I keep pissing her off by making out with bar wenches and underaged orphans.

Wow you can make out with orphans?

Not like their dad is gonna stop you.

Just fucked the bard chick. She does girl on girl for those wondering too. God getting her bar that high took long. Unlike morri who you can get 10 - 20 points at a time, you only ever get like 2 or 3 points with lelianna, and she needs to be around 95 before you can bed her I think.

I find the completely opposite, I find I can only get 2 or 3 points at a time with morrigan, but 8 or 9 or even once 15 points at a time with leliana. Wonder what affects that...

Spoiler:

When doing the Sacred Ashes quest, accepting kologrim's offer of putting blood on them will force you to kill leliana. If you want to keep boning her dont do this.

ahah dm.. so doing that next play through

spoiler question:

Spoiler:
anyone know if its worth paying 10 gold to wade to use the drake scales to make your armour? i wouldnt mind saving that 10g if it makes no difference..its anohter 10 bag slots!
edit: stumbled on this: http://au.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-52101317&pid=920668 you get what you pay for :)


last edited by CSIRAC at 04:19:35 08/Nov/09

I'm going to sleep with Alister, he's got to be gay the big pansy.

I ditched Alister first chance I got, dirty Human.

I'm playing a City Elf that hates Humans. I've taken every chance to kill humans that I've been given.

Spoiler:

Morrigan loves it.



I hope I get an option somewhere that lets me turn in one of my party for power and much $'s. I've got enough humans to feed whoever wants them hahh.

Such an awesome game, the missus is starting to get pissed I'm not spending any time with her. Argh!

[nerdage]Anyone notice the distinct abundance of camel toe when the female character's aren't wearing any armour?[/nerdage]

so failing all my exams because of this game

I just need to hold out for 3 more days.. hopefully I'll make it

Alistair is awesome, I take him with me everywhere just cos hes got so many cool lines (ended up making him my tank). I'm playing my character as a bit of an unscrupulous bitch, not evil so much as opportunistic and not afraid to murder children if its for the greater good. Most of the time Alistair doesn't like what I'm doing, and his approval rating has started to slip into hostile, which is starting to make me sad now cos whenever I talk to him hes all mean and stuff towards me :( I miss the old, fun loving joking Alistair :(

lol Khel, I'm also playing a bit like that, except that all Humans MUST die given the opportunity.

I've killed merchants that I wanted to sell too :(

I'm about to make a dwarf out of sheer curiosity.

Spoiler:
Went back on my mage and reloaded the part where you can contaminate the ashes. Chose not to and save Lelieana which caused the Reaver leader to attack me. After I killed him I noticed he dropped a horn. Blew it without reading what it did and got ass fucked by a high dragon that landed. He literaly almost killed me just by landing on the ground. Managed to kill it (only just, and this was after changing to easy and my characters are all 11 - 12) and christ it dropped like 9 items, including a full armor set, some weapons and a dragon scale quest item. Watch out for that damn horn when you get it! Don't go blowing it willy nilly.

i redeemed the code for dlc. is it possible to pause the downloads? just the fucking stone golem group mate thing is 500mb :/

DM:

Spoiler:
Funnily i got up to that part and i wasnt paying too much attention and thought summoning the dragon was part of what i had to do.. got spanked pretty hard. Didnt think of dropping it to easy to kill it though, dont think i would have done it anyway. Ill go back later and kick its ass.

As for the dragon scale. I managed to kill 4 dragonkin on the way to the mountaintop and got 4 scales. Give it to wade and he makes a nice set of armor for you. Also, pay him the gold ;).

I made my dwarf and lets just say that for everyone thinking of doing this prepare to lose all your DLC items due to the storyline. Lelieana is gonna get her some dwarf meat now. Wonder if you can give wynne what for too? anyone even bothered attempting that? lol

It seems the only 4 people who you can do the relationship thing with is Morrigan, Zevran, Alistair and Leliana. Zevran will even do some man-on-man action if you're into that sort of thing.

Zevran will even do some man-on-man action if you're into that sort of thing.

Is that why you moved to Melbourne ?

Wouldn't I move to sydney if thats what I was chasing?

Noone in my group likes me, wtf.

Anyone else getting massive load times with this game? I've got a clean install of W7 on a new PC and I'm waiting for upto a minute at times for loading between areas. Saints Row 2 loads up in seconds and is a massive sandbox game, this thing can take a minute to load a tiny area.

Nah, I don't get massive load times, although I've noticed a few people on the bioware forums complaining about load times too (usually stuff like long load times when loading the random encounters, when you're travelling from place to place), so I guess its a bug or something.

Long load times occurs after a long, long period of play it seems.
As I had the same thing and I highly doubt it's my PC, unless its a a Vista/Win7 thing.

i7 920, 6gb ram, gtx 275 etc.

