Fimbulvetr
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Kurtofan said:
Flemeth(Morrigan's "mother")
The latter being the most difficult.
Also one of the DLCs, but I never fought that one.
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The latter being the most difficult.
Also one of the DLCs, but I never fought that one.
TemplaerDude
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Damn, this thread is reminding me of all the awesome shit in this game that I loved to death. The dungeon with the ashes was so fucking bad ass.
Okay this Revenant dude at the castle gate is pretty bullshit as well. Even when we totally isolate him it's not like my party can do any damage.
He seems to be immune to all tipes of stun or freeze magic (Vulnerability Hex works for like two seconds). He wipes out my party members faster than they can heal. All of our attacks either miss or do 1 damage.
To reiterate I have two rogues, a mage, and a warrior.
He seems to be immune to all tipes of stun or freeze magic (Vulnerability Hex works for like two seconds). He wipes out my party members faster than they can heal. All of our attacks either miss or do 1 damage.
To reiterate I have two rogues, a mage, and a warrior.
Hasphat'sAnts
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RedSwirl said:
kite the skeletons before you fight the Revenant.
It's fairly simple if you follow the typical tank, damage dealer, healer strategy.
Relaxed Muscle
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RedSwirl said:
Basically the tank is the one that holds the enemy and receives all/most of the damage, the warrior with the right abilities can do it (and a shield)
The damage dealers as suggest means the ones that does the damage and are focused on the offense, basically the two rogue
And the healer should be in this case the mage.which should use curative spells.
Of course depending on how you evolved your characters you may have some problems asigning those roles.
Hasphat'sAnts
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RedSwirl said:
I should be explained this better. The Revenant shows up with a bunch of skeletons when you take the exit to get into the court yard, right? Now,what you'd need to do is to get the skeletons to see you and engage you, but not the Revenant, so that ideally, when you finally take on the Revenant, you're fighting only him.
I'm guessing you're playing Rogue, so hopefully you've leveled up Alistair with some tanking abilities. That means he should have relatively high HP, heavier armor for damage reduction, aggro skills like taunt or threaten, and disables like shield bash. You use an aggro skill like taunt so the Revenant comes after only Alistair. In the meantime you can position your rogues and mage to do back stabs or ranged attacks for damage. Keep Alistair alive to soak up damage is important, and if he dies faster than you do, well, you need to take extra precautions and buff him up before/during the fight so he can last longer. Remember you've got 4 guys in your party. Make smart use of all their abilities and you shouldn't have too much trouble with the fight.
Seriously I'm on easy and I can't beat the fucking Archdemon, even with the full human army and the balistasFimbulvetr said:
I believe I will never finish this game.
I know that's because I badly constructed my characters but then don't make the game ball crushingly hard right at the end to punish the player.
That's the definition of a bad design.
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I don't understand how this made it out in the state it did. The difficulty spikes are fucking ridiculous, I had to bring the combat down to casual just to continue making progress which now makes it completely unfulfilling of fun. The map is stupid. The quest shit is flat out fucking broken the way you'll take a quest, get a random encounter pertinent to it hours fucking later, forget that it was even a quest, make a choice, likely the wrong one and keep on trucking without even realising it.
Yet... I still fucking love it :lol
Fuck you, Bioware!
Yet... I still fucking love it :lol
Fuck you, Bioware!
tokkun said:
Didn't know you could do that. I opened the gate in order to funnel enemies and then take out the archers at long rang which let me deal with the Revenant by himself, but when none of my party member scan do any damage to him... well...
careful said:
Wait what?!
Sir Garbageman
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vareon said:
It's solid, if you enjoyed DA:O you'll like Awakenings. The NPCs aren't as good as the original but has some solid dungeons. It's really easy though, I ripped through it on nightmare without breaking a sweat.
Dark Stalkers
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You need to get some crowd control spells on your mages like Paralyze/Mass Paralysis, Blood Wound, Cone of Cold, etc.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Got this in the Steam sale too, and I can't believe I seem to have randomly made the right character decisions, for once. Picked a mage even though I usually play fighter types, and have been going with cold spells/debuffs just because I felt like pretending I was a Winter Warlock or something. My dude is clearly the battle MVP with Winter's Grasp and Cone Of Cold. Unfortunately Morrigan seems completely redundant at this point, though.
One thing I couldn't figure out--I had Alistair set to use a health poultice every time is health dropped below 50% in a particularly annoying battle, and he just... didn't. The poultices were in his quick bar, and the tactic was set to first priority, and I still had to micromanage him. Not sure what I was doing wrong.
