What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

The box was ticked for Windows Fullscreen, unticking it let me ALT TAB but looks stupid. I'll try some other stuff tomorrow.

Nothing has changed with my PC that's what I don't understand!!!!!!

Yeah I am going t otr yrunnin gDAO again but don' tknow if I'l succeed without i teatin gm ysave

So started a new PT of DA2, I think it is still my favourite DA game to play even if I favour the story and characters in DAO.

I have already started down my usual DA2 path of Rogue (female) and whilst I have played all the other specialisations it is still my favourite. I have also as nearly always left Carver to rot in the Wilds with Wesley.

Not sure what path I will send Bethany down yet and will probably romance Isabella (my usual) but will see as maybe Merrill will get a chance this time although I find her a bit more sisterly than romanceable female.

April Hawke survived the Wilds with the help of a Witch of The Wilds with whom she has agreed to act as a Fed Ex worker and deliver an amulet to some Dalish Elves.

April sided with Athenril and her thieves to serve out her 1 year of bonded work and met up with a loquacious and self assured Dwarf named Sandal oops meant Varric.

April Hawke Thief and comedian.



Swooping can be good



A Dwarf not Worthy

Think I probably pretty much cleared out Crestwood, unless I missed a fade rift or something. A lot of grinding to be had in the area and a lot of it was spent grinding, wiping out patrols, and the wildlife. Had like two or three Drufallo which just crossed paths with us as I was fighting. Good for experience. Then onto this got through to the Wyvern cave which was a bit on the fun side, took awhile though. Right now seems the damage potential on my bow is lagging behind though it could have been the entire party that I was rocking as well. Gotta do a lot of stuff before I can get my main bow.

Which does bring me to the main event. Dragon hunting. Again took awhile but with Cassandra and Blackwall grinding out on the front lines I didn't really take a lot of trouble. Only like 2 or 3 regular health potions....as well a couple of regeneration potions. On this note to this playthrough I decided to save me some resources...I tried to anyways...by not equipping Antivan Fire potions initially but all that good will only brought me...pretty much nothing as I have only had like 21 of the things which is not even enough to get any of the Blood Lotus related upgrades. Still Kara defeated the Dragon and is now at level 14.

On another note had a bit of a surprise but got around to chatting with Cass and it triggered her loyalty mission, or the aquisition cutscene. Which is interesting because I haven't even gotten her 'hunt everything down' stuff. I thought that loyalty mission was tied to approval which is interesting because last playthrough had trouble getting it up...so its a bit of a pleasent surprise that I have been able to do so. Though its going to be awhile before I get to any of them and hope I can all make it work because don't really plan on doing any of them until after I get the Dragon Bow crafted...which means after Wicked Eyes Wicked Hearts.

Hawke cleaned up the remaining of her journal. In fact, I completed all of Act 1 quests except giving the money and map to Betrand.

Poor Ninette.
Poor Keran.
Poor Trask.
Poor Saemus.
Poor Ketojan.
Not so poor Grace.
And screw you Sister Petrice (I love to hate her fyi).

And lots of people were thankful for Hawke Lost&Found Services.

Soon the Deep Road. I'm going to bring baby Carver and Anders. I'm also trying to rivalmance Fenris...

By the way, I totally forgot how good the companion AI is in DA2. Varric actually tries to stay at range! All the time. DAI/DAO companion AI is so dumb in comparison.

April Hawke, visited Varric at The Hanged man and roamed Kirkwall picking up quests.

Visited Anders in Lowtown and April said she'd help but has not yet.

Visited The Black Emporium on the bigger monitor and with the resolution of 1440 you can see so much detail and some of that may be because of a MOD I use as well:

www.nexusmods.com/dragonage2/mods/3981?tab=files

Then headed to Mount Sundermount and released Flemeth and that's where I had to stop due to RL intruding unfortunately.

Pic's

More April shots



Andy pandy the mad bomber enters stage left



Aaagh the friendly folk



Merrill



Flemeth - she's here then she's gone

I had 54/69 achievements on Xbox.
The missing ones were all the 'Trials' difficulty achievements, a few odd ones and Nightmare difficulty.

