HoonDing

I think I haven't killed a Darkspawn for over 10 hours. I'm doing the Urn quest, I also did Leliana's quest, but I think I made the wrong choice at the end and I might regret it later. EDIT:

I wanted to see if I could take her. With more health poultices, and Wynne having some decent offensive spells aside from Stonefist, the battle would've been more comfortable.

Holy **** killing that hag Flemeth at level 12 is no walk in the park. Amusingly, Imoen-chick saved my bacon in the end and delivered the killing blow/shot. In hindsight, that Bastila-reincarnation that is Morrigan isn't even worth all that trouble.

Leliana's Pinning Shot temporarily stops a mage, and then it's possible to run up there and kick ass. Scattering Shot is even better.

Sending her into the pack, casting Blizzard and Force Field on herself works. Somehow enemies don't mind bashing into an impregnable shield while they're getting their asses frozen off.

Isn't it a trope that the Hordes of Evil march in a tempo slow enough so that the good guys can amass an army just in time for an epic last stand? Even Lord of the Rings takes two years.

Only when there was a powerful evil entity behind them that controlled & inspired them (Morgoth, Sauron, Saruman)... without those around they were mindless & animalistic and hardly a threat, similar to Darkspawn without an Archdemon. That said, though, can Darkspawn speak? Since there are some that can do magic & some that wear fancy armour (Alpha Hurlock/Genlock) there should at least be some intelligence involved..

They're exactly like the classical Tolkien Orcs, then.

I like Normal just fine. Miss Morrigan picked up the Blizzard spell yesterday and now my party mostly just stands back and watches how she destroys entire groups of enemies. Very useful during those never-ending random encounters in Denerim.

I'm surprised Purkake hasn't replied to this with a gif yet.

Blood and saliva:

When I'm replaying the game as a mage, she can stay at camp forever. I bet she doesn't even leave when you get her approval to 0, considering her being the face of the game and all... I've been wasting a lot of gifts to keep her approval around 0 and all for nothing. Leliana is the companion with the most interesting backstory for me. I triggered her quest yesterday and it's pretty interesting.

Which item would that be? I pickpocketed a few people but didn't notice any strange items in my inventory..

Well, he does become a lot less awesome once he 'opens up' to the PC.

There's more to it than that, actually:

I find Zevran severely underwhelming. At least Alistair has some entertaining trash talk with the PC. Random encounters everytime you travel across the map are really nerve-grating. Especially Denerim... each time I travel across the map there's 20 guys waiting for me. I feel as if I've depopulated the city already.

It's some Tier 3 Dwarven medium armor I acquired in Redcliffe. I never raised Leliana's strength, so 18 is enough.

Never heard of this FiringSquad before. It's funny how he complains how the system needs to be explained. Games like Morrowind & fallout 3 don't explain how armor works or how damage/accuracy is calculated... and nobody gives a hoot about that.

I rather dislike Morrigan, but unless the PC is a mage she's quite indispensible for her Force Field, Sleep & Cone of Cold spells.

First half of the game is brilliant, lots of quests with multiple ways to solve, C&C, quite challenging combat (unless you're a mage). But the second half of the game is all grinding & combat, similar to Risen. I noticed that are still some bugs in the English version, even a couple of gamestopping ones. So an English patch is probably underway.

Put Shale on the bridge, lure undead towards him and watch him wreck some havoc.

The only time Leliana died in my game, is when she got stuck in a fence and it was impossible for her to move away from some Genlocks. Since I'm tired of returning to camp and swapping a character for her because I left behind some locked chests, I just take her with me all the time now.

Cute..

I have AMD Phenom 9500 (quad-core) on Vista 32-bit. But I notice when I restart the game, the loading times are normal (< 10s). Maybe it's because I use quicksave a lot?

Maybe to get a ridiculously high defense. Since rogue isn't going to wear Dragonbone armor...