HoonDing

"Enchantment? Enchantment!" Never gets old for me. But talking to any Tranquil makes me want to pull my hair out.

Bye, bye, Ser Cauthrein: Most. Satisfying. Kill. Ever. She two-shotted poor Oghren, lulz.

Okay, that was the last whine about the amount of combat in DA from me. I promise. I take it you're going for the inevitable Romance Mods?

I'll try to finish it this night... I've just gathered all allies. No idea how much game there is still left. I'm getting a bit burnt out, bashing shields into monstrous faces & shattering mooks to smithereens for nearly 60 hours... I already have a Dalish Elf & Elven mage ready for future replays.

^Now that I think of it, a warrior with Holy Strike (Templar) can own non-boss mages like there's no tomorrow. Apparently I unlocked a 'Tactician' achievement for having my PC kill 250 enemies without taking any damage. ... That's a whole load of shattered remains, indeed.

Leliana owns once she has Tier 4 archery talents. Scattershot, Arrow of Slaying = bye bye, Orcs. I don't think warriors can easily solo dungeons. Emissaries can easily own warriors... or get picked up by an Ogre Alpha and it's reloading time. Arcane Warriors, though, can solo the entire game.

The person that pointed out the balance issue powered his mage up to 150 spellpower. ... Kinda logical, with such extreme Elminster builds, to be able to one shot even Gaxkang.

Meh. I thought it was made by Enya.

Dog Armour DLC is coming closer & closer...

Kirill Pokrovsky >> Inon Zur DA's soundtrack is completely unremarkable.

Bad news for Belgium. Now that **** Leterme will be back as prime minister.

Letting Wynne cast Heroic Aura renders archers completely harmless. Then an Inferno and it's bye bye, archers. Why bother being subtle when the game tries to majorly screw you over in practically every random encounter, anyway. Since archers stay put, the Force Explosion combo works well too.

Regarding C:

They should've called it Operation: Ostagar.

Well, surely Mana Clash is a great spell against mages... problem is the three spells before that suck.

I'm still trying to get over the idea of being Overwhelmed by a frigging spider. What are they trying to do, weave a cocoon? This game surely isn't for people with arachnophobia.

If a [Persuade] check on a party member fails during pivotal story choices, do they attack or leave? Or does their approval simply drop? It's happened a few times with Miss High & Mighty but I managed to pass it apparently... it would be inconvenient if she would leave, to say the least.

I finished Orzammar yesterday... hardest part about the whole venture was resisting the urge to vomit during a certain boss fight... on a next playthrough I'll probably go to Orzammar much earlier. I hate Dwarves, but Oghren is a pretty awesome character after all (and a way better fighter than Sten). He mouthed off Miss High & Mighty on a couple of occasions too, which was great.

There should've been a Giant Nug easter egg in the game.

She actually named this thing

Actually, a mage can easily own any group of enemies that attacks. An Arcane Warrior can probably solo the game.

Stun the bastard or healspam. You messed up there bud. I'd prefer to prevent that crap completely. I can understand Morrigan getting pwned by a spider (lulz), but not my sword&board in dragonbone armour. It hurts my feelings.

Two questions: 1) How is Overwhelm resisted? Do I need 100% physical resistance or something? 2) How is Web resisted? Do I again need 100% physical resistance? It's getting ridiculous, really. If only that information was put in the manual... it suddenly turns out Lightning spells... SUCK.

I guess the Human Noble origin will lead to some "revenge" shtick near the end of the game with that Arl Howe dude? That could be interesting. Other than Bann Teagan hitting on my female Human Noble, I haven't really noticed anything unique.

And that is why there are Templars. Blood Mages, though, are something else.