What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

The adventures of Valyriel Lavellan in Thedas continue.

I'm still tempted to romance Josephine with this character despite planning to do Sera/Lavellan. Well try, as all my previous attempts failed. 
I'm annoyed that the female Dalish Scout armor use Merrill's armor from DA2. I much prefer the male version (based on Athenril's armor in DA2) but I haven't found a mod that swap it.

So far I managed to be scared of Leliana because I told her dealing with traitors fast was a good idea.

And I've managed to avoid +approval from Solas so far (yeah), but I can't dump him from my party until I get Dorian which is a long way off. I'm not going to recruit Vivienne after meeting her. I want to put Leliana on the Sunburst throne, not having Vivienne around will help I hope, but telling Vivienne she can't come is a must.

Valyriel is currently doing mundane tasks in the Hinterland to help the refugees/Inquisition around the Crossroad after talking to a sister there. It's all about making the Inquisition look better. The sister told her to go see the rest of the Chantry in Val-Royaux too, but it's a long trip and that mean horses. But there is an army of templars and mages attacking everything that move between the Crossroad and the Horsemaster. That means more clean-up for Valyriel.

Valyriel kinda wish she could just throw daggers at the Breach and be done with it, she's cleaning-up humans crap right now...

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I crafted a pair of curved daggers and it's a bit weird to use, but things die fast. Then I read online that the best daggers were something else and the schematic was on the Emporium. I didn't have it via the Golden Nug so I loaded another character, bought the schematic, synched via the Nug and...now need more leather. 

Why are you trying to clear the Western Approach? That's not required to finish the game, the only thing you have to do there is a small encounter for Here Lies the Abyss.

The dragon and Still Ruin might be of interest, but that's about it. Everything else on that zone is lore or references to the novel Asunder.

The zone doesn't feel any different then any of the others I have been in, so just doing the companion quests and other areas so I complete the achievement list I don't have.  It has been helping me along.

I always feel bad for killing the dragons. Especially in DAI since they are just chilling and not bothering anyone and we just hunt them down for ironbulls amusment.

Well in some cases i tcould b eseen as killing them for a good reason. For example given Redcliffe isn' tfar from the Ferelden Frostback so in this instanc eyou could be justified killin gthat one. Possibl ythe 3 in the Emprise as wel considering they'er quiet closte to Sahrnia. The desert ones yeah it's hard t ojustify killing them. I mostly kill them for their loot though . Especiasll ythat Highland Ravager that drops a really decent armour that's cool for mages.

They attack me first when I go looking for something I need.  If they left me in peace when I go looking for Red Lyrium or a Traquil's Skull then I would leave them alone.

It has been several years since I have played DA:I, but I decided yesterday to give it another go. Instead of playing from scratch, I have found a character who didn't play the Deep Roads and Trespasser yet.

I can tell you that returning to the game after many years is harder than I thought. I had to figure out how to play the game again and why I got so many Snoufleur skins.

Deleted my male Lavellan mage, despite having reached as far as reaching Skyhold, clearing the map in Crestwood, including the dragon, and later taking the fort in Western approach. The reason is that I romanced Dorian... I sorta liked the story, but... he's a Dalish elf, with a Tevinter noble lover. Initially, I picked that path to begin with, but as I played it through, the more and more... wrong that pairing felt. Human, dwarf, even Qunari work better in my head, but it just felt like there's an unspoken, uncomfortable, power dynamic at play there given what social station elves usually hold in Tevinter..

Started a moderately conservative, religious human mage who grows (only a abit, but still more) open-minded (thanks to Solas), and going to go with a playthrough with a Vivienne divine, Josephine romanced which I haven't done in years now. Usually pick mages, and usually free mage alliance, so will probably pick either templar or bound mages to make DViv more likely. 

I've finished both Descend and Trespasser with the character I mentioned earlier. I like the setting of Trespasser more, but I dislike the story. It feels like BW wanted to kill the Inquisitor in that DLC. I do like the Jaws of Hakkon, though.

An important ingredient to me is the crafting, which I spend too much time on.

I am considering to start a new character from scratch, but I know it will take me a silly amount of time to do so. I am a slow player and take my time for everything. A DAI game will take me somewhere between 150 and 200 hours. So that is holding me back.

I usually play JoH after the main story, and by then I have reached a high level anyway, so that is no problem. I don't mind playing the Hinterlands, though. I simply don't do silly quests, like the one with the cow. Some other quests there are not interesting, but I am heading that way anyway, so I am fine with those. And in the grand scheme of things the Hinterlands are only a small part of the game.

It is just the overall time investment that makes me scratch my head. If a job takes 40 hours a week then a DAI game takes me 4 to 5 weeks full-time.

Edit: I am not making the point that the game should be shorter. I like the way it is. I have already played it 10 times.

Yeah I've usually reached a high enou ghlevel to attack the DLC's if I do the main quests in al of the main game maps first that and got up to and past Here lies the Abyss and Wicked Eyes Wicked Hearts