Yeah not feeling for any of the new characters except for Mhairi
So I’m finally going to start this game. I’m only a year late. Anyway, any suggestions for starting out? I typically like to brutally kill anything I can, up close and personal.
Any suggestions and tips would be awesome.
Grog
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I would suggest either warrior or mage as your first playthrough. If you pick warrior make sure to target enemy mages first and only stay in one skill tree (ei shield, duel weapons, or two handed) since you won’t get enough talent points to spread around and still get the best skills. Also don’t be afraid to control your mage (yes have one in your party) as they’re pretty vital and on their own they may not do what you want even if you have their preset commands updated.
Hmm, towards the middle the game might feel hard just don’t get discouraged. Also like always save often, your choices have more affect in this game than just “good” or “bad” points.
Also if you play the game on the default difficulty of normal AOE stuff that says “may cause friendly fire” actually won’t, it will cause status effects but no damage. Say a lightning spell that’s AOE won’t hurt your team one bit, but the ice one, while not damaging, will freeze your team members. So don’t be afraid to abuse those.
I have the expansion as well.
What’s a good class to start with? I don’t want to end up like I did in Baldur’s gate and make choices that made me weaker overall.
edit Thanks, Grog. Didn’t see your reply. I’ll start out with a warrior, definitely.
Is this game really just an MMO without the people?
Definitely go with dwarf (more strength but you sacrifice use of magic) warrior class if you want to tank and spank. Don’t forget to invest in 2 handed weapon skills. Most of your stat points should go to strength, constitution, and especially dexterity.
Grog
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I wouldn’t say that, MMO’s to me mean random quests that don’t mean shit like “I need 15 goat hides, go hunt”
Mobs aren’t random, they’re set and limited (ei don’t respawn, and if something does respawn it’s scripted to do so and will only do so so many times). Have you ever played either of the Knights of the Old Republic games? This plays a LOT like those but only fantasy and not sci-fi. Think of KOTOR raped Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age is it’s child.
Ephidel
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LOL I remember when I was a complete scrub with this game, good times. Since then I’ve totally gotten use to all the customizations and buffs that I’m just unstoppable even on nightmare. Right now I’m replaying Awakening to see if I can cap my aw/bl mage/bm.
I regret purchasing witch hunt, even though I started off liking it.
Yeah, I loved Knights of the old Republic, but I never really had somebody that was specifically a tank or anything like that. I just tried to murder people.
CLU_2
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What did you do in Baldur’s Gate?
I just made a Cavalier, and modded up his stats to where they were what my old BG1 character was at after gleaning all the books from BG1.
The NPCs are so fucktardedly good, I could have made a BARD and come out on top.
Minsc (and Boo), Jaheira, Anomen, Arie, and the unstoppable Keldorn - with a Yoshimo/Imoen trap assist.
They, and the end-game items… so good.
Yeah, I went with the “good”, “broken” girl, and didn’t try to bang the dark elf or the widow.
On topic, I’m still torn as to whether or not I should get DA:2, once it comes out, now that it has been announced for Steam.
Convince me, Fir! 
As I see it.
Dataika
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Mage is probably the easiest class to start with. You can take any number of lines and still be successful. Hex’s are badass, cold line with cone of cold is awesome and fireball is downright dirty. You can also get mana clash to one shot most Mage mobs (who are some of the hardest hitting guys in the game). A sword&shield tanking warrior is pretty cool too once you get shield wall.
My first char was a Rogue, and even though in the end he was badass, after playing with a 2W warrior, I can safely say that rouges are a bit harder at first. So for just starting the game, RC, I’d say go with a dual wielding warrior, since I know you like melee dps in WOW. (I didn’t like 2-h warrior that much)
If you start with a DW warrior, get about 20 points in constitution, 36 in dexterity and then pump strength. If you are a mage, just concentrate on magic; willpower is unimportant because you can make lyrium potions for cheap (IMO). Also, for skills, always get coercion and combat tactics; since your MC is the only one that can get coercion, it just makes sense.
Ephidel
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@CLU: From the trailers 2 looks pretty damn good, what I like about DAO is that it’s the first game in a while that I’ve actually sat down and invested heavy minutes in. With all DLCs downloaded you aren’t gonna discover everything in one play through, it’s replay value is remarkable.
yeah, I am disappointed that I missed out on the Baldur Gate awesomeness when it was at his hype. I should buy it, enjoy it, and then check out DA, and then DA:2, and then the witcher 2. Can’t wait.
About DA, i’ve been hesitant because of how involved I have to be to play it. if it’s like a good fantasy novel, then i think i’d enjoy it even more.
Lucretz
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So I just started playing Awakening, and I’m trying to finish this shit before DA II comes out into the world.
I kind of already fucked myself though, because of a glitch in a Silverite Mine dungeon. I lost all of my equipment off one party member. : u Now I’m trying to decide if it’s worth going back to a previous save to redo it, when I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get through without it bugging out again. Worse thing was, I could see the mother fucker that had his equipment, but I couldn’t get him to attack me so I could kill him and then get my equipment back. Ughhh.
Anybody have any good tactic sets to make your party target who you are? I thought I had mine set right but somebody always wanders off and hits another guy instead of the one I’m hitting.
I wish the tactics set up was like ffxii. That was one thing that square got right.
Grog
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You can have it set perfectly and it won’t matter most of the time I’ve noticed. I can’t check at work but I think there’s a qualifier in “Enemy” then “Attacking player”, that’s the closest one I can think of for who you’re target is.
I played this game at release and was wondering if the Morrigan DLC expansion is worthwhile. I remember thinking it didn’t seem very “replayable” because everything ends up following the same story regardless if you are high born or low born, warrior or mage.
Lucretz
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Okay, under Target Conditions just go to Enemy. There should be an option called ‘Attacked/Targeted by party member’ under which you can choose from main character, or controlled character or any specific member. So it should be Enemy - Targeted by party member - Main character. Then just set what action they’ll take, I assume you’ll want to set an offensive ability of some kind. They should stay attacking the same character you are, that way.
Just make sure that you put this behavior relatively high in the list, so that it isn’t superceded by any others that might disrupt it.
No.
NO.
D:<
don’t order witch hunt, like I did, waste of money ]:
I did do that with the tactics. They only do the shit half the time. Damnit.
