Dragon Age 2

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Trailer premiered at gamescom a few minutes ago, seems like a good time for its own thread.



(is that Flemeth's voice?)

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Holy crap, they're giving away ME2 for free...

Thanks to gamers like you, Dragon Age II is off to a great start – breaking the 1 million mark in less than two weeks and faster than Dragon Age: Origins. We appreciate your support. As a special thank you for helping with the game’s early success, BioWare would like to present you with a download code for 2010’s Game of the Year, Mass Effect 2 on PC.

As always, we sincerely appreciate your support and passion as we remain focused on delivering quality interactive experiences now and in the future. Look for more exciting things coming from Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Star Wars: The Old Republic in the future, including our recent launch of Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC.

To qualify and get your Mass Effect 2 PC download code, please follow these steps before April 30, 2011 at 11:59pm PDT:

1 Activate the Online Pass content that came with your copy of Dragon Age II (The Black Emporium)

2 Start the game and log in using your EA Account or create a new EA Account

3 Visit http://social.bioware.com/me2offer and log in with that EA Account

4 Enter your Online Pass code and click “Submit”. You will then be provided the code for Mass Effect 2.

5 Open the EA Download Manager and enter the code to commence download (if you don’t have the EA Download Manager installed, it can be found HERE)

Pretty sweet, although I already own it and all dlc for it....

[Mr. Laz]

wow ... i'm tired

spent the last 20 minute running laps around a room


We are the Champions, my friends
We keep on fighting, til the end
We are the Champions
We are the Champions
no time for losers
cause we are the champions ... of the world

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Hopefully you're not still mad at her.

[Mr. Laz]

do scoundrel skills work when a rogue is using a bow or just melee?

Blindside

Passive Requires: Level 5

The rogue becomes capable of more potent attacks when engaging distracted opponents. Any target not actively engaging the rogue suffers increased damage from any of the rogue's attacks. Damage: 120% vs. enemies engaging other allies

Twist the Knife

Passive Requires: Level 5 Requires: Blindside Requires: 2 points in Scoundrel

The rogue is more concerned with victory than ensuring a fair fight. Against any stunned enemy, the rogue now inflicts automatic critical hits. Critical chance: 100% vs. stunned targets

Follow-Through

Upgrade Requires: Level 7 Requires: Back-to-Back Requires: 2 points in Scoundrel

The rogue thrives on continued momentum in combat, dashing from one attack to the next. The rogue now regains more stamina than normal from every basic attack. Passive Stamina regeneration: +1% per basic attack

[Mr. Laz]

apparently they do ... Sweet!!

[Mr. Laz]

crap ... walked into that High Dragon fight ill-prepared

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Laz

crap ... walked into that High Dragon fight ill-prepared

Yeah... no shit there. I did the exact same. Thought I was on another minor mission, and BAM....

Andraste's tits.....

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

Yeah... no shit there. I did the exact same. Thought I was on another minor mission, and BAM....

Andraste's tits.....

yep ... if you don't walk around heavy in healing pots etc all the time then you pretty much get owned the 1st time.

Hope you have a recent save and thanks for playing!!

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More on the upcoming patch

Originally Posted by Rob Bartel

The 1.02 Patch on PC/Mac (1.01 Title Update on X360/PS3) is still in the final certification process with EA, Microsoft, and Sony but is not expected to come out this weekend. Thank you for your continued patience and we look forward to getting this in your hands soon.

The patch includes fixes for over 100 issues. We’ll discuss some of the platform-specific issues in greater detail next week and we’ll release the formal patch notes once the updates are actually ready to download and install but here’s a high level view of some of the core gameplay fixes that everyone will see regardless of platform:

- The effects of various follower talents and item properties are now being properly removed and re-applied when loading and saving.
- Party members who are resurrected during a fight now rejoin combat properly.
- Hawke no longer gains random spells or talents after using the Maker's Sigh potion, then saving and reloading.
- The “Duty” plot will now appear on the Chanter’s Board even if the player accepted all of the board’s quests before installing the Exiled Prince premium content.
- In the “Finders Keepers” plot, if the player leaves Woodrow’s Warehouse before finding the crate, it is now possible to return to the warehouse to complete the quest.
- Merril no longer refers to the aftermath of “A New Path” before the plot has been completed.
- Aveline’s final armor upgrade is now available during the “Favor and Fault” plot.
- Varric is no longer confused about which character Hawke has been romancing.
- Various other gameplay and story-scripting issues no longer appear.

We’ll delve into some of the platform-specific details early next week. In the meantime, a special shout out and thanks to our mighty beta test group who’ve been a big help in confirming how these fixes will behave in the wild.

