I am finding it impossible to get through the battle against the
high dragon
because my game simply freezes up at some point in the battle every single time. I'm at double digit freeze ups at this point. I'm not even getting it down to anywhere near half health before any of the crashes. I'm playing on PS3. Is anyone else having this problem?
The next time you play, check to see if there's something specific going on. On the PC, I had the game crash during the end of Act 2 when the enemy mages would cast a specific spell. If I killed the mages before that spell was cast, then it wouldn't crash. If I didn't, then it would.
Unfortunately, my fix wouldn't help you. I switched to the Dx9 renderer. Still, if its crashing when a specific spell or pair of spells is casting, you could just avoid casting those spells during the battle.
Celebant? It's probably the best 2H sword in the game, so far as I've discovered. I'm still playing through act three, but this sword is amazing.
Also, I just unlocked the ability to order Runes of Valiance. Holy crap. It has turned Hawke into a god, and I don't even have the full amount of runes slots possible yet.
Oh, and where do you get that potion that grants you a level? I could use that.
I know its in act 3 somewhere, but you have to have isabela still in your party to get the final resource to make it.
Are you shitting me? What the hell
I figured the Dragon's Blood would come from ya know, the High Dragon! God damn it!
Celebant? It's probably the best 2H sword in the game, so far as I've discovered. I'm still playing through act three, but this sword is amazing.
Also, I just unlocked the ability to order Runes of Valiance. Holy crap. It has turned Hawke into a god, and I don't even have the full amount of runes slots possible yet.
Oh, and where do you get that potion that grants you a level? I could use that.
I know its in act 3 somewhere, but you have to have isabela still in your party to get the final resource to make it.
Are you shitting me? What the hell
I figured the Dragon's Blood would come from ya know, the High Dragon! God damn it!
That's the rune ingredient. You find Ambrosia on her quest.
Ah fuck, I can't forge that potion that grants a level because I'm unable to get the resource for it. You find it during Isabela's third act companion quest, and since I can't do her quest...
Isabela is fucking me in the ass once again. Damn you. Damn you, woman! Damn you!
And dammit, I didn't realize the Rune of Valiance's bonus doesn't stack. All my money! Oh well, I had nothing else to spend it on as I'm nearing the end of the game.
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Again, is it possible to keep Isabela without having >50% friendship?
Thanks
If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
and there's absolutely nothing I can do that'll make her stay? I've been playing for two hours doing every single quest trying to find a handful of friendship points and have come up with nothing.
Well this is stupid, I found a 1 handed sword that does more damage than the 2 handed sword I am using, Aveline needs 8 more strength to use it, she also needs cunning willpower and fortitude to be a tank.
Again, is it possible to keep Isabela without having >50% friendship?
Thanks
If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
and there's absolutely nothing I can do that'll make her stay? I've been playing for two hours doing every single quest trying to find a handful of friendship points and have come up with nothing.
Restart try over? I want to say you get friendship bonus's at the start of the quest line, but I can't recall for sure.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Again, is it possible to keep Isabela without having >50% friendship?
Thanks
If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
and there's absolutely nothing I can do that'll make her stay? I've been playing for two hours doing every single quest trying to find a handful of friendship points and have come up with nothing.
No, there is nothing you can do. You need either 50% friendship or 50% rivalry. That's the condition.
Well this is stupid, I found a 1 handed sword that does more damage than the 2 handed sword I am using, Aveline needs 8 more strength to use it, she also needs cunning willpower and fortitude to be a tank.
She needs 31 strength, 31 constitution.
She does not need cunning at all, Turn the Blade gives a flat +20% boost which is better than investing in cunning almost always and she can run other sustains to make her survivable.
Again, is it possible to keep Isabela without having >50% friendship?
Thanks
If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
and there's absolutely nothing I can do that'll make her stay? I've been playing for two hours doing every single quest trying to find a handful of friendship points and have come up with nothing.
If you're on the PC, you can open up the console and just raise her friendship or rivalry. I wish I knew beforehand about her and that stupid requirement. The game gave me no warning about that. Just POOF. Goodbye, Isabela.
And Fizban, you'll soon outclass her in damage potential. I was upset about the loot distribution too, and made quite a fuss about it. All the 2H swords I was finding as loot or in stores paled in comparison to the DPS of the 1H weapons at the time. In act three, my 2H Hawke is a monster of death. Things explode. Aveline's shield would cave before my might!
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Again, is it possible to keep Isabela without having >50% friendship?
