsheet during mass. I love that idea. Anyway, the party opened the door out of the hallway into the courtyard where they'd spoken with Elsa about the apostates Evelina, Huon, and Emile. There was a corpse there, and as they moved to loot it, two Pride Demons appeared. (Side-note: I hope Elsa's okay, but I seriously doubt it. ) Thomas hit one of the Pride Demons with Mark of Death, and the rest of the party dogpiled it. It went down fast. They turned their attention to the surviving Pride Demon. It lasted longer, since Thomas couldn't use Mark of Death again so quickly, but it died too. Then an army of shades appeared. I said in my last post that shades aren't a threat by now, but... well, they might be crap, but a ton of crap can still wreck someone's day. And there were more shades here than the party had fought on their way out of the room Orsino had died (and eventually stopped moving) in. Still, they weren't backed by a blood mage and a Pride demon, like the army of shades at the docks had been. So Thomas tossed out a Miasmic Flask, Merrill tossed out a Cone of Cold, and the party just slaughtered them one by one. The group looted the room, and found a shield that had been held by Starkhaven's Knight-Commander. It was a nice piece. Thomas headed back to sell the loot he didn't want, and then went back to the portcullis leading to the Gallows Courtyard.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 29, 2020 1:42:04 GMT
I have always been unlucky with the wisp essences except once. I even had a case where the assured drop in the mire didn't work, only 2 enemies spawned, I had to leave and come back for the 3rd one. But the worst are the Venatori tomes for Rift Mage. DAI drops are so weird. My ex-Elven mage got lots of drops in the intro and Haven, but my dwarves got almost nothing (but now I installed a "more loot" mod, screw you game you will give me loot). I tend to get stuff for specialisations my current character cannot learn. When my Adaar was going for Rift Mage, no Venatori (and I did CotJ on this character) ever dropped a tome, except for these three specials. Thankfully they did not glitch. The horde of lvl 16 Gurguts in Ghilan'nain's Groves was bad enough. I guess it is the same shit for Champion, as the knights appear in the same places and I never had a random FotD shield dude drop the pieces. Ex-elven mage? You mean your other concept? Even Sera cannot cease to be an elf.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 29, 2020 2:01:10 GMT
1) Nah, I just have exactly one of these. 1) Was I close? 2) Careful. Expelling loyal members for heresy makes you that much more like the templars.3) I know. And I headcanon that she apologized for it when she looked in the storage chest. (She totally didn't, though. ) 4) Sorry. DAO had so many delicious spells, now forgotten... 5) But they live on in our hearts. Especially Storm of the Century. 6) Meredith had a... Ceremonial Templar Cummerbund? Really? They have those? Apparently it's inlaid with verses from the Chant of Light as a cheatsheet during mass. I love that idea. 1) Well, my first-ever warden I got past Ostagar was an Amell. And the only Amell I ever finished with. Leadra recognised her. But I still prefer "Neria" over "Solona" 2) Unlike the templars and their advocates, we do not claim to be "reasonable". One of ours killed three of them while possessing a kitty. 3) Not very surprising. There's the slight plothole during the epilogue. The Hawkes start to work their asses off in intentured servitude, which provides entrance for Aveline as well, while she joins the guards and never brings it up again. 4) So I get to satisfy all the (possibly non-existent) WB splatter needs of this thread. Your loss. 5) Forgot that one. 6) DAO has this for the gauntlets and at least one belt as I recall.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 2:04:39 GMT
Ex-elven mage? You mean your other concept? Even Sera cannot cease to be an elf. Yeah, the one where I realized I loaded the wrong world state in the Keep. She's deleted now, along the other 2 dwarfs I tried (rogue/warrior) and I restarted with the Dwarf Mage instead. Might as well "combine" the two concepts when you can't choose. The dwarf can also hate Solas anyway. And it's been quite fun. Of course, nobody is acting like "A dwarf, mage!!!???", but the person who did the mod really put time in this because I'm not seen as a Dalish or Circle mage, but I'm seen as mage still, a Dwarf too and I still have my smuggler choices. PT Update:Master Cadash went back to the Hinterlands. First to find a certain Grey Warden, as Leliana really wanted to know why they all disappeared in Ferelden and Orlais. It felt too much like a coincidence to her. But Blackwall the Warden knew nothing. He also conscripted and then freed some farmer after kicking the ass of bandits who stole from them. Ewyr was pretty sure that's not part of