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1. open dasavegame.exe
2. open the highest number save, it's the XXXX.das file.
3. party, your characters name, go to variable 42.
the unmodified number should be 0. the modified should be whatever haste effects you currently have going.
a naked hawke warrior, for example, should have 0/0. if you don't, edit it.
there you go.
the same method can be used to check on whether seb has gimped you in any way.
edit:
having the icon on its own in your ability screen without isabela in your party isn't necessarily bad. It's when you save a game in any of the aforementioned areas and reload from that save that will then screw you over.
I second that motion. I just can't complete a game unless I can COMPLETE it, and the Merril bug counts as not completing to my delicate sensibilities. :P
Edit: Meant to second Delta's, but the basement torture one will do fine too!
1. open dasavegame.exe
2. open the highest number save, it's the XXXX.das file.
3. party, your characters name, go to variable 42.
the unmodified number should be 0. the modified should be whatever haste effects you currently have going.
a naked hawke warrior, for example, should have 0/0. if you don't, edit it.
there you go.
the same method can be used to check on whether seb has gimped you in any way.
edit:
having the icon on its own in your ability screen without isabela in your party isn't necessarily bad. It's when you save a game in any of the aforementioned areas and reload from that save that will then screw you over.
Er, once you're seeing the icon in your screen when they aren't in your party it means you are afflicted with the bug, and will be losing attack speed/DR every time they come and go from your party. So if what the testing dude posted is true, seeing the buff when they aren't in your party indicates that you have already loaded a save from one of those areas at some point in the past.
So I am 2/3rds of the way thru my second playthru, this time with a snarky Mage Hawke. I actually got the Isabela romance option to work properly this time, so that's a plus. I am rolling totally
pro-Mage this time around too, rather than be middle ground like my first play. I will hopefully be able to kill Templar Carver as well. Party is: Aveline, Isabela, Varric.
Next up, Nice Warrior Hawke who will be
pro-Templar and will romance Fenris. My party for that will be Two Hand wielding Hawke, Fenris, Varric, and either Isabela or Aveline. Leaning Isabela though. She amuses me.
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
1. open dasavegame.exe
2. open the highest number save, it's the XXXX.das file.
3. party, your characters name, go to variable 42.
the unmodified number should be 0. the modified should be whatever haste effects you currently have going.
a naked hawke warrior, for example, should have 0/0. if you don't, edit it.
there you go.
the same method can be used to check on whether seb has gimped you in any way.
edit:
having the icon on its own in your ability screen without isabela in your party isn't necessarily bad. It's when you save a game in any of the aforementioned areas and reload from that save that will then screw you over.
Er, once you're seeing the icon in your screen when they aren't in your party it means you are afflicted with the bug, and will be losing attack speed/DR every time they come and go from your party. So if what the testing dude posted is true, seeing the buff when they aren't in your party indicates that you have already loaded a save from one of those areas at some point in the past.
the icon occurs during certain area transitions but does not nerf your stats. saving and reloading in one of the "bad" areas afflicts you with a stat reduction.
1. open dasavegame.exe
2. open the highest number save, it's the XXXX.das file.
3. party, your characters name, go to variable 42.
the unmodified number should be 0. the modified should be whatever haste effects you currently have going.
a naked hawke warrior, for example, should have 0/0. if you don't, edit it.
there you go.
the same method can be used to check on whether seb has gimped you in any way.
edit:
having the icon on its own in your ability screen without isabela in your party isn't necessarily bad. It's when you save a game in any of the aforementioned areas and reload from that save that will then screw you over.
Er, once you're seeing the icon in your screen when they aren't in your party it means you are afflicted with the bug, and will be losing attack speed/DR every time they come and go from your party. So if what the testing dude posted is true, seeing the buff when they aren't in your party indicates that you have already loaded a save from one of those areas at some point in the past.
the icon occurs during certain area transitions but does not nerf your stats. saving and reloading in one of the "bad" areas afflicts you with a stat reduction.
