What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

I dunno. I'm an atheist with a Cherokee Heritage, and if a Christian attended a Native American museum with me going, "Geez, you people used to believe in some crazy shit" it'd still reflect badly on them.


Oooo oooo Cullen Vs Solas! Which would be an easy win for Cullen for me, I had to craft a character hard to get into Solas.

Oh, I hadn't thought that about Mass Effect when considering the eventuality of playing it. And I know how you feel...after 12 hours of internet searching I thought I'd like Kingdom of Amalur, and then I got lonely 3 hours in. :/

It's definitely a stupid and offensive thing to say! I just don't think that my current Lavellan is going to take it any worse than her constant insistence that he's the Herald of a prophet he doesn't believe in, sent by a human god he doesn't think exists. So in his case, I don't see it making much difference to the viability of the relationship. The milleage of other agnostic/atheist/whatever Lavellans might indeed vary.

Apparently, I was just a couple of spawns away from confronting the Baroness, so, I've killed it, then in my drive to finish the sidequest with the love letters joke quest (I was glad that the guy committed a suicide, heh) accidentally spawned some sort of an electric dragon that took a while to whittle down. So, the only thing I have had time for after clearing the Blackmarsh area was to purchase Blood Magic tome and spec Anders in it. Not sure what's the hype all about, as using down health instead of mana does not seem that appealing. But he has a blood mage robe on, so, well, I'll give it a shot. Still need to finish a Smuggler's den quest in the City, then it will be time for inventory unload in the castle. Hopefully I'll find some runes, because now absolutely everything has rune slots, but no runes, as opposite to the Origins, where you got tons of runes, but no runeslots.

I had looked up online for stuff you could do and they said you could get a house in such and such place and have your own mirror to change your looks. So, I set out to do that, which took me somewhere between 3-6 hours.  And I changed my looks. Then looked around my house. Then was like... I have no friends to visit me, no family or servants to live with me, and no one to go date and visit at their house. I'm pretty sure the NPCs don't even notice that I've moved into town.

*Turns it off and never turns back on again.*


I'm glad his breakup scene isn't until post WoS, cuz otherwise one would burn through the scenes and end the relationship way too soon. I got all his scenes as a friend all in a row right after Skyhold and before either Adamant or Winter Palace and was like, whoa...going to have to intentionally ignore him on my romance PT won't I.

And I hadn't thought about the cramped battle grounds.My character is impervious to such grievous flesh wounds as a sword to teh gut!

Iron Bull helps him train them though, right? 

I'll try it if mana runs low, but I don't think I will make it a mainstream. I am normally doing fairily well with draining mana from large spawns. I'd rather not craft, hate that stuff, you don't have this, you don't have that, and I keep dragging around the inventory full of the BS ingredients for a million different things that omg, I might use one day. Sucks. I wish they just had one npc that was parked in the castle who authomatically received all the dumb herbs and scraps and sold it all too, or procured it for a price. Then, yeah, I'd craft. Mass effect was one game with enough brains to do things right with upgrades.

Oh, on the runes. I compltely ignored them until before the final battle. I only did it AT ALL because Harren and Wade's quests, I wanted to do them, and they require runes of high level. 

So, I did all my crafting in one go for half an hour ish, just enough to get those high level runes for those quests. The side benefit of walking into the courtyard so many times is the Statue is a banter Trigger, so I got all the way through Anders (who I'd specced with Rune crafting) and Justice's banter while I was at it. THIS was great, because I finally had the whole picture of their interactions together before DA2. I'm not much of a Justice user.

Then whatever runes weren't used up by the side quest, I equipped to my weapons. Then I left for the final battle. so Rune Crafting is totally optional. 

I think I also knew about the lack of runes in DAA and bought them from venders in Origins before leaving in the first place. I'd forgotten to mention that to you. :/

Regarding the forbidden arcane art of blood magic, I never use the first or second power.  I only use the third - which burns the blood of living things - and the fourth, which allows you to take control of an enemy.  I usually have enough potions on hand (or the ingredients to make them) to avoid the first and second.  Blood magic is useless against demons and the undead if I remember correctly...except for powers one and two.

As mentioned before, rune-crafting in Awakening is insane!  (I wonder what became of the game designer who came up with this system?  The rite of tranquility is too good for him!)  That's one thing that improved immeasurably in Inquisition.  I don't remember the specifics of how runes are dealt with in DA2, but it was far less annoying then in Awakening.

That was part of the charm of specializations in DAO!  The first two slots were always dedicated to less than thrilling sustains or passives.  Only on three or four do you find the good stuff! 

The "Blood Magic Warden Cup" -- from Soldiers' Keep?  I always get that and then totally forget about it!  I couldn't tell you if it's useful at all!

Went ingame for the first time in months. Was comfy.

Okay. Did the Red Crossing Mission, cuz that seemed important to me as a Dalish.

Also, researching well of Sorrows WT mission got me sweet Sentinel Armor. Tinted it up with some silverite, changed my seer hat to grey and blue, and ready to go.

Had my Goodbye Stroll around Skyhold. And Sutherland and co had said goodbye earlier but then they were actually gone!
Even if Sutherland kept shouting"Inquisitor!" And making me think he wanted to talk to me... I'll miss those blokes. And if not getting to make out with your LI wasn't enough of a sign, Sutherland being gone was a perfect sign to "move on" as it were.

Here I come, Trespasser!

hahahahaha I guess I hadn't found all the letters before. Leliana is testing her applicants with litters of nugs. This was just after I was a bit sad that she hadn't talked about her nug breeding business. I was like, huh, guess she's too busy for nugs as Divine.

This is the first elf I've taken into Trespasser. Pretty Crossroads Fade place.

could have sworn I've been attacked by those statues at the place you get the Anchor buff from. Is it because I drank from the Well of Sorrows?

Oh cool! The spirits are fighting with me!

I don't get why the Fereldan Monarch couldn't have shown up for the Exalted Council. May make sense for Alistair, barely, doesn't make sense for Anora. In the same vein, Empress Celene is there... but doesn't show. Cavorts about with Briala. Glad to hear their relattionship is going well, but this screams Voice Acting Budget to me.

Also, I am so super fond of Sera. I knew she got softer on elf issues in Trespasser...but then she asked how I was doing with all my elven beliefs falling round my ears. Why doesn't the LI do that?!

Speaking of LIs...where is my extra romantic scene with Cass? Blackwall shows up in your room, Cullen marries you... Hello Cass? Not even a kiss?

Speaking of companions that are softer in Trespasser... I really like Warden Rainier. He likes Cole. He likes Sera. And he has interesting things to say about the Warden Order when he's in it.

Trespasser was their last planned DLC. But there are two very interesting Weishaupt mentions. Wonder if it's an intended DLC of DA4....or even maybe a pre quel to DA4. Hmmmm.

I keep causing glitches that make me turn off the game, and I'm mod free :/

So, my first PT, I didn't understand the purple fire would be something I could pass through with the mark. So, I figured it must be a puzzle. And that if I use Fadestep, I can't most of the time get past it without too much death. Anyway, it's still a way to get to some of the stuff before you get your anchor buff. Some of the fire is bigger/longer though, so I got caught in a death loop on one this go round.

And those revenants were too powerful, so I tried ot make a run for it. somehow still died even though I'd gone through the Eluvian and the continue screen froze.