So did anyone else get more quests from Solas after saving his spirit friend? Because apparently there's 2 more or something. The same with Iron Bull, I never got any quests after saving the Chargers. I was hoping to change his depressing card like Varric and Blackwall.

 

Solas' one might be linked to Cole's friendship quest, of which Solas plays a big part.

My Ironbull one seemed pretty conclusive:

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Her has to choose between his men and the Ben'Hasrath (sp?). I made him choose his men and he's excommunicated, with weak assassins sent after him as a formality

I got nothing else after that.

 

No console and I was under the impression my card was passable and literally everything else well overshoots the requirements however after I looked around online the absolute most common answer I found for my particular problem is that the graphics card isn't up to snuff.

 

Which card? if you don't mind me asking.

 

Yes, the same with me with Iron Bull. But considering that Varric's card and Blackwall's changed negatively first then to good I thought that there would be something similar with Iron Bull.

 

Finally bought the game.

Do party members only get exp when you control them?

 

Don't think so, I'll bring in party members I haven't played in a while and the level up icon comes up for them. So I assume it's shared exp at least, maybe the ones who are with you get more?

 

Thanks.

Any one use Tactical View?

Trying to figure out its potential. Can I individually assign other members of my party to attack specific targets?

Is it sophisticated to the point where I can have ranged STAY ranged and attack a target a tank is tanking?

On a Xbone just a heads up.

 

I don't even vaguely mind, I have an nVidia GeForce GTX 550. It has subsequently crapped out on me though so I intend to upgrade and replace it as soon as I possibly can.

 

Yeah, you should. I've a mind to upgrade my 690 too, the thing is already 3/4 generations old. I've held off though because I still manage and most of my gaming is on ps4 these days.

Don't need much for LoL, hah.

I never used tactical btw, I found the cam really obnoxious. I didn't like not being able to queue abilities in it either. I ended up speccing my companions for survival with only Dorian as my other damage, though he was set up to prioritise Barrier.

Edit: not entirely true, Cass was 2 hand warr, but she was specced pretty heavily in vanguard (i think?) to have Guard.

That's playing as an Archer though, so I only really needed my party to keep mobs and boss attention off me. I had more than enough damage to beast enemies.

 

I've found really fantastic deals on the 660 which is what Im planning to get, it's the card listed in the recommended specs sections.

 

As a Human Mage, any recommended companions I should keep? Plan on becoming a Knight Enchanter, small change of Rift Mage.

And, templar or mages? First DA game here, and so I don't know the lore. But I don't mind being spoiled.

 

I just finished the templar path with my mage. I preferred it over the mage path, though there's the downside of less Dorian.

I'm using Casstank, IB and DaggerSera as companions, makes it easier to barrier everyone and Sera+IB tear shit up.

 

I don't really see a good enough reason to side with the Templars. That goes for the whole series really -- though Dragon Age II had a few parts where I could see siding with them as justified.

 

In this game:

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their plights are ironically similar. Both fall victim to having shitty leadership.

I agree about Mages over Templars, but they take an interesting track in this game by introducing the idea that Templars need to be more than Mage Wardens, which I really like.

It's also why I hate Viv so much. Her stance off treating magic like a hound that needs to be caged is the ideology that's the source of the mage v templar conflict.

So frustrating I can't call her out on it.

 

I'm really wanting to go back into this, I fucked up on what I wanted to do in my playthrough. I had the Templars even though I wanted to go with the mages and

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Cassandra became the new Divine. I was trying to go with Leliana.

But I'm waiting for a patch, there's a few issues that I found before I would play again. Like the damn disappearing people, that's fun trying to talk to someone only to have them gone.

 

Wait...

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How does Cass become Divine? I romanced her, and it came up, but I always just responded with ' doesn't matter if you do, we'll still be together' etc

 

I know, I did the same thing. I think though that because of the 'people disappearing' thing I couldn't talk to Leliana and give her my support at the right time. I meant to do so and since the issue happened I walked away and forgot to do it until way later.

Edit: On a different note I have to say that Sera irritates me now. She's more petty than anything and hypocritical, hearing her backstory is sad but the way she dealt with it was dumb.

