What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Had a weird arse play session today.

Kind of amazing that after multiple play throughs and over 900 hours in it I can still end up making the same mistakes over and over and over again. It sucks. In this case got through to the temple with Ameridan's end and the puzzle. Now I thought that you needed to solve the puzzle to get through to the dual shrines, but even in the back of my head I was wondering if that was true because I think I half remembered. Even thought I 'solved' it but then wiped the board so had to start over at first, so I thought. But finally looked it up. Felt embarrassed.

Didn't really stop there though as I stumbled through the woods for awhile to the becons. I fell off a mountain...probably multiple times...and tree trunks. Then I somehow went up ahead of myself and skipped to the one before the chasm before the next one. But then easily enough the one after the chasm actually made it all the way with no trouble which is a first.

But alas that is all I ended up doing today... at least so far...so we'll see if I get on and do anything more later.

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Bit of a weird time with the boss fights though in a way...fights. Got through Jaws of Hakkon.

First off against Gurd whats his face went around and was doing pretty good against him and doing a lot of damage. But despite being pinned down by the rest of the team it seemed the fires still went out one by one so I was still trapped, running around, like a chicken with my head cut off. But it wasn't doing a lot of damage and Gurd was running low on health...so I decided to go after him instead and wrap him up.

Then with Hakkon kind of a weird boss fight in the end because 'He' has kids, Deepstalker types, and then he flies away...but does not generate Guard? So ended up being one of the easier Dragon Fights and certainly easier then the Sandy Howler. But then he was dying and on his last legs so I was trying to climb up the ice rocks on the opposite side to get an arrow shot...but then got nothing for my effort. The team crawled up the other side and killed Hakkon before I could do anything.

From there not much to say about things. Always strikes me as incredibly tragic with the conversation between Ameridan and the Inquisitor. But in this case, may've even said it before, but have to draw attention again to the memory about 'Telenadas, nothing is inevitable'. Do love Dragon Age. It has a lot of interesting concepts, quotes, very philsoophical, very malleable.

At the end of the day to since next stop Corypheus roamed around the Basin hunting for the memories but making sure I went after the wildlife I came across to build up focus. Actually bumped into the Ice Giant. Which since I couldn't use my focus abilities was actually a close thing. Almost had a party wipe...but then I backed off just enough to get the party back up to finish the thing off.

Next Stop. Doom Upon All the World.

Hey! I'm returned with a new DAI-pt!

My first Dragon Age Templar character.
Just for you, my lovely Ralph Hawke. I'm not sure, what I started... and I will finish the game with his one, or not, but I try.
"Hawke, meet the Inquisitor, Angus Frederick Trevelyan of Ostwick! "(Maker preserve them both!)



In game:

Only one story left in Tevinter Nights. I think I've actually enjoyed them more the second time around, even the ones I didn't particularly care for the first time. I just re-read Half Up Front this morning, and now I'm wondering what exactly did Dorian need Vadis to steal for him from the Archon's Palace? I also find it weird that Gatt would consider Varric in Kirkwall to be an ally of sorts, given that Inq forces and Qunari forces aren't exactly buddy buddy after Trespasser.

Completed my canon Inquisitor replay with the Trespasser DLC. It's just bittersweet that so few choices are being carried over in DAV, that sort of hung over the whole playthrough. The Inquisitor told Solas that he would stop him. The Inquisition was also disband. This was a choice I'm glad Bioware gave us. I also appreciate the three different tones you can take for making either path. Went with the "pleased" middle option that says the Inquisitions original purpose has been achieved in an upbeat way and it's time for the soldiers to go home.

The music in Trespasser is great. The battle theme when you are fighting the Saarebas is the best.

Always love ending slides. Call me simple but I like how things are going with characters just after the game is over and it's a cheap way of providing some exposition to the player. Wish they were voiced like the main game, but the artwork really puts you in the setting.

Fighting Gurd Harofsen in Jaws of Hakkon. I can't for the life of me remember how I did it last time and he's wiping the floor with me.

I did actually forgot to mention...the other day...its been a weird couple of days for me. But one of the codex entries in Heidrun Keep. Last time writing, and even this time, didn't fully feel into it, don't know if anyone really noticed, but in this one they did mention how the whole Darkspawn infestation began. One of the better parts of zombie fiction because back when I watched Fear the Walking Dead it also started off that way. Not fast. Not all at once. But just a little here, a little there, great example of creeping horror. And similar things happened with the Dwarves and the Darkspawn. Of course they also mentioned the idea of a Darkspawn Queen at the heart of the world. Hmm.

Anyways from there continued to forge out beyond the final fight with the Sha-Brytol in the caves to get to the Wellspring. Always sucks when a game crashes and is known to crash in a certain place it can suck your momentum out of you because you are afraid it'll happen again and don't want to risk it or be dissapointed. Plus since I am now way ahead of schedule on Veilguard so its kind of hard to find much motivation to continue to play or at least deliberatley try and stretch out the run time on this. So took me a hot minute to get back into things. But alas there was no problems at all. Also not as good as Heidrun but this next piece is notable for having Guardians of the Past which almost got shafted in the main game since you only get it in an optional boss fight. So glad it gets included here.

And the next bit what I was worried about...the Guardian. And for the first time ever it was actually no problem at all. Sure used a regeneration potion but I actually didn't use a SINGLE regular Health pot and it was over so quickly. It just occured to me out of the blue in terms of strategy...focus on the cudgels first to break them away. Normally it seems to be a mad dash for the center I think but I did have the thought that if I deprived it of weapons it shouldn't hurt me too much, and it didn't. Even if it could still push up the rock things. Think Sera's Thousand Cuts also helped.

Started Tresspasser but most of that was just puttering around. Realized I had a bit of an oopsie going on Kitty's Collar gives Bull X percent of healing for X amount of Health...but Kitty's Collar also gives Bull a chance to heal on death. So I just thought that was redundant so I gave Bull a new set of Dragon Bone armor. Much better stats wise over all and the key bit here, though there was some debate, I decided to give it guard on hit, so lets see if that works out. Also upgraded the Mighty Offensive TOnic to Max, fun part about that is the Crit Damage bonus is another 100%. So Kara, if she has it available, would do 325% Crit damage on crit hits. I think that is going to come in handy against a certain Qunari Mage later.

Yeah it's on eo fthe tougher fights in the game an dwhy I a tleast tr yto open up at leas t2 of th ecold doors in the Forbidden Oasis thos eresistances definitel yhelp in tha tpart of th egame. It is difficul tt obeat him without them.

In Tresspasser finished up the Elven Ruins and then off to the Qunari mining operation after chatting with everyone. Sera of course was sus about the guards which is kind of an interesting perspective because just was thinking of the actual real world equivalent and those of us who are in the work force. Like could you really imagine hiring a Jenny to go after your boss? I guess some griping would follow back to her but her logic seems little sus.


Ran into some codex entries and stuff in the Deep Roads which does have some interesting implications and also for Veilguard: