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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 29, 2020 20:15:40 GMT
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 1) Don't remind me. I don't dare going on higher difficulties, but even on easiest, these frickin' Sha-Brytol Earthshakers just won't die. Why do they have fire and cold res? Why the fuck do some Trespasser Qunari have spirit res? And that's not getting into DA2's madness. Random Bandits/Mercs/Soldiers having tier 3 elemental resistances (of 5 tiers. tier 5 only shows up as the nature res of undead) and all these become immunities depending on difficulty. They also have random effect immunities never documented in-game. Some examples:
Two-handed fighters: stun immunity Sword twirling commanders: silence Darkspawn: slow Carta: dispel Coterie: slow Dalish: paralyze Kirkwall guards/Profanes: "movement penalty" Raiders: knockdown (!) Slavers: silence Mercenaries: charm (a.k.a. blood control) Qunari: flanking
Templars: silence
I nuked all these for my game.
I just kept the following:
Undead: sleep (as it is like DAO)
Demons: silence Beasts/Spiders: immobilty, as this probably due to animation issues Dragons: knockdown, for same reason Meredith: stun/slow/paralyze/charm, as I guess this is due to the highly scripted nature of the fight
2) I only made use of Great Bear, especially for Necromancer and their high costs. According to the wiki, basic mana regeneration is percentage-based (as opposed to stamina), so the mage gets a bigger pool why passive regenerations stays same. Some "restore" effects from talents are still penalised though.
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. Ugh, that would be even worse, as a pending templar assault could be seen as a legitimate reason. I gonna hate Bioware for piling up all that shit (plus Calpernia) to make players go on the templar path. I just read some excerpts from Asunder and The Calling, but Fiona is utterly out-of-character here, besides white-washed. I'd just go ahead and say that's an Envy Demon impersonating her, pretty much like Hawke in HltA. 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. 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 "Morrigaaaan, I need a new Pandemonium bomb!" "Again? Ugh, here you go..."
1) In case of Surana, it might be that they were very young and this is what they were told. And/or the alienage community deliberately forgetting the "witchspawn". 2) Well, what can I say? I'm honestly not that interested in most the DAI romances. Lavellan has Solas for drama/plot reasons. For mage Adaar... well, adorkable flirts with Harding. Still no idea for my archer Cadash. Perhaps Josi? If I ever come around to roll a male Inquisitor, it will probably be Dorian. Other than that... meh. The only go-to romance I have in DA is Merrill, but Zevran comes close for DAO elves. 3) I mean, if you got some sort of evil bio monster, kill it with fire. 4) I now have to think of owls... they are creepy. Don't get me started on name associations. I've heard a story of how "Undine" was popular around here some decades ago due to a well-know TV moderator (not the greek original). One of these Undines was pretty pissed by that resoning and resorted to give her children short, four-letter names which were hard to mock. 5) What are fractures in this context? I feel I should know it, I did study English for a year at university afterall, but it does not ring a bell.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 29, 2020 20:44:03 GMT
I just read some excerpts from Asunder and The Calling, but Fiona is utterly out-of-character here, besides white-washed. I'd just go ahead and say that's an Envy Demon impersonating her, pretty much like Hawke in HltA. Not enough grandstanding and me-me-me for an Envy Demon.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 20:52:34 GMT
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 "Morrigaaaan, I need a new Pandemonium bomb!" "Again? Ugh, here you go..."
1) In case of Surana, it might be that they were very young and this is what they were told. And/or the alienage community deliberately forgetting the "witchspawn". 2) Well, what can I say? I'm honestly not that interested in most the DAI romances. Lavellan has Solas for drama/plot reasons. For mage Adaar... well, adorkable flirts with Harding. Still no idea for my archer Cadash. Perhaps Josi? If I ever come around to roll a male Inquisitor, it will probably be Dorian. Other than that... meh. The only go-to romance I have in DA is Merrill, but Zevran comes close for DAO elves. 3) I mean, if you got some sort of evil bio monster, kill it with fire. 4) I now have to think of owls... they are creepy. Don't get me started on name associations. I've heard a story of how "Undine" was popular around here some decades ago due to a well-know TV moderator (not the greek original). One of these Undines was pretty pissed by that resoning and resorted to give her children short, four-letter names which were hard to mock. 5) What are fractures in this context? I feel I should know it, I did study English for a year at university afterall, but it does not ring a bell.
