Two handers are sloooow. And i'm dying alot. I prefer to whack someone a bunch and live. I figured I'd parry alot more, and I don't. I need a character editor. Sigh.
How do I make my guys automatically attack? Everytime something dies they sit there and wait until assigned a target. Earlier in the game they would run off to kill everything in the immediate vicinity and now they sit there when there is a perfectly good enemy two steps away.
I only have that problem with the person I'm currently controling. I just pause the game and select a new target manually.
I believe there is a "Party Hold Button" or something like that under all the portraits. If it is set to "Hold" instead of "Free Move", they will stand around like a bag of dicks. I ran into that problem last night.
How do I make my guys automatically attack? Everytime something dies they sit there and wait until assigned a target. Earlier in the game they would run off to kill everything in the immediate vicinity and now they sit there when there is a perfectly good enemy two steps away.
I only have that problem with the person I'm currently controling. I just pause the game and select a new target manually.
I believe there is a "Party Hold Button" or something like that under all the portraits. If it is set to "Hold" instead of "Free Move", they will stand around like a bag of dicks. I ran into that problem last night.
How do I make my guys automatically attack? Everytime something dies they sit there and wait until assigned a target. Earlier in the game they would run off to kill everything in the immediate vicinity and now they sit there when there is a perfectly good enemy two steps away.
I only have that problem with the person I'm currently controling. I just pause the game and select a new target manually.
I believe there is a "Party Hold Button" or something like that under all the portraits. If it is set to "Hold" instead of "Free Move", they will stand around like a bag of dicks. I ran into that problem last night.
It is, however, extremely useful when you want to go exploring with your rogue character on stealth and get a backstab in at the beginning of the fight by using your other characters as bait.
I may or may not be making a rogue next play through :P
Two handers are sloooow. And i'm dying alot. I prefer to whack someone a bunch and live. I figured I'd parry alot more, and I don't. I need a character editor. Sigh.
I'm loving two handers myself, since they don't need dex at all (unlike some of the shield skills) I can split those points between strength and Con, the increased Con seems to be making me have even more survivability than Alistair with his shield and the strength means i'm doing 3-4x his damage.
Next level i'm going to need to pick another skill chain for my warrior though (just maxed combat training) and i have no idea what to go with..i guess poisons since you need it to poison weapons and that seems to be the only thing party members can't take care of
edit: also leliani is the most annoying party member ever, she seems to spit out -5 or -10 influences whenever I do *anything*
Iron WeaselDillon!You son of a bitch!Registered Userregular
edited November 2009
Played a couple of hours last night as a human noble; I've just headed out on the Darkspawn blood/old treaties quest - good times so far.
Combat controls on the 360 are a bit annoying, but I've actually started playing with the tactics for the other party members, so we'll see if that helps. Also, being a bit of a pack-rat, I wonder: are gems, wolf pets and the like worth keeping, or should I be selling that junk for better gear?
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I played a bit on the 360 yesterday. Haven't even got out of the castle on my human noble warrior. Like the art style of old fantasy RPG so far. It's done well, although I do think my "sudden monster rats in the larder" was worth an eye roll, it was a nice intro to combat. It was pretty tough finding something to hit with the dog running around though.
and afterwards coming out totally spattered with gore from the giant rats was hilarious.
Man making Morrigan happy is a pain in the ass. BAsically have to be a dick to everyone. But shes hotter than Leilani so it must be done.
Wish the party could be bigger, there sa few good characters here Id like the chance to involve in conversations. This is one negative to a very long rpg, replayability chances are low.
Played a couple of hours last night as a human noble; I've just headed out on the Darkspawn blood/old treaties quest - good times so far.
Combat controls on the 360 are a bit annoying, but I've actually started playing with the tactics for the other party members, so we'll see if that helps. Also, being a bit of a pack-rat, I wonder: are gems, wolf pets and the like worth keeping, or should I be selling that junk for better gear?
Yeah, good times until you start getting ambushed by 5+ darkspawn popping out of the fucking ground every 10 feet and then wailing on the puny mage and you don't have a taunt ability yet on your tanks and graaaaaaaah!
Played a couple of hours last night as a human noble; I've just headed out on the Darkspawn blood/old treaties quest - good times so far.
Combat controls on the 360 are a bit annoying, but I've actually started playing with the tactics for the other party members, so we'll see if that helps. Also, being a bit of a pack-rat, I wonder: are gems, wolf pets and the like worth keeping, or should I be selling that junk for better gear?
