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 Compel wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:
Question to mages: How can you bear to play the opening? I'm trying to run a mage and it's just so boring pre-spec.

Mostly by giggling like a schoolboy whenever I use chain lightning. Zappity, zappp zapppp zappity zap. I was a combined Spirit / Lightning mage, so early on a lot of the things I was doing was based around positioning myself to be in the right spot to put barriers on for most of my team.

Yeah, spec'ing is cheap enough that you can jump around a bit to find a spec you like as mage. A lot of variety.

I've finally finished the game. - That certainly took me a while, but I did basically everything in the game barring a handful of mosaics I couldn't be bothered hunting down (and a missing region in the Exalted Plains).

Now the wait for the DLC, especially after that doozy of a post credits scene.

Hehe. That's why I kind of raced my nightmare game. Get the whole 'finishing it' out of the way so I could sit back, relax and collect tiles and gak.

 pretre wrote:

 Compel wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:
Question to mages: How can you bear to play the opening? I'm trying to run a mage and it's just so boring pre-spec.

Mostly by giggling like a schoolboy whenever I use chain lightning. Zappity, zappp zapppp zappity zap. I was a combined Spirit / Lightning mage, so early on a lot of the things I was doing was based around positioning myself to be in the right spot to put barriers on for most of my team.

Yeah, spec'ing is cheap enough that you can jump around a bit to find a spec you like as mage. A lot of variety.

I meant like Knight-Enchanter as spec. I just find the mage to be extremely dull. I can't play one for more than ten minutes at a time. And I've only just unlocked the Hinterlands!

Oddly enough, the short times I've jumped into a warrior, I find myself sitting thinking, "how can anyone play that. Always having to chase after random opponents who are running after things."

I'm plotting my second character now, probably an Elven archer. Though, I'm actually thinking an Elven mage now - even female for a second time.

So, my Rogue now gets +3 guard every time she's hit.

What's the average game length for finishing? I've put 72 hours in, and I'm still 2 missions from finishing it.

Keeping in mind I'm a bit of a multitasker when it comes to computer games, so I leave them on and paused a fair bit.

I was about, roughly, 200 hours for doing effectively everything in the game. - Although the game was jerky and didn't give me the '10 killed dragons' achievement.

Play the game again and there are so many times when you go 'oh yeah' in reference to what would happen post credits. Same with Blackwall's story. It's nice second time around to see the effort put into the story that you couldn't really notice the first time around.

Also, on Facebook Bioware strongly hinted that the post credits scene is laying the foundation for the next game, not just a DLC.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
So, my Rogue now gets +3 guard every time she's hit.

Wait until you get the mineral that allows for +5 guard on hitting a target, it's comically overpowered.

As for my second character I think I've started someone new like five times and I still can't find the 'groove'. My 2-handed warrior felt right from the beginning; grotesque amounts of violence and squishiness rolled into one for most of the game. Now, I've tried archer, dual-blade rogue, and mage and I can't seem to get something that makes me want to play again. Then again it could be I'm still hung up on my warrior and need to wait a bit before starting a new toon /shrug.

Oh, yeah, and I concur: DAT LAST SCENE THO.

So yeah, the part in the Temple of Mythal apparently made me miss out on an achievement, and my closest save is 3 hours away .

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
So yeah, the part in the Temple of Mythal

Spoiler:

the Well, and who drinks from it

apparently made me miss out on an achievement, and my closest save is 3 hours away .

Yup. I guessed this on a whim and made my decision based on that. Luckily I was right. You can always play again though (and you know you will )

Played multi-player today for the first time, and while I like it, I don't like the pairing system. I get matched with Level 12-20 characters who are going for perfect runs for loot, and when they die they disconnect so the whole party gets booted and you lose your experience. Makes it very harder for a Level 1 character to progress.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
So yeah, the part in the Temple of Mythal

Spoiler:

the Well, and who drinks from it

apparently made me miss out on an achievement, and my closest save is 3 hours away .

What achievement?

Why would a two handed axe have a slot for cloth? All I can put in there is stat increases to magic and cunning. What is Iron Bull going to do with that?

Cunning affects Crits, doesn't it?

Seems a good thing for Iron Bull.

I think my crit record now is a double handed weapon (the Sulivan sword), critting for 5000 damage

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
So yeah, the part in the Temple of Mythal

Spoiler:

the Well, and who drinks from it

apparently made me miss out on an achievement, and my closest save is 3 hours away .

What achievement?

Spoiler:

I drank from it myself, anything I miss?

