What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

My memory is like a sieve, I barely remember how to play the game I'm currently playing.
But you can definitely do what you want.
Place the item with the stats that you want in the anvil.
Choose 5 "Extra Tools, Properties and item deconstruction"
Then 2 "Save this items properties for later use."

Create new item.
1 "extras properties utilities"
2 "Imbue with magical properties from item on the anvil."

It will destroy the original item by default, unless you change the setting somewhere to allow duplication.

So here we are. Time to start my 8th playthrough of this game, last and most 'canon' run before Inquisition...more on that tommorow.

I essentially just created Kara and got through the first cut scene so I could drop a save.

And well yeah this is a page 1 reset from scratch because as I discovered somehow I didn't have a save with Kara from the beginning of the game. So this leads to...yeah having to build her from scratch. Again. And as much as I love this game the Character creator is like one of the two things I just detest about it. No codes. No values. Those stupid grid things. And I think I see what everyone says about its bad lighting now. Just meh. And of course my paranoid butt was probably driving the wife nuts with 'does she look like her'...because for some reason this is important to me even though I will have to design her from scratch again for Veilguard...kill me now. . So I do suppose that I really hope we get codes in the form of the trilogy codes or the Andromeda codes because...this is nuts. Also my paranoia that she gets more 'feminine' with each revision to her. But otherwise I am more or less happy I think with things and of course the next problem is I am also going to have to resist the urge to just take pictures of the new Kara and then take video (which I didn't do any of tonight) which means my last Kara is going to be the ones in the vids. Like I said, she's close, but the difference between close and exact with this stupid CC is like the difference between a Hurricane and a sunny day.

Oh and also this did interfere with my enjoyment for the cutscene, that and how tired I was. Still I feel so good being back in Thedas again and seeing both Kara and Cassandra again. Seeing the breach. All the things. I am sure I will get back in the groove.

Yes, possible. After Uldred fight during discussion when Cullen yells, agree and choose option (appx as do not remember exact words) that mages could be still corrupted and Irving will agree with that, surrender to Templar check and you will get Templars on your side instead (though some other quests will not be available without Irving).
You will not see Irving anymore in the tower, Greagoir will be standing there all the time and exactly he will ask Wynne to stay as she is the only high-ranking and experienced mage left since Irving is under check like the rest mages, but she still will ask him to join your character (and your choice here invite her or refuse).
In general: just the end closing the plot quest dialogue with Greagoir influences.

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Say hello to Demona. A mage. Her backstory is sad and a cruel one. When she was a toddler, her skin color was changing. Her parents couldn't understand what was happening. They saw healers who had no answers even after researching books and tomes. Demona was scared. She was even ridiculed by others. It would make her mad. When this happened, her skills would flair up. Eventually she was taken to the circle of magi. She learned very quickly it was a prison. The other mages, and even the instructors, would make fun of her. One day, two senior mages took her to an isolated location within the castle away from everyone. It was from these two Demonas power's flourished. They showed her things that were prohibited by others. At the same time, she was gaining knowledge from all the books she was reading.. Not too long ago, old age caught up with the two mages.  She felt alone. She didn't like the other mages. She didn't like the templars. And she especially didn't like Irving. She learned it was her turn for the Harrowing. Little did she know what the future held for her.


This will be a kill all playthrough. I will even be as rude as possible when talking with the companions. I'm playing on nightmare difficulty. For anyone curious. The outfit seen above is Flemeths armor. I will likely wear that for most of the playthrough. I will side with the werewolves, Branca, and templars. I will not help Redcliffe village. Not sure if I will do any of the dlc.

Completed Redcliffe. Connor was saved by the Circle Mages and Morrigan, Jowan was recommended for execution for poisoning Arl Eamon. Darcy kissed all the girls and gave them all 500 silver meeting with much disapproval from Morrigan and Leliana.

Returned to camp and mucked around with the forge, thanks olnorton was able to duplicate the stats I wanted now just trying to find the right coloured light/medium armour.

Probably won't get any play in today, have social activities to attend to.

