HoonDing

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.

I just let Morrigan toggle Telekinetic Weapons when fighting power-armoured boyscouts. That's about it. I've been fighting with the same axe for 7 levels or so, only yesterday I got a great sword from Gangkax's corpse.

I guess the selling price of an item is the same for all merchants? No way to make any profit at all?

Has anyone trouble making gold in this game? I'd like to amass enough to buy some nifty equipment, but it'll take over 200 gold. I never bought any weapons or armour, just potion/poison ingredients... but I don't think I ever had over 100 gold.

It seems it's possible to 'overload' the teleporters by sending a party member to each. Then simply swarm and kick his undead behind. The arcane horror in the Elven ruins isn't Gaxkang, though.

The Deep Roads is really, really tedious... never-ending corridors with the occasional pack of mooks that pop up out of nowhere. Am I glad I picked this area last. The Grey Wardens who retire there probably die of boredom rather than at the hands of Darkspawn.

I takes a while for Wynne to get Cone of Cold. Since she starts with Tier 2 Earth spells, might as well give her Petrify (same effect with Stonefist as Cone of Cold) & continue developing her healing spells. In the long run, it might even be useful to give her some Spirit spells like Mana Clash & Spell Shield... to deal with annoying Darkspawn Emissaries.

^I chose to kill the Lady of the Forest and her wolfies, but I guess the battle would've been the same... surrounded by a lot of mooks. I had a pretty easy time, really... Morrigan cast Sleep & a couple of Cone of Colds (with my tanks shattering), while Wynne tossed a Petrify+Stonefist... then a combined lightning arc and things were pretty much over. But if I had chosen this area as my first after Lothering... I guess it would've been quite challenging.

Anyone fought

Don't know about Crushing Prison, but templar talent Cleanse Area does dispel Curse of Mortality from everybody else than the caster himself. Serves me right for not bringing along Alistair then, instead of that stupid Dwarf. God, I hate Dwarves.