pff, lol -- 1) fair enough
2) yeah...I mean, Solas' romance is sweet and all, but I'm not overly invested in his whole "burn down the world and everything in it" gig he has going on antm. my own Adaar (male) romanced Cassandra, I'd planned on going with Josie at first, but got a bit impatient with how slow her romance went imo. (Later turned out I was on the right track after all, ah well) Other Dragon Age romances for me are...well, Zevran (obviously) and Fenris (another obvious one) for my girls, for my males I tend to go with Morrigan and Isabela...and Cassandra apparently, but I've only ever finished with one male Quizzy so can't really comment on which other ones I might like. 3) Every creature in a game that can be harmed with fire should be killed with it, and even if they're immune...still fire...or a bucket of water, and then electrocute it 4) aww, but owls can look pretty. But yeah...they can be creepy too...turning their heads 360 degrees My dad wanted to give me and my brother different names, but my mom wouldn't let him because those names (and ones sounding like it) were already aplenty in my family. If my dad had gotten his way my name would've been Christina, and my brother would've been named Antoon Christina became one of my birth names though...same with my brother having one birth name that's Antonius me and my brother both have 4 birth names...kinda annoying if you have to write them all out for official paper work 5) fractures as in 1x4=4, 5x6=30 that sort of thing
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 21:00:24 GMT
Today Raelyn and company ventured forth in their adventures of Awakening.
Went to the Knotwood Hills first, recruiting a rather chipper lady dwarf named Sigrun -member of the Legion of the Dead- and helped her clear out Kal Hirol from darkspawn and several broodmothers. Thankfully we didn't have to face the latter *shudders*. We also found some new darkspawn which looked like maggots with faces , and found out there was apparently some sort of civil war going on among the darkspawn themselves.
After that we returned to the Keep, quelled a peasant revolt (Raelyn uses intimidate, it's very effective), and after that headed to the Blackmarsh to find Warden Kristoff. 'Course the marsh turned out to be a trap lain by the darkspawn, who trapped them in the Fade. Raelyn and company met a spirit of Justice who helped them defeat a pride demon calling itself 'The Baroness', we also took care of the spectral dragon.
Again back at the Keep we ran into Kristoff's wife Aura who was very understandably upset at the fact her husband was dead and now possessed. Oghren's wife Felsi also made an appearance, after which it turned out Oghren had ran away from home, more or less.
The group then traveled to the city of Amaranthine again, dealing with the companion quests (also did Sigrun's), along the way and picking up the crafting materials we'd need for Master Wade.
-- All that's left now is getting Oghren's approval high enough for me to finish his companion quest, find merchant Lilith (her encounter has yet to trigger) and do the final battle. And after that Witch Hunt.
For some reason I always tend to skip out on Golems of Amgarrak, mostly because I dislike that dlc quite a lot...and also because (at least for now) it has no impact on further story lines
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 29, 2020 21:17:16 GMT
I just read some excerpts from Asunder and The Calling, but Fiona is utterly out-of-character here, besides white-washed. I'd just go ahead and say that's an Envy Demon impersonating her, pretty much like Hawke in HltA. Not enough grandstanding and me-me-me for an Envy Demon. The Envy Demon at Therinfal was a noob. Also, Chantry folk are pretty fond of grandstanding, so I guess Therinfal-Envy just took the wrong SoT. If Cass is to be believed about his personality, that is. "Morrigaaaan, I need a new Pandemonium bomb!" "Again? Ugh, here you go..." 1) In case of Surana, it might be that they were very young and this is what they were told. And/or the alienage community deliberately forgetting the "witchspawn". 2) Well, what can I say? I'm honestly not that interested in most the DAI romances. Lavellan has Solas for drama/plot reasons. For mage Adaar... well, adorkable flirts with Harding. Still no idea for my archer Cadash. Perhaps Josi? If I ever come around to roll a male Inquisitor, it will probably be Dorian. Other than that... meh. The only go-to romance I have in DA is Merrill, but Zevran comes close for DAO elves. 3) I mean, if you got some sort of evil bio monster, kill it with fire. 4) I now have to think of owls... they are creepy. Don't get me started on name associations. I've heard a story of how "Undine" was popular around here some decades ago due to a well-know TV moderator (not the greek original). One of these Undines was pretty pissed by that resoning and resorted to give her children short, four-letter names which were hard to mock. 5) What are fractures in this context? I feel I should know it, I did study English for a year at university afterall, but it does not ring a bell.
pff, lol -- 1) fair enough
2) yeah...I mean, Solas' romance is sweet and all, but I'm not overly invested in his whole "burn down the world and everything in it" gig he has going on antm. my own Adaar (male) romanced Cassandra, I'd planned on going with Josie at first, but got a bit impatient with how slow her romance went imo. (Later turned out I was on the right track after all, ah well) Other Dragon Age romances for me are...well, Zevran (obviously) and Fenris (another obvious one) for my girls, for my males I tend to go with Morrigan and Isabela...and Cassandra apparently, but I've only ever finished with one male Quizzy so can't really comment on which other ones I might like. 3) Every creature in a game that can be harmed with fire should be killed with it, and even if they're immune...still fire...or a bucket of water, and then electrocute it 4) aww, but owls can look pretty. But yeah...they can be creepy too...turning their heads 360 degrees My dad wanted to give me and my brother different names, but my mom wouldn't let him because those names (and ones sounding like it) were already aplenty in my family. If my dad had gotten his way my name would've been Christina, and my brother would've been named Antoon Christina became one of my birth names though...same with my brother having one birth name that's Antonius me and my brother both have 4 birth names...kinda annoying if you have to write them all out for official paper work 5) fractures as in 1x4=4, 5x6=30 that sort of thing 2) My characters usually do not care about sexuality definitions. I'm personally not interested in males, but that does not hold my character back, except for MALES, a.k.a. dudebro-flake, but that's more a character quirk then. It is more about who makes a good pair.