I myself have had the icon but not the nerf because i didn't save and reload in a bad area.
I have had both her and seb in and out of my party many many times at max friendship and I have yet to see their icons in my screen when they aren't in my party.
So, where are these times that I should supposedly be seeing their icon in my screen without having them in the party?
I find Merrill more attractive than Isabela, though if I'm honest neither is really more than a little above average. Isabela has some really freaky eyes and is almost comically overblown, I have a feeling she would look very unattractive if she wasn't wearing the outfit she wears in game. Not to mention I keep remembering her former model and its creepy plague-survivor pox-ridden look.
Merrill doesn't make me recoil when I think about her.
Isabela is just...ugh.
Yeah, you're a sleazy whore. WE GET IT.
It's like she was designed and written for 13 year olds and no one else.
Well I think I made a mistake, I am doing the rock wraith with a horrible part.
I brought Andershealbot, Rogue Hawke and 2H Fenris tank. Fenris is specced to tank but too low to have enough abilities to really be a tank. He can't hold aggro or take much damage, he dies in two hits to the rock wraith, I heal, shield, potion and before and of that comes up again he is dead. I don't think I can do this fight without cheesing or lowering the difficulty can I?
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God, why is Merrill such a wishy-washy brand of evil? She should either be decent or just be full on evil.
Fade spoilers:
Sloth demon, I listen to his offer all the way through, but reject it because trading someones soul for power etc is pretty fucking awful, and Feynriel, his mother, and the Keeper are all trusting me to do the right thing. +5 rivalry Merrill.
Seriously bitch? Seriously? Ok fine. Watch me take you with me and make you watch while I burn all the evil tomes. I will also deprive of you of your magic garden trowel. And I'll laugh at you and say cruel things when you cry, because you deserve it.
I think I've figured Merrill out, her motivation is "I'm too weak to resist demonic temptation so I get jealous of anyone who is a better person than me."
God, why is Merrill such a wishy-washy brand of evil? She should either be decent or just be full on evil.
Fade spoilers:
Sloth demon, I listen to his offer all the way through, but reject it because trading someones soul for power etc is pretty fucking awful, and Feynriel, his mother, and the Keeper are all trusting me to do the right thing. +5 rivalry Merrill.
Seriously bitch? Seriously? Ok fine. Watch me take you with me and make you watch while I burn all the evil tomes. I will also deprive of you of your magic garden trowel. And I'll laugh at you and say cruel things when you cry, because you deserve it.
God, why is Merrill such a wishy-washy brand of evil? She should either be decent or just be full on evil.
Fade spoilers:
Sloth demon, I listen to his offer all the way through, but reject it because trading someones soul for power etc is pretty fucking awful, and Feynriel, his mother, and the Keeper are all trusting me to do the right thing. +5 rivalry Merrill.
Seriously bitch? Seriously? Ok fine. Watch me take you with me and make you watch while I burn all the evil tomes. I will also deprive of you of your magic garden trowel. And I'll laugh at you and say cruel things when you cry, because you deserve it.
she called me a shemlen! a shemlen!
I wanted to slap her.
So she called you a "quick child". It pretty much means you act too hastily or on impulse... Mind you, it is meant to be an insult for humans.
Also, small rivalry boosts are nothing to get mad over. A +5 means that they're grumbling under their teeth, but will follow the decision without a fuss. Now, a +15 or a +30... and they're gonna be vocal. They won't shut up, like, until the quest is over.
I don't see how you can say "yeah isabela, you're a whore, we get it" and not apply that same sort of mentality to the others.
Yeah aveline, you're a stick in the mud, we get it.
yeah merrill, you're gullible, we get it.
yeah fenris, you're really emo and anti-mage, we get it.
I thought isabela was at least interesting because she goes from being a selfish hedonist to a slightly more conservative scamp with a heart of gold. there's some sort of character progression going on here, which can't be said for any of the others really (at least I couldn't get any of the others to shift in personality through dialogue).
