HoonDing

The Mage Tower is a really cool level and all, but I've been stuck there for two hours, running around in circles. The spirit of Hordes of the Underdark is strong in this level.

I hear the +9 Sword of Dragon Slaying helps.

When I toggle Shield Wall or Indomitable, shouldn't I be completely immune to knockdown effects? According to the descriptions of the talents I should be, but I find that wolves (lulz) still manage their knockdown with the Overwhelm ability and when that happens, the knocked down character is usually toast.

I wasn't sure where to go first after Lothering, so I went to fetch Shale instead. Pretty cool quest.

If the Blight consisted of a horde of wolves instead of Darkspawn, Ferelden would be doomed for sure.

I thought the rogue dude in the Korcari Wilds was pretty useful, actually. Stun enemy with Dirty Fighting, run behind enemy and kick their ass. Very low cooldown for the talent too. Anyway, meeting Leliana wasn't as ridiculous as I thought it would be. Save for the blood. I also happen to like Morrigan, despite her snide wisecracking. And the Dog is just cute:

That Ogre was not overly difficult. I lost Alistair when he got picked up and bashed to death after a stun failed, but that was just a golden moment.

Best dialogue so far: -"Come, join the Grey Wardens. Fight the Darkspawn!!" -[intelligence] "So these Darkspawn are really bad?"

That social site thingie is nice and all, but being constantly connected tends to kill my framerate unless I disable my antivirus/firewall and I don't really want to do that. Anyway, I'm slowly making my way to the top of the Tower but I'm not exactly swimming in health poultices. Luckily the mage dude I have with me kicks butt, and Doggie has a very convenient Stun power. Hopefully those lumbering monstrosities I'm wading through will drop enough useful things. Still not sure how the magic works, though. One time Darkspawn aren't damaged by the fire spell at all, then at other times it almost burns away half their health.

The finale of the Human Noble origin reeked a lot of A song of Ice & Fire and Dune. I loved it. In fact, I'm expecting/hoping to see Mother Cousland again in undead form. God, that lady kicked some serious butt.

How do you get that Lucky stone thingie?

Things look quite normal compared to Divinity 2

Urgh. That came a day too late.

You need to be minimum level 15 and strongly to the light/dark side.

So that's why Shepard gets a rocket launcher in ME 2. Because there are volcanic enemies that shoot rockets from their hands themselves. It's all a question of equilibrium.

Just noticed the game is actually tracking everything... now everyone can see how much I suck.

I've had a 5 minute loading time after the origin story ended. Then two minutes just to leave Ostragar. I think it's a memory leak problem. When I restarted the game from scratch, loading time was around 10 seconds. The game also uses an annoying depth of field which I can't seem to get rid of beyond toning down settings to medium. It causes juddering during conversations with my graphics card.

Is there a recommended level for doing the Stone Prisoner quest? I finally got the DLC to download by manually starting an updater service using the command prompt...

Speaking of character creation, I had created two female characters in that separate DA character creator thingie that were actually good-looking for once, but when I tried importing them in the actual game *of course* some weird glitch happened that destroyed their faces and I had to start anew. Anyway, I've been exploring the Ostragar camp and getting lectures from soldiers about Ferelden lore. Pretty good stuff. This sure beats Morrowind where one had through plough to 100+ books in Jobasha's bookstore.

Cartoony graphics style is the only thing there's in common. Ultimately the game's story & protagonists didn't really drag me in like BG&E did.

Mother Cousland would've made an excellent Grey Warden herself. She kicked butt until a knight with a huge hammer knocked her out. I don't really care about damage, bashing people in the face with a shield is fun. My dog Laika can chew 'em all up. EDIT: oh, and the camera is driving me nuts during combat.

Venetica wasn't as long as I thought it would be. Basically one visits four fairly large hub areas in Venice, then there's a small d

I was just following my *Dutch* manual which doesn't even mention camera control with the mouse. So I assumed right-mouse button was only for attacking. Anyway, let's draw a line under this. Nothing to see here.

I followed the basic 4 instructions for Shale but it doesn't seem to want to download. Is this stuff really for free? Or did I mess up again?