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Post by phoray on Sept 4, 2018 0:59:31 GMT
*calls husband*
Him: Hi! Me: Hello~ Him: I'm in Val Rayeoux Me: Are you in the Scene? Him: I'm in a Scene right now! *sets his phone on speaker phone.* Sister: blah blah blah Inquisition sucks blah Inky: The Inquisition wants to save Thedas and close the Rift! Sister: Nah, Dawg, you want to take over and the sooner we get rid of you the better. Here the Templars are! *GETS PUNCHED IN THE HEAD* Him: WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?! Me: *rolling laughing on my bed.*
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Post by dazk on Sept 4, 2018 1:47:10 GMT
So yesterday Karaas, headed back to Haven and crafted some new and better armour for himself and for Cassandra then gave his hand me downs to Sera. Went to the war table and completed multiple missions thanks to the no waiting mod and then went to Val Royeaux to meet the chantry. Talked to a sister who then got punched in the head by a Templar, spoke to the lord seeker, spoke to the sister, did some shopping, got a message via a mysterious arrow, followed the clues and recruited me a Sera. Went to a swanky party hosted by Madame De Fer and told her she could also join the Inquisition. Then back to haven and lots of talk with Cassandra plus some flirting and then some chatting with Cullen and Sera and Vivienne followed by a quick trip with Vivienne in the group to The Hinterlands to recruit enchantress Ellandra. Next to recruit Blackwall and then head to the Storm Coast. Some Pic's The Crew Cassandra Cullen Josephine Recruited Cat Woman
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Post by phoray on Sept 4, 2018 1:51:57 GMT
*listens to husband do Sera's recruitment mission finish* ME: so do you like Sera? Him: She's a companion even! Me: .... so do you like her? Him: Eh, I don't think I'll love her. But I already like her better than Solas. Me:
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Post by azarhal on Sept 4, 2018 2:15:25 GMT
Why is there so many war table missions? I'm done with base game zones, but I still have What Pride Had Wrought (and the final) to do, but like 20-30 war table missions pop up after I finished Adamant...and they aren't on the short side.
So Meraad was very busy today. She visited all sort of strange places, like a demon infested Warden fortress which then turned into a little visit to a Nightmare demon's realm in the fade...physically. Everyone found that weird, and some took it worst than others. Meraad decided to keep the Warden close afterward, unfortunately Alistair was left behind and Hawke went to tell the rest of the Wardens what happened.
After that, while trying to clear the war table missions, Meraad went underground, after she helped Varric's friend Bianca seal an entrance used by Corypheus's henchmen to dig red lyrium, helped Cole feel safe and more spirity and discovered Blackwall's secret. Then it was off to the Descent (made it up to the entrance of the Wellspring).
---- I had a strange question popup while in the Fade though, I'm wondering if the "tombstones" used to show the companion's fear as a significance. Everyone but Cassandra, Solas and Vivienne use similar the tiny ones. It's weird.
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Post by dazk on Sept 4, 2018 3:28:38 GMT
Why is there so many war table missions? I'm done with base game zones, but I still have What Pride Had Wrought (and the final) to do, but like 20-30 war table missions pop up after I finished Adamant...and they aren't on the short side. So Meraad was very busy today. She visited all sort of strange places, like a demon infested Warden fortress which then turned into a little visit to a Nightmare demon's realm in the fade...physically. Everyone found that weird, and some took it worst than others. Meraad decided to keep the Warden close afterward, unfortunately Alistair was left behind and Hawke went to tell the rest of the Wardens what happened. After that, while trying to clear the war table missions, Meraad went underground, after she helped Varric's friend Bianca seal an entrance used by Corypheus's henchmen to dig red lyrium, helped Cole feel safe and more spirity and discovered Blackwall's secret. Then it was off to the Descent (made it up to the entrance of the Wellspring). ---- I had a strange question popup while in the Fade though, I'm wondering if the "tombstones" used to show the companion's fear as a significance. Everyone but Cassandra, Solas and Vivienne use similar the tiny ones. It's weird. Are you on console azarhal or PC? I installed the War Table no waiting mod yesterday and it is so good!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 3:41:59 GMT
*clappity clap clap* I have finally gotten around to doing the Jaws of Hakkon. The map is beautiful.
