Orzammar etc
(OH YEAH, I killed my first Revenant on Normal. I read something about having a couple of ranged attackers and really stuck to that and took him down! There's a couple more that I wasn't comfortable going casual on but wasn't able to confront on normal but now I feel pretty confident. I mean, they level with you, right?)
I was pretty hung up on the whole King thing. I originally was going to do Bhelen's quests but then I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, so I ended up in the Proving instead. I now know that when I went to the Aeducan Thaig (seriously ALWAYS THIS ) I was supposed to go down a tunnel that I originally missed somehow. I am hoping I can still go back and do it, even after choosing a king... cuz I am NOT going all the way back, and if I do it after the whole Anvil thing and before the king thing, I'm out of everything... I guess I could try to go back to Party camp and stock up on flasks etc....
A moment of fiction:
Jarvia says "kill them, except for the pretty one. I've got plans for her..." or something and I just imagined a very Whedony or Harmon moment of Aurie, Leiliana and Morrigan kind of smiling self satisfied and bashfully and then looking at each other in confusion like "wait, does she mean you?"
Or some kind of take on that moment.
an example from Community (argh it won't embed at the correct moment!) and this. Think that but with a more positive spin? This is why I don't write fiction.
(an aside: My feelings about those kids in Art of Discourse is kind of like the feeling I feel for the Titans on Attack on Titan. I feel fucking ANGRY and HELPLESS and FUCKING FURIOUS!!! obviously to a lesser degree of the former to the latter but still it's in the same vein)
I did take Oghren with me through the Dark Roads, he kind of insisted. I replaced Leiliana, although once we're out I'll probably put her back in. I like having the range of an archer and a mage and then 2 folks in melee mode.
I added points to my stealth mode and it is nice that even when the others start fighting I can still sneak up and hit a group with a couple flasks before jumping in the fray. Also being able to run around and detrap the traps laid out....
For the bigger more functional version of this guy
I heavily relied on Morrigan... and "forcefield". I know that they've had similar types of powers in Mass Effect and I never utilized them because I always thought "what's the point of having them frozen yet impervious to damage? I want them frozen and VERY pervious!" But I get it now. It's nice to have the heavy artillery paused while you take out the little guys. (mooks? I'm still new to the terminology) Anyway I see its usefulness now. Even previously with a lot of other objectives, although sometimes she's a bit overzealous with it and they all just kind of stand around something relatively harmless, but at least they have a moment to rebuild their stamina for a sec. It's whatever I made the tactics thingy.
Anyway, that fight ended up being Morrigan and Alistair by the end. And I just kept potting Morrigan up and casting all everything... it eventually worked! The first time! I thought for a moment then I should kick up the difficulty past normal but honestly I like winning. I feel like I've actually gotten somewhere.
Oh yeah, the Anvil. Um? I destroyed it? I'm an elf, and we've had far too much servitude to allow others to be enslaved (maybe my mage will be of a different perspective, I don't know)... right? I mean Morrigan was pissed but she can go suck an egg. Or eat 7 sugar cakes (goddammit I want sugar cakes! Stupid low carb diet) "EAT THESE!! YOU WILL LIKE ME AGAIN!!"
I do like Bhelen's wanting to lose the whole caste thing, (again, elf.. or normal, feeling person) but his tactics are shitty. The other guy is way more straightforward seeming, but I don't dig his politics.
OK there is probs more and this is probs FULL OF ERRORS, but I finished orzammar like 2 days ago and I want to continue so I have to post this now.
I was pretty hung up on the whole King thing. I originally was going to do Bhelen's quests but then I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, so I ended up in the Proving instead. I now know that when I went to the Aeducan Thaig (seriously ALWAYS THIS ) I was supposed to go down a tunnel that I originally missed somehow. I am hoping I can still go back and do it, even after choosing a king... cuz I am NOT going all the way back, and if I do it after the whole Anvil thing and before the king thing, I'm out of everything... I guess I could try to go back to Party camp and stock up on flasks etc....
A moment of fiction:
Jarvia says "kill them, except for the pretty one. I've got plans for her..." or something and I just imagined a very Whedony or Harmon moment of Aurie, Leiliana and Morrigan kind of smiling self satisfied and bashfully and then looking at each other in confusion like "wait, does she mean you?"
Or some kind of take on that moment.
an example from Community (argh it won't embed at the correct moment!) and this. Think that but with a more positive spin? This is why I don't write fiction.
(an aside: My feelings about those kids in Art of Discourse is kind of like the feeling I feel for the Titans on Attack on Titan. I feel fucking ANGRY and HELPLESS and FUCKING FURIOUS!!! obviously to a lesser degree of the former to the latter but still it's in the same vein)
I did take Oghren with me through the Dark Roads, he kind of insisted. I replaced Leiliana, although once we're out I'll probably put her back in. I like having the range of an archer and a mage and then 2 folks in melee mode.
I added points to my stealth mode and it is nice that even when the others start fighting I can still sneak up and hit a group with a couple flasks before jumping in the fray. Also being able to run around and detrap the traps laid out....
For the bigger more functional version of this guy
I heavily relied on Morrigan... and "forcefield". I know that they've had similar types of powers in Mass Effect and I never utilized them because I always thought "what's the point of having them frozen yet impervious to damage? I want them frozen and VERY pervious!" But I get it now. It's nice to have the heavy artillery paused while you take out the little guys. (mooks? I'm still new to the terminology) Anyway I see its usefulness now. Even previously with a lot of other objectives, although sometimes she's a bit overzealous with it and they all just kind of stand around something relatively harmless, but at least they have a moment to rebuild their stamina for a sec. It's whatever I made the tactics thingy.
Anyway, that fight ended up being Morrigan and Alistair by the end. And I just kept potting Morrigan up and casting all everything... it eventually worked! The first time! I thought for a moment then I should kick up the difficulty past normal but honestly I like winning. I feel like I've actually gotten somewhere.
Oh yeah, the Anvil. Um? I destroyed it? I'm an elf, and we've had far too much servitude to allow others to be enslaved (maybe my mage will be of a different perspective, I don't know)... right? I mean Morrigan was pissed but she can go suck an egg. Or eat 7 sugar cakes (goddammit I want sugar cakes! Stupid low carb diet) "EAT THESE!! YOU WILL LIKE ME AGAIN!!"
I do like Bhelen's wanting to lose the whole caste thing, (again, elf.. or normal, feeling person) but his tactics are shitty. The other guy is way more straightforward seeming, but I don't dig his politics.
OK there is probs more and this is probs FULL OF ERRORS, but I finished orzammar like 2 days ago and I want to continue so I have to post this now.