What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

I did upgrade my bees, my potions, and upgraded everyone's armor (so nice to just buy what I need.) The only thing I haven't given up on is my Center of the Tempest Staff. It's DPS is lame, but the glyphs! and all the perks from it's slots! Then I spec in Ice and Fire, and carry all three kinds of magic on top of my KE sword. Ah well. Everyoen else has hot weapons.

I'll give them another shot now ^^. Just they had the skulls on them. I'm only level 17, even ground, Hard mode.

An update on the further progress of Katriel and the Inquisition:

After clearing the Sahrnia Quarry of Red Templars, Katriel recovered letters from the Red Templar Samson and turned them over to Cullen. Samson with the help of Maddox, a tranquil, was creating an armor made of Red Lyrium for himself to help make him a suitable "vessel" for Corypheus. (It was unclear to either Katriel or Cullen what being a "vessel" meant.)

Using the Inquisition's resources, they were able to locate Maddox and the laboratory where he had been upgrading Samson's armor. After defeating the Red Templars guarding the secret lab, they located Maddox who had poisoned himself so as not to betray Samson. Even without Maddox, Dagna the Arcanist was able to use Maddox's tools and other items recovered from the lab to fashion a rune that could destroy Samson's armor. Katriel is now looking forward to the showdown with Samson.

Katriel also spoke with Iron Bull back at Skyhold. He told her that the Qun wanted to conduct a joint operation in the Storm Coast against the Venatori. He said the operation could be a precursor to an alliance with the Qun. Katriel agreed to go with Iron Bull and the Chargers to the Storm Coast to support the Qun's operation as soon as operations were complete in Emprise de Leon.

After having Judical's crossing repaired, Katriel and her team crossed the bridge and defeated the remaining Red Templars in the area. They then proceeded to clear the area of dragons. There were a total of three of the monsters, each holed up in an old stadium. The first two they fought were Ice dragons. The third dragon - the most powerful one - was a Highland Ravager, a fire dragon. (Level 23) After equipping her team with the appropriate armor and weapons, all three dragons were defeated rather easily.

Katriel then joined Iron Bull and the Chargers at the Storm Coast. They rendezvoused with an Qunari agent, an elven convert nicknamed Gatt. The Qunari were sending a dreadnaught to attack a Venatori smuggling ship filled with Red Lyrium in port. Bull's Chargers were tasked with holding a position overlooking the bay and the battle and denying this area to Venatori mages who could use it to bombard and destroy the dreadnaught. Unexpectedly, a large force of Venatori warriors and mages showed up and began making their way to the hill occupied by the Chargers. The Inquisitor had to choose between having the Chargers retreat or having them hold their position long enough for the dreadnaught to destroy the Venatori smuggling ship. Sadly, Katriel chose the latter option and all of the Chargers were killed. The dreadnaught, however, was able to destroy the smuggler and move out to sea before the Venatori could get into position to threaten the ship.

Gamer note: Katriel will next move on the Arbor Wilds. I have also opened up Descent and JOH DLCs and will complete those before the grand finale against Corypheus. My elf mage PC is romancing Solas and I wanted to see what special dialogues/banter pop up concerning Solas in those two DLCs. So far, no problems with Descent but problems did occur when Katriel entered the Frostback Basin. Surprising since I had no problems in JOH during last PT.

Despite all trials I have on, Katriel is currently Level 21. She will be greatly overpowered by the time she reaches Cory.

Finished Trespasser with Ghi'ral Lavellan. He is the first Dalish elf I've seen to the end of any game. I had remembered it as a 20 hour DLC, but it's nowhere close. Ended Base game at 63 hours, ended Trespasser 73 hours plus the ending cinematics-- @domi



TLDR: Disbanded, Thumbs up. Redeemed Solas. Romanced Cassandra. Really cool to end the game with a Dalish due to the improvements of Wycome (Elven Council with Viscount Varric to back them) and the Canticle of Shartan being added back to the Chant. This means a Dalish Origin with Divine Lel and Briala involved in Orlais gets the best possible world state for elves.

I was disappointed and significantly surprised to see that Cass didn't get a romance scene in Trespasser. Was she that unpopular a romance option? I kind of felt like Iw as cheating on her by going out with Jose by going to the Opera without her.

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Gaming Plans: Finish my Dwarf Commoner Leliana Romance in Origins on my PS3 before driving to California with only my computer in tow.

Romances still left to try:

Morrigan and Leliana.
Merril and Isabella
Dorian, Sera, Josephine, Solas (properly). Never romancing the Bull, although my Thom Wall romancer rode him. Good enough.

So, 8 more PTs just to get all the yummy romance content that has been witheld from me. rawr.

And somewhere in the beginning of the year, all the episodes of The Walking Dead Season 3 will come out and I'll play that 2-3 times. They aren't good at branchng narrative, but the relationships are at least present and I got a thing for zombies due to the fact that I dream about them all the time. To the point that I even had a Zombie meets Dragon Age Dream last week, I think. 

