It reminds me of playing Mass Effect where I kept the entire game wishing I'd given my character less sharp cheekbones. You could cut glass on those things.
I had the same problem in Mass Effect. Good in the chargen; mouth cancer survivor elsewhere.
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If you're having a lot of problems, use a bit more tactics (if you're a rogue, use more dirty fighting, also try to get your guys to all attack the same creature at the same time so you kill things faster, and ALWAYS kill mages first).
I did set up some tactics to do this. I gave Alastair the threaten ability to try and turn him into a tank and just had Jory/Daveth or the tower guards assist him. It worked out pretty well, but having and endless source of heals is easily the biggest factor in party survivability.
Heal doesn't really make much of a difference at the beginning. The spell heals for less than a lesser healing poultice and the cooldown is long enough that it really isn't going to make the deciding factor between finishing a fight and not finishing it. Healing doesn't become nearly as good until you have a really high magic or get some of the better healing spells.
I've honestly taken the regular heal spell on all of my mages but it never got used by anyone but Wynne and then only because it was on automatic. I survived just fine having Morrigan never heal anyone before I got Wynne - using poultices occasionally, which are extremely easy to keep a very large supply of.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
That's cause Heal isn't your main healing spell. Regenerate is.
I did that to my mother in the human noble origin. That ending scene was pretty awkward.
At least for the PC version, the game automatically strips the gear off the noble mother and the two other Grey Warden recruits after they leave your party. However, you still have to strip the gear off the nameless npc in the Tower of Ishal after the ogre goes down.
You guys are weirdos. Here I am, being immersed in this world, while you're somehow omnipotently stripping off people's clothing without any regard for their wishes.
I did that to my mother in the human noble origin. That ending scene was pretty awkward.
At least for the PC version, the game automatically strips the gear off the noble mother and the two other Grey Warden recruits after they leave your party. However, you still have to strip the gear off the nameless npc in the Tower of Ishal after the ogre goes down.
You guys are weirdos. Here I am, being immersed in this world, while you're somehow omnipotently stripping off people's clothing without any regard for their wishes.
It was my fifth time through the origin, okay? I kept having to remake my character because I kept noticing horrible flaws that I couldn't stop staring at. I'm entitled to a bit of metagaming.
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
edited November 2009
At least it is easy in DA to make a moderately good looking person.
I do not wish to tell the tales of spending 3-4 hours in Oblivion trying to make non-ugly people...and still failing.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
I did that to my mother in the human noble origin. That ending scene was pretty awkward.
At least for the PC version, the game automatically strips the gear off the noble mother and the two other Grey Warden recruits after they leave your party. However, you still have to strip the gear off the nameless npc in the Tower of Ishal after the ogre goes down.
You guys are weirdos. Here I am, being immersed in this world, while you're somehow omnipotently stripping off people's clothing without any regard for their wishes.
Man, I had to redo the entire Landsmeet the first playthrough because of:
Alistair and not expecting him to run off with my 2nd best fighter armor set.
You can justify nearly anything if you try hard enough. An old woman in her underwear with disturbingly youthful physique is more likely to stun the enemy. It's also the only motivation you need to never, ever install a nude mod.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
There's sometimes a bug where your characters can get stuck in their current appearance and nothing, including cutscenes, ever seems to change that. Saving/reloading fixes the issue, though.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
There's sometimes a bug where your characters can get stuck in their current appearance and nothing, including cutscenes, ever seems to change that. Saving/reloading fixes the issue, though.
In that vein, I really got annoyed at seeing my character in cutscenes while he had his Arcane Warrior buff active. That 4th tier ability makes him look like a glowing spirit thingy, and romance scenes in particular are really odd.
surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
I just put tower of Ishal and Lothering on easy so I can just lol my way through it with my eyes closed, because I have like 5 games running simultaneously :P
This game is actually super fun on easy if you set up some basic tactics and just run through going ualeualeualeuale
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Iron WeaselDillon!You son of a bitch!Registered Userregular
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
There's sometimes a bug where your characters can get stuck in their current appearance and nothing, including cutscenes, ever seems to change that. Saving/reloading fixes the issue, though.
