Dragon Age: Origins - It's out, bitches!
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Dave
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Last night I put my codes in and got my down-loadable content. They downloaded but would not install. I contacted the support desk and they told me to put in patch 1.01. I did that and the game would then not load. I rebooted and still nothing. So I had to move my character files and reinstall 1.0. I did that and suddenly I didn't have access at all to the downloaded content. I talked to support and they had me go to the repair console and try a few things, then reboot. It finally worked. The content re-downloaded and finally installed. I logged into the game...for 1/2 hour before I had to go get my son from work.
All in all it was a shitty night on DA.
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All in all it was a shitty night on DA.
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Is that a mod fix you are talking about or the official 1.01 patch?
The fix someone posted in the other thread, it's a semi-official fix that you simply place in your override folder without screwing up your installation. It rocks since at this point and time, where my backstabs would be normally critting for 12-15, I'm actually seeing 16-25. Huge difference and battles aren't as easy... mind you, with more experience, I'm less noob.
Goddamn Morrigan needs to LVL up, I need healz. Picking her up and having her already at LVL 7 sucks a dick, given her skills are all OVER the place.
http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=705668&forum=135
btw Math242, who is this person you're talking about?
Goddamn Morrigan needs to LVL up, I need healz. Picking her up and having her already at LVL 7 sucks a dick, given her skills are all OVER the place.
http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=705668&forum=135
btw Math242, who is this person you're talking about?
Dave
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Is there an NPC coming up who has healing? Shit, I was thinking about starting again as a Healing Mage and running as an NPC.
Yes, one of the party members is a healing oriented mage who's probably the best char in the game not named PC BUT you have to get her early if you wish her to be useful.
I would suggest going to the circle of magi if someone was looking for her.
As for you question Jay, I'll let you guess which party member I'm talking about
As for Morrigan as a healer... My usual party is:
PC: Uber overpowered mage (cold, glyphs, crushing prison, 2 in healing, fire etc)
Morrigan: specced in entropy and cold
Alistair: Meat shield extraordinaire
Zhevran
--> fuck healing. However, I had to change that setup for one boss fight because the target was so armored zhev kept critting for 1 (and also getting one shot, eaten, burned and spat out)
Gah i love that game so much. I even turned sex down to keep playing. I should be ashamed and i'm def not.
I would suggest going to the circle of magi if someone was looking for her.
As for you question Jay, I'll let you guess which party member I'm talking about
As for Morrigan as a healer... My usual party is:
PC: Uber overpowered mage (cold, glyphs, crushing prison, 2 in healing, fire etc)
Morrigan: specced in entropy and cold
Alistair: Meat shield extraordinaire
Zhevran
--> fuck healing. However, I had to change that setup for one boss fight because the target was so armored zhev kept critting for 1 (and also getting one shot, eaten, burned and spat out)
Gah i love that game so much. I even turned sex down to keep playing. I should be ashamed and i'm def not.
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Singularity.EXE
I just recently realized (level 11ish) that I could spec Morrigan into healing. Life got so much easier even after picking up the first skill-up heal spell. I've been quaffing potions like water in combat, and doing hardcore trap set-up to get through battles.
Well, I still do that now, but its less edge-of-the-seat.
Well, I still do that now, but its less edge-of-the-seat.
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Chibibar
on normal/easy not so much, but it DOES help a lot since as you level, the enemies are harder too.
Wynne is the base healer of the game. She is a mage you meet at Ostigar but you can't recruit her until you visit the Circle of Magi Tower after finishing Lothring. She is the Spirit Healer subclass.
My biggest issue with Morrigan is that she is already specced into the subclass Shapeshifter, which means you lose out a lot if you want her to be a pure caster and ignore the alternate forms, plus having a subclass already means you can't get another good subclass like Spirit Healer or Blood Mage until lvl14. It seems Spirit Healer and Blood Mage are the best combo since you can have the healer not only heal with mana, but use up her own life to heal once they run low and drain life to regain it in order to heal further, it would stop the near constant potion chugging you have to do with your healers as they buff, heal, regenerate, etc... I ended up not doing that combination with my healer, Wynne, because I didn't feel it fit with her character, and character is a big thing for me. Morrigan is going to be another story if I get a way to respec her, since I am going to give her Spirit Healer/Blood Mage with points in Death Magic, Blood Magic, etc... talk about a wicked cleric.