3) Now I'm afraid. I wonder if lava is conductive though. 4) That's what I meant. The eyes are also unsettling at times. I'm one of these people who does not like being stared at. Always think I did something wrong. But there's still Hoothoot, so I guess I'm not the only one... Ouch, so each of you have four names in total? My father has a second name, mommy has none, just like me. And my first name has only three letters. On the other hand, our last name has an umlaut, so we have to turn it into two letters. Oh, and my parent's adress has an extremely long street name, so there's that for the paper work. My first job tranining's name also frequently did not fit into the given space. 5) Ah, I see. Eww, maths. 6) We also found some new darkspawn which looked like maggots with faces 7) After that we returned to the Keep, quelled a peasant revolt (Raelyn uses intimidate, it's very effective
8) For some reason I always tend to skip out on Golems of Amgarrak, mostly because I dislike that dlc quite a lot...and also because (at least for now) it has no impact on further story lines 6) Now that's something to burn, douse and electrocute. Poor rage demons are far more cutesy. These maggotkids are also the reason I suspect for all the "everyone around me dies" abilities we got in DAA (Basically everything Keeper and Battlemade, Massacre, Reaving Storm...) 7) These speech checks is really weird. It seems as if all four coercion passives are sometimes not enough to pass them, so rogues with high CUN would have an advantage for persuade options, but since intimidation relies on STR... weird. Or did Tabris stack strenght for some reason?
8) GoA is for people who can play the base game blindfold on the hardest difficulty rating. Apart from the gratuitous gore and body horror of course.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 29, 2020 21:21:08 GMT
2) My characters usually do not care about sexuality definitions. I'm personally not interested in males, but that does not hold my character back, except for MALES, a.k.a. dudebro-flake, but that's more a character quirk then. It is more about who makes a good pair.
3) Now I'm afraid. I wonder if lava is conductive though. 4) That's what I meant. The eyes are also unsettling at times. I'm one of these people who does not like being stared at. Always think I did something wrong. But there's still Hoothoot, so I guess I'm not the only one... Ouch, so each of you have four names in total? My father has a second name, mommy has none, just like me. And my first name has only three letters. On the other hand, our last name has an umlaut, so we have to turn it into two letters. Oh, and my parent's adress has an extremely long street name, so there's that for the paper work. My first job tranining's name also frequently did not fit into the given space. 5) Ah, I see. Eww, maths. 2) mm, my Tabris is more about "who's attractive" then what gender they are as well...after all, she slept with Isabela (and I currently have that lovely bug in Awakening where a character can have "love" as their approval...this time it's Velanna ) I too tend to look who makes a good pair for my character...though most of the time the pairings still end up hetero-sexual...ah well
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Post by azarhal on Sept 30, 2020 2:14:30 GMT
DAI After dealing with the people at Redcliff Village, Ewyr decided to deal with the rebellious rebel Templars and Apostates in the region. It would made it safer and there would less refugees at the Crossroad for the Inquisition to deal with. He also cleared some bandits nearby and found some elven artifact Solas claimed would strengthen the Veil...while a Dalish encountered at the site claimed it would help tell where rifts might opens. Ewyr was wondering how truthful the bald elf was. With the Crossroad safe, warm and feed, Ewyr had Corporal Vale recruit the skilled volunteers for the Inquisition. He also dealt with a ram who turned into a Rage Demon. Poor Mister Woosley, he had a bit of an accident when Ewyr was attacked by some Carta members he didn't knew near a waterfall cave system. Then he took a group to the Storm Coast to watch the Chargers deal with some Tevinter scouts, invaders...Tevinter something, probably Magister Alexius's people really. Probably better to not mention it the next time there is "negotiations". The Chargers looked capable and it wasn't like Ewyr was going to pay for them directly, so he hired them. Despite their leader being quite honest about being a spy for the Qunari.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 30, 2020 11:59:41 GMT
phew, that's done Finished up Raelyn's playthrough for the second time, lots of dead darkspawn...some dragons, a vartheral...that sort of thing Both the Keep and Amaranthine were saved, everyone's companion quests weredone. Morrigan left through the eluvian, it was a good day. Got some different companion approvals this time around as well
Before > After Nathaniel: 100 > 98 Velanna: 100 > 96 Oghren: 100 > same Sigrun: 90 > 70 Anders: 88 > 95 Justice: 73> 63
And now its time to decide...Mage or Rogue Hawke...or maybe give another try to Warrior, hm...