In that vein, I really got annoyed at seeing my character in cutscenes while he had his Arcane Warrior buff active. That 4th tier ability makes him look like a glowing spirit thingy, and romance scenes in particular are really odd.
I ended up with a fire debuff at the end of a battle in the mage origin and went though a couple of long cutscenes while on fire.
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
There's sometimes a bug where your characters can get stuck in their current appearance and nothing, including cutscenes, ever seems to change that. Saving/reloading fixes the issue, though.
In that vein, I really got annoyed at seeing my character in cutscenes while he had his Arcane Warrior buff active. That 4th tier ability makes him look like a glowing spirit thingy, and romance scenes in particular are really odd.
Did your character look like Patrick Swayze?
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
I usually throw Blizzard on top of people before that whole "approach and cutscene starts" dealio in almost every dungeon.
Everyone's frozen while they speak. Then, as the cutscene ends, they turn hostile and immobile.
I usually fail at this because I assume they will just be hostile and center the blizzard on them, then I have to walk into the blizzard to trigger the cutscene and end up on my ass frozen.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
When I made my first City Elf Rogue and did the final origin battle, I ended the fight stunned from one of Vaughn's mooks. All the dialogue thereafter, all the running around, all of the interacting between then and the next time I entered combat was done while my torso was locked into a rigid stun animation while my lower half moved normally.
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Ok just a helpful tip to budding game designers out there. If you're creating a level, let's say one in a dream world that breaks up a long crawl through a tower, please don't make it so the player has to repeat sections of said level to get stat buffs. It's boring. If I wanted to go back to previous areas in the level, I would do that on my own accord. Thanks.
That is all.
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OtakuD00DCan I hit the exploding rocks?San DiegoRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
Hm. The battle at Redcliffe
Village. With the zombies. Is downright pissing me off. I make it past the first swarm all right, then once I reach the bottom end of town, they just keep coming and everyone just dies. They take too long to kill and hit way too damn hard. My healing can't keep up. I swapped out Wynne for another damage dealer and I managed to last a little longer, but we all still eventually fail.
Village. With the zombies. Is downright pissing me off. I make it past the first swarm all right, then once I reach the bottom end of town, they just keep coming and everyone just dies. They take too long to kill and hit way too damn hard. My healing can't keep up. I swapped out Wynne for another damage dealer and I managed to last a little longer, but we all still eventually fail.
If you're actually looking for advice and not just venting, you're gonna need to give us a bit of what characters/builds you got, otherwise we're not going to be much help.
Edit: And to everyone, you guys suck for not noting my awesome joke. :P
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
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OtakuD00DCan I hit the exploding rocks?San DiegoRegistered Userregular
Village. With the zombies. Is downright pissing me off. I make it past the first swarm all right, then once I reach the bottom end of town, they just keep coming and everyone just dies. They take too long to kill and hit way too damn hard. My healing can't keep up. I swapped out Wynne for another damage dealer and I managed to last a little longer, but we all still eventually fail.
If you're actually looking for advice and not just venting, you're gonna need to give us a bit of what characters/builds you got, otherwise we're not going to be much help.
Edit: And to everyone, you guys suck for not noting my awesome joke. :P
My main character is a Mage. She haven't gotten any specs yet. I have Cone of Cold, and I unfortunately haven't gotten any fire spells. Cone of Cold can only be used so often and people tend to get in the way.
I'm keeping Zevran because he's currently at a very high disposition towards my character (Awesome dex bonus! I have the dagger fix). Currently, I'm trying Bear-Morrigan and Sten as the other members.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
When I walk into a bunch of slavers/reavers/werewolves/etc, I assume that they're going to be hostile. I don't need them to talk to me then say "yep, we're gonna kill you" to try to attack them. I don't think it breaks suspension of disbelief that my character won't just walk into ambushes without prepare spells beforehand just because the enemy wants to talk.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
RP purposes of course. Sometimes, I don't want to talk. I expect you to die. You can try to talk through my snowstorm, but that's your prerogative.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2009
Cone of Cold should be all you really need though.