I think the game really should have a respec option, something you can use on the companions in order to rebuild them completely from scratch. Make it even require that they have to really like you and are willing to change their life a bit in order to help the greater good/evil or whatever you are doing, and would also require money in fees for retraining.
My character I just finished the game with I played as a warrior-born with the guile of a noble, basically very cunning and persuasive while being great with duel weapons and the ability to rally others with the champion subclass. I don't plan to play again for awhile, but I already got ideas of what I want to do when I replay, all the choices I will do differently. My main ideas are a human arcane warrior with blood magic being my second subclass, Morrigan as my healer, Shale as my brute, and Dog as my damage.
My other idea is to challenge myself with a Dalish or City Elf Duelist/Ranger that would work mostly with Zhevren (Assassin/Duelist), Leiliana (Bard/Assassin), and Morrigan (Because I need a healer with all the squishy). I don't have much if any desire to play a dwarf, though I might make them anyways for the Origin stories.
Yes I know I could always just turn up the difficulty setting, but I am a person that would require a challenge with unorthodox companion builds then min/maxing as much as I can just to survive the horrible onslaught of beefed up monsters.
My biggest issue with Morrigan is that she is already specced into the subclass Shapeshifter, which means you lose out a lot if you want her to be a pure caster and ignore the alternate forms, plus having a subclass already means you can't get another good subclass like Spirit Healer or Blood Mage until lvl14. It seems Spirit Healer and Blood Mage are the best combo since you can have the healer not only heal with mana, but use up her own life to heal once they run low and drain life to regain it in order to heal further, it would stop the near constant potion chugging you have to do with your healers as they buff, heal, regenerate, etc... I ended up not doing that combination with my healer, Wynne, because I didn't feel it fit with her character, and character is a big thing for me. Morrigan is going to be another story if I get a way to respec her, since I am going to give her Spirit Healer/Blood Mage with points in Death Magic, Blood Magic, etc... talk about a wicked cleric.
I think the game really should have a respec option, something you can use on the companions in order to rebuild them completely from scratch. Make it even require that they have to really like you and are willing to change their life a bit in order to help the greater good/evil or whatever you are doing, and would also require money in fees for retraining.
My character I just finished the game with I played as a warrior-born with the guile of a noble, basically very cunning and persuasive while being great with duel weapons and the ability to rally others with the champion subclass. I don't plan to play again for awhile, but I already got ideas of what I want to do when I replay, all the choices I will do differently. My main ideas are a human arcane warrior with blood magic being my second subclass, Morrigan as my healer, Shale as my brute, and Dog as my damage.
My other idea is to challenge myself with a Dalish or City Elf Duelist/Ranger that would work mostly with Zhevren (Assassin/Duelist), Leiliana (Bard/Assassin), and Morrigan (Because I need a healer with all the squishy). I don't have much if any desire to play a dwarf, though I might make them anyways for the Origin stories.
Yes I know I could always just turn up the difficulty setting, but I am a person that would require a challenge with unorthodox companion builds then min/maxing as much as I can just to survive the horrible onslaught of beefed up monsters.
I have a save after the first camp. I'm probably going to wait a few days before I continue playing so that I can get my hands on a character editor. I can't stand their auto-level up system, UGH.
I assume you're talking about Winna as my healer?
And I still wanna know who this FB character is, yo.
I assume you're talking about Winna as my healer?
And I still wanna know who this FB character is, yo.
Ahem... I think you mean "she".
Wynne is the default choice for healer since the game pretty much gives her most of the life spells and buffing spells, plus the Spirit Healer subclass.
FB?
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Chibibar
NPC can only have 1 subsclass (in the manual) PC (your character) can have TWO subsclass.
of course I haven't reach level 14 yet to test with NPC but that is what the manual said.
of course I haven't reach level 14 yet to test with NPC but that is what the manual said.
