HoonDing

I don't see anything wrong with my henchmen's specs. Imoen chick is built more as an archer to give players a reason to use Zorro dude. I stopped using stealth when encounters would trigger anyway after the stealthed henchman passed a certain point in a room with enemies. Hilarious seeing enemies rushing past the rogue when he's trying to be smart and lay some traps.

The most trouble I've had in the game was during some random encounters where you are suddenly thrown in the Battle of Agincourt. On the French side. Or encounters where suddenly mooks rise up from the floor or out of thin air and one finds oneself surrounded. But luckily I haven't come across the old "Boss cutscene" trick yet.

Same here.

Are you playing on console?

They have less endurance/hp and dex, so they can't be that powerful. With all the buffs from Arcane Shield, Rock armour, Shimmering Shield they should be able to get an armour rating double of that of normal warriors, defense over 100, 100% mental/physical resistance & 75% to elemental resistances. With Combat Casting, they should get a decent attack percentage. To me, it sounds they'd be able to solo bosses. And with Wade's dragonbone armour, fatigue should not be that astronomically high... throw a few bad AoE spells in the beginning of a fight, then toggle all Terminator buffs and go whopping. Combined with Blood Mage spells like Blood Wound, it should even be more ub3r.

Is an Arcane Warrior DA's version of a cleric? A mage running around in dragonbone plate or blood dragon armour (with magic replacing strength) sounds ridiculously overpowered. Definitely going to try this on a next playthrough.

Only a PC mage with meta-gaming knowledge that picks up Cone of Cold & Sleep early would have no problems with that fight. I had that fight right after freeing Sten and the poor dude immediately got ripped apart.

I was wondering, is it possible to have all Codex entries unlocked on a first playthrough?

Were you romancing her? I had her pretty high at that point but no singing. I never romanced her, but apparently did dump her according to the game.

Leliana is awesome if you focus her completely on archery. Scattershot & arrow of slaying are very useful in the Deep Roads. And if mooks manage to get close, use her level 4 bard ability to perma-stun them. That Zevran dweep never even left camp in my game. P.S.: is there any way to resist Overwhelm ability? I found that near the end of Brecilian forest even my sword&board with shield wall & high physical resistance got regularly overwhelmed by werewolves.

A Templar's Holy Smite power is pretty useful in the Deep Roads. Ranged stun attack that can rip mages off their mana. Champion/Templar is the best combo for a warrior, imo.

Morrigan does 33% damage in my party. Once she picked up Blizzard & Tempest, she started clearing out entire rooms on herself.

Any tactics for random encounters involving 500 archers? Sometimes I feel like the Spartans at the end of 300.

Anyone find this 'nug' thing in Orzammar funny?

Blizzard + Tempest is enough to destroy everything on normal, it seems.

^Some game areas really made me wish there was a Turn Undead spell.

^Here's waiting for a Better Haircuts mod.

... Until the next time you meet a Revenant or some idiot casts Curse of Mortality.

I imagine there are enough free stat buffs in the Mage Tower. Somehow my sword&board got 20 Cunning this way. Another question about rogues: is putting points in Lockpick necessary or is a high cunning enough?

Morrigan gets more annoying as the game progresses. Anything even remotely benevolent gets her approval down. That's why I like my PC making out with Alistair in front of the party because of her "It makes me vomit" reaction. That said, Wynne is delicate too. If I hadn't invested in Coercion, I bet I would've certainly lost her on a few occasions... which would've been terrible since she's my favourite party member.

Is a strength of 22 enough for a rogue? Not sure about weapons, but some pretty nifty armours require 22.

I went through the Dalish Elf origin yesterday (for future use) and although the origin doesn't make much sense near the end, I was happy to discover an act of ruthless, wanton violence in Ostagar I had missed before.

I found High Dragon to be very stupid in the game... but then in DA they're just animals so it's okay I guess. Flemeth seemed to be smarter and switching targets a lot, but I was forced to kill her with two tanks, Wynne (who didn't have Force Field or ice-related spell) & Leliana. With PC mage I reckon it would be easier... I'll have to test on replay with PC mage. Revenants... are just one-man armies. I don't think she's bad, really. She can pretty quickly pick up Cone of Cold, Force Field & Sleep which are the win spells of the game.

I just entered Orzammar (went there last, since I hate dwarves) and had some really weird conversations with Leliana right off the bat. I knew it...

I haven't had the pleasure of a full-party-wipe yet, only time I came close was .