I don't get the merrill tali comparisons at all. merrill is just really, REALLY gullible and, at the end of it all, only given her abilities because she was considered weak and easy to prey upon. None of this applies to tali.
God, why is Merrill such a wishy-washy brand of evil? She should either be decent or just be full on evil.
Fade spoilers:
Sloth demon, I listen to his offer all the way through, but reject it because trading someones soul for power etc is pretty fucking awful, and Feynriel, his mother, and the Keeper are all trusting me to do the right thing. +5 rivalry Merrill.
Seriously bitch? Seriously? Ok fine. Watch me take you with me and make you watch while I burn all the evil tomes. I will also deprive of you of your magic garden trowel. And I'll laugh at you and say cruel things when you cry, because you deserve it.
she called me a shemlen! a shemlen!
I wanted to slap her.
So she called you a "quick child". It pretty much means you act too hastily or on impulse... Mind you, it is meant to be an insult for humans.
Also, small rivalry boosts are nothing to get mad over. A +5 means that they're grumbling under their teeth, but will follow the decision without a fuss. Now, a +15 or a +30... and they're gonna be vocal. They won't shut up, like, until the quest is over.
That's good because when she was tempted by the pride demon a few minutes later I told her I'd kill her if she turned on me and got +10 rivalry. My only regret is that it doesn't make her tranquil.
My new goal is to get her from the +40ish friendship I had her at to +100 rivalry by the end of this act. And this is honestly the last time I will try being friends with this character, she's just awful.
Wow. Finished my first playthrough on Normal, decided to bump it up to Hard.
Getting absolutely worked on my 2Hander Hawke in the Prologue. Had to chug all 7 of my health pots before I made it to Kirkwall. Spent all of my money on new ones. Is this normal for Hard Mode? (Particularly the Bethany getting manhandled in 1 hit by Normal-level mobs.)
I refuse to accept kiting as a viable RPG strategy. Completely cheeseballing the encounters to do that. Would rather play it on Normal again if I'm just going to spend the entire time with my tank running from things while the others beat it up.
I don't see how you can say "yeah isabela, you're a whore, we get it" and not apply that same sort of mentality to the others.
Yeah aveline, you're a stick in the mud, we get it.
yeah merrill, you're gullible, we get it.
yeah fenris, you're really emo and anti-mage, we get it.
I thought isabela was at least interesting because she goes from being a selfish hedonist to a slightly more conservative scamp with a heart of gold. there's some sort of character progression going on here, which can't be said for any of the others really (at least I couldn't get any of the others to shift in personality through dialogue).
I don't get the merrill tali comparisons at all. merrill is just really, REALLY gullible and, at the end of it all, only given her abilities because she was considered weak and easy to prey upon. None of this applies to tali.
As I pointed out, she's not a merely gullible innocent, but actively evil, just such a weak brand of evil that it's uninteresting and unimpressive.
Gaining rivalry because Hawke wouldn't trade Feynriel's soul for a tome of +6 attributes isn't excusable. It makes her a terrible person.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
Also, what's with all the Carver hate? If you can't consider even the slightest bit of his bitterness of being stuck in Hawke's shadow, then you've never been a younger brother (I'm actually one, myself). While Varric doesn't actually concern himself with being the youngest in his family, in Carver's case, it kind of messes with him.
Carver bitches now and then, but he does stick up for Hawke on more than one occasion. He just doesn't like being left behind and known simply as "Hawke's younger brother" his whole life.
ok, here's something for you lot, it should be put in the first post imo:
here's how the isabela (and probably the seb) bugs occur. taken from the official forums by a guy that spent 4 hours figuring it out:
If you Reload any save that is inside a mission, hawks resdience, Kirkwall at night or outside the city (sundermount wounded coast) you will recieve the bug with isabella in your party. You can save with her in you're party and not recieve the bug anywhere in kirkwall during the day, merrill and fenris house, darktown.
I never encountered the bug, based on opening my last autosave and checking the whatever, and I'm pretty sure I at some point saved in and reloaded from one of those places. I don't know how anybody could play through the game without having done so....