That is both right and wrong. What the manually is saying is that the companions have only one ASSIGNABLE subclass, because nearly all of them start out with one. Morrigan always starts with Shapeshifter, Allistair with Templar, Leiliana with Bard, etc... Then at 14 you can choose a second one.
Since the player is a complete free-agent, you get to choose both subclasses, you don't start out as a Champion for instance.
Now that I think about it, I don't know what Sten had. I know I gave him berserker when he reached 14 but I don't remember what he had for his main subclass, I know it was not reaver or templar, and I don't remember him with champion either.... hummmm.
Ah, I don't know a lot about that. I do know that Allistair, Morrigan, Zhevren, and Leiliana are the relationship characters. Each one has different requirements to sleep with them, with Morrigan and Zhevren being the players of the four. Morrigan actually has sex with you more before she falls in love with you I hear, at which point it's actually harder.
You can also pay for some action at the Brothel of Denerim, I thought it was just a flavor joke at first but then they actually let me do it. I ended up reloading because they actually took my silver for it, doh.
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Mr. Lawface
I just beat the game. The ingame progress tracker thing said I was only 39% through the game, but I guess it means % of everything you can possibly do in the game and not % of the main storyline.
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Chibibar
Yea. cause each starting race has different story to tell from their perspective. I started with human (did with elf first but change my mind) fighter (typical easy class) I will try a rogue or mage next.
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Singularity.EXE
Yea. cause each starting race has different story to tell from their perspective. I started with human (did with elf first but change my mind) fighter (typical easy class) I will try a rogue or mage next.[/QUOTE]
I actually find the fighter to be the more tactical of all the classes, as there is less dependence on the main character to save the day, but rather good position of everyone else. My dwarf warrior did pretty damn good damage but ultimately its the way I position everyone and spring my traps that got me through my battles.
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RealBigNuke
I found rogue to be the most tactical. More skill slots for brewing bombs and traps, and less survivability. Warriors are very enjoyable though - sword and board is much better in this game than in most others.
Mages are so imba. When I do a nightmare run I think it's just going to be three mages and a tank. They don't do as much damage as a bowrogue or dual wielder, but they just dominate the hell out of the battlefield so easily, spamming crushing prisons and otiluke's resilient s... I mean force field.
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SeraRelm
This is my favorite RPG ever.
(PS: Arcane Warrior + Spirit Healer = Never Die)
(PS: Arcane Warrior + Spirit Healer = Never Die)
Yes, you are getting very close. Once it's over the game is going to ask you to return to Redcliffe, make sure you do any side quests before you do, because once you enter Redcliffe the story will push forward and you have no more travel options for the rest of the game. Good luck, a few of the final sections can be pretty brutal if you ask me.
I had the same grouping, only my character was a warrior. It was mostly the sections after the gate breach, and before the final boss that I found a bit difficult, even with the army following me. I was only lvl19 by that time though, maybe I should have tried leveling a bit closer to the cap before starting it up.
I found the last boss very easy in comparison to the areas leading up to him though, but I think that was because of my literal army I brought with me, including the dwarf leader of the Legion of the Dead. That guy knows how to fight Darkspawn I tell you.
I found the last boss very easy in comparison to the areas leading up to him though, but I think that was because of my literal army I brought with me, including the dwarf leader of the Legion of the Dead. That guy knows how to fight Darkspawn I tell you.
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Chibibar
that is a good tip. I would hate not to be able to finish my sidequest after X point in the game
Got the game about 2 days ago. I don't see myself having much free-time for a while. Damn alt addictions gonna kill me.
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Singularity.EXE
Usually, I'm pretty spot on about story curves but I totally failed when my "nicer" brother fucked me over. I promptly took it in the ass and didn't say a word, I deserved my fate.
Oh god, I didn't see it either, the little bastard. And I reacted quite like you. He got the better of me, and I just rolled with it. That dwarf was a fucking genius manipulator. Hell, I thought I was doing pretty good with all of the plotting, but he one-upped me damn well.
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