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 16:35:28 GMT
GoA is for people who can play the base game blindfold on the hardest difficulty rating. Apart from the gratuitous gore and body horror of course. I usually just straight up forget about GoA I only remembered about it recently when discussing about how dwarves can screw up. And now I want to know what happened with that shitload of Harvesters.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 17:17:14 GMT
(I was looking for some of my old screenshots that I lost) Speaking of old screenshots of mine I found during oldBSN trip, I need to try to recreate this IYHSB glitch And never say dwarves are too small to tackle dragons Sacha had amazing tendency to act like superhero
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Post by azarhal on Sept 30, 2020 17:47:11 GMT
I stumbled on a Rift Mage video and the person was using the Heart of Rage staff that cause enemies to burn around you with a few other crazy visual effect . I checked the wiki and there are a frost (despair) and electricity (pride) variant, but they are all limited to Trespasser (no schematic, technically despair is a trial reward, but you know RNG). Looks like cool things to use in the main game. And never say dwarves are too small to tackle dragons Sacha had amazing tendency to act like superhero I'm pretty sure that's a dwarf attempting dragon riding.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 17:59:21 GMT
(no schematic, technically despair is a trial reward, but you know RNG) Saving and reloading trick works on trial rewards as well, so you can try your luck. That's how I got all my trial schematics right after Trespasser came out I wouldn't put it past her, with how she was
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 30, 2020 18:05:10 GMT
2) My characters usually do not care about sexuality definitions. I'm personally not interested in males, but that does not hold my character back, except for MALES, a.k.a. dudebro-flake, but that's more a character quirk then. It is more about who makes a good pair.
3) Now I'm afraid. I wonder if lava is conductive though. 4) That's what I meant. The eyes are also unsettling at times. I'm one of these people who does not like being stared at. Always think I did something wrong. But there's still Hoothoot, so I guess I'm not the only one... Ouch, so each of you have four names in total? My father has a second name, mommy has none, just like me. And my first name has only three letters. On the other hand, our last name has an umlaut, so we have to turn it into two letters. Oh, and my parent's adress has an extremely long street name, so there's that for the paper work. My first job tranining's name also frequently did not fit into the given space. 5) Ah, I see. Eww, maths. 2) mm, my Tabris is more about "who's attractive" then what gender they are as well...after all, she slept with Isabela (and I currently have that lovely bug in Awakening where a character can have "love" as their approval...this time it's Velanna ) I too tend to look who makes a good pair for my character...though most of the time the pairings still end up hetero-sexual...ah well That's just a display thing. Velanna doesn't like you! *being jealous here. want that bug for Mahariel* Eh, the very first BW romance I did was essentially gay, as much as one could apply binary gender perception to asari, that is.
GoA is for people who can play the base game blindfold on the hardest difficulty rating. Apart from the gratuitous gore and body horror of course. I usually just straight up forget about GoA I only remembered about it recently when discussing about how dwarves can screw up. And now I want to know what happened with that shitload of Harvesters. I just hope they were silently forgotten. Or just written off after that mess BW did with Orsino. (I was looking for some of my old screenshots that I lost) Speaking of old screenshots of mine I found during oldBSN trip, I need to try to recreate this IYHSB glitch How did that happen? That's not a glitched "ascend the mountain and behold the Skyhold"? Got lost on a peak during the "wade through the snow" sequence? 1) Looks like cool things to use in the main game. 2) I'm pretty sure that's a dwarf attempting dragon riding. 1) The best thing is, the Hea(r)t of Rage's fire aura (don't know about Heart of Pride, but I guess it is similar) knocks assassins out of stealth. Burn, knife nut. Liked the demon themed staves enough to remake them in DA2 (plus Sloth and Fear with spirit/poison damage respectively) as best as possible; usually with sky-high elemental damage bonuses and blood magic modifers. 2) Eh, Miraak wuz hier.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 30, 2020 18:08:41 GMT
2) mm, my Tabris is more about "who's attractive" then what gender they are as well...after all, she slept with Isabela (and I currently have that lovely bug in Awakening where a character can have "love" as their approval...this time it's Velanna ) I too tend to look who makes a good pair for my character...though most of the time the pairings still end up hetero-sexual...ah well That's just a display thing. Velanna doesn't like you! *being jealous here. want that bug for Mahariel* Eh, the very first BW romance I did was essentially gay, as much as one could apply binary gender perception to asari, that is.