Does platform matter? I'm on PC.
Re. Carver: Oh, you don't like living in my shadow because I'm so awesome? Well why don't YOU go be awesome? What the fuck am I supposed to do, just stop being awesome because you don't like it?
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
You're putting words in her mouth. The sloth demon wouldn't kill him, only possess him. What good would killing a host with a very powerful ability do? Plus this tome could help Merrill with her Eluvian problem, hence why she in her naivety wanted that tome more than anything.
So she gained a +5 rivalry? Big fucking deal, GET OVER IT.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
I just played through this section in the game, and I thought exactly the same thing. It seems bizarrely inconsistent with many of the other interactions my character has had with Merrill.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
You're putting words in her mouth. The sloth demon wouldn't kill him, only possess him. What good would killing a host with a very powerful ability do? Plus this tome could help Merrill with her Eluvian problem, hence why she in her naivety wanted that tome more than anything.
So she gained a +5 rivalry? Big fucking deal, GET OVER IT.
I guess the point I'm making is too fine for you to grasp. I'm not bitching about a +5 rivalry gain. The rivalry gain
indicates something extremely nasty about Merrill's character.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
what, really?
I'll have to replay that quest with merrill coming along. although after checking out the da2 wiki I couldn't find any evidence of your claim.
edit:
ok, after reading the new posts above I can simply dismiss your claim.
Merrill is pro blood magic. blood magic is dealing with demons/spirits. You telling a demon to shove it without even listening to the offer is naturally going to antagonise merrill a bit. Equating this with "murderous intent" is idiocy.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
You're putting words in her mouth. The sloth demon wouldn't kill him, only possess him. What good would killing a host with a very powerful ability do? Plus this tome could help Merrill with her Eluvian problem, hence why she in her naivety wanted that tome more than anything.
So she gained a +5 rivalry? Big fucking deal, GET OVER IT.
I guess the point I'm making is too fine for you to grasp. I'm not bitching about a +5 rivalry gain. The rivalry gain
indicates something extremely nasty about Merrill's character.
No, it would be a hint of something nasty of her character if you got a +30 rivalry for doing the right thing. Her +5 would be more along the lines of the "I didn't get that small thing I wanted? Waaaah~!" I mean, have you ever brought Fenris? He's the one who actually wants Feynriel dead. He even gets pissed at you after you talk to him after he betrays you in the Fade, saying that the smart thing would've been to go to the Dalish and kill him while he sleeps.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
what, really?
I'll have to replay that quest with merrill coming along. although after checking out the da2 wiki I couldn't find any evidence of your claim.
edit:
ok, after reading the new posts above I can simply dismiss your claim.
Merrill is pro blood magic. blood magic is dealing with demons/spirits. You telling a demon to shove it without even listening to the offer is naturally going to antagonise merrill a bit. Equating this with "murderous intent" is idiocy.
You obviously didn't read very carefully. I heard the demon out, investigated fully, but ultimately it was a choice of allowing it to possess him or not, and I said no.
+5 rivalry with evil bitch Merrill.
It should also be pointed out that even greedy, selfish Isabella didn't gain rivalry for that. Only Merrill.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
what, really?
I'll have to replay that quest with merrill coming along. although after checking out the da2 wiki I couldn't find any evidence of your claim.
edit:
ok, after reading the new posts above I can simply dismiss your claim.
Merrill is pro blood magic. blood magic is dealing with demons/spirits. You telling a demon to shove it without even listening to the offer is naturally going to antagonise merrill a bit. Equating this with "murderous intent" is idiocy.
You obviously didn't read very carefully. I heard the demon out, investigated fully, but ultimately it was a choice of allowing it to possess him or not, and I said no.