Yeah, good times until you start getting ambushed by 5+ darkspawn popping out of the fucking ground every 10 feet and then wailing on the puny mage and you don't have a taunt ability yet on your tanks and graaaaaaaah!
The second my tanks had access to Threaten, they were all over that. They'll be getting whatever the other taunt skill is too ASAP.
Your mage is only puny because of your spell choice. I welcome them to try and approach me. He is being built to fuck over anything near him.
My mage is slowly building up to being a badass debilitator with frost nukes. Entropy tree + frost nukes from the primal tree.
The frost tree is a thing of beauty. I have Frost up to cone of cold and stone for stone fist. Shattering a frozen target is awesome. I've also got that PBAoE mind blast spell. It helps stun everyone, and also helps me get into better position for a cone of cold.
I think I'm going to go down the Mind Blast line until crushing prison, giving me another disable and another shatter spell.
Also since I'm rocking an MC mage with frost and Morrigan, I can have morrigan pick up tempest while I grab blizzard for some tag team Storm of the Century action.
Anyone know if the heroic line of spells can be self applied? I'm looking for a few spells that can either self buff me, or regenerate my mana. I was sad when regenerate could not be self applied, so I had to skip it.
I can already tell that my first playthrough is going to be over 100 hours. The codex is like lore porn. I've already found a few hidden sidequests and spawnable monsters from it.
Another thing I like is the little summary on the loading screen. I do not think I will play any other game for a long long time, but the reminder is nice for people that play several games at once.
So I played a female elf warrior. What a damn good origin story! Fucking awesome!
The description in the character generator is about how you are getting married, but a Human Noble crashes the party to take you to his palace for some raping. Little does he know you are awesome.
But God Damn! The story is well-done. The dialogue is superb. I got choked up at one point due to it.It is pretty unfortunate that character animations are so terrible.
I can already tell that my first playthrough is going to be over 100 hours. The codex is like lore porn. I've already found a few hidden sidequests and spawnable monsters from it.
How ddi the side quests come up? Like you read about it and it gets added to the log?
Anyone know if the heroic line of spells can be self applied? I'm looking for a few spells that can either self buff me, or regenerate my mana. I was sad when regenerate could not be self applied, so I had to skip it.
If I remember my loading screens correctly, Spell Bloom should help your mana regeneration rate.
Don't know if you can only apply on others or on yourself as well, though.
Then there's also... what was it called... Spell Wisp or something? An early spell in the Creation field, I'm pretty sure. It makes your spells a bit more powerful.
Anyone have any experience with spell wisp, grease, and spell bloom?
Edit: description for spell bloom: The caster creates an energizing bloom of magic that grants anyone nearby, friend or foe, a bonus to mana regeneration.
So does anyone know if you can save talent points up until your next level? Also where to go to unlock reaver and berserker?
Also i'd like to reiterate fuck leilani so much, i might have to drop her from my party and go rogueless until I get someone else as i'm scared she'll leave if i get any more negative approval with her.
"you were being too good, -5" "you were being too bad, -10" FUCK YOU BITCH ARGHARGHAERGH
Man, I did not even realize the origin stories resulted in different opening gameplay stuffs. To be fair I didn't research this at all beyond "Welp, bioware RPG like BG2? I'm in."
Edit: description for spell bloom: The caster creates an energizing bloom of magic that grants anyone nearby, friend or foe, a bonus to mana regeneration.
Curses, it seems I did not remember my loading screens correctly.
Ah well. Try teaching it to Morrigan and stick with her.
Unless you get an other mage later on better suited for those kinds of spells.
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Iron WeaselDillon!You son of a bitch!Registered Userregular
I think items that you can give as gifts are listed as such in your inventory. At least, that's the case with the bottle of wine I (or rather, my dog) found in the larder.
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Man, I did not even realize the origin stories resulted in different opening gameplay stuffs. To be fair I didn't research this at all beyond "Welp, bioware RPG like BG2? I'm in."
My research went like this - <long ago> Fuck this game in its ear. Masseffect 2 is so so close! <release day> Whats this DA : O game? <videos, reviews taken in> Sweet fancy Mosses, MUST BUY!
And my best buy had an "inventory error" and had zero copies for ps3 or pc. Luckly the target had one last copy for the pc. Whew.
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So hey why isn't enchanting working? I talk to a guy that claims he can do it and then it says I have no items. Well I do, I have a sword but it doesn't consider it an item that can be enchanted. The rune just says it enchant weapons not specific ones. Whats up with this?
So does anyone know if you can save talent points up until your next level? Also where to go to unlock reaver and berserker?