a Warden's duties. While leaving, he did ask to join the Inquisition. Ewyr was sure Leliana and Josephine would find great opportunity to abuse those Warden treaties. Next he set his destination to Redcliff village to meet the Grand Enchanter as she requested. There was some more apostates/templars fighting each others. And a Fade Rift at the gate of the village. A strange Rift. Once it was dealt with the gate was open and an Inquisition agent told the group that nobody was expecting us. A mage showed up and told them that a Magister was now in charge. Everyone was confuse, how did Tevinter get involved here. Something strange was going on. Talking to people in the villager even suggested things were very, very strange. Even the Arl was sent away. After scouting the village, they went to the Tavern. There Fiona was waiting and she remembered nothing of their conversation at Val-Royaux. She had also sold the rebel mages to Tevinter. That's when the Magister showed up, but the conversation was short. His son, Felix, felt ill and they rushed back to the castle. Except he faked being ill, he gave a message to Ewyr: come to the Chantry, you are in danger. So off to the Chantry they went. And there they encountered another good looking Tevinter mage, a man called Dorian Pavus. There was also a rift in the Chantry so they took care of that first. Once done, Felix showed up and Ewyr learned that the Magister had used time Magic. Vivienne didn't believe it at all, Ewyr wasn't sure that was possible. Dorian was very, very sure of it as he helped develop the magic as an apprentice. The Inquisition would have to get inside Redcliff castle to know more and Dorian wanted to be there. Quote of the dayVivienne: Fiona, dear, your dementia is showing.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 29, 2020 5:42:18 GMT
2) Oooh, this one. It is still all in my head. Peaking around corners. Seeing a mage. Quicksave. Hope game does not CTD. Far better than frickin' templars pooping their lyrium on everyone ever since DA2 (at least this is my headcanon for the HS change). I sincerely hope this is kicked for DA4 and the spirit damage nova goes back where it belongs, to the Spirit Warrior. Oh, and in my collection of modded DA2 abilities, Dispel's "Transmute" upgrade had its damage increased from 2.69x weapon damage to 15.69 for good measure. Fuck you, sword twirly. I remember learning the hard way that you should quicksave before Mana Clash I have always been unlucky with the wisp essences except once. I even had a case where the assured drop in the mire didn't work, only 2 enemies spawned, I had to leave and come back for the 3rd one. But the worst are the Venatori tomes for Rift Mage. DAI drops are so weird. My ex-Elven mage got lots of drops in the intro and Haven, but my dwarves got almost nothing (but now I installed a "more loot" mod, screw you game you will give me loot). I tend to get stuff for specialisations my current character cannot learn. When my Adaar was going for Rift Mage, no Venatori (and I did CotJ on this character) ever dropped a tome, except for these three specials. Thankfully they did not glitch. The horde of lvl 16 Gurguts in Ghilan'nain's Groves was bad enough. I guess it is the same shit for Champion, as the knights appear in the same places and I never had a random FotD shield dude drop the pieces. Ex-elven mage? You mean your other concept? Even Sera cannot cease to be an elf. I thought it was well-established fact that DAI always gives you specialization items you don't want A tip for both KE and RM. For KE, reloading rift in front of elven widow's house in Hinterlands helps greatly. Maybe you won't get all of them at one, but shouldn't take more that a couple reloads to get at least 2. For RM, quick save and reload 2 Venatori mages that spawn for Dorian's quest. That leaves only one tome from mage that spawns pretty close to main camp in Exalted Plains.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 9:36:56 GMT
Uuuu, 20000-names. I like that site. It's my go-to place when I want a name with real meaning, not just keyboard smash I do the same, especially when I create fan characters for other fandoms that require name puns (I've made Sailor Moon fan characters in the past (and sometimes still do), and all their 'canon' characters have name puns in the original Japanese...for example, the main character being named Usagi Tsukino, which means 'moon rabbit' ) Raelyn butted some heads with both Anders and Wynne this time around though. With the former about "freedom", seeing as Anders claimed mages had it worse then elves in alienages. ( Raelyn: Well, excuse you ) With the latter it was about mage freedom. After Wynne told her that the Libertarians were trying to free themselves from the Chantry Raelyn argued that was a good idea. Wynne didn't view it in the same light though, and neither did Anders...at least not yet.