+5 rivalry with evil bitch Merrill.
right, and a +5 is nothing. a +15 or more during a quest will have the party member audiably opposing what you're currently doing. I think you're wishfully reading way too much into this, particularly because Merrill doesn't display any homocidal tendencies during the rest of the game.
edit: Merrill is pro blood magic. any choice you make that condemns this outlook on life will be rewarded with rivalry points out of sheer principality. For an explicit "judgement of your actions" you want a higher number.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
She pretty clearly wanted me to kill Feynriel. Of course, he's only half-elven so I guess he doesn't count as a person.
what, really?
I'll have to replay that quest with merrill coming along. although after checking out the da2 wiki I couldn't find any evidence of your claim.
edit:
ok, after reading the new posts above I can simply dismiss your claim.
Merrill is pro blood magic. blood magic is dealing with demons/spirits. You telling a demon to shove it without even listening to the offer is naturally going to antagonise merrill a bit. Equating this with "murderous intent" is idiocy.
You obviously didn't read very carefully. I heard the demon out, investigated fully, but ultimately it was a choice of allowing it to possess him or not, and I said no.
+5 rivalry with evil bitch Merrill.
right, and a +5 is nothing. a +15 or more during a quest will have the party member audiably opposing what you're currently doing. I think you're wishfully reading way too much into this, particularly because Merrill doesn't display any homocidal tendencies during the rest of the game.
I think you guys are turning a blind eye to the fact that only one party member gets upset when you refuse to sacrifice a teenage kid to a demon.
However mild her disagreement is over it, she disagrees with it.
Hence my complaint that she is a wishy-washy evil. Morrigan or Zevran would have been vocally upset by this choice, because they never made an effort to hide how nasty they were deep down.
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there you go.
the same method can be used to check on whether seb has gimped you in any way.
edit:
having the icon on its own in your ability screen without isabela in your party isn't necessarily bad. It's when you save a game in any of the aforementioned areas and reload from that save that will then screw you over.
I have him tied up in my basement for letting it slip through in the first place.
unforgivable
Edit: Meant to second Delta's, but the basement torture one will do fine too!
what a preposterous jaw.
does he have 3cm long teeth or whats going on there!
Er, once you're seeing the icon in your screen when they aren't in your party it means you are afflicted with the bug, and will be losing attack speed/DR every time they come and go from your party. So if what the testing dude posted is true, seeing the buff when they aren't in your party indicates that you have already loaded a save from one of those areas at some point in the past.
Next up, Nice Warrior Hawke who will be
the icon occurs during certain area transitions but does not nerf your stats. saving and reloading in one of the "bad" areas afflicts you with a stat reduction.
you can read the entire testing the guy did here:
http://social.bioware.com/forum/Dragon-Age-II/Dragon-Age-II-Characters-Classes-and-Builds-Spoilers/Isabella-Thumbs-Up-Problem-Solved-6646855-1.html
I myself have had the icon but not the nerf because i didn't save and reload in a bad area.
I have had both her and seb in and out of my party many many times at max friendship and I have yet to see their icons in my screen when they aren't in my party.
So, where are these times that I should supposedly be seeing their icon in my screen without having them in the party?
Isabela is just...ugh.
Yeah, you're a sleazy whore. WE GET IT.
It's like she was designed and written for 13 year olds and no one else.
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It's like they wrote her to be the Tali of DA2.
That's the same picture you made a joke with a couple weeks ago. Like, literally the same one!
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I brought Andershealbot, Rogue Hawke and 2H Fenris tank. Fenris is specced to tank but too low to have enough abilities to really be a tank. He can't hold aggro or take much damage, he dies in two hits to the rock wraith, I heal, shield, potion and before and of that comes up again he is dead. I don't think I can do this fight without cheesing or lowering the difficulty can I?
She has a much, much more interesting romance than Tali and it's much, much less creepy than with Tali.
Fade spoilers:
Seriously bitch? Seriously? Ok fine. Watch me take you with me and make you watch while I burn all the evil tomes. I will also deprive of you of your magic garden trowel. And I'll laugh at you and say cruel things when you cry, because you deserve it.
I wanted to slap her.