Also i'd like to reiterate fuck leilani so much, i might have to drop her from my party and go rogueless until I get someone else as i'm scared she'll leave if i get any more negative approval with her.
"you were being too good, -5" "you were being too bad, -10" FUCK YOU BITCH ARGHARGHAERGH
I have yet to have a problem with being too good with L. Just remember, she's essentially a super nun, so always picking the super religous option is your best bet.
Sten, on the other hand...dear lord. It's like a yoyo with Sten. "Oh, you're wasting our time. Minus 10 DKP. Oh, you're wasting our time by talking to me. Plus 18 DKP!"
So hey why isn't enchanting working? I talk to a guy that claims he can do it and then it says I have no items. Well I do, I have a sword but it doesn't consider it an item that can be enchanted. The rune just says it enchant weapons not specific ones. Whats up with this?
The weapon has to have an empty box in it's description, and you have to have a rune. If it doesn't have that empty box, it can't be enchanted.
Slightly off topic, but (About the guy who enchants your stuff)
He is the best guy. Ever. "Enchantment!" "Yes, that's my boy. Enchantment."
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
This should seem like common sense, but I just realized that playing tactically really fucking matters in this game. With mage spell friendly fire, you have to seriously think about where you are putting your party members. I just had a fight where I had to pull all my front line fighters back, so my mage could run up and fireblast a whole row of archers. It was sort of my eureka moment in terms of just how tactical this game is. I dare say it can border on near RTS levels of tactics at times.
So hey why isn't enchanting working? I talk to a guy that claims he can do it and then it says I have no items. Well I do, I have a sword but it doesn't consider it an item that can be enchanted. The rune just says it enchant weapons not specific ones. Whats up with this?
Only particular items can be enchanted. On the... erm... item information screen underneath its stats, there might be an empty black square (possibly more, I don't know if that's possible). If it's got an empty black square down there, you can place a rune in it and enchant it. If it doesn't have the square, you can't.
I have yet to have a problem with being too good with L. Just remember, she's essentially a super nun, so always picking the super religous option is your best bet.
Not sure if 'super nun' would be the best description. Few nuns I know can ramble estatically about fashion or mention casually how they sometimes enjoy the company of women.
:winky:
But yeah, just being generally kind and fair works for her.
If you're having trouble with assigning targets to your party members, change their behavior from default to something else.
Having them that way only makes them attack if they are attacked. So if they kill something, and aren't being attacked, they do nothing.
Now, if they're standing around WHILE being attacked, which I've experienced, then there is not much I can say that will fix that aside from assigning another target.
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I may or may not be making a rogue next play through :P
I'm definitely making a rogue on the next go-round. I had no idea how many locked doors and chests I'd be bumping into and for whatever reason Bioware decided not to include a "smash lock" option for people who aren't/don't have rogues.
Also, I need to figure out how to do the 'pause and command' thing on the 360. Everyone's on auto-fight mode and it's starting to get me killed. Lots.
Also also: why can't I use injury kits from the inventory screen? Grr.
Not sure if 'super nun' would be the best description. Few nuns I know can ramble estatically about fashion or mention casually how they sometimes enjoy the company of women.
:winky:
But yeah, just being generally kind and fair works for her.
Now keeping Morrigan happy is a trial.
I guess that shows how well the npcs are crafted towards different playthroughs, I'd consider myself as doing a "good" playthrough, in that I tend to kill anyone evil and help people who need it, for doing this morrigans approval is through the roof and leilani is quite deep in the negatives The fact that I hate the chantry and tell them to basically fuck off at every opportunity may also be a contributing factor
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I believe there is a "Party Hold Button" or something like that under all the portraits. If it is set to "Hold" instead of "Free Move", they will stand around like a bag of dicks. I ran into that problem last night.
This sounds promising. Thank you good sir.
It is, however, extremely useful when you want to go exploring with your rogue character on stealth and get a backstab in at the beginning of the fight by using your other characters as bait.
I may or may not be making a rogue next play through :P
I'm loving two handers myself, since they don't need dex at all (unlike some of the shield skills) I can split those points between strength and Con, the increased Con seems to be making me have even more survivability than Alistair with his shield and the strength means i'm doing 3-4x his damage.
Next level i'm going to need to pick another skill chain for my warrior though (just maxed combat training) and i have no idea what to go with..i guess poisons since you need it to poison weapons and that seems to be the only thing party members can't take care of
edit: also leliani is the most annoying party member ever, she seems to spit out -5 or -10 influences whenever I do *anything*
Combat controls on the 360 are a bit annoying, but I've actually started playing with the tactics for the other party members, so we'll see if that helps. Also, being a bit of a pack-rat, I wonder: are gems, wolf pets and the like worth keeping, or should I be selling that junk for better gear?