DAA Wynne is #ruuuude. Probably already preparing her Holdo stint in Asunder.
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1) Yeah, this guy got it right. I wonder if he did some shenanigans with young Sera...
2b) Well, since I've got DA2 running, might delve into the Bloodmage Hawke+Fenris friendmance project again. So it'll be look-up time as well. 3b) Dworkin does it right. random panicked human: "Aahahahaahaa Darkspawn!!!!! We all gonna DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Dworkin: "Hold. My. Lyrium. I have to bury a mine." 4) Ohhh, thanks. God is still not gracious with me though. I like to imagine my Tabris made both of them think on this, only to have them realize years later that "hey, she was right after all!" -- 1) I know it's in order to include all the origins, but given the fact he was raised in Denerim's alienage, shouldn't he know a Tabris Warden? Ah well, I just head canon the two of them greet each other like old friends, and the current party members being all: companion: "wait, you know this shady fellow?" Tabris: yeah, we grew up together Slim: hey, wanna do some heists to pester Howe and Loghain? Tabris: do you need to ask? 2b) ah irony galore...my favorite 3b) lol, I can almost picture it 4) yeah...I looked up my name once for fun...apparently mine means "one who beholds/one who looks out" Took me a second to get what you mean, because for me Amell will forever be Lyall I had to look it up for the sake of the joke. I don't bother with default names either, usually. My Amell is Sarai, and as far as I'm concerned that's Amell's name. For me it's a either Lisanna or Minerva...though I sometimes give the latter to Surana as well
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 29, 2020 10:33:47 GMT
Uuuu, 20000-names. I like that site. It's my go-to place when I want a name with real meaning, not just keyboard smash I do the same, especially when I create fan characters for other fandoms that require name puns (I've made Sailor Moon fan characters in the past (and sometimes still do), and all their 'canon' characters have name puns in the original Japanese...for example, the main character being named Usagi Tsukino, which means 'moon rabbit' ) Iirc, there's more than one pun in Usagi's name, but yea, this one is my favourite. Unfortunately these puns didn't carry into my language. What's worse, in our manga translation we lost Usagi/Usako altogether, since Usagi was translated to Bunny and Usako to "Króliczek", which in English means... Bunny So basically we lost Mamoru's nickname for her... Gah, sorry. Two decades later and I'm still salty.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 10:50:30 GMT
I do the same, especially when I create fan characters for other fandoms that require name puns (I've made Sailor Moon fan characters in the past (and sometimes still do), and all their 'canon' characters have name puns in the original Japanese...for example, the main character being named Usagi Tsukino, which means 'moon rabbit' ) Iirc, there's more than one pun in Usagi's name, but yea, this one is my favourite. Unfortunately these puns didn't carry into my language. What's worse, in our manga translation we lost Usagi/Usako altogether, since Usagi was translated to Bunny and Usako to "Króliczek", which in English means... Bunny So basically we lost Mamoru's nickname for her... Gah, sorry. Two decades later and I'm still salty. I know right? I mean...Ami Mizuno to Amy Anderson? (the surname Anderson has nothing to do with water! ) in my country they renamed Usagi to Serena...which is basically her princess name (Serenity)
but I suspect one of the biggest offenders is still the fact the US changed the relationship between Haruka and Michuru back in the 90's (I mean...lesbians is a big no no, but incest (cousins) is okay? wtf US )
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 11:58:34 GMT