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Trying something different on my second go-through. Loading up on as many runes of fortune as possible to see how much coin I can collect (and spend) and have +xp items to see how high I can get. Didn't use any of either on my first run; one of the +xp items, The Lion of Orlais isn't useable on a mage, and I didn't have the coin for The Fallen Star the first time. So we'll see how it goes with +3% xp and how ever much percent 7 runes of fortune (so far) and the String of Pearls grants.

[Chazno]

I haven't read this thread since release as I didn't want to spoil the game for me when I buy it.

Anyway, bioware released Dragon Age Legends, their facebook game. You can actually earn downloadable items for DA2 by playing it. I thought some would be interested in that. http://web.dal.int.ea2d.com/?ref=bookmarks&count=0

Again, if this has been posted already forgive me as i've been avoiding this thread.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Trying something different on my second go-through. Loading up on as many runes of fortune as possible to see how much coin I can collect (and spend) and have +xp items to see how high I can get. Didn't use any of either on my first run; one of the +xp items, The Lion of Orlais isn't useable on a mage, and I didn't have the coin for The Fallen Star the first time. So we'll see how it goes with +3% xp and how ever much percent 7 runes of fortune (so far) and the String of Pearls grants.

have you played a no mage group?

seems to me it would be extremely difficult although i suppose range rogues would help.

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Originally Posted by Laz

have you played a no mage group?

seems to me it would be extremely difficult although i suppose range rogues would help.

It would depend on the difficulty setting. Although I think a warrior/rogue party would be doable, even on Nightmare. Warriors can wipe out groups of mobs and rogues can do crazy single-target damage, with a bow or with daggers.

I've seen some wacky ideas lately. Yesterday or the day before I was reading a thread where a guy was going to build Fenris as a ranged warrior (some of the staves in the game aren't set as 'mage only', like Allure's Crook, so you can use them if you have a high enough magic score). Right now I'm setting up a sword and shield Warrior that focuses on critting with elemental weapons rather than playing as a tank or using sword and shield moves, so I'm trying to get all the plus fire/elec/cold/nature gear I can find, and using Desdemona's Blade (just chews up Qunari...) and later on Glandivalis and Sataareth.

In some future playthough, maybe the final one I do before DA3, assuming there's going to be one, I'm going to try to set up Aveline that way, focusing on Vanguard damage increases instead of shield defense and stonewall.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It would depend on the difficulty setting. Although I think a warrior/rogue party would be doable, even on Nightmare. Warriors can wipe out groups of mobs and rogues can do crazy single-target damage, with a bow or with daggers.

I've seen some wacky ideas lately. Yesterday or the day before I was reading a thread where a guy was going to build Fenris as a ranged warrior (some of the staves in the game aren't set as 'mage only', like Allure's Crook, so you can use them if you have a high enough magic score). Right now I'm setting up a sword and shield Warrior that focuses on critting with elemental weapons rather than playing as a tank or using sword and shield moves, so I'm trying to get all the plus fire/elec/cold/nature gear I can find, and using Desdemona's Blade (just chews up Qunari...) and later on Glandivalis and Sataareth.

In some future playthough, maybe the final one I do before DA3, assuming there's going to be one, I'm going to try to set up Aveline that way, focusing on Vanguard damage increases instead of shield defense and stonewall.

i'm pretty sure there will an DA3 consider how much success they have had with 1 and 2. Money,Money,Money.

on a side note, Arcane shield/wall is effected by Shieldwall and is too nerfed to really be worth it. imo. It should give 20% to the entire party, not 5% imo. I wonder if you had 3 mages and put Arcane shield/wall active on all 3 whether or not it would stack.

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Originally Posted by Laz

i'm pretty sure there will an DA3 consider how much success they have had with 1 and 2. Money,Money,Money.

on a side note, Arcane shield/wall is effected by Shieldwall and is too nerfed to really be worth it. imo. It should give 20% to the entire party, not 5% imo. I wonder if you had 3 mages and put Arcane shield/wall active on all 3 whether or not it would stack.

I was referring to the warrior skills Shield Defense/Shield Wall and Stonewall/Bulwark, not Arcane Shield/Elemental Shield/Arcane Wall.

I had Arcane Shield and the upgrades on Anders on my Nightmare run, but I almost never used them. I was more of a fan of Heroic Aura/Valiant Aura. Usually just used Arcane Shield when I had fights where I wanted a certain elemental resistance as high as I could get it, like against the High Dragon (I had 100% fire resistance on Aveline and Varric for that fight, and close to that on Hawke).

I'll probably get it on Merrill on my current run for the same reason...

The nice thing about Merrill, by the way, is if you use Blood of the First on her, it doesn't matter how many sustained abilities you have her run, because the spells she casts come from her health pool, while the sustained abilities are taken out of her mana pool. And the amount of mana she has doesn't matter at all; the sustained spells are a % of total mana, not a specific number, so you don't have to spend points on Willpower. I really wish she could get Heroic Aura, thought.