Dragon Age III: InquisitionFollow

I don't see why the Inquisitor even has a bedroom. Aside from some romance options, which they could have easily done elsewhere, there's no use to the place. I put a giant golden bed in there for the hell of it, but I've never actually gone up there to see it.

Every so often I get an approval alert for Cole, reminding me that Cole exists.

I used Cole for a little while but eventually switched to Sera. I can't find any use for Varric since Sera's DPS eclipses his and the Bianca upgrades don't really seem to balance out her bow. Which is too bad since I'd rather listen to Varric in the party than friggin' Sera.

I was in a similar situation after finding a pretty nice epic bow for Sera. Eventually, as you upgrade the weapon part patterns for Bianca and the materials you have access to, Varric's damage will catch up.

Cole doesn't bother me to much. Maybe if I met someone like him in a real life situation he creep me out being able to read all my thoughts but there's a subtle kindness to him. Beyond him doing his whole I know exactly how you feel so I know how to make it better shtick. Like how he found something Cassandra lost that meant a lot to her. Or the weird **** he does around camp. Not quite as useful but somehow feels endeering to me.

Personally I found Solas a bit more unsettling then most. I do my best to be nice to him. But when he took me to the fade without even telling me and I woke up in bed afterwards when we were talking in his room. It freaked me out, in a this ****** could trick my *** into the fade and assassinate me in real life if he truly wanted to.

Eh I guess to each their own.

You're thanking the wrong group, you need to thank the Demon's Souls/Dark Souls dev teams.

It's a good comparison. Except the way you do combat. In DS it's a combination of positioning, blocking, and rolling (immunity frames). Then you have to watch your stamina when attacking and not get to greedy so you can still use those defenses.

Plus you only have to worry about yourself, not your idiot party standing around in the fire. In DA:I they made raid boss mechanics on the dragons that almost require you to micromanage. One attack hurts everyone outside with Aoe, another hurts everyone inside etc. I can hear a raid leader from WoW calling one of these. "Everyone out! Ok. Everyone get back in." "Solas get out of that Fing fire, and get barrier back up!"

I have not fought a dragon since I dropped Cas for Viv speced KE. Cas as a 2H was just to much of a damage magnet and potion waster. Viv seems to be doing much better with spirit sword and barrier 30% damage spec.

But next dragon I might actually bother to fight it in tactical and see if I can keep them alive a bit more by playing raid leader. My tank can solo them but it takes much longer.

DA:I Fade isn't so bad.
DA:I Senior Prom (thanks, Twiz) is the New Fade

Seriously, that choice was pointless and annoying. Not to mention, I didn't get to fight the awesome giant spider demon.

As far as I can tell, the only information that actually gets imported is the name, class, gender and face model of your characters. All of the major decisions need to be set in the Tapestry (which takes a long friggin time), saved and manually uploaded.

There are some neat things you get if you do the entire tapestry and upload your saves. Different people show up for things in game. Mine worked just fine. However when I did use one of the custom models for a person from DA:2 instead of the default it switched my voice from American to British. Known bug apparently. Disconcerting at first but I got used it.

The import fails are known as well. You should pretty much talk to Leliana and Varrick in Haven ASAP. They will confirm the choices you made though the way they tell about what happened and your choices.

The import thing failed for me but there's enough general call-backs to DA:O to keep me happy. I'll make a better effort next time to determine if my world state properly imported.

Coming up on the end of the game and intentionally leaving some content untouched for the next go-around.

Finished the Josie romance line with some lametastic couch cuddling

I meant in the keep. I chose which Warden/Champ would be used it built a base and I adjusted what it got wrong to establish my canon for this play through. I'm going to choose different things for different characters to match some of the other choices I made in DA:O.



Yeah I guess she is the innocent girl option. But still... You think a skilled diplomat would know how to negotiate with my *Fill in blank.

I've also got the last story mission to go. ( I had to check to see) I'm putting it off for a bit though while I wrap some other things up. Got a couple zones virtually untouched, I just went there to check what level they were and open them. I'm going to at least do the main mini-zone plots for the zone. I've long since decided fuuug all the busy work collection quests.