What's with the Sailor Moon stuff? Not that I mind and yes US version of old JP anime haven't been that great (Robotech is not Macross ) A tip for both KE and RM. For KE, reloading rift in front of elven widow's house in Hinterlands helps greatly. Maybe you won't get all of them at one, but shouldn't take more that a couple reloads to get at least 2. For RM, quick save and reload 2 Venatori mages that spawn for Dorian's quest. That leaves only one tome from mage that spawns pretty close to main camp in Exalted Plains. I already dealt with the widow's rift, but I got a wisp essence from the one before Redcliff village's entrance. I need to check how many I have now. I've been collecting more Nevarran skulls too, these have no problem dropping. Haven't encountered Venatori yet (well in combat, ahah I did meet Alexius) and I'm planning to do In Hushed Whisper for once. I'm pretty sure I will have to deal with the Exalted Plains spawns if the Spellbinders in the quest don't drop anything. Not that bit of a problem, it's just that I feel naked without a specialization in DAI.
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What's with the Sailor Moon stuff? Not that I mind and yes US version of old JP anime haven't been that great (Robotech is not Macross ) What? We're staying on topic of meaningful names Same. Unlocking specialization is usually one of the first things I do after reaching Skyhold. Plus it saves me respeccing, since I have a habit of building character for specialization I have in mind from the very beginning. If I unlocked it later, I'd most likely need to respec.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 12:34:00 GMT
What's with the Sailor Moon stuff? Not that I mind and yes US version of old JP anime haven't been that great (Robotech is not Macross ) my fault a little ...but as Rascoth noted...we were talking about meaningful names also...they translated Macross to Robotech? *sigh*
then again, I always hate it when they feel the need to translate names anyway, because apparently they use the excuse of 'kids won't know how to pronounce it' so let me pronounce it wrong for twenty years only to find the correct pronunciation on the internet at some point damnit! (I'm referring to Pokemon) most jarring of that is names in Harry Potter ...*shudders*
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 12:58:30 GMT
I need some help with Rift Mage spells. I'm starting to plan my future build and I got questions. 1. What does Veilstrike do exactly without upgrades? Tooltips has no damage number or effect durations, just size. Does it "knockdown" everything? 2. Do the skills generate Weakened status long enough for the passives to do anything without spamming Dispel with the weaken upgrade while waiting for cooldowns? 3. Which upgrade is better for Pull of the Abyss? I also plan to invest in Winter for "defense" (Fade Step, CC via mine freezing, defensive passive, also Freeze and Stonefist are cool friends). And Storm for Energy Barrage (synergize super well with "on hit" effects) and Static Charge passive. Same. Unlocking specialization is usually one of the first things I do after reaching Skyhold. Plus it saves me respeccing, since I have a habit of building character for specialization I have in mind from the very beginning. If I unlocked it later, I'd most likely need to respec. I basically rush to Skyhold to unlock them. Once I even got the templar/mage camps quests auto-resolved in the Hinterlands because I didn't know it auto-resolved once you reached Skyhold. Lost lots of XP and loot. also...they translated Macross to Robotech? *sigh* And altered the entire plot via dialogues and cutting/re-ordering scenes/characters.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 13:20:14 GMT
I need some help with Rift Mage spells. I'm starting to plan my future build and I got questions. 1. What does Veilstrike do exactly without upgrades? Tooltips has no damage number or effect durations, just size. Does it "knockdown" everything? 2. Do the skills generate Weakened status long enough for the passives to do anything without spamming Dispel with the weaken upgrade while waiting for cooldowns? 