Also, small rivalry boosts are nothing to get mad over. A +5 means that they're grumbling under their teeth, but will follow the decision without a fuss. Now, a +15 or a +30... and they're gonna be vocal. They won't shut up, like, until the quest is over.
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Yeah aveline, you're a stick in the mud, we get it.
yeah merrill, you're gullible, we get it.
yeah fenris, you're really emo and anti-mage, we get it.
I thought isabela was at least interesting because she goes from being a selfish hedonist to a slightly more conservative scamp with a heart of gold. there's some sort of character progression going on here, which can't be said for any of the others really (at least I couldn't get any of the others to shift in personality through dialogue).
I don't get the merrill tali comparisons at all. merrill is just really, REALLY gullible and, at the end of it all, only given her abilities because she was considered weak and easy to prey upon. None of this applies to tali.
My new goal is to get her from the +40ish friendship I had her at to +100 rivalry by the end of this act. And this is honestly the last time I will try being friends with this character, she's just awful.
Getting absolutely worked on my 2Hander Hawke in the Prologue. Had to chug all 7 of my health pots before I made it to Kirkwall. Spent all of my money on new ones. Is this normal for Hard Mode? (Particularly the Bethany getting manhandled in 1 hit by Normal-level mobs.)
I refuse to accept kiting as a viable RPG strategy. Completely cheeseballing the encounters to do that. Would rather play it on Normal again if I'm just going to spend the entire time with my tank running from things while the others beat it up.
As I pointed out, she's not a merely gullible innocent, but actively evil, just such a weak brand of evil that it's uninteresting and unimpressive.
that isn't true either.
Merrill doesn't want to kill anyone. Lust and greed do not factor into her decision making. She wants to reconnect with the elvhen culture pre-tevinter shennanigans.
Carver bitches now and then, but he does stick up for Hawke on more than one occasion. He just doesn't like being left behind and known simply as "Hawke's younger brother" his whole life.
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I never encountered the bug, based on opening my last autosave and checking the whatever, and I'm pretty sure I at some point saved in and reloaded from one of those places. I don't know how anybody could play through the game without having done so....
Does platform matter? I'm on PC.
Re. Carver: Oh, you don't like living in my shadow because I'm so awesome? Well why don't YOU go be awesome? What the fuck am I supposed to do, just stop being awesome because you don't like it?
So she gained a +5 rivalry? Big fucking deal, GET OVER IT.
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I just played through this section in the game, and I thought exactly the same thing. It seems bizarrely inconsistent with many of the other interactions my character has had with Merrill.
I guess the point I'm making is too fine for you to grasp. I'm not bitching about a +5 rivalry gain. The rivalry gain
what, really?
I'll have to replay that quest with merrill coming along. although after checking out the da2 wiki I couldn't find any evidence of your claim.
edit:
ok, after reading the new posts above I can simply dismiss your claim.
Merrill is pro blood magic. blood magic is dealing with demons/spirits. You telling a demon to shove it without even listening to the offer is naturally going to antagonise merrill a bit. Equating this with "murderous intent" is idiocy.
hrm hrm
"Oh, and in a pinch I'll sacrifice other people."
Not something that can be glossed over.
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+5 rivalry with evil bitch Merrill.
It should also be pointed out that even greedy, selfish Isabella didn't gain rivalry for that. Only Merrill.
right, and a +5 is nothing. a +15 or more during a quest will have the party member audiably opposing what you're currently doing. I think you're wishfully reading way too much into this, particularly because Merrill doesn't display any homocidal tendencies during the rest of the game.
edit: Merrill is pro blood magic. any choice you make that condemns this outlook on life will be rewarded with rivalry points out of sheer principality. For an explicit "judgement of your actions" you want a higher number.
I think you guys are turning a blind eye to the fact that only one party member gets upset when you refuse to sacrifice a teenage kid to a demon.
However mild her disagreement is over it, she disagrees with it.
Hence my complaint that she is a wishy-washy evil. Morrigan or Zevran would have been vocally upset by this choice, because they never made an effort to hide how nasty they were deep down.