So now's the time get them.

A nightmare playthrough has been fascinating so far (will reach Skyhold shortly all being well).

What did Hawke do today?
The same things she does every day!
Kill bandits, spiders, dragons and demons of course. Kirkwall is such a safe place to live in. 

Somehow I'm ending up rivaling Merrill without even trying...and I'm playing pro-mage as much as I can (I mean some stuff is just plain stupid like making deals with demons).

Poor Emeric and his Templar friend is an asshole for leaving his corpse in the alley like that.
The Qunari are getting on my nerves, maybe one day I need to make a hardcore Hawkes that antagonize as much as possible instead of trying to placate them.

Finished DAO today, woohoo!
Been a few days since I posted last, so here's what I was up to:

- Stopped the mad stuff on Soldier's Peak, finally a nice chest to store stuff
- Completed some companion quests (Flemeth lives!)
- Went to the Dalish and put an end to their situation with the werewolves. Zathrian sacrificed himself to lift the curse and the werewolves-turned-humans left the forest. Also did all the nice things for the Dalish.
- Leliana sang
- Completed the Landsmeet next. Anora rules, Alistair went to become a drunk, and Loghain was put on a redemption path by joining the Wardens. Nora could not bring herself to execute him in the end. Killing Howe didn't make her feel any better about what happened, and with Loghain, another daughter would lose her father and she didn't want that blood on her hands. Even if both would deserve it maybe.
- Returned to Ostagar with Loghain and Wynne in the party. Some great dialogue there.
- Met up at Redcliffe with everyone and convinced Loghain to do a shady ritual with Morrigan before heading out to Denerim.
- Battled through darkspawn until reaching the top of Fort Drakon, beating the Archdemon with only a few casualties in the dwarfen army (I saved ALL armies for this fight and then I didn't even need them It was over so fast I was a bit stumped, haha). Celebrated with the companions, met brother dearest again and opted to go and travel with Leliana (and Zevran, since he wanted to stay with Nora ).

Pic spam!


Phew, that was A LOT OF NEW STUFF, things I never did before! Things I never thought I'd ever do one day!
And a close call, as I almost couldn't get Loghain into my party as planned
Before going to the alienage, I supported Anora as queen, but still told her Loghain has to pay for what he did (that was still Nora's mindset then). Didn't know that telling her the latter would cause her to betray me
Luckily, with the right dialogue choices I could still have my duel with Loghain and then conscript him into the Wardens. But booooy was it hard to lose Alistair that way. The dialogues didn't fit my Warden 100%, but I could at least tell Alistair I thought he didn't want to be king when I opted to put Anora on the throne.
She was a bitch, but she would still be a good ruler. Poor Alistair, and Nora took it hard. She loved him like a brother :/ Had to cheer herself up by gifting Leliana a nug.
It was once again great to see the companions shaping Nora and becoming friends with some (Wynne was a great motherly figure to her). Suprisingly she also became friends with Zevran, it was quite sweet. One of the best dialogues was after Riordan spilled the beans about the ultimate sacrifice. Loghain and Nora had a neat chat about the cost of a life. Absolutely loved it! Spoilers ahead for those who never saw it so far


Now contemplating whether I want to play any of the other DLCs or just Awakening, even though I'm itching to play DA2 (I hope I can finish everything by October 31st!)

Let's go get the dwarves. Hopefully fine some losers to kill. hahahahahaha

Is this the king's wiper or messenger


If your son isn't dead by now, I will make sure he's dead when/if I find him. heeheeheehee


I met a dwarf asking about the circle. Forget it dwarf. I hate the circle.


A dwarf wants to open a chantry? Get lost.


Look lady, it's best you let the baby die. heehee


Now this is a very helpful person. Take note Alistair


Now I deal with a bunch lowlifes thinking they're tough.


Some dwarf wants to join my crusade to kill everyone.


I found the Anvil for you Branka. I just need to get rid of the oversized piece of metal standing in the way


The king.


The Oghren dwarf is such a whiner


You have to leave dwarf. I don't want you around here anymore