What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Medium armor are confusing. I want the "armor" version of the Prowler armor, but I don't have the schematics for it from the looks of it.

I'm thinking of switching to a Dalish, because the Dalish scout armor looks great, but the others not so much. and I like when my Inquisitors looks pretty.

I remade my female rogue Trevelyan (named Marjory), but I guess she's going to become a Lavellan instead. As a bonus, I'm better at making the Dalish looks good compared to the female humans...except for the ears, those always bugs me.

My last post is a lie.

I restarted and turned my Elven Lady into a mage (changed her name to Atherill). I guess I can't play this game unless I'm using the Blade of Tidarion. The rogue DW skills keep missing because of the small rocks on the terrain just too annoying even if I was destroying everything while Varric keep getting himself killed.

The rest of the plan is on, that is romancing Josephine.

Update: Maybe not a lie. I really don't know which one I should play now , both are less or more at the same point content/story-wise.

After a 2 or 3 year break (I got sick 2,5 years ago so probably around that time I stopped playing) I got back into DA! I wanted to make an Inquisitor I never played before and make all the choices I never dared to make. So I set off on my journey... AND MADE THE EXACT SAME CHOICES I ALWAYS DO.

azarhal The crafting thing sounds pretty buggy, but I have a faint recollection that mage armor arm was just broken in the vanilla game.
Think it was only with elven female armor, so maybe it was not a bug, just a feature.

Also remember one of the dwarven armors being broken so the chest pieces went over their heads. Good times. 

Ah, so that's an "old bug" for the armor upgrade as I was playing around with a female human mage, but the other issue with crafted item names was clearly the mod.

Now why human, because I find that Elves don't feel that much Dalish in the game. I really need to set up character mind/background that fit with what the game offers and that works with a Josephine romance (good thing I never liked Solas, no risk of trying that romance...right?). But Humans are so blah, lol. 

Also, why back at creating a mage...because I was playing with my latest Rogue DW last night and thinking that controlling the battlefield would be awesome after seen Vivienne do some grand display of power with my rogue. Also, I crafted Encore and I find a singing staff amusing (but it probably works better on a companion and not main). Anyway, my favorite DAO/DA2 characters are control mages (ice based in DAO and force mage in DA2). I just don't know which specialization/build to go with as the gameplay seems to favor pure damage dealing over controlling the battlefield from my experience. I suspect Rift Mage as it offers the most CC (and damage), but that's the last mage I played. ahahahah.


By the way, I had all girl-party last night with Sera, Cassandra and Vivienne and I very much wanted to punch Vivienne in the face every time she opened her mouth. I think I'm not even going to recruit her on this character (if said character make it out of Haven ).

Good thing that I'm on PTO for 2 weeks (well 1.5 now I guess).

Here's something you can do to change things a bit. Do a speedrun. If not, when it comes to a choice, flip a coin. Let the coin decide your playthrough. Doing stuff like that adds replay value. 

DAO

Finally finished PT as:

Tank (SnS) + my GW (SnS str/dex build) + Zevran (DW dex-build) + Wynne (healer mostly).

The goal was: my GW with str/dex build + Zevran running around the Tank and killing everyone.

When tried the first time: did not finish as 3 melees close to each other was annoying and inconvenient to play.


Tried the second time: actually was not that bad, and later got used to it.

And the goal was accomplished: the team was working just fine. PT was fast.


Team

Tank. SnS Temlar + Champion Did his job (mostly, when tactics worked).
Healer: suppport, heal, buff. Later 2-3 attack spells.
Offtank (sort of): DW rogue Zevran. Assassin + Duelist. Dex-build. Momentum.
Another offtank: GW. Str/dex build. Templar + Champion.

Anyway.
Nightmare. No cheats.


Zevran was the only star of each encounter. Was running and stabbing everyone. Killed the dragon. With AD had to replay as Zevran stole my kill, again.
Did all that using the initial armor, crappy "everything".
Only later had gold for everyone to buy armor/trinkets.


Tried another tactics in this case: set up tactics for Zevran to attack my enemies, thus using Pommel Strike to stun enemies worked very often as it is auto backstab.

Had my own kills as well as least.


The team worked together. Tactics worked (FTW).
Liked this PT anyway.
Watching Zevran running and killing everyone so fast using just initial armor with almost no deaths (Wynne had certain tactics as well here) was a curious thing.
One of the fastest PTs in my DAO 60-70 PTs thanks to Zevran in this case.

On my 'same shit different Inquisitor' run I tried to get Bull and Dorian to hook up. My Inquisitor is locked in a romance with Cullen and I've been taking Bull and Dorian with me for every area/mission. All I have left to do is defeat Corypheus and the DLC but still no flirting between the two of any kind.

I made a new character.

I got bored of Valyriel at the exact same place I got bored of my character last year, he was also a Rift Mage. Right after defeating the dragon in the Exalted Plains at level 14-15. I also got the "not feeling like a Dalish" feeling again while questing around the Exalted Plains. Then I was looking at Blackwall destroying things in his two-handed and he's also annoying me banter-wise, so I thought why not play a warrior again. I haven't done that since the game released and that was a sword&shield.

So I decided to make a two-handed warrior that will go Champion. Then decided to play a faithful Inquisitor which I haven't done since release. So male Inquisition Valerian Trevelyan was born. I'm especially liking using grappling chains + pommel strike on mages or charging through everything (something the AI is terrible at).

I also died doing the Apostates cave because I got stuck on the cave entrance (Solas/Varric moved in front of my character blocking him) and the apostates threw I don't know how many mines under my feet. In time like this I miss fade step, but outside of that, Valerian is destroying everything and hard to kill. It helps that I got tier 3/4 schematics thought...maybe I shouldn't be using those at low levels, makes the game easy.

One time I decided to go for it, it took me taking just Bull and Dorian, standing in safe place in Hissing Wastes (place I had the most banter in) for waaaaaaay too long, just to get their romance going.
It's really fickle thing 

Do dreams count? I recently read all the comics and my brain decided to let me play weird inquisition quests at night. Like receiving an invitation for the baptism (??) of King Alistair's firstborn (???) and having a war table mission to find the right outfit for the occasion. Yes, I may want to have my sanity checked by a doctor.

Valerian has done more than my last two (three) characters now, sorta.

He cleared the Exalted March and the Hinterlands. Then met with Hawke's friend in Crestwood (Alistair).

I also unlocked the Hissing Waste for the doggy merchant, but I'm too low level for the schematics I want to get from there. I can kill dragons, why can't I get those schematic now.

Also, "To the Death" is just insane against dragon.