One thing I couldn't figure out--I had Alistair set to use a health poultice every time is health dropped below 50% in a particularly annoying battle, and he just... didn't. The poultices were in his quick bar, and the tactic was set to first priority, and I still had to micromanage him. Not sure what I was doing wrong.
Fimbulvetr
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Kurtofan said:Seriously I'm on easy and I can't beat the fucking Archdemon, even with the full human army and the balistas
I believe I will never finish this game.
I know that's because I badly constructed my characters but then don't make the game ball crushingly hard right at the end to punish the player.
That's the definition of a bad design.
I'm not even sure my party was built properly.
All I had for my mage at that point was the first spell for each of the four elemental abilities(as well as the second earth and fire spells), a paralysis glyph that I kept forgetting to use, and some mass healing.
Also I used the item that increases your resistance to fire, for obvious reasons.
Rollo Lawson
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tokkun said:
i tried that and they all followed me at once and killed all the knights. how i finally got through it is i positioned my squad at the top of the hill and used a rogue to shoot arrows and draw them up the hill one by one.
Fimbulvetr
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careful said:
You fought a giant dragon at Redcliffe? How is this even possible?
Relaxed Muscle
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Kurtofan said:
You have Shale (The stone thing)? She is an awesome tank as I described, Morrigan barely had any heal spells and was having some problems with harder enemies, then I began to use Shale as tank and tough fights were way easier.
Though only four potions definetly can be a problem.
Fimbulvetr
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Kurtofan said:
Then bring Wynne instead.
I found playing a Mage character first on the console version was a big mistake. Maybe I was doing something wrong (don't think so) but the point of view you have makes playing that class much harder then it should be. If one had the point of view that the PC version has things would flow a lot better. Picking commands and controlling the part would certainly be. I still kick myself for not going with the PC version instead but don't want to rebuy the game now. So I just push myself past certain parts. Kept pausing (well bringing up the menu) in order to properly fight. I never played a melee to any length but I assume the point of view and camera work a LOT better with those classes.
The Fade part was far to long though. I lost interest in the middle of that and have only recently come back to it. The pacing in the game overall was bad I felt. I might restart and try to pay more attention to the party AI then I originally did though.
The Fade part was far to long though. I lost interest in the middle of that and have only recently come back to it. The pacing in the game overall was bad I felt. I might restart and try to pay more attention to the party AI then I originally did though.
I'm play Dragon Age after buying it during the steam sale. I'm loving it so far, but enemy mages can seriously kick my ass if I dont gang up on them early. Is there a better strategy for dealing with them?
My party is Allister, Morrigan (With Spirt Healer) and the rogue girl as an archer.
My party is Allister, Morrigan (With Spirt Healer) and the rogue girl as an archer.
Sir Garbageman
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tjohn86 said:
You just have to take them out of the fight as soon as possible. Try to paralyze them, knock them down, cone of cold to freeze them, etc.
Effect said:
I loved playing as a mage my first time through. I think Arcane Warrior and blood mage were my two specializations and it was awesome. It's also rad to put AW on Wynne and let her go to town with heavy armor and a big assed sword. Then when you get Awakening the battlemage spec can replace blood mage and you're almost way too OP. I hate the Fade as well so I was happy to see the Skip the fade mod for PC. Almost makes it worth buying it again!
Fimbulvetr
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seady said:
Nope.
RedSwirl said:
Fimbulvetr said:
Fail #1) The enemy name was Revenant in the courtyard.. :lol Haven't touched this since the beginning of the year and got my enemies confused. Archdemon... SMH. lol
Fail #2) I didn't realize my first time through that you could open the gates to let the other soldiers in the courtyard and help you out.
lastplayed
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How many people customise all their party AI scripts? It's always the first thing I do, and I never found the game that difficult on the normal setting.
lastplayed said:
I customized my scripts to ensure that my mages would use lyrium potions when their mana ran low, but I set it to the cheapest potion. Set that to Tactic 1.
Then I used alchemy until I had like 200 of the suckers (Infinite lyrium dust at the Tower, yay!). Then I could just spam magic all day long.
Seriously, alchemy or whatever is the greatest skill ever. Let me finish the game with like 300 health potions and 200+ lyrium potions.
Dark Stalkers
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lastplayed said:
I use the preset scripts, it seems to be working pretty well on the hard difficulty so far.
Krauser Kat
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if you have the pc version, do yourself a favor and get the respec mod. respecing the others makes the game infinitely more enjoyable.
tokkun said:
Ser Perth died during the last battle, so that option's out.
I also don't think using any kind of tank strategy will work. My main problem with the Revenant is that no one in my party can do ANY damage to him. All attacks do either 1 damage or miss, usually miss.
lastplayed
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Patryn said:
Yeah that's pretty much what I do.