Thanks
If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
and there's absolutely nothing I can do that'll make her stay? I've been playing for two hours doing every single quest trying to find a handful of friendship points and have come up with nothing.
Are you playing on the PC?
Enable the developer console and make her your friend.
Otherwise you can try
not asking her to return the book to the Qunari, tell her that she can keep it to return to Castillon and you'll find some other way to deal with the Qunari. I don't know if that will work or not, but I do know that insisting she return the book without sufficient relationship will cause her to leave permanently.
I got full friendship with everyone but Sebastian and Fenris my first run, and I got Fenris to full rivalry. It was cool though, we were still bros even though he hated the fuck out of mages. I had his back, and he had mine.
Couldn't be bothered with Sebastian though, fuck that guy.
Even on my blind play through I didn't have any issue keeping my people happy, well aside from poor merril sarcastic hawk belittled her into oblivion.
I was ten friendship points away from having her stay. Ten! If only I used her just a little bit more...
...but I had my favorites, and a party configuration that worked. And that's not too uncommon in these type of games, especially if you play on harder difficulty levels. I didn't need two rogues in the party. That's what upsets me about her leaving, and now I'm going to miss out on content. It does make sense for that to happen from a realism point of view, though, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
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Even on my blind play through I didn't have any issue keeping my people happy, well aside from poor merril sarcastic hawk belittled her into oblivion.
I was ten friendship points away from having her stay. Ten! If only I used her just a little bit more...
...but I had my favorites, and a party configuration that worked. And that's not too uncommon in these type of games, especially if you play on harder difficulty levels. I didn't need two rogues in the party. That's what upsets me about her leaving, and now I'm going to miss out on content. It does make sense for that to happen from a realism point of view, though, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
Bella is hella useful though. Even when I was rogue hawk I still brought her, double back stabs ahoy! Plus dat ass.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
He's not particularly any more preachy than Fenris or Anders, but he is way more sexy.
I didn't have any issue with his personality, just for me I had varric for an archer and while two archer rogues were decent damagers, I prefered having another meele in the fray helped keep the squishies alive.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I thought Sebastian was a bit boring, although his quest in act three brought me face to face with
Leliana.
I don't know if you can get that without Sebastian, it seems like an important quest and cameo that you'd expect to find in the base game, but it showed up as a companion quest under his name.
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I still don't know why people don't play with all the characters. I mean it isn't even like DAO, outside of Anders and Merrill there is no one else on your team competing for equipment. And taking random groups can expose you to the best random dialogue,
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edited March 2011
Ending spoilers.
I may have missed it, where was the "You fucking idiot, you did more to hurt the cause of mages than any Templar ever could and even though I kinda, sorta stumbled into a love story with you, I now have to kill you and go all Templar Nazi on all mages because of your actions. You humongous cock. *stabby stabby*" conversation option? I picked the "You used me!" option.
It wasn't nearly as satisfying.
Also annoying to have the ending bit go all "And then they all left the Champion, except for Anders". I'm taking it to mean that I cut his head off and go round with it, Kratos style.
Seriously. The Ancient Rock Wraith, Arishok, the Nexus Golem Gauntlet. Those are all chump fights compared to the High Dragon in the bone pit. He is absolutely destroying me. And by destroying I mean burninating.
I get through phase 1 alright, and take down his dragonlings in Phase 2, but his ranged fire attack is just decimating my team - Varric, Anders, and Merrill.
Varric has Rhyming Triplet as his main single target attack. Anders I've learned to keep him in Panacea mode and only heal, lest he run out of Mana. Merrill just goes to town with Stonefist and Crushing Prison.
In any event though, I inevitably die shortly after the first DPS goes down during phase 2 and his ranged attack. It's seemingly unavoidable. I'm level 18 by the way.
I still don't know why people don't play with all the characters. I mean it isn't even like DAO, outside of Anders and Merrill there is no one else on your team competing for equipment. And taking random groups can expose you to the best random dialogue,
Yeah, I tried to spread it around. The only one I really didn't use much was Fenris because I was a 2H warrior.
Still I had an optimal set up that I used for any quest with tough fights, me, Aveline,Isabella and Merrill.
Merill is great for all the buff sustains because she used health to cast spells anyway so I used up all of her mana reserve for sustains like group Arcane Shield, Elemental Weapons, Rock Armor.
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The next time you play, check to see if there's something specific going on. On the PC, I had the game crash during the end of Act 2 when the enemy mages would cast a specific spell. If I killed the mages before that spell was cast, then it wouldn't crash. If I didn't, then it would.