Tabris: tch...how rude
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 18:13:03 GMT
I usually just straight up forget about GoA I only remembered about it recently when discussing about how dwarves can screw up. And now I want to know what happened with that shitload of Harvesters. I just hope they were silently forgotten. Or just written off after that mess BW did with Orsino. I hope so as well. They're way too cool as a concept to just forget about them.Nah. Daytime skybox never loaded after talking with Solas, so I was stuck with nighttime one, even during cutscene appointing me as Inquisitor It doesn't look that strange during walk, but here it's clear the lighting on character remains from daytime. So she basically got personal spotlight
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 30, 2020 19:28:53 GMT
That's just a display thing. Velanna doesn't like you! *being jealous here. want that bug for Mahariel* Eh, the very first BW romance I did was essentially gay, as much as one could apply binary gender perception to asari, that is.
Tabris: tch...how rude Well, perhaps I should not do my best to avoid DAA's infamous approval glitches anymore. As far as I understood it, if you do a sidequest in Amaranthine that would change approval with a character not yet recruited, there's a chance for this character to jump to 100 immediately, breaking their related quests. I just hope they were silently forgotten. Or just written off after that mess BW did with Orsino. 1) I hope so as well. They're way too cool as a concept to just forget about them.2) Nah. Daytime skybox never loaded after talking with Solas, so I was stuck with nighttime one, even during cutscene appointing me as Inquisitor It doesn't look that strange during walk, but here it's clear the lighting on character remains from daytime. So she basically got personal spotlight 1) I was more about not wanting to see them again, actually. GoA made them a bit too OP for being just a flesh recycling possessed flesh golem. If I got that right. Oh, and please no mutated mage shenanigans, got already enough of these, with red meth Solas being rather possible. 2) Night-quisitor. Yes, I'm not good with these puns. Or it is the Darkness of the Dalish(TM) descending on all the Chantry fans. Mwahahahahaha!
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 19:36:42 GMT
1) I was more about not wanting to see them again, actually. GoA made them a bit too OP for being just a flesh recycling possessed flesh golem. If I got that right. Oh, and please no mutated mage shenanigans, got already enough of these, with red meth Solas being rather possible. 2) Night-quisitor. Yes, I'm not good with these puns. Or it is the Darkness of the Dalish(TM) descending on all the Chantry fans. Mwahahahahaha!
1) They might be op, but at least they were interesting dwarven fuck-up. And I'll take them any day over what deer mama halla was/is doing Yeah, no more mutated mages. Am I salty BW felt the need to add that boss fight without proper story explanation? Yup.2) Considering that - despite being ray of sunshine - she did see arrows as the most diplomatic way of solving problems ( the cuter, the deadlier, right?), I'd say the latter fits
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 30, 2020 20:02:12 GMT
Tabris: tch...how rude Well, perhaps I should not do my best to avoid DAA's infamous approval glitches anymore. As far as I understood it, if you do a sidequest in Amaranthine that would change approval with a character not yet recruited, there's a chance for this character to jump to 100 immediately, breaking their related quests. Hm, I haven't encountered that particular bug/glitch before only the one I noted above with one character going to love (so far I've had Oghren, Anders and Velanna )
Also had a weird glitch where Sigrun failed to register my character as being elven in party banter with Velanna (she said Velanna was the first elf she'd met...err, hello...pointy ears here!) which makes me wonder if that only registers properly if you play a Dalish Elf I've yet to figure out if and how I can edit Awakening dialogue flags in the toolset, because the moment I find out how to fix that I am so going to fix it
-- I'm currently struggling on my Hawke, on one hand I want her to be a mage because mages are cool...but I like the rogue armors of DA2 a lot better (less obligated chantry symbolism and all that) I made a soft start with a warrior, but I already hated how she played in the prologue, why are warriors in this game so damn clunky?