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and afterwards coming out totally spattered with gore from the giant rats was hilarious.
Wish the party could be bigger, there sa few good characters here Id like the chance to involve in conversations. This is one negative to a very long rpg, replayability chances are low.
Yeah, good times until you start getting ambushed by 5+ darkspawn popping out of the fucking ground every 10 feet and then wailing on the puny mage and you don't have a taunt ability yet on your tanks and graaaaaaaah!
Personally, I just think of gems as cash that takes up valuable inventory space.
My mage is slowly building up to being a badass debilitator with frost nukes. Entropy tree + frost nukes from the primal tree.
...
Which, OK, probably isn't as impressive as yours, especially since Strength is my dump stat, but come on. Bears!
The frost tree is a thing of beauty. I have Frost up to cone of cold and stone for stone fist. Shattering a frozen target is awesome. I've also got that PBAoE mind blast spell. It helps stun everyone, and also helps me get into better position for a cone of cold.
I think I'm going to go down the Mind Blast line until crushing prison, giving me another disable and another shatter spell.
Also since I'm rocking an MC mage with frost and Morrigan, I can have morrigan pick up tempest while I grab blizzard for some tag team Storm of the Century action.
Anyone know if the heroic line of spells can be self applied? I'm looking for a few spells that can either self buff me, or regenerate my mana. I was sad when regenerate could not be self applied, so I had to skip it.
Another thing I like is the little summary on the loading screen. I do not think I will play any other game for a long long time, but the reminder is nice for people that play several games at once.
The description in the character generator is about how you are getting married, but a Human Noble crashes the party to take you to his palace for some raping. Little does he know you are awesome.
But God Damn! The story is well-done. The dialogue is superb. I got choked up at one point due to it.It is pretty unfortunate that character animations are so terrible.
How ddi the side quests come up? Like you read about it and it gets added to the log?
Don't know if you can only apply on others or on yourself as well, though.
Then there's also... what was it called... Spell Wisp or something? An early spell in the Creation field, I'm pretty sure. It makes your spells a bit more powerful.
Edit: description for spell bloom: The caster creates an energizing bloom of magic that grants anyone nearby, friend or foe, a bonus to mana regeneration.
Also i'd like to reiterate fuck leilani so much, i might have to drop her from my party and go rogueless until I get someone else as i'm scared she'll leave if i get any more negative approval with her.
"you were being too good, -5" "you were being too bad, -10" FUCK YOU BITCH ARGHARGHAERGH
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Ah well. Try teaching it to Morrigan and stick with her.
Unless you get an other mage later on better suited for those kinds of spells.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
My research went like this - <long ago> Fuck this game in its ear. Masseffect 2 is so so close! <release day> Whats this DA : O game? <videos, reviews taken in> Sweet fancy Mosses, MUST BUY!
And my best buy had an "inventory error" and had zero copies for ps3 or pc. Luckly the target had one last copy for the pc. Whew.
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I have yet to have a problem with being too good with L. Just remember, she's essentially a super nun, so always picking the super religous option is your best bet.
Sten, on the other hand...dear lord. It's like a yoyo with Sten. "Oh, you're wasting our time. Minus 10 DKP. Oh, you're wasting our time by talking to me. Plus 18 DKP!"
The weapon has to have an empty box in it's description, and you have to have a rune. If it doesn't have that empty box, it can't be enchanted.
Slightly off topic, but (About the guy who enchants your stuff)
He is the best guy. Ever. "Enchantment!" "Yes, that's my boy. Enchantment."
But yeah, just being generally kind and fair works for her.
Now keeping Morrigan happy is a trial.
Having them that way only makes them attack if they are attacked. So if they kill something, and aren't being attacked, they do nothing.
Now, if they're standing around WHILE being attacked, which I've experienced, then there is not much I can say that will fix that aside from assigning another target.
Also, I need to figure out how to do the 'pause and command' thing on the 360. Everyone's on auto-fight mode and it's starting to get me killed. Lots.
Also also: why can't I use injury kits from the inventory screen? Grr.
I guess that shows how well the npcs are crafted towards different playthroughs, I'd consider myself as doing a "good" playthrough, in that I tend to kill anyone evil and help people who need it, for doing this morrigans approval is through the roof and leilani is quite deep in the negatives