Mages/Blood Mage Specialisation:
Spoiler:
If you enter the fade and save the kid you can gain the blood mage specialisation it seems, I however, chose to kill him, because he was annoying, and to teach his even more annoying pretentious mother a lesson :)
My question is, does anybody know if/where/when else you get this specialisation?


last edited by Mephz at 11:26:04 09/Nov/09

I've got quick load times.

I notice that long load times only occur if you're multitasking something thats also accessing your HD, even if its a small thing like 50meg file download. Thats what Ive noticed anyway.

About Blood Mage spec
Spoiler:
You need to be a mage yourself so when it comes time to enter the fade, you can choose to go in yourself. Anyone else you send in can't unlock it. Talk to the demon at the end and give the curious answers until you can choose the give me blood magic one. And there you go!

You can't unlock it any other way.

last edited by DM at 14:14:00 09/Nov/09

I run around with Alister, Morrigan and Shale (The stone golem), man Shale is a fucking tank and an awesome fighter but sounds like an effeminant Ricky Gervais (which is sort of redundant due to the fact Gervais is effeminant sounding anyway).

Oh and I bought the additional points and bought the warden's keep addon, so fucking worth it. Literally this game has taken over my life.

Mephz - I've noticed it too, when you start cranking up to the 8-9 hour sessions right at the end is starts to load like a slug. Bastards! I need my ten hour DA:O sessions dammit! FYI I just clocked in at 26 hours total playtime, not including loading up previous saves. God. Last time this happened to me it was with Mass Effect =|

ive almost played for 14 hrs. ive done soldiers peak and now onto shale. i got the power of blood skills from drinking a potion at soldiers peak

I found Shale pretty boring to use though, I like the character, but he just has no real options for gear and fuck all skills/abilities, makes him pretty boring to use once you get over the novelty.

Forgot to cash in my code to get the DLC for the rock dude.. time to go grab him

I found Shale pretty boring to use though, I like the character, but he just has no real options for gear and fuck all skills/abilities, makes him pretty boring to use once you get over the novelty.

im loving him. hes a shitload better at tanking than alastair.


also do characters that youre not using gain xp as well?

last edited by ravn0s at 22:47:37 09/Nov/09

I'm about to buy the game from Steam. I'm gonna grab the Deluxe Edition since it's not that much more plus with the Aussie dollar being nice atm it's fucking cheap as shit.

Wish me luck!

I've switched the combat down to Easy now, its just getting too frustrating and annoying and killing my enjoyment of the game. I'm sick of wrestling with the horrible pathfinding that makes my characters jitter around on the edge of a fight trying to find a way to the mob they want to hit, but instead end up sitting there doing nothing. Sick of the crappy AI that seems to spontaneously decide not to follow the tactics I've set up for it to follow. Sick of the insanely OP mages that just fireball and chain lightning my group and kill me in 2 seconds.

I just want to go back to actually enjoying the game instead of having to quicksave after every fight and take five times longer than normal to play my way through a dungeon because I have to run in, grab a few people's attention, run back out and around a corner and wait for them to come out, kill them, rinse, repeat.

Also, the inventory is becoming another source of frustration and annoyance, no stash or bank or somewhere to keep items you don't want to lug around with you is fucking gay. I end up with half my inventory space taken up with armour I'm keeping for other characters or keeping for later and stuff to make poisons/traps/other shit.

last edited by Khel at 00:42:01 10/Nov/09

I finally figured out what they mean on the loading page tips by "try different combinations of spells". Putting down a Glyph of Repulsion, over the top of a Glyph of Paralysis makes the later, explode doing an AoE paralyze to everyone nearby. You get stunned mabye 3 seconds while they can last up to around 8. Cool shit. Also Improved Drain is when you have cast Vulnerability Hex on the target. It makes Drain Mana and Life spells 2x as strong.

Only found this out because I leveled a spirit healer mage (yes, ANOTHER character) and was trying to protect against a large group of mobs. No real dps on the healer but that will come after I have every heal/buff possible in the creation section.

Also anyone know if you get to go to different areas or is it the 1 map screen for the entire game? I'm guessing if/when expansions come they will open those areas up like Antevia and Orles or whatever they are called

last edited by DM at 02:38:37 10/Nov/09

Stop spoiling the game you fucking stupid cunts!!

LOL, just joking. Can't wait to start playing this. Sounds awesome plus some of the gameplay trailers I've been checking out the visuals look lush as fuck. Be a nice change from WoW.

Also anyone know if you get to go to different areas or is it the 1 map screen for the entire game? I'm guessing if/when expansions come they will open those areas up like Antevia and Orles or whatever they are called

Pretty sure they're for future games. I remember seeing an interview/dev diary thing with the guys working on it and they showed a map of the whole world, and Feralden, where Origins is set, is such a tiny part of it. And they were saying that they intend to turn Dragon Age into an ongoing franchise and thats why they've built this massive world, so future games can take advantage of it (I'm paraphrasing, but it was along those lines).

