The Glade 4.0

I am currently a Human Warrior, going sword and board for want of a better idea. I am maybe 2 or 3 hours in.

I went sword and board as well - most of the way into all three shield trees. I forgot trivial little things like "If I'm going to get everyone's attention with my Massive Armor and Threaten, I need to have the HP to back it up", though. >_>

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

I'm starting with Human Noble Rogue. I'll pick up Duelist when it opens up.

I'm a Dalish Elven Rogue with the ranger spec so far. I've found the wolf to be incredibly useful so far. 5 party members is awesome. Especially since it takes some of the heat off Alistair when he rushes into melee. Also, I haven't been able to figure out how to prevent Leliana from switchng to melee weapons when enemies close in. She has the melee archer talent, so there's no real reason for her to switch(since I didn't pick up any melee only talents for her) and she has all of these nice shots she can use with a bow.

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Raltar -- perhaps remove her melee weapons? Also, look for a "switch to melee weapon" command in the combat tactics.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Got it in the mail last night and played it for like 5 hours, went with an elven mage, though one thing I don't like is the whole friendly fire thing with mage spells, since you basically always have party members around it makes them near useless spells and it seems practically all of the damage dealing spells are friendly fire posible so I do hope someone makes a hack to disable that, hopefully though it will be less of an issue when I spec arcane warrior. Overall though it's definitly a great game and I was also very happy that my PC was able to run it just fine with setting on high at 1080p because I was really worried about that.

Check the tactics screen, and make sure she has the "Archer" behavior selected. Also, you might have to remove the tactic that causes her to use Dirty Fighting when enemies are in melee range. That should do it, or you could change it to Shatter Shot instead of Dirty Fighting. If that doesn't work, you can do like Kaffis said and remove her melee weapons, as a last resort.

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Dirty Fighting doesn't require melee weapons. It can be used while shootin'.

Right now I'm stuck I've heard that kiting him works because he only focuses on 1 character at a time, so I'll try that.

I didn't have to much a problem with him on normal dificulty, but my character being a mage with healing I think made all the difference there, I hardly cast any spells on him and was mostly healing the whole fight, had to use a few potions to regain mana but that was about it.

Yeah, I have no healers and zero potions left after running through the whole tower :[

I'm about to start the tower, and really regretting that the quartermaster had already left when I went to check in on him before the battle...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Be sure to tell your group to hold, and pull small packs if you can. Increases survivability 10x.

That's a tough one. I'm playing on Hard and it took me about 15 tries to beat that.

I definitlly need to get back into my MMo mode of thinking cause I never even thought about trying to pull a smaller group, like the 2nd floor of the tower I fought the entire floor all at once, lol, and I didn't even notice....

The balistas don't do much. 10 damage or so and a knockdown.

The knockdown was pretty useful.

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-Jonathan Quick

Healing is extremely handy, but the cooldowns on a lot of it puts a damper on.

Hexing is fun, though.

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Sword and Board going pretty well. Thanks for the heads up about Con Dal, I loaded a few points in to keep it up to snuff. I have not unlocked the specialties yet though even though I hit 7+. Seems i see the path to Templar but not to the others yet.

I had little problems with the tower on normal difficulty both run troughs, warrior and rogue archer. Not sure why not.

You have to buy/find/unlock specialties.

And once you unlock them, they stay unlocked for all future characters made. My new Rogue is enjoying that he gets access to Duelist and Assassin immediately instead of having to hunt down the teachers.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

I'm having trouble choosing my second spec for my archer rogue. Assassin focuses on backstabbing, so that's out. I already have a bard and I doubt the songs stack. That leaves duelist...but I don't know if the abilities work with a bow. The fourth ability in the line looks very nice, but if it doesn't work with ranged attacks, the whole specialization is pretty worthless to my archer.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Yeah, I'm feeling the same way contemplating (though I haven't yet gotten the duelist, yet) my second spec. It seems like the rogue ones are too specialized to really combine well. Well, I should say, they don't leave much room for avoiding one. I could go assassin, but i don't want to backstab; hence the attraction to duelist.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The fourth bard song is supposed to be amazingly good.

I beat this game today. The most satisfying gaming experience in my entire life. The only complaint I have is the lack of good jewelery in the game. I used my Band of Fire and Luck Stone the entire game and only switched my necklace and belt once each.

http://social.bioware.com/playerprofile ... =character

Not fully updated, but be wary of spoilers.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Sadly, I think this game is going to the Jade Empire stack.

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