What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Heal-on-kill is masterwork crafting. Lifeward is a spirit spell but upgraded regeneration potion gives you lifeward to as well as proximity heal. Whereas healing mist gives AoE healing as well as AoE resuscitation. The spirit healer class is not there but you can design your own. I mean I don't really understand this class fixation anyway.

Well, I was trying to create my canon Inquisitor but the more I plan it ahead, the more difficult it seems.
He is probably going to look like that:

I was going to make him a good guy mage that supported the Circle... but he ended up looking so rough and manly

Should I play an aggressive warrior instead? the problem is that I've never played a warrior in inquisitor, I've found them boring.
Also I want my inquisitor to ally with the Qunari and put Gaspard in the throne, but what kind of good guy kills an empress and blames corypheous just to put someone else in the throne?

If I make him aggressive instead, Leliana would be hardened, I hate hardened Leliana (You have to say "Our men are not disposable.", if I sacrifice the Chargers for an alliance, then my character DO THINKS men are disponsable, I don't want an hypocrite)
And if my Inqui is a good guy, what do I do with Blackwall? is not justice pardoning him, neither giving him the honor of being a Grey Warden.
Damn that thing is hard.

He's so good! (Supporting the Circle isn't good, the Circle's dangerous, so: he's a dangerous guy.) 

I love healing too, heck, all my characters in SWTOR were healers (and my only Shepherd for now have healing abilities too). But trust me, DAI is great even without the healer spec (I want it back though- together with the bard spec for rogues). It has some really great characters, great companions and an interesting storyline. And you don't have to do all the side quests in one playthrough. The important once are in your journal under Inquisitors Path and the companion quests, all others are just for fun. Do the ones, you are interested in and leave the others alone (or for another playthrough).

I don't know, but I guess, that can be done. I used a lot of time in my first playthrough in searching those damns shards. Some are really well hidden. But you don't need to do those fetch quests and they can be very time consuming.

@domi

A lot of people complained that, minus all "filler" quests and spending time crafting and decorating, that the base game only took them 20 hours.

My 65 hours run of the base game my first time probably involved 12 hours in the Hinterlands when you only need 1. I was probably inefficient in other ways as well, looking up walk throughs of the Winter Palace etc.

I think what we semi completionists and completionists call a "speed run" would be... 40-60 for base game plus Trespasser?

I don't know what those 15-20 hour players did. Just the main quests with no companion interaction, I guess.

Okay, I just met Hawke and she is still my mage that I'm imported, but inside the cave is suddenly Stroud, despite the fact, that I never uploaded a world stat, where he would be the contact. I like Stroud and don't want to sacrifice him in the Fade, I use to left Alistair or Loghain there, but I don't want to start over, so sadly, Stroud it is this time. The Keep import is behaving really strange in this playthrough: first Hawke, who romanced Fenris is now with Anders and now Loghain turned into Stroud.

It could. It will. I haven't but I think it will be like 50-70 hrs judging from what others report.

I love Two Steps from Hell's music. If griffons weren't extinct, it would've been cool to see the Warden riding one into battle in DAO. Personally, the only thing that would beat that in DAI is the Inquisitor taming and riding on a dragon. (The guardian dragon at Mythal's altar doesn't count).

Well, I am not going to decide what to do about inquisition for now. Maybe later. I am just too tired of grinding and dailies and crafting after a few years of MMO's.


Anyways, finished the City Elf and the Dwarf Princess backgrounds. Both were pretty good, but was a touch frustrating playing without rogues -I went with both warriors. Also liked how gender picks worked for me for both backgrounds. I dunno if the City Elf background changes if the elf is a female, if it doesn't, I'd be probably shy away from my character being raped in the game. It was nice with a male: "I'll paint the walls with human blood!" And I could be pretty snappy with the Golden King. Tied really nicely into the game too.

So is the dwarf's, which was perfect, though because I have played through the dwarven city before, there was no surprise there. But I picked a few pieces of lore & connections in the story. I really liked whatever writer who put together the dwarven background and the setting. So far it is my favorite part of Ferelden lore package.

Just dwarf commoner & human noble left, and have to decide if I would like to play a male or female human noble.

Man, I somehow always forget just how overwhelming it is when you first arrive at Skyhold and NINE MILLION THINGS are suddenly demanding your attention. And then I managed to spend all of my accumulated power unlocking areas before I spoke to Hawke, and had to go out and do side quests for a while before I could access Crestwood. I am really pleased with how Dana Hawke turned out in Frostbite. Better than she looked in DA2!



That haircut really suits her. Hoping I get a few better screen shots of her when we go to the Fade ...

Mostly by coincidence, this is the second playthrough in a row where Loghain is the Warden. I think he's even going to live this time, instead of being fed to a giant imaginary spider!

Okay finished all the backgrounds.

The dwarven commoner (I played as a male warrior & it worked great) had my favorite temporary companion from the lot, Leske, and a fun story, also tying into the game well. My only qualm was that at the end, the Warden has no information or a chance to wonder what is going to happen with his sister and Leske. I am hoping it's covered in the later game. I know that the sister shows up in the noble background, so I assume she is safe, but Leslie, I dunno. Would have preferred him to Og... what-s-his name as a permanent companion, because O just did not have enough character background to stretch into a companion

I chose to play human noble with a female rogue, and it worked fine. I also can see how it would have absolutely worked wonders with Alistair's story-line, particularly since she is the only Warden that has a shot at marrying Alistair. It was awesome to get the Dog's background. The only thing I don't know is how the game handles pc's brother and his wife/kid, as I assume that the brother dies at Ostagar. I guess the family dies - maybe I missed their bodies or something while running through the castle.

I think that overall, story-wise, dwarven princess was my favorite, followed by the dawrf commoner & City Elf & mage & human, and dalish elf being the weakest imo.