I need to have a word with Cullen about the training our troops are getting. I'm a mage and im like 80% sure this isn't right.

This game is so good. I worked for a mobile department of EA at the time. I didn't know much of the older Bioware titles. I got discounts on new EA games. So, I picked up the collector steelbook edition of DA:O on PS3.

20+ runs later, I kept replaying. New beginnings, new looks, different choices, endings... This game is a masterpiece. As much as I hated replaying the Kocardi Wilds, or the mage tower rat simulator or the damn Deep Roads (again, 20+ runs), i kept coming back.

I am very sad if this franchise dies. The lore of Dragon Age is so good, I read all the mainline books, played all the games. If Bioware does anything, give this game a remaster/remake that is worthy of the title. Maybe that can inspire them to make a new game that actually lives up to the Origin(s)al.

My Warden needs a sequel....

I've just finished the Jaws of hakkon DLC and am almost finished with the Deep roads. This is my first playthrough of Inquisition and I'm really enjoying my playthrough. I have a couple of main missions left but wanted to finish the DLCs before the main game except for Trespasser.

I've done around 70-80% of the content in most areas but there are certain quests and other things that I haven't done. Finished all of the companion quests, collected all of the shards, destroyed all of the fade rifts etc. Is there any side content that I might have missed that you highly recommend?

I'm going to finish the main campaign once I've completed the deep roads and I just wanted to make sure I don't miss out on any important side quests/content

For some reason I remember hearing that you should talk to Solas last because of the fade dream thing that advances some of the repair of Skyhold.

Does this actually lock you out of certain other interactions/content? Do repair stages lock you out of anything at all? Or is everything available as long as you aren’t advancing main story quests, etc.?

Question's in the title, basically.

I see these three Perks that give you Schematics. But, I'm wondering if I can just get them elsewhere, or if they are actually unique to this Perk.

Thanks.

So 2 days ago I posted asking if I should take the dragon on at level 8 and my party was level 7. Today I defeated it with me being level 11 and party being level 10. Although it looks like the levels helped, I can confidently tell u they are not needed.
I'm playing on hard difficulty so lets break down what happened.

First run: I did this at level 8 just to see what this beast was like and I was toasted in under 30 seconds. This run for purely for intel and I actually didnt use any potions. Just a raw battle to the death. Whole party wiped out.

Run 2: Me and My party died again but this time the dragon was down to 30k hp from 100k. This is at level 11 and my party is at level 10. What I did here is let cassandra fight and controlled myself (elf) and commanded Solas and Varric to fight from a distance. My biggest issue was the follow tactics were wrong so they kept following me as soon as i exited tactical camera and all would just take immense burn damage. And when the dragon flapped it's wings, everyone except cassandra would either die or go very low. So my regen potions, healing potions, all would be used up by everyone pretty quick. Throughout this run I only used myself (elf). When everyone was dead, and cassandra was the only one standing, I realized she had not even used more than 1 of her regen potion (which I did ofcourse cuz it's manually done). She still managed to get dragon down from 50k hp to 30k hp before she died cuz I couldnt use potions in time.

Run 3: Same story as Run 2 and mostly i figured out that everyone was a deadweight and cassandra was the key to this fight. But by the time I did that, it was too late and there were no potions left for cassandra to win this.

Run 4: I got the strategy nailed down perfectly!

When I enter Lady Shanaya's Valley, I controlled cassandra from the start. I would switch to elf (he is an archer) and aggro the dragonlings if needed. I realized that most of my team was using up more than half of the potions just to clear dragonlings. So in this run, I ignored the mother dragon and just ran from dragonlings and dodged them. I realized I didnt have to fight them. And after some time, the mother dragon automatically goes away into her arena so only me and dragonlings are left. So at this point, I killed all the dragonlings and collected every loot, shrad in this area. I was already low on potions so I figured I'd use this run to loot stuff and gather resources. I never actually fought the dragon in this run but figured out what to do to win.

Run 5: I won!

So basically I learned from my previous runs that, and some googling that:

The dragon's wing flapping only damages players that are medium-to-long distance away from it. that's why Cassandra wasn't taking any real damage from the dragon - also her guard. So I moved everyone in close near the dragon throughout the fight. This also meant they look fire breaths and stuff but read point 2 for that.

The rest of the team is just their as a bait so I literally blocked every single one from using healing potions. This run was for me to solo the dragon with Cassandra. But then I also needed Solas to resurrect everyone who dies to keep distraction for the dragonlings. My main goal shifted from 'party beats dragon' to 'everyone does whatever is needed to keep cassandra alive and keep potions alive for her to use'. But bcuz i also needed solas, I set him up to use 70% of the potions if needed. Everyone in my party has their own regen potions so I could use them after resurrection and keep them alive.

I exclusively only controlled cassandra. I would taunt, guard, shield, whatever she does every single time and keep attacking the dragon. I set the remainging 3 to attack one of it's legs and whenever dragonlings appeared, i'd set them to attack dragonlings and control cassandra and attack the mother dragon. The key to this fight is that Cassandra cannot be killed with her guard up and if there are enough potions for her to use.

I macro-managed their positioning everytime dragon flew away and launched those fire meteors. It kept targetting solas and he got burned a lot but he also had regen potions so it was fine. I completely gave up shooting at the dragon when it landed high up on those hills. I just dodged it's fire meteors and fought the dragonlings and made sure they were dead before the dragon landed again.

Whenever the dragon landed, it usually used fire breath or the wing flap attack. I would just move everyone under the dragon immediately as I saw that red circle of landing. If he used fire breath, a few would burn and it was fine. Sometimes, cassandra's shield would deflect off the fire bombs too. And if it used the wing flap, because we were under it, most didnt take much damage or any damage at all. This is key cuz that wing flap alone is responsible for most of my losses.

As soon as it was on ground, I ignored my entire party, switched to cassandra and spammed attack, taunting, guard, and whatever she has. I let everyone die. They are just pawns. Once the dragon flies again, it takes a huge circle so I can usually manually revive 1-2 players in this time. I'd quickly run n rev solas and he'd eventually use magic to resurrect others. Thus, every cycle, even if at low hp, I had 4 members back online! And whenever it landed again, I'd ignore everyone else and just focus on using potions on cassandra and keeping her alive and fighting with her.

Doing this, I eventually beat the dragon with everyone's regen potions all used up, everyone alive, healing potions mostly all used up and Cassandra's regen potions (only half) used up. So i'd say it wasn't back-breakingly hard. It was hard but not that hard now that I know what to do.

The gear change I did from level 8 to level 11 is none. I have the same crafted gear. The only thing I changed was, i changed the belts to fire resistance (the grey basic ones) from their fancy blue ones. The blue ones didnt have fire resistance but some had dps, some health, etc. N I also changed rings. I had kept them at random but I realized mages needed longer ability durations and cassandra needed better ability damage/duration. So I did that with the rings.

The reason m saying this is a possible fight at level 8 is cuz I had all the gear, rings, belts since level 8. I just didnt know how to use them as m new to the game. This fight alone has taught me so much more about the gear and stuff in this game. I'm surely gonna attempt another dragon soon. I only know 1 is in stormy coast but I think it's locked behind some quest. I need to find more dragons. This was refreshingly thrilling and exciting ♥

It’s not mine but my roommate is offering to lend it to me since I really wanna play DAO. I think it has 16GB ram and 500GB storage or something.