3. Which upgrade is better for Pull of the Abyss? I also plan to invest in Winter for "defense" (Fade Step, CC via mine freezing, defensive passive, also Freeze and Stonefist are cool friends). And Storm for Energy Barrage (synergize super well with "on hit" effects) and Static Charge passive. Same. Unlocking specialization is usually one of the first things I do after reaching Skyhold. Plus it saves me respeccing, since I have a habit of building character for specialization I have in mind from the very beginning. If I unlocked it later, I'd most likely need to respec. I basically rush to Skyhold to unlock them. Once I even got the templar/mage camps quests auto-resolved in the Hinterlands because I didn't know it auto-resolved once you reached Skyhold. Lost lots of XP and loot. also...they translated Macross to Robotech? *sigh* And altered the entire plot via dialogues and cutting/re-ordering scenes/characters. 1) basically yes, Veil Strike is kinda akin to Fist of the Maker from DA2 2) not really sure...to be fair I hardly ever take note of status effects, I'm more of a 'spam attacks 'till it dies' type of player 3) I personally use Shaken Veil as upgrade, it gives a weakened status of 10 seconds and decreases cooldown by 8 seconds
-- I tend to solve those two quests before heading into IHW or CotJ -- ugh...terrible, I hate it when they do that I mean, the only thing worse is having an anime based on a manga with the anime consisting of 90% filler material because they decided to film the anime while the manga is still running so need those episodes in order to fill in 'till the next chapters are released *gasps for air* Thankfully for me one of my favorite manga's recently got an anime reboot and they only skipped like...two chapters or so of the manga, and no fillers...though sadly the last season won't be released until next year
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 29, 2020 13:33:30 GMT
I need some help with Rift Mage spells. I'm starting to plan my future build and I got questions. 1. What does Veilstrike do exactly without upgrades? Tooltips has no damage number or effect durations, just size. Does it "knockdown" everything? 2. Do the skills generate Weakened status long enough for the passives to do anything without spamming Dispel with the weaken upgrade while waiting for cooldowns? 3. Which upgrade is better for Pull of the Abyss? I also plan to invest in Winter for "defense" (Fade Step, CC via mine freezing, defensive passive, also Freeze and Stonefist are cool friends). And Storm for Energy Barrage (synergize super well with "on hit" effects) and Static Charge passive. 1. What LadyofNemesis said. 2. I'd say most of the time they're enough. With AoE upgrade Stonefist alone should suffice. 3. It boils down to damage vs weakened and how long you want the pull to last. The first part is pretty straighforward, the second not so much. I usually go for Devouring Veil, since I prefer that extra bit of damage and don't use that many AoE spells (one short pull is enough for me to use Frost Step on gathered enemies). But Shaken Veil is better if you plan to focus on AoE or have AoE focused companions, since it keeps enemies in place rather than releasing them right after inflicting damage. I tend to solve those two quests before heading into IHW or CotJ I usually have them done even before leaving to Val Royeaux No wonder that unused Solas dialogue tends to play during my runs
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 13:42:37 GMT
I tend to solve those two quests before heading into IHW or CotJ I usually have them done even before leaving to Val Royeaux No wonder that unused Solas dialogue tends to play during my runs omg, the first time they implemented that and I did a new playthrough I got that line as well and I was like "shaddap! I'll go to Val Royeaux when I want too!"
What I find even more hilarious is how Solas seemingly talks to no one, because he's clearly talking to Cassandra, but she doesn't answer him
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 29, 2020 14:00:00 GMT
I usually have them done even before leaving to Val Royeaux No wonder that unused Solas dialogue tends to play during my runs omg, the first time they implemented that and I did a new playthrough I got that line as well and I was like "shaddap! I'll go to Val Royeaux when I want too!"