Unfortunately, my fix wouldn't help you. I switched to the Dx9 renderer. Still, if its crashing when a specific spell or pair of spells is casting, you could just avoid casting those spells during the battle.
Everyone has weird looking hands.
Are you shitting me? What the hell
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Isabela is fucking me in the ass once again. Damn you. Damn you, woman! Damn you!
And dammit, I didn't realize the Rune of Valiance's bonus doesn't stack. All my money! Oh well, I had nothing else to spend it on as I'm nearing the end of the game.
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Simply because I've gathered that this happens in Act 2?
I'm confused
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Its in act 3 actually, his last companion quest.
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Oh alright. That makes more sense then.
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Ok playah here's how it is.
You could potentially lose isadatassabela if you don't choose to help her over aveline, if you don't have her at 50% friend or rivalry.
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Yeah, and it'll make sense when it comes up.
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If you have 50% rivalry, outside of that. Dem boots are made for walking...
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Yeah I got it
I am baffled by my weapon lacking rune slots it's supposed to have though!
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Restart try over? I want to say you get friendship bonus's at the start of the quest line, but I can't recall for sure.
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No, there is nothing you can do. You need either 50% friendship or 50% rivalry. That's the condition.
She needs 31 strength, 31 constitution.
She does not need cunning at all, Turn the Blade gives a flat +20% boost which is better than investing in cunning almost always and she can run other sustains to make her survivable.
Dump the rest into willpower.
If you're on the PC, you can open up the console and just raise her friendship or rivalry. I wish I knew beforehand about her and that stupid requirement. The game gave me no warning about that. Just POOF. Goodbye, Isabela.
And Fizban, you'll soon outclass her in damage potential. I was upset about the loot distribution too, and made quite a fuss about it. All the 2H swords I was finding as loot or in stores paled in comparison to the DPS of the 1H weapons at the time. In act three, my 2H Hawke is a monster of death. Things explode. Aveline's shield would cave before my might!
Are you playing on the PC?
Enable the developer console and make her your friend.
Otherwise you can try
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Couldn't be bothered with Sebastian though, fuck that guy.
I was ten friendship points away from having her stay. Ten! If only I used her just a little bit more...
...but I had my favorites, and a party configuration that worked. And that's not too uncommon in these type of games, especially if you play on harder difficulty levels. I didn't need two rogues in the party. That's what upsets me about her leaving, and now I'm going to miss out on content. It does make sense for that to happen from a realism point of view, though, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
Honestly outside of doing his quests for experience/story he's kind of a silly purchase for me.
Great for the ladies though as every part of him is like a romance protagonist.
Exiled Prince
Chaste Man of the church who's conflicted about his role in the world
Named Sebastion
Wear's White Armor
Piercing Blue Eyes
Strictly monogamous
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He's not particularly any more preachy than Fenris or Anders, but he is way more sexy.
Bella is hella useful though. Even when I was rogue hawk I still brought her, double back stabs ahoy! Plus dat ass.
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In the first Act Isabella and Aveline basically hate each, by the 3rd Act they are good friends.
I didn't have any issue with his personality, just for me I had varric for an archer and while two archer rogues were decent damagers, I prefered having another meele in the fray helped keep the squishies alive.
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It wasn't nearly as satisfying.
Also annoying to have the ending bit go all "And then they all left the Champion, except for Anders". I'm taking it to mean that I cut his head off and go round with it, Kratos style.
The exceptions are
I am getting hammered here.
Act 3
I get through phase 1 alright, and take down his dragonlings in Phase 2, but his ranged fire attack is just decimating my team - Varric, Anders, and Merrill.
Varric has Rhyming Triplet as his main single target attack. Anders I've learned to keep him in Panacea mode and only heal, lest he run out of Mana. Merrill just goes to town with Stonefist and Crushing Prison.
In any event though, I inevitably die shortly after the first DPS goes down during phase 2 and his ranged attack. It's seemingly unavoidable. I'm level 18 by the way.
Any tips?
Yeah those bosses are specifically "Ok don't fuck around bring some actual utility here.
I'd also say the spoilers for act 2 and act 3
The end demon book boss, and the end demon scroll boss.
Require at least a decent part make up and not like sebastion, verric, and issabella with a rogue hawk.
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Yeah, I tried to spread it around. The only one I really didn't use much was Fenris because I was a 2H warrior.
Still I had an optimal set up that I used for any quest with tough fights, me, Aveline,Isabella and Merrill.
Merill is great for all the buff sustains because she used health to cast spells anyway so I used up all of her mana reserve for sustains like group Arcane Shield, Elemental Weapons, Rock Armor.