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Experience the epic sequel to the 2009 Game of the Year from the critically acclaimed makers of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. You are one of the few who escaped the destruction of your home. Now, forced to fight for survival in an ever-changing world, you must gather the deadliest of allies, amass fame and fortune, and seal your place in history. This is the story of how the world changed forever. The legend of your Rise to Power begins now.
It's awesome that you also decided to elaborate on your generic comment with an example of how this is the case.
High Dragon is in the Bone Pit and it's a jerk. Drops some epic gear though.
I beat him in one try as well.. he himself wasn't all that hard (wasn't easy... but wasn't hard) it was the little dragons that kept taking my attention away from him that got on my nerves.
I hate that.@Speedball:
She gets taken by the Circle, so you need to replace Bethany with Merrill more or less
So, one thing i'm a little confused about. In options you have the choice of DX9 or DX11. no DX10. The problem with that is most people out there are still using cards that use DX10...NOT 11. So for most people, they will be stuck using DX9, because the devs didn't add DX10...and using DX11 just causes massive frame drops.
Am I wrong?
I wrote off Entropy too, until I actually read what some of the spells do and realized that one of them is an auto-stun on virtually any character, regardless of rank. This is after I was grousing to myself about how Merrill's Petrify was useful for freezing even high-level enemies but prevented my warrior from doing as much damage while they were frozen. They did a good job of providing lots of good spells/talents so you can combine them into whatever suits your play-style best, especially with the mage spells. I'm really looking forward to building up my mage Hawke on my next play-through.I restarted my first playthrough, so I'm a bit slow to the finish, currently playing through as the BioWare default male Hawke - so Blood Mage and Force Mage. Blood Mage is absolutely brilliant in this one. <3 Hemorrhage.
What I think BioWare absolutely succeeded in, no question, was making every single ability and talent tree useful. How useful is clearly going to be subjective on a player-for-player basis, based on playstyle and team composition, but nothing's a simple write-off like a bunch were in DAO. I wrote off Entropy early on until I spent some time actually looking through the tree, and while I haven't committed to the full tree (I'd like to, but I'm starved for points), it's really rather nice.
So, for anyone curious, my build, just shy of level 19:
Winter's Grasp
Cone of Cold
Spirit Bolt
Heal
Heroic Aura (upgraded to Valiant)
Haste (upgraded, 20s duration ftw)
Horror (upgraded for damage every second)
Torment Hex
Blood Magic (upgraded; with equipment I'm currently at a 1:6 health:mana trade)
Sacrifice
Grave Robber
Hemorrhage (upgraded; +900% damage vs. Staggered enemies, bwahaha)
Blood Slave
Fist of the Maker
Telekinetic Burst
Unshakable
I just brought Dragon Age: Origin Ultimate Edition from eBay, and I'll be playing that after I'm done with ME2. However, I found this article on the criticisms of DA2, and I wonder if this writer's points about its shortcomings are valid:
CHUD: The Bizarre Design Decisions of Dragon Age II