What I find even more hilarious is how Solas seemingly talks to no one, because he's clearly talking to Cassandra, but she doesn't answer him Not only that, there're no subtitles. Clearly someone pushed wrong button
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 14:17:36 GMT
Thanks for the Rift Mage info both of you. I usually have them done even before leaving to Val Royeaux No wonder that unused Solas dialogue tends to play during my runs omg, the first time they implemented that and I did a new playthrough I got that line as well and I was like "shaddap! I'll go to Val Royeaux when I want too!" What I find even more hilarious is how Solas seemingly talks to no one, because he's clearly talking to Cassandra, but she doesn't answer him I used to clear almost all of the Hinterlands before going to Val-Royaux (basically leaving only the high dragon), but that just caused me to "burn out". I go more "feels" and less "optimized completion" now. Cass has a talent to ignore people.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 29, 2020 18:36:15 GMT
Ex-elven mage? You mean your other concept? Even Sera cannot cease to be an elf. Yeah, the one where I realized I loaded the wrong world state in the Keep. She's deleted now, along the other 2 dwarfs I tried (rogue/warrior) and I restarted with the Dwarf Mage instead. Might as well "combine" the two concepts when you can't choose. The dwarf can also hate Solas anyway. And it's been quite fun. Of course, nobody is acting like "A dwarf, mage!!!???", but the person who did the mod really put time in this because I'm not seen as a Dalish or Circle mage, but I'm seen as mage still, a Dwarf too and I still have my smuggler choices. 2) Vivienne: Fiona, dear, your dementia is showing. 2) Vivienne: Fiona, dear, your OOC-ness and writer agency is showing. I thought it was well-established fact that DAI always gives you specialization items you don't want A tip for both KE and RM. For KE, reloading rift in front of elven widow's house in Hinterlands helps greatly. Maybe you won't get all of them at one, but shouldn't take more that a couple reloads to get at least 2. For RM, quick save and reload 2 Venatori mages that spawn for Dorian's quest. That leaves only one tome from mage that spawns pretty close to main camp in Exalted Plains. You mean just quicksave before the actual fights/rift pop-ups? Never tried that, though I did Dorian's Hinterlands Venatori several times, but no luck for RM Adaar.
DAA Wynne is #ruuuude. Probably already preparing her Holdo stint in Asunder.
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1) Yeah, this guy got it right. I wonder if he did some shenanigans with young Sera...
2b) Well, since I've got DA2 running, might delve into the Bloodmage Hawke+Fenris friendmance project again. So it'll be look-up time as well. 3b) Dworkin does it right. random panicked human: "Aahahahaahaa Darkspawn!!!!! We all gonna DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Dworkin: "Hold. My. Lyrium. I have to bury a mine." 4) Ohhh, thanks. God is still not gracious with me though. I like to imagine my Tabris made both of them think on this, only to have them realize years later that "hey, she was right after all!" -- 1) I know it's in order to include all the origins, but given the fact he was raised in Denerim's alienage, shouldn't he know a Tabris Warden? Ah well, I just head canon the two of them greet each other like old friends, and the current party members being all: companion: "wait, you know this shady fellow?" Tabris: yeah, we grew up together Slim: hey, wanna do some heists to pester Howe and Loghain? Tabris: do you need to ask? 2b) ah irony galore...my favorite 3b) lol, I can almost picture it 4) yeah...I looked up my name once for fun...apparently mine means "one who beholds/one who looks out" Oooh, your "does not like magic at first" Tabris being an inspiration for Anders. Though, as I got it, Wynne takes until the end of Asunder to notice that her "be a good prisoner and the templars might not beat you up" thinking isn't that great. 1) Never thought about this, but yeah. I wonder though how large the alienage population is and how many extended families (like the Tabrises) it is made up from. 2) Pffft. Says the Cullenite. 3) I wonder when the rest of the world realises that bombs and boom-magic are better for killing Spawn than swords. 