long story short...still stuck
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 30, 2020 20:10:45 GMT
Thomas Hawke stumbled into the Gallows Courtyard, to find Meredith and Cullen at the head of a couple dozen templars. Not great odds, but not impossible either. Thomas said that Meredith had probably been looking forward to killing him for quite some time. Meredith said that no, Thomas had brought this on himself when he sided with the mages. And Cullen cut in to say that he'd thought they'd intended to arrest the Champion, as if Thomas was any more likely to allow that; even if he was lucky enough to be treated as a criminal instead of an enemy, what punishment short of capital could possibly be on the table, given the nobility's love for him, their hatred of Meredith, and the magnitude of his "crimes?" And Meredith told Cullen to shut up and get back in line, and finally drew the sword that had been on her back this whole time. It glowed red, like the veins of lyrium in the thaig they'd found the idol in. That was all the hint Thomas had needed to say where he'd seen the sword's hilt before. Meredith realized Thomas knew what the blade was, and told him she'd paid a great deal for the idol. And Thomas said he didn't think it had been shaped like a sword before. Meredith told the assembled templars to TK the P, and the templars refused. Cullen said he'd defended her from Thrask's allegations, but that this just proved Thrask had been right. Meredith proved that she really was using Bartrand's idol as a weapon by concluding without evidence that they'd all been brainwashed by blood mages. She said that it didn't matter that they were all brainwashed, though: the idol gave her enough power to control protect the city without them. Anders commented that she was mad, as though he hadn't already known that, and arranged this situation by playing on it.If Meredith heard any of that, she gave no sign. She just got right into trying to prove she had all the power she needed. Barriers of red light (the same shade of red that the lyrium glowed) appeared around what was about to become the battlefield. Thomas and Merrill hit Meredith with Mark of Death and Hex of Torment the second they got the chance. Meredith started seconds later by swinging her new greatsword around one-handed at Cullen and the party. (Aveline tried to annoy Meredith into throwing more of those swings her way, but it didn't seem to work: she went right for Thomas anyway.) She took a little bit of a beating before realizing she was losing and teleport-jumping behind the barriers she'd created. She thrust her sword into the ground, and one of the giant statues that overlooked the Gallows creaked to life and took to the field, while Meredith conjured a barrier around herself. For a templar, she sure fights like a blood mage. Thomas eventually saw bolts of green light striking the animated statue in the back, and realized his sister had jumped into the mosh pit. The first statue went down, and the second one got up. The party rinsed and repeated the procedure, and Fenris jumped into the fray about halfway through this fight. Meredith teleport-jumped back onto the field as the statues of weeping slaves all over the Gallows fell off their plinths and joined the fight. (Yeah, I get that removing these would have been expensive, but it should have been done a while ago. Not to disarm Meredith, because who could have seen this coming? I mean that seeing these every day could not have been good for the mages' mental health. And it wouldn't shock me if that's exactly why they stayed.) Varric and Isabela joined the fight sometime around this point, too. The fight more or less devolved into a mass chaos... and got slightly more orderly when Meredith cast a mass-stun on everyone so she could monologue. She monologued on how weak it was to try to give mages rights, oblivious to Anders and Aveline continuing to fight. (And since all of her golems were stunned, this was probably a net loss for the house. ) The upper halves of the giant guardian statues reanimated themselves and joined the fight, but by this point it made no difference. The party just slaughtered them, and eventually backed Meredith into a corner. The four members of the party Thomas was directly micromanaging advanced, as Meredith raised the sword and begged the Maker for more power. The sword exploded into dust. (A good thing, too. Otherwise I'd worry that someone might reforge it and gain this same power and insanity themselves.) And Meredith was turned into a twisted lump of dark-red lyrium. The templars surrounded the party, and one of them rushed forward to see if there was anything in that statue that might still be alive. She turned to Cullen, and while Thomas couldn't see her face behind the helmet, her body language said that there was nothing of Meredith to save. Cullen started forward to arrest the party, now that he had a minute... and Thomas glared right into his eyes. Cullen wisely backed down, and the party (also wisely) left before anyone got any ideas. ---- So that's that. I intend to start a DA:I playthrough in this same universe, but first I want to finish Doom Upon All The World with Natalya Lavellan... and before I do that, I want to have her collect all the shards (so that I can have the boyfriend who just broke up with her for no adequately explained reason in the party when she does it.)
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 30, 2020 21:35:43 GMT
1) I was more about not wanting to see them again, actually. GoA made them a bit too OP for being just a flesh recycling possessed flesh golem. If I got that right. Oh, and please no mutated mage shenanigans, got already enough of these, with red meth Solas being rather possible. 2) Night-quisitor. Yes, I'm not good with these puns. Or it is the Darkness of the Dalish(TM) descending on all the Chantry fans. Mwahahahahaha!