That reminds me. I don't know if it was a bug, but the last sex scene had one of us in our undies. My PC, though, for some reason was still dressed full up in his dragon plate.
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
I never fully understood why Morrigan, who was barely wearing anything to begin with under that robe of hers, suddenly appears wearing some rather modest undergarments in that scene.
I mean, aside from the whole "hey ya'll we can't show nekked folks" thing, that is.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
I don't understand the appeal of adhering to a system that has you trigger foes at an invisible line resulting in a forced ambush.
What can I say, I just like to out-fuck the designer of the game.
When I made my first City Elf Rogue and did the final origin battle, I ended the fight stunned from one of Vaughn's mooks. All the dialogue thereafter, all the running around, all of the interacting between then and the next time I entered combat was done while my torso was locked into a rigid stun animation while my lower half moved normally.
I had this happen on my mage, except I got set on fire right when the long cutscenes after the major event happened, and calmly sat there talking while completely aflame. Everyone must have been embarrassed for me, because nobody said anything about it.
The trick is to cast it just at that border of the trigger, so they end up sucking ice, and you grin as they swallow some tempest and other nice elements.
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
RP purposes of course. Sometimes, I don't want to talk. I expect you to die. You can try to talk through my snowstorm, but that's your prerogative.
It seems to me to break RP more than anything. Would you expect your soon to be adversaries to talk to you while your spell is killing them? Its not "their prerogative", its that the developers planned for you to get ambushed there. The fact that you even need to take into account where the trigger point is, is the very essence of breaking RP.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ~ Terry Pratchett
Village. With the zombies. Is downright pissing me off. I make it past the first swarm all right, then once I reach the bottom end of town, they just keep coming and everyone just dies. They take too long to kill and hit way too damn hard. My healing can't keep up. I swapped out Wynne for another damage dealer and I managed to last a little longer, but we all still eventually fail.
Its not bad actually, there's two elites at the beginning, they're bright yellow and yes they have a lot of hitpoints and do a lot of damage, but the rest are cannon fodder. Focus the two yellow ones down, stun lock them, use cone of cold, whatever and take down the rest.
Plus, sometimes I want my guys to cover the corridor while I go scan ahead, not have the squishy mages come voluntarily stand in the middle of a group of guys brandishing swords just so they can criticize my decisions. Is the system cheating me at this point?
Village. With the zombies. Is downright pissing me off. I make it past the first swarm all right, then once I reach the bottom end of town, they just keep coming and everyone just dies. They take too long to kill and hit way too damn hard. My healing can't keep up. I swapped out Wynne for another damage dealer and I managed to last a little longer, but we all still eventually fail.
Its not bad actually, there's two elites at the beginning, they're bright yellow and yes they have a lot of hitpoints and do a lot of damage, but the rest are cannon fodder. Focus the two yellow ones down, stun lock them, use cone of cold, whatever and take down the rest.
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Did you find the barrels of oil in the closed shop? That will help get you through the first wave with less effort. I would also suggest that you buy as many health pots as you can afford, and just manually potion heal your dudes when your healing cant keep up.
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I had the same problem in Mass Effect. Good in the chargen; mouth cancer survivor elsewhere.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
So much violence.
Heal doesn't really make much of a difference at the beginning. The spell heals for less than a lesser healing poultice and the cooldown is long enough that it really isn't going to make the deciding factor between finishing a fight and not finishing it. Healing doesn't become nearly as good until you have a really high magic or get some of the better healing spells.
I've honestly taken the regular heal spell on all of my mages but it never got used by anyone but Wynne and then only because it was on automatic. I survived just fine having Morrigan never heal anyone before I got Wynne - using poultices occasionally, which are extremely easy to keep a very large supply of.