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Post by pensieve on Sept 4, 2018 5:04:21 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete?
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Post by phoray on Sept 4, 2018 5:24:13 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete? I did them all my 2nd or 3rd PT with no mods-- I did the computer clock trick. They eventually do end.
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Post by dazk on Sept 4, 2018 6:26:17 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete? This is my first time playing DAI with mods so I have done them all before the slow way at least ten times
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Post by azarhal on Sept 4, 2018 11:24:50 GMT
Why is there so many war table missions? I'm done with base game zones, but I still have What Pride Had Wrought (and the final) to do, but like 20-30 war table missions pop up after I finished Adamant...and they aren't on the short side. So Meraad was very busy today. She visited all sort of strange places, like a demon infested Warden fortress which then turned into a little visit to a Nightmare demon's realm in the fade...physically. Everyone found that weird, and some took it worst than others. Meraad decided to keep the Warden close afterward, unfortunately Alistair was left behind and Hawke went to tell the rest of the Wardens what happened. After that, while trying to clear the war table missions, Meraad went underground, after she helped Varric's friend Bianca seal an entrance used by Corypheus's henchmen to dig red lyrium, helped Cole feel safe and more spirity and discovered Blackwall's secret. Then it was off to the Descent (made it up to the entrance of the Wellspring). ---- I had a strange question popup while in the Fade though, I'm wondering if the "tombstones" used to show the companion's fear as a significance. Everyone but Cassandra, Solas and Vivienne use similar the tiny ones. It's weird. Are you on console azarhal or PC? I installed the War Table no waiting mod yesterday and it is so good!!!!!!! PC and I almost installed the mod...but I got like 5 left to go now so it's not really worth it. So far it worked rather fine with my playing schedule, now it's just that I have nothing else to do in the game while I wait for them to finish (outside the Descent and playing Jaw of Hakkon I guess).
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 4, 2018 11:43:10 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete? The only repeatable ones are resource gathering. You can run out of the non-repeatable ones. And I did in at least 1 pt without any tricks. Those were before all DLCs came out and I kept playing post ending, just running around, making screenshots, gathering damn elfroot... you know, the usual. In later pts I used computer clock trick to cheat
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Post by dazk on Sept 5, 2018 1:32:41 GMT
So yesterday Karaas, recruited Blackwall in the Hinterlands and then decided to clear some more of the map. Shut a couple of rifts, took down the Mercenary Fortress, killed some very large bears and some not so large bears and killed lots of sell swords and other bandits. I persevered with Vivienne and Blackwall throughout but they did nothing to redeem themselves and so when Karaas headed to the Storm Coast they got dumped for Solas and Iron Bull. So my current party is Cassandra, Iron Bull and Solas. It's kind of weird having two Qunari in the group, I loved the meeting between Bull and Karaas though!!!! Some Pic's The Hinterlands are a lovely place Except for the Bears Strange Alien Tech Another Rift Closed Two Young Bulls
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Post by Sokemis on Sept 5, 2018 2:22:43 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete? This is my first time playing DAI with mods so I have done them all before the slow way at least ten times I've only played Inquisition on the console so far. I'd purposely wait to start a long mission until just before I was turning off the game for the night. Or if there was one still going, would turn on the game in the morning just long enough to start a mission - would usually be done by the time I got home from work.
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Post by Sokemis on Sept 5, 2018 2:40:31 GMT
So I took advantage of the fact that yesterday (and part of the weekend) I had no headache, no work, and no life, and pretty much banged out Act 2. Think all I had left was All That Remains, Following the Qun, and the final Demands of the Qun as far as main quests go. It was when All That Remains triggered that I realized I did things out of order/too many main quests in succession. I theoretically probably could have still finished all the side/companion/secondary quests... but apparently I'm a perfectionist that has to do things in a certain order... (For example, I'd like to have Orana around for longer than a few minutes before Mother dies. That and spread poor Hawke's shitty days out over a bit more of the act - literally Fenris left and I walked downstairs to Uncle Gamlen yelling about Mother missing and went "yeah, I messed up somewhere in the timeline..." Can you just imagine how awkward his coming back to the estate that night to comfort Hawke would be, lol). So basically I'm going to restart from an earlier hard save (which I find I don't do nearly enough of in this game) and will be spending the next week or so getting back to where I currently am...
