Comments on: DragonLC: Return To Ostagar

By: EaterOfCheese

EaterOfCheese — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:45:01 +0000

In other DragonAge DLC related news, you can use the mod tools to expand your backpack w/out shelling out money for a virtual backpack, as noted in the quarter to three forums…

http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1959204&postcount=15

By: Alexander Norris

Alexander Norris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:08:51 +0000

That’s valid for every tank (re: Shield Wall and the anti-flank talents).

I think part of the problem is also people presuming that a Warrior somehow needs to hit to be useful. Not so. A tank raises Str to 42 for t7 massive armour and Dex to 26 for Shield Expertise, and then every other stat point should be put in Con for extra HP and physical resistance. Taunt at the onset of battle then again if your Mage or Rogue gets too much flak and you don’t actually need to land a blow or do damage for you to tank efficiently. In fact, you could probably not bother with the sword-and-board line of active abilities (Shield Bash through to Assault) at all and be just as good a tank.

By: Orange

Orange — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:16:03 +0000

Alistair is a great tank if you give him all the shield skills and have the shield wall mode always activated. There are loads of good shields to find for him to use as well, too many even.

I went to Warden’s Keep pretty late in the game, glad I did as it’s not the equipment which made the game a lot easier, it’s the sickly powerful blood power skills on my spirit healer. Ended up finishing the whole thing on first playthrough on Hard, did Archdemon and other bosses on first attempt.

By: skalpadda

skalpadda — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:53:34 +0000

I quite liked Carth as well, he was one-dimensional and yeah, he complained a lot about any dark side choice you made (he *is* the good guy after all, so why shouldn’t he?) but teasing Carth made for good fun if you played a female character.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:34:27 +0000

Tank needs a shield, dude. Blood Dragon armour does seem very powerful, mind.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:28:08 +0000

My tank wore Blood Dragon armour for the first 60% of the game and it made it trivially easy.
Same for me. I switched it out because I was tired of looking at it.

Alastair died all the time with me. Which caused me to laugh when I read this in the prima guide thingy.

I like Dog as my tank because he’s easy to run, and I prefer to have another rogue in the party because somehow they seem to live longer than poor Alistair does. Don’t blame him, though; it’s all my own mishandling of the warrior class.
Cori May, Designer

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:21:37 +0000

Every fucker, only the bots and the mandelorian didn’t give me crap when i asked for better payment.
Yep. I never ask for anything more.

Carth is… good, and it’s hard for me to hate ‘good.’ He isn’t trying to be good, he just is. Unlike…

he would have been the king of whine, but that was stolen from him by the lady jedi.
I disliked Bastila far more than anyone else. As a matter of fact I don’t think I hated anyone in the main cast but Bastila. Bastila is snotty and self-righteous always warning about the dark side, blah, blah, blah and she was the first one to ‘fall.’ I spared her only for the ‘perfect’ ending. Once. I don’t get the Carth hate either, when Bastila is right there.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:10:27 +0000

I had Sten wearing the blood dragon armor, too, specced for tanking, Wynne on dedicated healing duty, Normal difficulty.

Sten STILL went down like a sack of potatoes on a semi-regular basis. My main character did better with a suit of dragon-bone armor.

By: Alexander Norris

Alexander Norris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:08:45 +0000

My tank wore Blood Dragon armour for the first 60% of the game and it made it trivially easy.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:06:15 +0000

I thought Alistair was the best written character since HK. Then I met Zev…

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:14 +0000

Ah yes. Now I remember. I made the two-handed one because I anticipated having Sten in my party, but right soon after I found my ‘working/awesome’ party so I never had gotten to use it. I’ve never made the one handed one.

By: I'm OK

I'm OK — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:52:41 +0000

You can get Str 36 (IIRC what’s needed for t7 swords) by the time you leave Lothering, to be honest. It’s not like any of the equipment has particularly stringent requirements, which is what makes handing them out early so problematic.

Why is it “so problematic”? For me, Alistair has been using Warden Commander armor and Starfang for a while now, Warden’s Keep being the first thing I did since leaving Lothering, and he’s certainly not game-breakingly powerful because of it. He just dies slightly less often now, is all.