1) They might be op, but at least they were interesting dwarven fuck-up. And I'll take them any day over what deer mama halla was/is doing Yeah, no more mutated mages. Am I salty BW felt the need to add that boss fight without proper story explanation? Yup.2) Considering that - despite being ray of sunshine - she did see arrows as the most diplomatic way of solving problems ( the cuter, the deadlier, right?), I'd say the latter fits 1) But... there was a Tevinter dude involved!!!! Evil mage fuckup!!!!1 Circle/templar justification 101!!! Now, about deer mama Halla ( ) ... well, who knows where the Tevinter working with the dwarves got their ideas from... On the other hand, Hormak had quite a few chimaeras, some pretty nonsensical combinations, while corpsy fatass seems to be made exclusively of humanoid corpses. Of course I guess the dudes at Amgarrak had an easier time getting their hands on dozens of casteless than surface animals. 2) That sounds pretty likeable to me. Well, perhaps I should not do my best to avoid DAA's infamous approval glitches anymore. As far as I understood it, if you do a sidequest in Amaranthine that would change approval with a character not yet recruited, there's a chance for this character to jump to 100 immediately, breaking their related quests. Hm, I haven't encountered that particular bug/glitch before only the one I noted above with one character going to love (so far I've had Oghren, Anders and Velanna )
1) Also had a weird glitch where Sigrun failed to register my character as being elven in party banter with Velanna (she said Velanna was the first elf she'd met...err, hello...pointy ears here!) which makes me wonder if that only registers properly if you play a Dalish Elf I've yet to figure out if and how I can edit Awakening dialogue flags in the toolset, because the moment I find out how to fix that I am so going to fix it
-- 2) I'm currently struggling on my Hawke, on one hand I want her to be a mage because mages are cool...but I like the rogue armors of DA2 a lot better (less obligated chantry symbolism and all that) 3) I made a soft start with a warrior, but I already hated how she played in the prologue, why are warriors in this game so damn clunky?
long story short...still stuck 1) I suppose this is more of a writing issue, with BW just forgetting to add proper checks. I mean, I know tht Bioware was lazy in the base game and had most circle-related dialogue check for the class instead of the origin, making dialogue overhauls necessary for alternate mage background mods. For Awakening, it seems as they did not even try at times, as with Anders recognising and orleasian warden "from circle times". I call BS. Orlais is pretty large, mage class plus Dalish Vallaslin is allowed in the CC and even then Anders was most certainly not paying a visit to each orlesian circle. I found a fix mod for Anders the other day, but never came across something for Sigrun.
2) If you just care about armour, I could make/tell how to get rid of the class restrictions, either by editing a .uti file for a more permanent solution or via editing savegames with pyGFF - though I don't know how to access the DLC .uti files, as they are encrypted somehow, so for DLC items, it would only be via save editing. Also, for the Fugitive's Mantle, Chantry begone.
3) Regarding warrior clunkyness... what is your deal-breaker? I personally dislike the damage-force disparity early game. I mean, you run for some critter-rank short health bar dude, attack him, knock him back, have to catch up again... it is vexing.
I tried to mess around with dual-wield a bit as well, what put me off again this time wasn't my dislike for invisibility stealth or teleport backstab with awkward camera turn, but the lack of AOE damage, so I'll leave that to Isabela again. As of my latest shenanigans, she was going to play A:TLA Jet since I gave her two daggers using longsword model variation 120.
We don't want to let all these curvy sharp things go to waste.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 30, 2020 21:58:28 GMT
1) They might be op, but at least they were interesting dwarven fuck-up. And I'll take them any day over what deer mama halla was/is doing Yeah, no more mutated mages. Am I salty BW felt the need to add that boss fight without proper story explanation? Yup.2) Considering that - despite being ray of sunshine - she did see arrows as the most diplomatic way of solving problems ( the cuter, the deadlier, right?), I'd say the latter fits 1) But... there was a Tevinter dude involved!!!! Evil mage fuckup!!!!1 Circle/templar justification 101!!! Now, about deer mama Halla ( ) ... well, who knows where the Tevinter working with the dwarves got their ideas from... On the other hand, Hormak had quite a few chimaeras, some pretty nonsensical combinations, while corpsy fatass seems to be made exclusively of humanoid corpses. Of course I guess the dudes at Amgarrak had an easier time getting their hands on dozens of casteless than surface animals. 2) That sounds pretty likeable to me. 1) Ah, yes. Evil mage that was actually the only person to doubt what they were doing And it was actually dwarves, not Tevinter that proposed using Casteless. Small TN spoiler: I wouldn't be surprised if one of those mentioned 11 places like Hormak was under Ghilan'nain's Grove, considering comments Cole can make about that place and overall feel of it. "So many eyes, peearing from undearneath." Or one about things no longer being alive but remembering being alive? Damn, I didn't write that one down 2) Her diplomatic ways extend to relationship as well! She was Solasmancer and one of 2 Inquisitors (out of maaaaaaaaaaaany) that declared stopping Solas at all cost.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 30, 2020 23:43:30 GMT
Weeper Cadash, Belwether Trevelyan, Saar'Kata Adaar, and Natalya Lavellan did some resource gathering today.
Natalya also closed a few rifts on the Exalted Plains, and slew the Hivernal.