4) So you an Observer? Anyway, better than having a christian meaning while being as infidel as I am. Though my parents have no religious background, so I guess they took it for simplicity. I do the same, especially when I create fan characters for other fandoms that require name puns (I've made Sailor Moon fan characters in the past (and sometimes still do), and all their 'canon' characters have name puns in the original Japanese...for example, the main character being named Usagi Tsukino, which means 'moon rabbit' ) Iirc, there's more than one pun in Usagi's name, but yea, this one is my favourite. Unfortunately these puns didn't carry into my language. What's worse, in our manga translation we lost Usagi/Usako altogether, since Usagi was translated to Bunny and Usako to "Króliczek", which in English means... Bunny So basically we lost Mamoru's nickname for her... Gah, sorry. Two decades later and I'm still salty. So it is "Bunny Bunny" in Polish? Ugh, at least that one Battletech novel played "Arminius Herrman" for the lolz. What's with the Sailor Moon stuff? Not that I mind and yes US version of old JP anime haven't been that great (Robotech is not Macross ) my fault a little ...but as Rascoth noted...we were talking about meaningful names also...they translated Macross to Robotech? *sigh*
then again, I always hate it when they feel the need to translate names anyway, because apparently they use the excuse of 'kids won't know how to pronounce it' so let me pronounce it wrong for twenty years only to find the correct pronunciation on the internet at some point damnit! (I'm referring to Pokemon) most jarring of that is names in Harry Potter ...*shudders*
Pfft. They underestimate the kids, especially these days. I mean, my exposure to anime in the early 2000s was pretty limited, but I did not have much issue with pronoucing Japanese words. Just take time to pronounce it syllable-by-syllable. I need some help with Rift Mage spells. I'm starting to plan my future build and I got questions. 1. What does Veilstrike do exactly without upgrades? Tooltips has no damage number or effect durations, just size. Does it "knockdown" everything? 2. Do the skills generate Weakened status long enough for the passives to do anything without spamming Dispel with the weaken upgrade while waiting for cooldowns? 3. Which upgrade is better for Pull of the Abyss? I also plan to invest in Winter for "defense" (Fade Step, CC via mine freezing, defensive passive, also Freeze and Stonefist are cool friends). And Storm for Energy Barrage (synergize super well with "on hit" effects) and Static Charge passive. 1. What LadyofNemesis said. 2. I'd say most of the time they're enough. With AoE upgrade Stonefist alone should suffice. I tend to solve those two quests before heading into IHW or CotJ 4) I usually have them done even before leaving to Val Royeaux No wonder that unused Solas dialogue tends to play during my runs 1) I had the impression that Veilstrike is more like Telekinetic Burst/Blast; kocks stuff over, but no major damage (except for killing all the wooden boxes ). FotM does decent direct damage in comparison. I'm shit with Force Mage as I always end up using it on baddies which are apparently immune due to lack of animations (like shades). FotM at least kills these. 2) I remember having a Sigil of the Great Bear at some point and spammed Shatterstone Fist with all passives with mana restoring itself immediately on hit.
4) Haha, contrarian here. I tend to finish off the Hinterlands mages and templars shortly before In your heart shall burn. I guess I'll keep that to cut repeating Solas-nagging.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 18:52:38 GMT
Yeah, the one where I realized I loaded the wrong world state in the Keep. She's deleted now, along the other 2 dwarfs I tried (rogue/warrior) and I restarted with the Dwarf Mage instead. Might as well "combine" the two concepts when you can't choose. The dwarf can also hate Solas anyway. And it's been quite fun. Of course, nobody is acting like "A dwarf, mage!!!???", but the person who did the mod really put time in this because I'm not seen as a Dalish or Circle mage, but I'm seen as mage still, a Dwarf too and I still have my smuggler choices. 2) Vivienne: Fiona, dear, your dementia is showing.2) Vivienne: Fiona, dear, your OOC-ness and writer agency is showing. There is a few people in the village you can talk to, who are aware when Tevinter showed up, but when it comes to the Templar army that caused Fiona to sign the deal, it all sound like hearsay. I'm pretty sure Fiona was bloodmagic-influenced to sign that deal. In fact, she probably didn't sign anything, she just think that she did. I actually hate In Hushed Whisper, that storyline leaks all over the place with its contriving plot holes.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 29, 2020 19:09:42 GMT
