Dragon Age

[tmp]

You need Dex to get the DW talents, but Dex only effect piercing weapons and daggers, while Str effect the full sized longswords and such. So I need Dex to wield weapons that need Str modifier to do their damage.

According to the manual dexterity "contributes to the melee attack score, which determines whether a swing connects with its target. (..) Greater dexterity also increases the damage inflicted by piercing weapons like daggers and arrows".

So going by that the dexterity has some impact on performance of all weapons, though it doesn't directly increase damage of the full sized ones. So you'll likely want quite a bit of it anyway, not just raw strength.

[Sky]

Playing the Journeys web based game now.

Been getting a little of that in at work. Nice HoMaM-lite combat.

[WayAbvPar]

I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I am going to obsess about DA until I break down and buy it. Argh.

[trias_e]

I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I am going to obsess about DA until I break down and buy it. Argh.

This.

My plan of waiting until this game has a sale...yeah, that's just not gonna happen at this point.  I have too many games to play at this time, so I'm not going to buy it right away, but I doubt I will be able to hold off much longer than a week.

[Reg]

Yeah, I officially take back my sneering comment that I would just wait for it to appear in the bargain bin.  It really is an absolutely wonderful game.

[Tmon]

All I have to say is:

The elves are a lithe, pointy-eared people who excel at poverty.

God bless this game.

I laughed out loud when I heard that.  I'm enjoying the by-play between the characters and have left the sound on (subtitles only pop up for conversations involving the main character) for the first game in years just to hear it.

[squirrel]

I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I am going to obsess about DA until I break down and buy it. Argh.

Same. Broke down, it's downloading now.

Jesus I have <0 gaming hours as it is. Borderlands, Torchlight, Forza 3 and now this. Ah well, it's a good problem to have I guess.

[gryeyes]

Could the documentation for how skills/stats function be any more vague. Also does anyone know if i skip the optional "summoning" quest deal during the Circle tower part do I miss out on anything worthwhile? Dont wanna risk ruining something important looking it up.

[Elerion]

nm, wrong tower

[Amaron]

 I'm enjoying the by-play between the characters and have left the sound on (subtitles only pop up for conversations involving the main character) for the first game in years just to hear it.

You can turn on subtitles for everything in the options.   It'll do text over peoples heads like BG2.

[Broughden]

Just walked out of the gamestop in Elizabethtown, KY. Only collector's edition PC copy within 50 mile radius. Driving 45 miles to the store I figured would be faster than trying to DL it based on what some of you were saying.

[squirrel]

Managed to get about an hour in before I had to step out for dinner. Made a elf mage and just did the first tutorial type quest - dear god it really is BG 3. I'm all verklempt.

[schild]

This is what I look like when I'm done with a hooker.

[Prospero]

Just walked out of the gamestop in Elizabethtown, KY. Only collector's edition PC copy within 50 mile radius. Driving 45 miles to the store I figured would be faster than trying to DL it based on what some of you were saying.

You still have to download the DLC I think. Based on the EA store text, all they put in the box is the base game. 

[schild]

Finally becoming a Duelist.

[Xurtan]

You still have to download the DLC I think. Based on the EA store text, all they put in the box is the base game. 

The DLC doesn't take that long, or at least it didn't for me. I let it download while I went off and did a different quest.

Some of the moral choices in this game are great.

[Broughden]

Okay so all the booty you get for buying the collector's edition and pre-ordering (yeah they let me have the pre-ordering freebies since I drove 45 miles) are those only available once to a single characters or they available to every single character I create? Im specifically worried about the book that raises your stats 3 points?
If I use that on the first character I create and then decide I want to play something else will that new character have it as well?

[Prospero]

Everyone gets it. It may be an MMO-like game, but they aren't that crazy.

[Comstar]

I am torn between playing a Female city elf thief who hates all humans (and Human Men in particular) following the events of the intro story, or a seemingly more boring Male Human Noble thief instead. The Human Noble's intro story dosn't seem as nearly as interesting.

I'm wondering how much of a chance you get to role-play the characters? The elf girl seems to like having snarky comments to make to the humans in the army camp.

[squirrel]

I am torn between playing a Female city elf thief who hates all humans (and Human Men in particular) following the events of the intro story, or a seemingly more boring Male Human Noble thief instead. The Human Noble's intro story dosn't seem as nearly as interesting.

I'm wondering how much of a chance you get to role-play the characters? The elf girl seems to like having snarky comments to make to the humans in the army camp.

If you want to munchkin it humans have better bonuses for the rogue class. Small (+1 +2) but fyi).

[Venkman]

Ok, any reason why I can't get my previously-created characters into the game? I'm logged into the game, have confirmed these characters are on my online profile at the Bioware site from when I created them weeks ago. I just don't see an option to start a game with one of these.

Sorry if this was answered too. Been offline almost a week and just got my copy of the PC game.