The reason she did that last bit is that she realizes the only shards left to gather are the ones in the Hissing Wastes, and the ones on the Emprise that correspond to the Ocularum with the dragon living on top of it. So she's got some dragon-slaying to do, but she wants to start small.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 1, 2020 0:23:10 GMT
1) But... there was a Tevinter dude involved!!!! Evil mage fuckup!!!!1 Circle/templar justification 101!!! Now, about deer mama Halla ( ) ... well, who knows where the Tevinter working with the dwarves got their ideas from... On the other hand, Hormak had quite a few chimaeras, some pretty nonsensical combinations, while corpsy fatass seems to be made exclusively of humanoid corpses. Of course I guess the dudes at Amgarrak had an easier time getting their hands on dozens of casteless than surface animals. 2) That sounds pretty likeable to me. 1) Ah, yes. Evil mage that was actually the only person to doubt what they were doing And it was actually dwarves, not Tevinter that proposed using Casteless. Small TN spoiler: I wouldn't be surprised if one of those mentioned 11 places like Hormak was under Ghilan'nain's Grove, considering comments Cole can make about that place and overall feel of it. "So many eyes, peearing from undearneath." Or one about things no longer being alive but remembering being alive? Damn, I didn't write that one down 2) Her diplomatic ways extend to relationship as well! She was Solasmancer and one of 2 Inquisitors (out of maaaaaaaaaaaany) that declared stopping Solas at all cost. 1) Hah, I've been mostly jesting... or did you take me as a templar apologist? But you are right about the mage. She was hesitant, with "the dudes" I meant the dorfs.
Possible. Uuuh, I have to make a full-Cole run once. (My Lavellan used Varric, then Sera and after getting fed up with her, Varric again. Next was Adaar, commiting Heresy by giving Cole the bow and make him the go-to rogue for her party. Cadash doesn't count, as she is a rogue and I tend to never use more rogues than I have to. )
2) Oh... that sound serious. Clear case of "Woman Scorned"? While I went for the other option, I'm not quite decided on what my one is going to plan. I do play with the thought of her getting to know someone else pretty quickly. And no, it isn't Cullen "we have dominance over mages by Divine Right!" Rutherford, but a murderous city elf.
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Post by azarhal on Oct 1, 2020 1:50:25 GMT
DAI Ewyr Cadash took on this invitation to Redcliff Castle. Well knowing that it was a trap. Trap the Inquisition hoped to turn around as Leliana knew of a secret passage that lead into the castle. Dorian requested to come, well more ordered to come along. It turned out to be an excellent idea. Not only was he well-dressed and charming according to Ewyr (and himself), but he ended up saving everyone with his knowledge of Alexius's magic. When the Magister saw that his plan as failed, he used his time magic to try to whisk Ewyr away...but he only managed to send him to the future. Bleak future, where Dorian and Ewyr learned that The Elder One was going to assassinate the Empress of Orlais and invade the south with a demon army. To save the day...or was it the year, they had to go back in time via the same way they got brought back to the future. They luckily found Blackwall, Varric and a barely recognizable Leliana imprisoned in the castle (Ewyr wondered why people would build a castle with death pit and not railing that support red lyrium growing in the walls). With this group, they managed to deal with the Venatori inside and kick Magister Alexius's ass. But not before Leliana mercifully cut Felix's throat. Then Dorian brought him and Ewyr back to where it started before the Elder One showed. And then Alexius didn't prove to be much of a challenge and he was easily arrested. That's when the Queen of Ferelden showed up to kick the Mages out of the country. Ewyr offered them protection in the Inquisition as allies, few liked the idea among his inner circle, but he thought that conscripting them by force would just result in them joining the Venatori...willingly this time. Back in Haven, there was some arguing over what to do with the mages. Most wanted more templars, Ewyr didn't think it was necessary. He also proposed some contacts to get more lyrium...not so legally. As Josephine said, the legal contacts didn't need to know. Also, Solas didn't believe Ewyr traveled in time, while Vivienne had an argument with Ewyr about how to watch over the mages. Ewyr jokingly proposed that maybe mages should be in the Chantry and Vivienne thought he was serious with this "marvelous" idea. After this, Ewyr went back to check the Hinterlands a bit to make contact with the Horsemaster. Now that the village was safe and the rebellious templars/apostates deal with, it should be easier to get to him. Helas, before sending horses to the Inquisition he required some help first: building watch towers and dealing with some rabbit wolves. The wolves would be easy, but the towers would take time. So Ewyr returned to Haven, maybe some of the mages had the time to arrive and we could seal that breach now. ------------ Number of Venatori tomes from Spellbinders in IHW: 0 (I even reloaded a few times on the first one, he only dropped the red lyrium shard quest item each times). Everyone hates me...but Varric, Dorian and Blackwall. I'm playing with the trial that double negative disposition gain.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Oct 1, 2020 4:33:56 GMT
Natalya Lavellan closed a few Fade Rifts in the Emerald Graves, and also slew the Greater Mistral, the Gamordan Stormrider, and the Vinsomer. With the dragon materials from those dragonslayings, she had Harrit and Dagna make her a new dagger and suit of dragonleather armor.
Which one to kill next...
Edit: Oh, and everyone did a whole lot of resource gathering, obviously.
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