Dragon Age IIFollow

But he's such a whiny punk! Don't do it!

I'm on my third playthrough, mopping up the trophies I've missed to get my first plat(I usually lose interest in a game before I can plat it). This trophy for gathering all the stupid crafting reagents is annoying.

I already have the one for the crafting, I need the one for the supplies. Or is it the same for the Supplier trophy as well?

I'll check. I've had one of each type of material I am not sure if I maxed out. Quick tip though, if you miss any crafting materials in previous acts, you can buy them at the black emporium.

Edit: So I checked and I don't have that achievement so yeah you gotta find all the materials. Side note, anyone not getting their Sebastian achievements. I've done, avenged, cloak and dagger, loyalty of the prince and memento and have yet to get any of those achievements.

Edited, Apr 3rd 2011 1:04pm by Laxedrane

Double edit: I'll have to try what wiki suggests. Now to figure out how to delete and redownload content..

Edited, Apr 3rd 2011 1:12pm by Laxedrane

Isn't the Warrior a bit boring? I liked the Mage for all the goofy things I could do to make the fights less monotonous. Like mind controlling and throwing blood everywhere to kill stuff. Warrior seems pretty limited in that area.

I like the armor, though. Beats wearing a dress.

If you aren't liking it, and aren't that far in, go Rogue--very fun, imo.

Warrior with a 2hander is my favorite, tbh. You become a one man wrecking crew, scything across the battlefield, culling your foes like so many blades of grass. Don't get me wrong, mage and rogue(only just finished act 1 on the rogue) have been enjoyable, but warrior was epic fun to me. Especially after I set up my crew to make me an even greater force of destruction.



Also, Act I complete with all resources gathered. Thank god.

Stamina is more of an issue for Warriors (which is why you can get instant stam recharge abilities). Since you only get it when you kill something, you can go long periods without on some bosses. For example, when fighting the high dragon, you'll fight her then her offspring in alternating phases. But since there are no adds during the boss phase, you'll need to use your recharge abilities/pots.

Rogues regain stam per hit. It WAS an issue on bosses that could knock me down a lot, because I wasn't getting auto-attacks in, but I always had MORE than enough if facing groups/bosses with minimal AoE knock backs. There's also a Rogue skill that increases the amount you regain, but I don't remember what it does specifically (it was one of the first things I grabbed for all my Rogues).

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And you really didn't see anything else you wanted on Warr? That surprises me. Are you not bothering to set up class combos?

Max the 2-handed tree.
From Battlemaster, bolster and second wind are both lovely. Deep Reserves is great, too.
From Vanguard, Control/Might and Assail, Cleave, Destroyer, Massacre... Pretty much a tree in which I want nearly everything.
If there are leftovers, Pommel Strike and Tremor from the Warmonger tree are lovely.

I think, right there, I've already used more points then I'll likely actually get (when considering upgrades).

The Templar AoE, in particular, is great against demons/Mages, which make up a large portion of this game's enemies. +50% Magic Resistance is nothing to scoff at, either.
The Reaver tree is pretty nice all around.
Berserkes is less attractive to me, but I imagine it is ungodly against bosses (where Reaver is best against AoE, though Devour is nothing to scoff at).

I don't understand how you could run out of attractive options...

Edited, Apr 3rd 2011 7:36pm by idiggory

I didn't have that problem at all. Between Deep Reserves, Second Wind, a +Stam regen piece of gear or two and another warrior spamming Rally whenever it was off cooldown(Fenris and Hawke both 2h was a sight to behold), I really had no problems at all.

To me, it wasn't about "running around and tanking", it was about laying waste to as many enemies as I could. An ADD DPS of sorts. That tends to draw a lot of hate, but that plays really nicely with Bravery to make you even more of a death dealing badass. I skipped most of the stuff from the defense trees(Sword and Shield/Defender) and focused on Battlemaster's Stamina regen, Vanguard's activated/sustained buffs to my damage, Reaver just for the devour ability and Berserker solely for the stam regen buff for the specialization. Each of those played nicely together.

I then stuck Fenris with the Defender and Warmonger trees for their synergistic nature(gain aggro to do more damage + take less damage) as well as his specialization since it played well with that. This allowed me to focus on my ADD DPS even more.

Reaver has its self heal that's rather nice(plus it can be buffed to stun as well, which was great against the Arishok). I do admit that I rarely used that aura ability, however.

I'll have to try that out, Pold.

Probably won't be running with Fenris, though. I need a healer and the Isabela/Varric banter is awesome (plus I'm romancing Isabela), so I kinda have to go with Anders.

Be aware, there's a game breaking bug involving Isabela's friendship.

She can be rivalry romanced, however.

Maz is on the pc, so he can patch it himself. :(

If you are male, Spoilerhe's at least bi and Karl was his first love.

If you are female, Spoilerthere is no mention of anything to hint that he is bi.

I dunno if anything else changes.

Apologize for the double post. But has anyone heard/read or experienced a glitch with blood magic were it takes double the health then the spell costs. I was wondering why my blood mage was dropping dead all of a sudden when she use to be alot sturdier only to realise this was the case. Any ways to work around it? I've switch to spirit healer now...