You mean just quicksave before the actual fights/rift pop-ups? Never tried that, though I did Dorian's Hinterlands Venatori several times, but no luck for RM Adaar. Yep, quicksave before starting the rift fight and if you don't get decent Wisp Essence drop, reload Hah, no. It's that when you translate her nickname in Polish to English, it's turns out it's actually the same as her normal name, so you could say she has no nickname at all. But her surname doesn't fare better. It's Cukino instead of Tsukino (it's tied to pronunciation in Polish, because we can't keep it spelled correctly) 1) Ah, immunities. Gotta love them. I recently took a trip down memory lane (with Wayback Mashine) and read my posts from original BSN after my first The Descent pt (I was looking for some of my old screenshots that I lost). Boy was I sad about all darkspawn immunities on Nightmare 2) I rarely use sigils. Usually drawbacks are not worth the boost, so I use them as source of small income. But that one sounds fun 4) I always find it funny when I hear it. It's so clearly not supposed to be in game, but it's there and it's kinda glorious I actually hate In Hushed Whisper, that storyline leaks all over the place with its contriving plot holes. You mean you don't like time-travelling mess? Shocking
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 19:22:17 GMT
Oooh, your "does not like magic at first" Tabris being an inspiration for Anders. Though, as I got it, Wynne takes until the end of Asunder to notice that her "be a good prisoner and the templars might not beat you up" thinking isn't that great. 1) Never thought about this, but yeah. I wonder though how large the alienage population is and how many extended families (like the Tabrises) it is made up from. 2) Pffft. Says the Cullenite. 3) I wonder when the rest of the world realises that bombs and boom-magic are better for killing Spawn than swords. 4) So you an Observer? Anyway, better than having a christian meaning while being as infidel as I am. Though my parents have no religious background, so I guess they took it for simplicity. my fault a little ...but as Rascoth noted...we were talking about meaningful names also...they translated Macross to Robotech? *sigh*
then again, I always hate it when they feel the need to translate names anyway, because apparently they use the excuse of 'kids won't know how to pronounce it' so let me pronounce it wrong for twenty years only to find the correct pronunciation on the internet at some point damnit! (I'm referring to Pokemon) most jarring of that is names in Harry Potter ...*shudders*
5) Pfft. They underestimate the kids, especially these days. I mean, my exposure to anime in the early 2000s was pretty limited, but I did not have much issue with pronoucing Japanese words. Just take time to pronounce it syllable-by-syllable. Yep...'sides, as I said...my Tabris learned to appreciate magic over time. I like to imagine mages like Morrigan and Velanna make her like it at some point, or at least respect it. 1) I wonder that too, especially because a Surana Warden can say they're from Denerim but no one there recognizes them if they go there later on. 2) which is why I said I like irony ...'sides, if Dorian had been a bi-romance I'd probably have gone for him I've also looked up the romances for Blackwall, Solas and Iron Bull on YouTube but they don't really interest me. 3) hm...yeah I wonder that too 4) that does sound like me, for example, I like looking for details in for example movie scenes. My older brother has a similar name meaning as yours (he's named Michael, which apparently means 'who's like god'), but like I said...my parents aren't religious, my mom just liked the name. When she picked it people asked if she'd done it for Michael Jackson ('cause she was a fan of him when she was young), but she just liked the names. 5) I know right? Back when I was in elementary school I had a teacher who once told my mom "if she can remember and say all the pokémon names, then she can remember fractures too" (one of my favorite teachers back then, and she did teach me fractures in the end ^^) pronouncing Japanese names aren't that hard anyway...especially the shorter ones
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 19:58:18 GMT
You mean you don't like time-travelling mess? Shocking There are good time travelling stories and bad time travelling stories. In Hushed Whisper is in the bad group. I can write a very long essay as to why it doesn't work as a time travelling story. My impression is that it was rewritten late in the dev process thought as Champion of the Just is just better all around (boss fights, content, info delivery, etc).
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