2009-12-06, 14:19 | Link #421 |
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I'm replaying as a mage now; which specialization would you recommend? (i plan to have wynne as a party healer) The mage class is pretty fun - you can really take full control of the battle instead of just standing in front of the mob hacking away, you have more important responsibilities ( or you can blitz on one target if you want) like crowd control, spot healing, and having a mob chase you (since you're usually far away) can earn you some time to heal someone if its on cooldown. The mage class is definitely baddass. I love the combos you can use like using freeze or petrify from one mage and then shattering the mob with the spirit cage or letting the melee dps shatter them.
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2009-12-06, 16:28 | Link #423 | |
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2009-12-06, 16:48 | Link #424 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
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Mage PC build?
Origin: Arcane Bolt 1) Winter's Grasp + Frost Weapons 2) Cone of Cold 3) Blizzard 4) Mind Blast 5) Force Field 6) Telekinteic Weapons Ostagar Talent) Crushing Prison 7) Life Drain 8) Death Magic 9) Curse of Mortality 10) Death Cloud 11) Mana Drain 12) Mana Cleanse 13) Spell Might 14) Spell Clash (By this time, you should've unlocked bloodmage if you went Circle Tower-->Redcliffe, reloaded before you unlock bloodmage and then pick talent tome instead, and you should have enough gold to buy all three arcane books) Redcliffe bonus talent) Blood Magic Desire tome) Blood Sacrifice Arcane tome 1) Blood Wound Arcane tome 2) Vulnerability Hex Arcane tome 3) Affliction Hex 15) Misdirection Hex 16) Death Hex 17) Blood Control 18) Spell Wisp 19) Arcane Shield 20) Staff Mastery 21) Arcane Mastery 22) Walking Bomb Landsmeet) Death Syphon 23) Virulent Walking Bomb 24 if you get it) Animate Dead Cold line because Cone of Cold is too powerful, while Blizzard helps by being your first AoE. Crushing Prison line for Force Field and Prison. Death Cloud line next because you need a spell line that affects undead. Spell Clash line next to get rid of public enemy #1 easily. Blood Control gives you much needed non-friendly fire CC. Death Hex line next to complete the powerful Entropic Death nuke. Spell wisp is the best one point wonder in the game. Arcane mastery for the additional spellpower since you filled out the necessary spell lines. Virulent Walking Bomb for killing the last boss faster. Specs should be Blood Mage for CC, and Spirit Healer just for the bonuses. Attributes should be max magic. Really easy to equip as well, since you just need to worry about +cold and +elec gear on top of +spellpower gear. As for Wynne. Starts with... Arcane Bolt, Rock Armor, Stone Fist, Heal, Rejuv, Regen, Heroic Offense, Heroic Aura, Group Heal 8) Revival 9) Mass Rejuv 10) Earthquake 11) Heroic Defense 12) Life Ward 13) Spell Wisp 14) Grease 15) Spellbloom 16) Vulnerability Hex 17) Affliction Hex 18) Misdirection Hex 19) Death Hex 20) Stinging Swarm 21) Arcane Shield 22) Staff Mastery 23) Arcane Mastery Earthquake for helping people stay inside blizz AOE so that they freeze. Lifeward only because cleansing aura sucks Heroic Defense for your dodge tank. Spellbloom spam for so that your PC mage gets consistent +mana regen. Stinging swarm is a mana effecient nuke that you don't have to worry firendly fire about. Death Hex to piggy back on death cloud so you do 2x entropic death, while staff mastery because Wynne won't be nuking.
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2009-12-07, 00:10 | Link #426 | |
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Anyways, you don't even have to beat the game to know that it's almost 100% guaranteed that there will be a sequel; the title alone already gives good indication, and there's just so much lore implemented if you browsed through the codex as you find them all. The Orlesian Empire, the qunari, mention of 7 Old Gods (with 4 already defeated; not sure if this should be spoiler tagged), Weisshaupt Fortress... and the list goes on. It's enough for more than one sequel/several expansions in my opinion. Last edited by Who; 2009-12-07 at 00:34. |
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2009-12-07, 04:53 | Link #427 |
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Dragon Age: Origins takes place during the fifth Blight. So only two Archdemons remain. And yeah, there will be, without a doubt, a sequel. Probably even two.
