Dragon Age 2, still not riftFollow

Not blaming you, lol. Just pointing out what Joph said--you probably have a mod making the game easier that you didn't realize had that effect. Many of them have a bunch of small effects--the writers are generally good at telling you how to disable them in the readme files. But if you're doing mass modding, it's easier to get fed up going through every one carefully.

Did you do the portals quests around Blackmarsh after you got Justice? Those combined quests drop a full suit of armor for him, if I recall. Really helps his survivability.

I did the quests. Then I put the armor on my Arcane Mage and gave Justice my old Improved Wade's stuff from DA:O because fuck that guy. If he wants the best armor, let him start his own game.

*I* didn't die while wearing my Wade's...

Finished Awakenings. Took a little longer because it was hard to get into so I tended to play in smaller blocks.
SpoilerI saved Amaranthine because I figured a city was worth more than a fort. I don't know if there was a way so save both since my supposed super-awesome granite walls and soldiers didn't help but whatever. Sucks to be them. Anders apparently took an arrow to the neck so that made it worthwhile.

I killed the Architect because fuck you, Darkspawn. My companions were all "This could be an interesting proposition" and I was like "WTF guys? Dark... spawn... It's not my job to reform these guys. Now hit them with sticks already."

It's stupid easy to be over powered. My companions all died pretty early into the Mother fight and I said "Nah, I got this" and soloed her ***.

The game was only paying minimal attention to the game because not even the game found itself that interesting. Half my epilogue remarks didn't apply to me. For instance, I told the commander at Amaranthine to kill the messenger but I got an epilogue statement saying that he was wandering Fereldan as some plague-ridden Robin Hood or some shit.

They hooked me back up with Leliana in the epilogue which was nice. "Hi honey! You won't believe the day I just had..."

Now onward to DA2 I suppose. I'll try to keep an open mind.

Edited, May 3rd 2012 7:56am by Jophiel

God and Nature. Have you ever tried to fit a bear through a door?

No, because those were bear cubs!

I tried to install Dragon Age 2 yesterday, just so it's there when I'm ready, and I keep getting this error when it tries to verify the release date or whatever. I checked the bioware forums, and I found this suggestion:


My brain hurts... I guess I'll try going to that link later on and see if it makes more sense.

And that just made it even more awesome, that and they brought it back as a daily.

But seriously, I never had a problem getting anywhere in bear form. Cow riding a Mammoth was another story, still though! I suppose I'm just bitter that the bear almost got me killed in an encounter where he got stuck and everyone piled up behind him and got scattershoted by the enemy archers. I go wolf more now just because of that, but I really like that bear tankiness. You barely even have to heal the thing, even in a long encounter. Just awesome.



I was debating for a while myself. The whole political marriage over love thing seemed like an interesting storyline. I was surprised Alistair seemed to go along with the idea so well (as in increased approval from him) though. I suppose I'm missing out on being queen, but oh well, I'll have to properly romance him properly in a later play though.

My casteless dwarf rogue tried to convince Anora to let him warm her bed at night while she was queen but she said the people wouldn't go for a dwarven consort. Racist *****.

Now that you mention it, my dwarf nailed two humans and two elves but no female dwarfs.

Also, just to get deep into the weeds, SpoilerMorrigan felt confident that my dwarf seed would take root in her fertile loam but I haven't seen any other mentions of half-races. Half-species, really.

Edit: Is that even still a spoiler?

Edited, May 3rd 2012 2:46pm by Jophiel

Guess that explains why every human in Denerim keeps an elf or two around.

Any word on dwarf-elf hybrids?


need answer fast