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Oh, the old noble lady that took me in bought me cookies because she didn't know how to make them herself? And she bought them from a racist shopkeeper who wouldn't've sold them to me? Fuck all of them.'

 

Actually the baker wasn´t racist- the noblewoman led Sera to believe that so she wouldn´t be found out. This is way she question herself/the Inqui about how justified her pranking actually was.

 

Actually, I've found that in Dragon Age that the templars were the more sympathetic party almost every time.

It's not that they aren't almost predominantly assholes or don't have a dangerous amount of zealots. It's that the mages keep on fucking proving them right.

In Origins, Ferelden's Circle is a rather restrictive one, compared to others we've heard of in Inquisition fluff, but it's not insane Kirkwall restrictive. Mages obviously get out and about sometimes, since you see Wynne at Ostagar.

And what's happened? One single mage uses blood magic to turn most of the mages in the tower into abominations.

This is literally exactly what the Right of Annulment was designed for. You can't be sure who's corrupted and who's not, as Connor has shown. It's not 'no, that's genocide!' as so many people portray. It's 'the situation's already FUBAR, let's salvage what we fuckin can'.

Not to mention that in Origins, I feel that the templars is the overall smarter decision for Ferelden wide, since every templar is a fighter, while not every mage is a battlemage. I honestly feel that they're the better asset to fight the Blight.

Jump to DA2, the most mage-favorable of all the games, I find. Knight Commander Meredith is hella paranoid about blood mage, sure. However, in her defense, she's stepped into a post in a former Tevinter city. You can argue that the draconian measures the templars take in Kirkwall probably incite a lot of the blood magic incidents and have a pretty fair point. Hell, I sided with the mages too, though I'll point out that Meredith was completely red lyrium nuts when she went all kill-everyone, something she did completely to herself.

However, the mages are completely undermined by the fact that when Orsino is pushed into a corner, he does exactly what Meredith and templar doctrine always say mages will, and resorts to crazy blood magic. Good job proving the crazy lady right, man, god.

Honestly, in DA2's case, I call that bad writing and give that completely away. One get out of point free card.

But look at the inciting cause - Anders. A guy who, with completely good intentions, took in a Fade spirit and went nuts and eventually nuked the Chantry with the Divine inside. The Divine, mind you, who was, if not sympathetic, at least open to reasonable debate.

Fuck Anders. He doesn't get to play the bad writing card. Literally no one but a mage could have done as much damage as he did getting invaded by a Fade spirit.

I'm not going to go too far into Inquisition, as I don't feel like putting massive blocks of spoiler text in this post. I'll just point out that both the main villains were mages who fucked the world, using magic.

And for those who will decry that calling mages as a race the guilty party is wrong, as it's the acts of individual, trained mages who justify the templars-

-I will quote to you, Connor fucking Guerrin. The child who, with minimal training at the most, fucked over all of Redcliffe. His intentions to save his father aren't relevant. No one but a mage can cause that much destruction so easily.

So yeah. The templars are right. Mages ARE fucking dangerous, and most certainly need the Harrowing (to prove they can defeat common Fade demons, and at the very least that they won't IMMEDIATELY turn to demons for power, as well as possess some basic common sense), as well as the templars watching over their shoulder to smite their ass if they decide to go all Balthazar. It's not a perfect solution, but goddamn would I be willing to live with anything less, in the common citizens' and Chantry's place.

A normal guy goes postal and kills a few people. A mage goes postal and raises an undead army.

And let's face it, plenty of mages have it pretty cush. The Tower of Magi is pretty cush in itself - you live there and get to research your pretty sparkly powers, all the while receiving three hots and cot. There are a bunch of armored men who keep everyone out, which includes your family, which is sad, but also bandits, which is not. For medieval standards, that's goddamn luxury.

I agree that there is an extreme that we don't want to travel to. I don't believe all mages should be killed, and the extreme that I don't agree with, we've already seen. They're called the Qunari.

tl;dr: mages need to check their privelage and count themselves lucky that half of them aren't made Tranquil automatically just to cull the real and present risk. If I lived in Thedas, I'd be chugging lyrium by the fucking bucket to keep up with their bullshit.