(Spoilers!)
Finished with the 1st playthrough of DA2. ~73 hours XD
Nightmare, no deaths, all possible quests
Setup
Hawke - Rogue, Assassin, Shadow
Aveline - Tank, Full strength/constitution
Anders - Healer, Panacea, Heroic Aura, Arcane Shield, Barrier
Merrill - Tempest, Debilitator, Barrier
My usual strategy
Charge Aveline to a big chunk of hostiles
Hawke to cast decoy and summon Mabari in Aveline's area
Merrill to cast tempest in Aveline's area
Pick off stray archers/mages with Hawke
Micro Anders for healing
Anders and Merril to cast barrier as needed. Especially when there are blood mages/assassins
Retreat as needed
Sharing screens from the playthrough
Strike A Pose
Character posing in this game is okay. Unlike FFXIII where the in game camera angles were just begging the player to take screen shots.
The Brutalities
The Decimus Fight
This is one of the battles that I had to reload a lot. The reason to this is that
Ancient Rock Wraith
The tough golem from the deep roads
The best strategy is to stay away from it and use ranged weapons
Finished with the 1st playthrough of DA2. ~73 hours XD
Nightmare, no deaths, all possible quests
Setup
Hawke - Rogue, Assassin, Shadow
Aveline - Tank, Full strength/constitution
Anders - Healer, Panacea, Heroic Aura, Arcane Shield, Barrier
Merrill - Tempest, Debilitator, Barrier
My usual strategy
Charge Aveline to a big chunk of hostiles
Hawke to cast decoy and summon Mabari in Aveline's area
Merrill to cast tempest in Aveline's area
Pick off stray archers/mages with Hawke
Micro Anders for healing
Anders and Merril to cast barrier as needed. Especially when there are blood mages/assassins
Retreat as needed
Sharing screens from the playthrough
Strike A Pose
Character posing in this game is okay. Unlike FFXIII where the in game camera angles were just begging the player to take screen shots.
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| Deep Roads |
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| Get some Darkspawn |
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| The Deep Roads Dragon |
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| Illuminate |
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| Merrill chugging a health potion |
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| The Wounded Coast |
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| The Spider in Sundermount |
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| During Barthrand's frenzy |
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| Lyrium |
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| One Damage |
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| Kirkwall Docks |
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| Sunsets |
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| The Generic Hideout |
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| Enter |
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| Another Wounded Coast sunset |
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| Null |
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| In the Hanged Man |
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| Stretching |
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| Duelist |
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| The Gallows |
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| Some book |
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| Indoor Graffiti |
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| Bonfire in the generic cave |
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| Flying objects |
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| The Ethereal Golem |
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| Sundermount Cave |
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| The aspect dude |
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| Hybris |
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| The Bugged Bandit Leader |
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| Docks nightfall |
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| Mr Orsino |
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| Champion of Kirkwall |
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| The three Rage Demons, dead |
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| Sandal The Badass |
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| Striptease |
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| Aveline does not care if everyone else is stunned |
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| Underexposed cave |
The Brutalities
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| Assassins kill my assassin easy |
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| The Captain |
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| Melee Archers |
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| Qunari Spears |
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| Undead archers |
This is one of the battles that I had to reload a lot. The reason to this is that
- This is a relatively early part of the game where my characters did not have access to abilities that will have protected allies/decimated hostiles. I had bad builds XD
- Decimus will one shot any of my characters in the first couple of moves
- There are more hostile archers/mages than I could imagine. A single hit from one of them removes around 15% of a characters health.
- You start at a disadvantage. The moment the fight starts, you are already surrounded.
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| Focus fire on Decimus first to ensure that he is unable to cast any spells |
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| Go up the terrace to get rid of the advantage of the long ranged attackers |
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| Reaper. Eliminate each of them one at a time |
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| Once your numbers are favorable, charge and win |
Ancient Rock Wraith
The tough golem from the deep roads
The best strategy is to stay away from it and use ranged weapons
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| Ancient Rock Wraith |
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| Anders, so calm; Hawke, so dead |
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| Rangers |
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| Waiting for the right chance to strike |
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| Melee? No Thanks |
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| Varric |
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| Major |
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| Smite |
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| And Hawke gets rich |
Arishok
The Arishok is bugged.
I started the fight with a dual dagger Rogue. I wasn't timing his attacks correctly. Losing health and potions, I decided to switch to a bow. After that, he stayed still while my arrows rained on him.
Crawlers
For some reason, crawlers are very popular and strong in the Dragon Age series.
(From Alfred) In, DA2 however, most of them are terrain challenged. Unable to go up or down stairs. They get stuck very easily and cannot retaliate to ranged attacks. Free XP
Dragons
Mature Dragon
Emoticons
Best on the fly rendering emotions from Merrill
Others
Sexy Time!
Merrill's sexy time
Isabela's sexy time in Hawke's estate
In the Hanged Man
Before the Final Act
GG!
The Arishok is bugged.
I started the fight with a dual dagger Rogue. I wasn't timing his attacks correctly. Losing health and potions, I decided to switch to a bow. After that, he stayed still while my arrows rained on him.
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| Pre-fight trash-talk |
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| Arrow, arrow, arrow... |
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| ...arrow, arrow... |
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| The Arishok falls; The Champion is proclaimed |
Crawlers
For some reason, crawlers are very popular and strong in the Dragon Age series.
(From Alfred) In, DA2 however, most of them are terrain challenged. Unable to go up or down stairs. They get stuck very easily and cannot retaliate to ranged attacks. Free XP
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| The deeps roads free XP |
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| Not free XP |
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| Spider boy |
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| Free XP |
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| ... |
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| Varterreal |
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| The Varterreal is one tough crawler |
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| With Zevran |
Dragons
Mature Dragon
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| Hawke |
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| Merrill |
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| Stonewall Fenris |
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| Anders |
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| Hi |
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| The High Dragon's IMBA fireball shooting, invulnerable state |
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| Tossing Aveline like there's no tomorrow |
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| Aveline is supposed to be being chewed |
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| The quick and temporary vulnerability |
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| Almost done |
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| Bonding with the High Dragon |
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| Should have looted and equipped the Champion Armor first |
Best on the fly rendering emotions from Merrill
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| Sad and Sorry |
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| The eyes tell the story |
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| Merrill realizing she caused the death of Keeper Marethari |
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| The Champion seeing the death of the Viscount's son |
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| Mourning Viscount |
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| Disappointed. Blood? No worries. |
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| The Chantry Divine looks like Linda Hamilton from Chuck |
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| Sebastian is sucking up to the Champion |
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| The most relaxed face ever. "I don't mind the blood at all." |
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| Bloody and composed |
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| Isabela on taking a ship |
Sexy Time!
Merrill's sexy time
Isabela's sexy time in Hawke's estate
In the Hanged Man
Before the Final Act
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| Romantic Achievement |
GG!