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Post by jaerick243 on Sept 5, 2018 3:05:18 GMT
So, ended up replacing the human warrior with human rogue, but then decided against it. Cannot decide what race/class combo to go with. Maybe I will go with Female Dwarf DD rogue, again, though I do kind of have an issue with the skyhold moment when you are dreaming which dwarves should not be able to do.
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Post by melbella on Sept 5, 2018 3:24:44 GMT
So I took advantage of the fact that yesterday (and part of the weekend) I had no headache, no work, and no life, and pretty much banged out Act 2. Think all I had left was All That Remains, Following the Qun, and the final Demands of the Qun as far as main quests go. It was when All That Remains triggered that I realized I did things out of order/too many main quests in succession. I theoretically probably could have still finished all the side/companion/secondary quests... but apparently I'm a perfectionist that has to do things in a certain order... (For example, I'd like to have Orana around for longer than a few minutes before Mother dies. That and spread poor Hawke's shitty days out over a bit more of the act - literally Fenris left and I walked downstairs to Uncle Gamlen yelling about Mother missing and went "yeah, I messed up somewhere in the timeline..." Can you just imagine how awkward his coming back to the estate that night to comfort Hawke would be, lol).
My first PT of the game, I didn't even get the sleep with Fenris scene until Act 3 (don't ask me how I managed to miss out in Act 2 - guess I didn't go home enough; I also finished the game at level 15) and then the next convo is after 3 years passing in the meantime and I was like, "Uh, what? That was just yesterday, dude."
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Post by dazk on Sept 5, 2018 3:28:38 GMT
I thought you'd get it
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Post by dazk on Sept 5, 2018 3:32:38 GMT
So I took advantage of the fact that yesterday (and part of the weekend) I had no headache, no work, and no life, and pretty much banged out Act 2. Think all I had left was All That Remains, Following the Qun, and the final Demands of the Qun as far as main quests go. It was when All That Remains triggered that I realized I did things out of order/too many main quests in succession. I theoretically probably could have still finished all the side/companion/secondary quests... but apparently I'm a perfectionist that has to do things in a certain order... (For example, I'd like to have Orana around for longer than a few minutes before Mother dies. That and spread poor Hawke's shitty days out over a bit more of the act - literally Fenris left and I walked downstairs to Uncle Gamlen yelling about Mother missing and went "yeah, I messed up somewhere in the timeline..." Can you just imagine how awkward his coming back to the estate that night to comfort Hawke would be, lol). So basically I'm going to restart from an earlier hard save (which I find I don't do nearly enough of in this game) and will be spending the next week or so getting back to where I currently am... One of the hardest things I found coming back to DA2 after 5 years was trying to figure out what to do and when and in DAI when I arrived in the Hinterlands for the first time I was so overwhelmed. But its all starting to come back now thank the gods!!!!!
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Post by House Targaryen on Sept 5, 2018 6:06:17 GMT
Passed judgement on Erimond. He thought he was going to die for his false god, but Dany gave him a fate worse than death. Zombie land. Took over the fort from the choice spirit in Emprise. This is a long time coming. I couldn't wait to pass judgement on you, Vint. Death? Ah no. You will become a tool for my mages. They do need someone to use their experiments on. And when you are not spending time with the mages, you'll be our stable boy. The Inquisition after all has thousands of horses to clean after. Daily. And that's the look I wanted to see. Andraste forgives you. By the way, you can help Erimond with the stables. Eh nice ax. Perhaps its not the time to speak with you? Choice spirit is it? You have a fine stronghold and I wish to add it to my collection. I'm afraid you're in my way and need to be removed permanently. We are not amused. I do hope my hair grows back quickly.
