[Archaon]

Originally Posted by Arcana

There's two taunt-style spells: "Threaten" (an aura) and "Taunt" (an ability).

I play a tank as my main character and I had massive aggro problems until I got Taunt AND Threaten. Check your tactics and make sure that your tanks start attacking anyone who is attacking your mage. Also, make sure they have enough willpower to use Taunt a lot. If you don't have Massive Armor yet it makes a huge difference over Heavy Armor.

Also I tend to use a lot of Affliction Hex before I lead off with any spells. And if you don't have Cone of Cold, it's a very, very good spell.

Thankfully, none of this matters anymore because I just became an Arcane Warrior.

Imagine a nerdy, awkward kid in school who gets picked on every day for being all quiet and studious and asocial, but he just keeps his head down and puts up with it because he knows his studies are what will really matter in the end. Then, over the summer holidays, he knuckles down and does some hardcore weightlifting and martial arts training, and when the next school year starts, he returns to dangle women off his arm and wreak unbridled carnage on everyone who has ever slighted him.

That is exactly what I felt like once I donned a suit of heavy plate and got my first taste of Combat Magic in action. Except I already had women dangling off my arm because apparently Leliana is very easily impressed.

It's time for RETRIBUTION.


EDIT: Urgh. I'm really starting to wish I'd gone for Morrigan instead, because I'm finding it completely impossible to keep Leliana from charging into melee rather than using her bow; you know, the weapon she's actually GOOD with and has all the fancy combat techniques for. I'd understand it if she only switched when someone got too close, but no. Unless I take control of her directly, she insists on diving into the fray unless she's practically on the other side of the map. And she doesn't even need to use her melee weapon anymore because I took that skill that stops her archery being interrupted if she gets hit.

I swear, it's like for every thing this game gets right, it does something else wrong to balance it out. Having a communal inventory and not having to worry about encumbrance is good, but why can't I drop items and come back for them later rather than having to destroy them when I run out of space? Being able to position characters individually to set up ambushes and such is good, but what's the point when most of the difficult fights have cutscenes before them that automatically place everyone right in front of your enemies?

[Tensei-San]

You can fix the issue with Leliana by either taking her melee weapons off her or possibly by altering her tactics (there might be a command line that tells her to switch to melee at certain points.)

And yes, I felt like such a badass when I went from scrawny mage to a tanking machine. Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage is definitely one of the best class combo's for mages.


Edit:

I really need to start writing down Oghren's pickup lines.

[GeckoYamori]

Just found out there's plenty of hidden benefits to using the glyph spells, like amplifying the effects of other spells or overlapping different glyphs with eachother.

Using arcane warrior with a mixture of healing/glyph/hex spells to get as close as possible to a D&D cleric.

[Arcana]

Originally Posted by Archaon

Leliana from charging into melee rather than using her bow; you know, the weapon she's actually GOOD with and has all the fancy combat techniques for. I'd understand it if she only switched when someone got too close, but no. Unless I take control of her directly, she insists on diving into the fray unless she's practically on the other side of the map. And she doesn't even need to use her melee weapon anymore because I took that skill that stops her archery being interrupted if she gets hit.

On the tactics menu, on the right-hand side, there's a setting for their targeting behaviour. It is usually set to "default". Change it to "passive" or "ranged". I always set my healers to passive and my mages/archers to use "ranged".

Arrows aren't that good though. I'm kind of determined to convince myself that they're good, but they miss too often to be useful and their passives use up too much stamina. Not to mention, poisons and enchantments don't seem to work with them either.

[Tensei-San]

God, on my second playthrough now, and this game is still as fun as ever. Some of the dialogue options are just too much and I can't help cracking up at how much of an arrogant douchebag you can be in this game.


"I want my face on one of those big statues"...seriously?

[Another Soundscape]

The funny thing is that I totally picked that line.

[Archaon]

Hurlock.

Hurrrrrrrrrrrlock.




HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR




























lock.



I imagine mods saying that when they lock a dumb thread. They're like "HURRRR, lock."

[Tensei-San]

They should just say "ENCHANTMENT? ENCHANTMENT!" instead

[Arcana]

There's full threads on GameFAQs that go

"Enchantment?"


Do you want to stoop down to the level of GameFAQs? DO YOU HUH DO YOU?!?!?

[Tensei-San]

Well maybe I should stoop down to the level of "No-o-o-o-obody tells him what to do! Nooooooooooooobody! HAHAHAHAAAAAA!" instead then! (Don't watch if you haven't done the redcliffe castle quest yet)

Also, I found out it's literally impossible for me to have Alistair in my party. I just can't stand him at all for some reason! He's a decently fleshed out character and he's not completely lawful stupid like Anomen in Baldur's Gate 2 was, but god, something about him just makes me want to punch his prettyboy face in. I can't quite put my finger on it though.