Regenerate is godly early game.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
You guys are weirdos. Here I am, being immersed in this world, while you're somehow omnipotently stripping off people's clothing without any regard for their wishes.
It was my fifth time through the origin, okay? I kept having to remake my character because I kept noticing horrible flaws that I couldn't stop staring at. I'm entitled to a bit of metagaming.
I do not wish to tell the tales of spending 3-4 hours in Oblivion trying to make non-ugly people...and still failing.
Man, I had to redo the entire Landsmeet the first playthrough because of:
Fuck NPC clothes if they're going to be dicks!
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
It was comically awkward to watch that cutscene play out.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
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There's sometimes a bug where your characters can get stuck in their current appearance and nothing, including cutscenes, ever seems to change that. Saving/reloading fixes the issue, though.
I wasn't worried about me getting hurt. My armor however was rather...spikey.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
In that vein, I really got annoyed at seeing my character in cutscenes while he had his Arcane Warrior buff active. That 4th tier ability makes him look like a glowing spirit thingy, and romance scenes in particular are really odd.
This game is actually super fun on easy if you set up some basic tactics and just run through going ualeualeualeuale
You make it ... hurt so good. :whistle:
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I ended up with a fire debuff at the end of a battle in the mage origin and went though a couple of long cutscenes while on fire.
I usually throw Blizzard on top of people before that whole "approach and cutscene starts" dealio in almost every dungeon.
Everyone's frozen while they speak. Then, as the cutscene ends, they turn hostile and immobile.
Did your character look like Patrick Swayze?
I usually fail at this because I assume they will just be hostile and center the blizzard on them, then I have to walk into the blizzard to trigger the cutscene and end up on my ass frozen.
Hey, it worked in Excalibur.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
That is all.
If you're actually looking for advice and not just venting, you're gonna need to give us a bit of what characters/builds you got, otherwise we're not going to be much help.
Edit: And to everyone, you guys suck for not noting my awesome joke. :P
What's funny is that this is the obvious solution, and I realized it as soon as I read your first post, but it never occured to me in game. Instead I would reload, but rather than relocate the aoe I'd just trigger the cutscene and take the inevitable ambush.
I don't understand the appeal of cheating the system like this.
My main character is a Mage. She haven't gotten any specs yet. I have Cone of Cold, and I unfortunately haven't gotten any fire spells. Cone of Cold can only be used so often and people tend to get in the way.
I'm keeping Zevran because he's currently at a very high disposition towards my character (Awesome dex bonus! I have the dagger fix). Currently, I'm trying Bear-Morrigan and Sten as the other members.
When I walk into a bunch of slavers/reavers/werewolves/etc, I assume that they're going to be hostile. I don't need them to talk to me then say "yep, we're gonna kill you" to try to attack them. I don't think it breaks suspension of disbelief that my character won't just walk into ambushes without prepare spells beforehand just because the enemy wants to talk.
RP purposes of course. Sometimes, I don't want to talk. I expect you to die. You can try to talk through my snowstorm, but that's your prerogative.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I never fully understood why Morrigan, who was barely wearing anything to begin with under that robe of hers, suddenly appears wearing some rather modest undergarments in that scene.
I mean, aside from the whole "hey ya'll we can't show nekked folks" thing, that is.
I don't understand the appeal of adhering to a system that has you trigger foes at an invisible line resulting in a forced ambush.
What can I say, I just like to out-fuck the designer of the game.
I had this happen on my mage, except I got set on fire right when the long cutscenes after the major event happened, and calmly sat there talking while completely aflame. Everyone must have been embarrassed for me, because nobody said anything about it.
It seems to me to break RP more than anything. Would you expect your soon to be adversaries to talk to you while your spell is killing them? Its not "their prerogative", its that the developers planned for you to get ambushed there. The fact that you even need to take into account where the trigger point is, is the very essence of breaking RP.
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