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Post by MarilynRobert on Sept 5, 2018 6:27:23 GMT
Are you on console azarhal or PC? I installed the War Table no waiting mod yesterday and it is so good!!!!!!! Once I discovered the War Table no waiting mod, I can never play without it
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Post by MarilynRobert on Sept 5, 2018 6:29:27 GMT
Has anyone ever done all the war table missions without mods? Or do they just keep popping up no matter how many you complete? I did them all my 2nd or 3rd PT with no mods-- I did the computer clock trick.
They eventually do end. Ditto here...before I found the no waiting mod, I did the computer clock trick...what a pain that was but worth not messing up things and feeling grumpy about it
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Post by azarhal on Sept 5, 2018 11:29:24 GMT
Last night, Meraad finished exploring the Wellspring and something weird happened to Valta (in fact, the way she talks at the end reminds me of Larius/Janeka in Legacy...I somehow expect bad things to result from that). Lyrium being Titan's blood is the most hilarious things Meraad heard in years, that's going to crash the Lyrium trade economy and now we can accuse Templars of doing blood magic. Also the Wellspring is very pretty...
Then she did a short trip to the Frostback basin. Not much was done outside closing off a few rifts and killing wildlife.
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Doing the Jaws of Hakkon
Visually, the map is really nice. I like the combination of amber and green. It creates a soothing feeling. I feel like the graphics in this one are a little bit better or smoother than the original map. I really like the sunrise water and also day/night changes. A very much alive and atmospheric map. It also has a lot of interesting nooks.
The bugs are bugging me. They overdid it with the number of random hostile creatures that repop every five seconds. I don't like pointless fights every two steps I take while I'm travelling in between quests. Plus, those dinosaur thingies have a lot of hp and take too long to kill for random unimportant mobs. Andraste forbid that while you're spamming ice mines, a bogfisher gets accidentally caught in one, that hippo pig has a billion guard up and it loves tossing you down and sitting on your face while the original spider that stopped you is chewing on your leg and wasting potions which you were saving for that whooping rift ahead.
On the down, or up and down side, there are way too many hills and elevations that waste a lot of walking time since you need to run around the whole sodding mountain to find the right path up and probably trice since I'm likely to miss that trail up the first couple of runs around.
In addition to up and down, there are a lot of 'follow the marker quests' that ask you to run across a very large map. Combine that with tripping over the spiders and other hostiles every five meters and it actually become a notch frustrating.
In terms of difficulty, it seems no noobs tag applies. The first thing I did after porting to the map was to spot a rift right out the gate and galloped to shut that shady business operation down in a sloppy manner. Got my ass handed to me by the pride demons. Whoopes, reloaded and went in with tactics this time having 9/12 pots left and no casualties. I went in at level 20 recommended by the game. I don't see much difference between lvl 20 and 23 which I currently am. There are two rifts in the area that have lvl 26 monsters around them, which I'm not touching with a ten foot pole because my ass will be frozen pie.
I am finding the map higher difficulty than the primary game. Not so difficult that I'd kick the dust and quit, but I feel it wasn't necessary and I get slightly frustrated in places. The map so far dropped really good purple weapons, however, I feel it should drop purple armour, which I haven't seen a single piece of so far except belts, because the life expectancy of my DD support party members is woefully short. They burn through all red pots within minute and die. I'm sort of glad that the first Inky I've ventured into this map with is a shield and sword warrior who's pretty much immortal at least to the equal level mobs. Crafted a really good armour and weapon for him prior to going to the new map. The armour has 16% magic resist, which is good, but I done goofed and put 36% fire resist on it. Had I known, I would have chosen materials that resist ice instead. But, he still resists a lot of stuff. But back to my sheep or rather Sera, Varric and Dorian who always kick the bucket as soon as the fight begins and then my meele 1h Inky has to chase the ranged wraiths and ghosts around the rift with 1hp left of his health but 100000 points of guard still up keeping him alive. These are very long and boring fights since he's killing them slowly and they can't kill him.
I have a feeling that I will have to go and craft some serious stuff once I hit the boss on this map because he'll hand my hide to me too many times over.
Conclusion, I am interested in exploring this new map, but I am not going to be doing it with every Inquisitor. The story and quest line is correct in terms of save the world and all that heroic business, the type I like, but it's not related to Corypheus and not vital to central story line. It's more like an entirely separate story.
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