That DLC thing irks me. I'd rather have them release an expansion for 25$ with like 10 hours of gameplay instead of one hour DLCs for 5$ each. It feels like I'm subscribed for a singleplayer MMO. |
2009-12-07, 09:00 | Link #428 | |
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2009-12-08, 00:17 | Link #429 | |
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Anyhoooooo. Anyone an artist and mind filling this little template in so I can giggle? http://vampirisa.deviantart.com/art/...MeMe-143952622 I'd do the template myself but alas, no art skills. |
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2009-12-08, 01:01 | Link #431 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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New patch is out guys. For those using PC version, its under social network ---> my games (up top bar) --> dragon age origins --> patches.
Now gonna test out whether Cone of Cold/Blizz/Force Field/Prison are still a must to get first...
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2009-12-11, 03:22 | Link #433 |
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what's the difference between playing online and offline then? 'cept the whole profile kind of thing
now playing with expansions, that golem Shale is making me raise my eyebrows, he is interesting.. but as long as he doesn't stomp on each bird he sees o.o; It was fun to be attacked in camp, hope that happens more often but the extra's were so little.. gave 4 hours extra playtime for me and that was it, and that is the northern castle of grey wardens and Shale. I wish there was more |
2009-12-11, 04:01 | Link #434 |
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DLC's. DLC's are registered to the account that bought them, so you at least need to start up the game while logged in. Beyond that though, online is only for data feeback (allowing Bioware to pick out bugs) and profile uploading.
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2009-12-11, 06:48 | Link #435 | |
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Return to Ostagar isn't out yet, right? I'll be looking forward to that but will probably be playing a city Elf by then |
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2009-12-11, 07:06 | Link #436 |
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Playing online with the developer console (the entire ~ thing, such as `~runscript addxp X) also gets your character 'banned', or rather, it won't be updated anymore. And yes, DLC means the extra items/places/character. And RtO is not out yet. Probably next week or Christmas time, I presume.
And city elf is the only one who I played evil. I just get the vibe that he's not your cute and friendly Keebler Elf. Man, it felt so good shutting Wynne up permanently. |
2009-12-11, 08:09 | Link #437 | |
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I had great fun testing out all responses to break Alistair's heart ha ha saved the game, slept with him then Zevran and was quite surprised of his response I liked the whole "you're a funny man ha ha ha!" and him going "yesss.. funny man. Now excuse me while I go put my foot in my mouth" ha ha ha |
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2009-12-11, 13:57 | Link #438 |
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opinions?
great game, but there are a few things missing. 1.) second half of the game is a little bit too short! though its asking for too much, there should have been another 7-10 hour main quest slipped in after or before the landsmeet. 2.) There are plenty of side quests, but thats not really the issue - its more like the lack of side-quest dungeons. Hopefully DLC's will fix this ( I want to get to dragons peak!) 3.) People complain about the difficulty, but I thought it was just right 4.) Another race or two would be great 5.) Slight lack of depth.. well relatively speaking, if you compare it to say NWN in terms of abilities and spells. I know its a different gameplay engine, but im sure more could have been transferred. 6.) I wish there was more interaction with the archdemon and the darkspawn .. they kind of just seem like mindless savages, not really unsettling. compare that to some of the epic enemies you fight during the rest of the game ( not to mention them being 'darker') the darkspawn kinda fall short. it would be awesome if they had a more 'burning legion' structure All in all great game, better than nwn2 or mass effect in my opinion, but i still dont know if its better than nwn1. cant say i havent wasted a lot of time playing it though, 1st run through city elf/berskerker/champion 45 hours in and just started the landsmeet - as you can see most of my complaints are pretty damn trivial |
2009-12-11, 14:13 | Link #439 |
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I found a flash game about this game
If you play it , get achievements and if you have a PS3 or Xbox360 you can get news item . http://www.kongregate.com/games/EA2D...n-age-journeys Have fun . |
2009-12-11, 14:44 | Link #440 | |
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