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11-07-2009, 06:16 PM | #211 |
FINALLY! The wait is over.
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Yeah. That happened to me for the first time last night. NPC characters and they're opening sentence or two are muted. Pretty ****ed up really.
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11-07-2009, 06:18 PM | #212 |
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I saw (or heard) that sound glitch during the mage origin story (the only one I've done so far), I haven't noticed it in the wider game.
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11-07-2009, 06:22 PM | #213 |
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11-07-2009, 06:36 PM | #214 |
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I finally got myself trained for Arcane Warrior. It's so cool to be able to light stuff on fire in chainmail!
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11-07-2009, 06:59 PM | #215 |
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Both Arcane Warrior and Shapeshifter seem kind of pointless from a gameplay perspective. There isn't much point to gimping yourself as a mage in return for being a warrior with no combat skills or an animal that can't cast spells. The mage specializations abilities aren't really all that useful outside of the first two spirit healer spells.
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11-07-2009, 07:36 PM | #216 | |
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11-07-2009, 08:05 PM | #217 |
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If the last hour is any indication, you're not gimped at all as an arcane warrior. At least I haven't been. Now, I haven't tried running with Combat Magic active, but I am curious to see how effective it is with Aura of Might and Fade Shroud. Needless to say it's going to be quite a while before I gain the levels for that.
'course, I took it primarily for roleplay reasons. This mage was always going to be the arcane warrior and the next is a shapeshifting blood mage. I doubt I'll ever do spirit healer. I think what the specializations are really for is a different route to traditional d&d classes. You can create a cleric with arcane warrior, spirit healer and a mix of the creation and spirit spell trees, or a druid with some combination of arcane warrior, shapeshifter and spirit healer and the creation spell tree. Necromancer would be blood mage, entropy and a little bit of spirit (for animate dead). Just a way to add some depth to a 3-class game, although those three classes are all obviously pretty flexible even without specialization... |
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11-07-2009, 08:36 PM | #218 |
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This game is just blowing me away.
So, apparently rogues can detect and disarm traps by default. I was just in the absolute coolest dungeon setup of traps I've ever seen in a game. Leliana (who'd never detected a trap prior to setting foot in this room; I didn't even know she could without the trap skill) started going nuts about traps everywhere and ended up disarming FIFTEEN in one room. I activated one by accident and it was freaking awesome, the way they had fire criss-crossing around the place: |
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11-08-2009, 10:57 AM | #219 |
Ain't no relax!
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For me, other than combat situations, Morrigan is in her panties....
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why would i want to look at a dude all the time if i can look at a cartoon chick instead. I was hoping someone would say "put on some clothes!" or something.
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11-08-2009, 12:18 PM | #221 |
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BTW, I sincerely hope whoever thought up that goddamn endless shapeshifting maze dream sequence thing is getting anally abused with a jackhammer right now.
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11-08-2009, 07:42 PM | #222 |
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11-08-2009, 09:46 PM | #224 | |
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That's the only part of the game so far where I've had to cheat and turn the settings down from nightmare. Just for one fight. On the Templar level of the tower, where the desire demon has enraptured the templar. On Nightmare, I couldn't last 3 seconds in that fight. Wasn't even able to get a spell off before the templar stunned the entire group with smite and then she hit everybody with a bunch of mind shit and then cold spells. It was insane. I tried everything, hitting them with cone of cold, casting earthquake to knock them all down, hitting her with force field. None of it worked. I think the longest I ever lasted was 2-3 minutes, I killed all the skeletons, but couldn't kill the templar and desire demon. She broke out of both frozen and the force field too quickly. |
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11-08-2009, 09:53 PM | #225 |
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You guys checked out your online profiles? Characters and achievements are uploaded while you play (big brother likes videogames, apparently). Here's mine.
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