Also, the inventory is becoming another source of frustration and annoyance, no stash or bank or somewhere to keep items you don't want to lug around with you is fucking gay. I end up with half my inventory space taken up with armour I'm keeping for other characters or keeping for later and stuff to make poisons/traps/other shit.

if you got the deluxe edition get the downloadable content called soldiers peak. read more in the spoiler tags below:

Spoiler:
it gives you a base you can work from with a chest you can store stuff in :)

what taggs said. does anyone else have the starfang sword? damn it looks sexy. i cant use it yet though since you need high strength :(

after creating a human sword and shield warrior i got over his lack of awesome and created a dwarf warrior 2 handed swords.. and he fucking rocks me...

my rogue sucks. im thinking about starting over again as a mage.

Duelist rogue..massive dps + cool glowly weapons ( http://dump.justwipeit.com/Screenshots/Tim_244.jpg ). Basically playing him like a rogue in wow. i have everyone in the party to assist me. Thought for some reason alistair refuses to assist me and just fkn stands there until i jiggled the cable and told him to assist my archer (who assists me) and now he works good. stupid.

I ended up banking shale because i just got alistair his full dragon set and i need to pump his str so he can use it :(



last edited by CSIRAC at 11:43:44 10/Nov/09

I ditched Alistair, I was pissing him off anyway.

I got that 2 handed Quinari dude, and the Dog. The Dog is good at the start but I don't think he scales well, so I'm going to ditch him for a Rouge, as I cant open any locked chests :(

So whats the deal with the spec skills? who trains you in them. I have a rogue atm but no idea how to become an assassin etc

yer im not duelist yet csirac. i need to find the person that will train me

The Dog is good at the start but I don't think he scales well, so I'm going to ditch him for a Rouge, as I cant open any locked chests :(

get leiliana from the lothering bar.

last edited by ravn0s at 12:59:10 10/Nov/09

I've switched the combat down to Easy now, its just getting too frustrating and annoying and killing my enjoyment of the game. I'm sick of wrestling with the horrible pathfinding that makes my characters jitter around on the edge of a fight trying to find a way to the mob they want to hit, but instead end up sitting there doing nothing. Sick of the crappy AI that seems to spontaneously decide not to follow the tactics I've set up for it to follow. Sick of the insanely OP mages that just fireball and chain lightning my group and kill me in 2 seconds.

Isn't that part of the fun of this game - having challenging fights? I guess noobs might prefer WoW-style (aka easy difficulty) where you can mash 1 button to victory.

as I cant open any locked chests :(

My rogue started off pretty meh but the only reason I kept her was for the lewts.

So whats the deal with the spec skills? who trains you in them. I have a rogue atm but no idea how to become an assassin etc

At a guess the Assassin named Zasomething could teach you to assassin shit. Pretty sure you can get your characters to teach you what they know. My rogue is a duelist, I found a trainer in Spoiler:
the Pearl in Denerim.

So whats the deal with the spec skills? who trains you in them. I have a rogue atm but no idea how to become an assassin etc

Assassin
Spoiler:
Zevhran, the assassin sent to kill you, can be befriended and joins your group if you dont kill him when he fails. After this you have to get him to like you and eventually he will give you the option to train you in assassination. I had to get him around 65+ before he did though


Bard
Spoiler:
Same for above but this time it's with leleiana. However I think you can get her to teach you at a much lower level


Duelist
Spoiler:
In Denerim there is a whore house called The Pearl. You need to go here and you'll see a lady fighting off like 4 people. When they run away, talk to her and eventually she will agree to teach you if you beat her at a card game. It takes about 10 games until you realise she is cheating and then you beat her


Hunter
Spoiler:
Just buy the book from... I forget where actually. It's pretty god damn shit though. Oh joy I get a wolf or bear beside me for 80% of my stamina. FUN!

Sick of the crappy AI that seems to spontaneously decide not to follow the tactics I've set up for it to follow. Sick of the insanely OP mages that just fireball and chain lightning my group and kill me in 2 seconds.

I can understand some of your frustration. Often I micro my rogue into position for extra backstabby goodness and then when I select another character she goes into AI tactics mode and runs off to attack another mob.

The only way I can figure to work it is to set everyone to hold (H button) so they don't go running off, which is kinda annoying because I just want my rogue to hold position, not the entire party.

The combat tactics seem quite intricate, and I set up a mage to pew pew but it doesn't seem to be working properly, so I might have to have more of a play with it. I'm probably missing something obvious.

I find through if all else fails, micro the shit out of the battle and you can get much better results.