[caladein]

Do you have the Character Creator still installed?  The online stuff may be there, but it doesn't store your saves or the characters "in the cloud" as far as I can tell.  Also, patch notes:

Fixed potential corruption of character statistics

Fixed portrait appearance sliders when importing a character from the downloadable Character Creator

Fixed import for preset face settings from the downloadable Character Creator

Made Easy difficulty easier

Slightly increased attack, defense, and damage scores for all party members at Normal difficulty

Fixed video issues when running on a very wide screen display, including ATI Eyefinity displays

[Tarami]

Excalibuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur!


Edit:

I wish it were possible to woo Sten. I mean, how is this not a match made in heaven?

[Venkman]

Yea, they actually are on the website at this point. I never bothered confirming at http://social.bioware.com before now, but both are there. Word on the forums seems to be some sort of issue not with characters that have been there for weeks, but the service knowing that you now have the game installed. It's too late for me right now to get started anyway so I'll give it 18 hours until I can play again.

How does the patch happen? EA Download Manager not doing anything and I can't find any links for it on the social nor main sites. Neither of which seem nearly intuitive enough either, but that's an aside.

[Prospero]

  Steam autopatching.

[Xurtan]

Made Easy difficulty easier

Meh? Normal has been challenging in a few spots but not wtfroflstomplol crazy, and you can always reload. How easy do they want easy to be?

[waffel]

Finally nailed Morrigan. The sex scene was  /

[schild]

Finally nailed Morrigan. The sex scene was  /

As a female?

Well, I guess not, if you nailed her. Liliana is about to fall over for me.

Speaking of, random scene spoiler:

[Le0]

I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I am going to obsess about DA until I break down and buy it. Argh.

Same. Broke down, it's downloading now.

Jesus I have <0 gaming hours as it is. Borderlands, Torchlight, Forza 3 and now this. Ah well, it's a good problem to have I guess.

I'm in the same boat but add to this list, Deamon's Souls, Uncharted, Uncharted2 and MGS4, need more time and less work..

[schild]

Shale help. Spoilers, about a puzzle.

[tmp]

Ok, any reason why I can't get my previously-created characters into the game? I'm logged into the game, have confirmed these characters are on my online profile at the Bioware site from when I created them weeks ago. I just don't see an option to start a game with one of these.

From what i managed to figure out the game gives option to import the characters if their files are in Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/Pre-release Characters folder on your hard drive, the online profile is used only for export to show off. The character creator asks you if you want to keep these files when you uninstall it so it's possible you clicked "No" when it did?

Otherwise, the option to import them is under the "New Game" button, after the movie plays. Though the import seems to be somewhat borked but apparently they fix it in a patch. (without the patch you can get the import work mostly right by going to character attributes stage then back all way to character selection. or something to that effect)

edit: the patch is at http://social.bioware.com/game_patches.php

[schild]

Nevermind on the Shale help, I see the issue now.

[jakonovski]

One hour of work left, then I promised to have dinner with the parents. GIEV DRAGON AEG TIEM PLX

Fake fake edit for content: I started a human female rogue on normal. Awesomeness, even if daggers are gimped. Loving the dialogue options.

[Mosesandstick]

Out of interest, any chance of playing the campaign with a friend?

Trying to finish NWN2 online with a friend is why I never finished the game. And the bugs. And everything else wrong with it.

[Xilren's Twin]

Out of interest, any chance of playing the campaign with a friend?

Trying to finish NWN2 online with a friend is why I never finished the game. And the bugs. And everything else wrong with it.

Nope.  Single player only, which is good; having multiple players in this world would quickly ruin it. There can be only one!

Currently pracning through the forest trying to recruit the elves; oh look, the pointy eared blighters are in desperate need of help before they can help me.  How entirely unexpected...  (this is probably the most overused theme in RPG's; before i help you, you must help me!  If the prancing nature loving elves can't help themselves with a wee little werewolf problem, how the heck can they be of any use fighting the blight?  They either dont have enough troops to matter or they suck as fighters)


Overall my gripes with DA are pretty minor.  Have been underwhelmed with loot at level 9; have the one sword i enchanted with electric damage but thats about it.  Got one nice bow via quest none of my crew can use yet, everything else seems bleh.  The few nice items in stores i havent been able to afford yet.  Im also not really thrilled with the 4 mage specializations.  I dont want to be a shapeshifter or blood mage, and there doesnt seem to be one that = pure destructive elemental mage, which is how im playing my guy.  Ill probably pick up Divine healer once i find it just to cure injuries.

Current group is 2 mages, 1 thief and 1 fighter.  Both morrigan and I are primarily cold and electric, plus some mental stuff, so we crowd control eveything and kill stuff one at a time pretty much.  Seems to be working well.  Getting mobs lined up hit them with a cone of cold to freeze em, or single target freeze, paralyze or mind stun.  Chop chop.  Playing the rogue(bard) as a pure archer currently cause she had a tendency to fall over alot in melee.

BTW, does anyone know if your non used characters gain XP in camp?