Can't remember what it's called ATM, the one with the "Recruit a powerful ally" bit.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
So yeah, the part in the Temple of Mythal

Spoiler:

the Well, and who drinks from it

apparently made me miss out on an achievement, and my closest save is 3 hours away .

What achievement?

Spoiler:

I drank from it myself, anything I miss?

Can't remember what it's called ATM, the one with the "Recruit a powerful ally" bit.

Well, I got that one.

I did some reading about that. Basically, spoilers for end game:

Omg, re: assassin archer rogue... Got a bow that detonates your opponent when they die. Find a pack of bad guys. Stealth. Full draw. No more pack of bad guys.

(First guy gets full draw crit and explodes killing th rest. Hilarious.)

So DA:I isn't using the world state from the Keep that I put together. Well, it's using some of it, but not all. Last night I had my character ask Varric about Hawke and I got information about Merrill being alive, which is in direct contradiction to what I put in the keep. Has anyone else had issues like this?

squidhills wrote:
So DA:I isn't using the world state from the Keep that I put together. Well, it's using some of it, but not all. Last night I had my character ask Varric about Hawke and I got information about Merrill being alive, which is in direct contradiction to what I put in the keep. Has anyone else had issues like this?

I thought you could change it post game, but you have to do it pregame. The best suggestion I saw was to create a world state, start a new game. Save. Then go check to make sure the world state is correct on DAK.

 pretre wrote:

squidhills wrote:
So DA:I isn't using the world state from the Keep that I put together. Well, it's using some of it, but not all. Last night I had my character ask Varric about Hawke and I got information about Merrill being alive, which is in direct contradiction to what I put in the keep. Has anyone else had issues like this?

I thought you could change it post game, but you have to do it pregame. The best suggestion I saw was to create a world state, start a new game. Save. Then go check to make sure the world state is correct on DAK.

Thanks. I'll try this out. I hope it works, because I need Merrill to be dead. I murdered her with ALL of the murder for a reason.

Most importantly, don't forget the click the very concealed 'upload to DA: I' button.

So I re-worked my Tapestry in the Keep, and re-uploaded it to the DA:I servers. Started a new game, downloaded the new world state, and started playing. Got to the point where you control Haven and talked to Varric about Hawke (the only way you can check to see if your world state has actually imported correctly) and everything seemed to sync up fine.

Played thirteen more hours and got to Skyhold, and met a Hawke who was both the wrong class and the wrong gender.

Uninstalled DA:I from my hard drive immediately. Will not re-install until Bioware learns how to make a game read an existing save file from a previous game, something the guys who made Suikoden figured out twenty years ago.

squidhills wrote:
So I re-worked my Tapestry in the Keep, and re-uploaded it to the DA:I servers. Started a new game, downloaded the new world state, and started playing. Got to the point where you control Haven and talked to Varric about Hawke (the only way you can check to see if your world state has actually imported correctly) and everything seemed to sync up fine.

Played thirteen more hours and got to Skyhold, and met a Hawke who was both the wrong class and the wrong gender.

I had this, too.

Uninstalled DA:I from my hard drive immediately. Will not re-install until Bioware learns how to make a game read an existing save file from a previous game, something the guys who made Suikoden figured out twenty years ago.

kek

What does uploading a world state at the beginning of the game actually do?

 Tagony wrote:
What does uploading a world state at the beginning of the game actually do?

It is supposed to allow you to import the story choices & outcomes from the previous two DA games into your DA:I game, thus making Hawke a mage or rogue, or a woman. Or having Loghain alive and running around. Or having Alastair as a homeless bum instead of as king. So on and so forth. This matters because DA:I is set up to have different scenes play out in different ways, depending on the choices you made in the previous two games. To have no way to accurately check that your world state imported correctly until you reach Skyhold (a third?) of the way into the game is absurd, and one of the reasons I'm done with this game.

Ah thanks for reply. I hear you on the buggyness of the game. First first guy was bugged, then couldn't level up his skills. So now I am on my third toon. My wife can almost say verbatim what the characters responses are because she sat there during all of the restarts lol.

I, personally, don't care about the DA Keep stuff. I installed the game "cold", as I don't have any DAO or DA2 saves on this PC and just played it straight through. Never encountered any game-breaking bugs, so I'm not sure what to tell you might be the cause to that.

 Psienesis wrote:
I, personally, don't care about the DA Keep stuff. I installed the game "cold", as I don't have any DAO or DA2 saves on this PC and just played it straight through. Never encountered any game-breaking bugs, so I'm not sure what to tell you might be the cause to that.

The game doesn't interact with saves.

You set up the world state on Dragon Age Keep, and it downloads it onto your account.

So far, all I've done is set up a DA:O world, and that worked just fine.