Pic's - mmm FRAPS had one of those days where it chose not to take some of the screenshots I took.

The reaction by Bevin to Kaitlyn kissing the Grey Warden is priceless.



Everyone survived the final battle except two militia.

Don't worry, I will get the rest of them in my playthrough.

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Kind of crazy how the sands of time work. On the one hand me starting this play through of Inquisition and those usually take two months, so I should be fine. But also that its only 67 days till Haloween and it usually takes me an hour a day and about 90 ish to finish so...yeah it could be close. especially since I am hoping to do a few other things game wise before Veilguard drops, really pulling for the CC to drop early. On this note to its weird just like yesterday I swore it said I had 745 hours in the game...after tonight it was 896. More apprepro that would seem to be a lot more then 8 playthroughs But on the flip side of the occasion now approaching nine hundred playthroughs.

Perhaps in line with the above to have to decide just how much of the codex I want to read this time through.

Anyways how my canon playthroughs and what not work, though probably talked about this before, but how they usually work is this is more canon characters then they are playthroughs. Its impossible to get every single dialogue option right all the time and already know I have picked different ones so early. Also always a chance and opprotunity to refine things and have new stuff happen which is especially relevant since this is the last main time I am going to do this before Veilguard. So three big decisions to keep an eye on:

The choice of who rules Orlais.
The choice of who drinks from the well.
And the choice of what to do with the Inquisition.

Now the first two are probably choices that won't change but kind of worried about the well choice going into Veilguard...and really annoyed that the choice of ruler gets a lot of Inquisition agents killed. Of course though I also really am not sure what the better alternative is and how to go about things. Its also cold blooded.

But the choice wih the Inquisition. Kara's choice right now is the 'angry keep' choice but recently I had the opprotunity to listen to the angry disband choice and...well both speeches are fire but really the angry get rid of...speaks to me. And Kara is the closest thing I have done to a self insert and think she would be in a place of thinking the Inquisition was a distraction given everything that happened during Tresspasser. So she'd probably be in that head space.

Otherwise first time of doing a new playthrough of this game in a while so going to have to keep track of my crafting and what not mainly. The crafting system is amazing in this game but is growing more tedious on repeat playthroughs. And then the controls. I keep on pressing the search button expecting Kara to start sprinting. It does not work.

And well the combat. Like the last time I played through it I was really bored with it going through the Winter Palace. Was afraid that the spate of ARPGs I have been on and what not had put me off of it and long term that might end up being the case....but right now have been enjoying myself. At least somewhat briefly. Things were pretty easy to begin with by and large as I was working through Wrath of Heaven and the beginning of the Hinterlands, and holding down R2 for the auto attack actually gave me the opprotunity to mindlessly chat with the wife about something while engaging. Two notes though which seem especiallyy relevant since we have the first of what I assume is a long term series on high level combat for Veilguard. Number 1, another minor complaint is I have never liked the tactical cam too much given how unintuitive and restrictive it is. But it did occur to me today during the boss battle with the Pride Demon at first that Cassandra switched to attack a Shade I was going after. I wanted all my companions to go after the pride demon while I would mop up the reserve forces so I went into the tac cam. It worked. But it occurs to me to given all the tac cams problems that its not as intuitive as the wheel in ME or now Veilguard. Or being able to do it in real time as I double checked that I couldn't do in the game. Don't get me wrong the companions are generally more useful in DA then ME and the AI for the companions in Inquisition is actually pretty good at handling itself but this does actually limit my options, I just never noticed it because there was no reason to...really. Second bit just can't wait for more effortless switching between melee and ranged. Once again ran into a problem early on when enemies were right in my face and I could do nothing since my powers were on recharge so just had to stand there with arrows, impotently. Cannot wait overall for the tactical flexibility. So got through the early bit of the Hinterlands and things were going fine to that point and was hoping to avoid the early game power spike especially with the trials on. But got to the Crossroads and started getting my butt kicked. Bit of a grind at first, bit of a grind after I get to Skyhold and few other fights...but I usually find a way through it and just grind out the levels until I make it.