Solas trying to shout out what he is...in the middle of a battle.



I didn't maneuver him there, neither did I pose him on the RM's speaker stage in a previous image. After the cutscene of the first dragon attack on the trebuchet, the Inq was dropped there. The next second, I was watching Solas run in and jumped on top of the box.  He does that again and I'll shoot out the box from under him. Drop him back to earth, so to speak. 

For Katriel, I was, of course, using sliders:

www.nexusmods.com/dragonageinquisition/mods/1347/?

She came out okay, but not nearly as good as what the author, sehris, produced.

Killing the Chargers was painful.  You could see that Iron Bull was nervous during the whole episode.  And making the decision does feel like you're betraying Bull though he seems to harbor no hard feelings at Skyhold.  In my last PT as an elf, I saved the Chargers.  This time, I wanted to see the impact of sacrificing the Chargers in Trespasser.

That would be a really sad game for me. I always wanted to try it though, for Bulls surprise in Trespasser, but I never can bring myself to that

Something you should do late game, I suppose.   I did this just before the Arbor Wilds.  Perhaps I could've waited a bit longer; I want to complete Descent and JOH before going after Cory.

I wish I could see a side by side comparison of 4K to what I have now.  (I have an Alienware desktop purchased in 2015.  Very solid for the time, but not 4K.)

Very pretty Inquisitor!  Where did you get the dress?  I've begun to appreciate mods for Inquisition of late.  DAI is not nearly as customizable as DAO, but things are improving.  Beware that you may have to deactivate some of the mods when you use the DLC, Trespasser in particular.  Though lately, I have problems even with JOH.

Thanks for flagging me on the PT times.

Heh, I am taking a couple days off gaming because I start feeling like I just want to finish it instead of enjoying it. I just don't like DA that much, but it is not so bad that I can just walk away & don't look back. It is not my game, even though it is a good game overall. There are really no need to come up with reasons other than that. I want to see my Renegade through in ME3, and play a Vanguard romancing Garrus way more than Inquisition. Still want to try DA2, but Inquisition, just no. Maybe I can play my Renegade after I finish Awakening and then see. I also really, really, really miss ME3MP.

I end up being torn between regretting trying DA, and satisfied that I've tried it. All and all, I think it will be for the best probably to go back to ME as soon as I can without experiencing regrets and the pull of the unfinished story. In the end I did not really get the same bug that impacts people who rave about da and go on and on about its characters, and I feel a bit sad I did not, but I can't force myself to care, and I put a good amount of time into it. Warden switches to Hawks anyways.... good time to leave before that?

@domi

And see, I tried ME1 and quit after freeing the Arachni Queen. I realized I didn't care about the outcome of that decision either way and stopped. I'd even bought the trilogy pack, expecting I'd be sucked into space awesome. I like Star Trek, I like Dragon Age. Thought it was a sure thing. I do intend to try playing ME3 to see if the end of the series grabs me better than the start though. To each their own. It was nice hearing your thoughts over here on the DA side of the forum.

Merrill? I hadn't thought about her but she would've been good for a cameo too! She wanted so badly to restore the eluvian from DAO, she should've been given a chance to play around with them. And having her briefly reunite with Varric would've been nice as well.

It sounds like you got what you wanted out of this PT. What will you do now? Another DAI? Or back to DAO?

I went back into the main story and played Here Lies the Abyss. To be honest, I sped through this quest with Alex, Blackwall, Varric and Dorian without getting the Essence of Perfection masterwork. Also, the nightmare demon was beaten in under two minutes. Every time the demon was about to mock a companion, it was interrupted by Varric's exploding mines!

Hawke stayed behind to allow the lady Inquisitor and Alistair escape from the fade. Sorry Varric and Bethany, Alex had to keep a promise made to the Hero of Ferelden. Even though the Hero was on a mission to find a cure for the calling, she hoped to reunite with her beloved Alistair when she returned. As for the surviving Wardens' fate, Alex allowed them to join the Inquisition's fight against Corypheus.

Before departing for Weisshaupt, Alistair mentioned about Morrigan. "Morrigan... Tell Morrigan, I stood there looking like a fool," he said with a lopsided grin.

I watched that cutscene thinking, 'What about Leliana, you bumpkin?! You didn't say goodbye to her!'

In Skyhold, three judgements were handed out. First, Tevinter Magister Diva Erimond was beheaded by Alex. Then Senior Warden, Ser Ruth, got sentenced to hard labour and public humiliation. Lastly, Mistress Poulin was ordered to rebuild Sahrnia from her own pocket.

Up next, Alex will be exploring Dwarven tombs in the HIssing Wastes. Plus more dragon fights.

Break their relationship? I couldn't even get it to start even after 120+ hours.