Speaking of collecting junk... is anyone actually doing shard collecting? What does it even give you?
I don't understand why devs feel the need to litter the game with junk like this.
Speaking of collecting junk... is anyone actually doing shard collecting? What does it even give you?
I don't understand why devs feel the need to litter the game with junk like this.
Crafting is from tier 1 to tier 4 resources(dragon resources being tier 4) and obviously higher the tier the better your gear can be,remember to look at all your material resources while adding them to your gear while crafting at the station as it tells you what stats you can end up with,obviously different resources give you different stats.
I did not start crafting until about level 12 or so,you should be on at least tier 2 resources by then.
What does "crafting" the slots mean? Also, if I were to start crafting, is there a particular time I should start, or do I have to start early so I can level it up like in MMOs?
KT
I did. Originally Bioware never intended to make the Inquisitor role available to other races I believe. It was only after the massive backlash that they did, and they ended up delaying the game to implement other races as playable.
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From a plotline perspective, the Inquisitor being a human makes the most sense. What would a Qunari, dwarf or dalish elf be doing at the conclave? I'm sure Bioware concocted some explanation (as spies or some such), but when you consider the entire religious overtone then it becomes less credible..
From a plotline perspective, the Inquisitor being a human makes the most sense. What would a Qunari, dwarf or dalish elf be doing at the conclave? I'm sure Bioware concocted some explanation (as spies or some such), but when you consider the entire religious overtone then it becomes less credible..
Cool, thanks. I'm only level 8 right meow.
KT
Each to his own. If you like the witcher better, I can understand that. Admittedly, the first game, I played maybe a couple of hours and quit. The combat just drove me nuts.
I did try really hard to like the second game and put maybe 10 or 20 hours into it, but still couldn't get into it.
I agree with DA:I though. I though the story was much better developed in DA:O than DA:I. I played through DA:O three times I think, but DA:I may be one and done.
That's very interesting.
The only issue that I have with the way this game portrays homosexuality is that for all characters, you can woo them regardless of gender. Even in a society where people can have open preferences, some people just won't be open to same sex relations and some won't be open to opposite sex relations. Why are all of these characters bi-sexual then? It isn't realistic, even in the fictitious world.
I don't see why some characters, when you hit on them, can't just be like "oh sorry, don't swing that way but you're cool and stuff" instead of "where's the bed? let's get at it!"
Being straight does not mean you don't support an open and fair society. But protraying a world in a way where bi-sexuality is ubiquitous arguably does harm to the movement to support an open and fair society because it rejects the notion that individuals can have individual tastes. In doing this, and replacing this idea with the idea that everyone has the same sexuality, it's like saying "I don't see gender" similar to "I don't see race."
EDIT: I do think it is awesome that the player controlled character can have whatever sexuality they want though.
have you played DA:I? because that isn't true. The core characters are either straight, gay/lesbian, or bi (I think Iron Bull is the only "bi" one, but according to Qunari, there isn't really such a thing as "bisexual" or sexual...or whatever).
Anyway, you can't woo everyone as either gender. I think you could do that in DA2, which pissed people off.
I put 22 hours into Witcher 1 and 18 hours into Witcher 2. I really want to like these things. I feel like I should like these games. Vishnu knows--I sure make the effort.
But I just don't like them. I think it's because I finish up something like DA:O, thoroughly enjoy it and want to try something similar, so I try the Witcher (1), but I'm already burned out on general RPGing for that time (the level and loot grinding)
So maybe it's just bad timing? well...not really. I don't mind the combat in Witcher, it's miles better than Skyrim (which I seem to have no trouble dumping ~600 hours into...). I think it's the type of grinding. It's crafting all these different types of potions and bombs and traps that you really do need to use for success...and tonicing yourself to oblivion prior to most fights. Especially with Witcher 2--sitting down and meditating and swallowing 3 or 4 various tonics before certain fights...got old fast. i was done.
Anyway, I'll never learn. I am going to try Witcher 1 again, at some point, and will eventually pick up Witcher 3 (if it truly is open world--at least DA:I version of open world), then I will probably enjoy it a lot more than the others.
have you played DA:I? because that isn't true. The core characters are either straight, gay/lesbian, or bi (I think Iron Bull is the only "bi" one, but according to Qunari, there isn't really such a thing as "bisexual" or sexual...or whatever).
Anyway, you can't woo everyone as either gender. I think you could do that in DA2, which pissed people off.
Both the Witcher games require you to get past the first areas before you start to understand what is going on around, and truly enjoy them. Both games felt like work in the first areas, and even when you start in the 2nd area, as you need to regain your bearings. But if you stick it out, you will likely enjoy both of them.
Yeah I was corrected above. No worries. I just assumed it was the same as DA2. I don't really understand the point of relationships so I don't do them.
Did you purchase all of the Tier 3 schematics? I didn't find anything through drops that were even in the same ballpark of what I could craft once I got the best schematics, especially when I could craft my own "add-on" items (arms and legs for armor, staff blades and grips, etc.).
I agree with the combat complaints however. I would set up a battle just how I wanted with my ranged characters in back and my melee people up front. Go into battle and next thing I know my ranged fighters are popping health potions like mad because they had run into melee range. The tactics options for your party are somewhat lacking to say the least. I have to say this also happens to me in DA:O, but the combat is so much more chaotic in DA:I that it becomes much harder to manage.
yeah, but 22 hours....
I made it to near the end of the 2nd area--that decent-sized city with large sewers and even larger swamp outside with some wizard tower and wolves and bats or vampires or some such"
40 hours into both of those games...still can't get into them. :\
still, it's something I really want to like, it is something that I should like, but it just never happens
I meant besides my crafted tier 3 bow for my elf inquisitor. Maybe I was lucky and picked up great stuff- but I could not craft better armor - not even close. I found that if you Mastercrafted armor, then you could not add on the arms/legs. So, if you had tier 3 armor arms/legs when you added then to the tier 3 armor it far outweighed the 10% improvement you got from the Mastercrafing - did you get 20% improvement with mastercraft? Mine was definitely 10%. I happen to pick up better armor than I could craft for most of my group.
You bought the wrong schematics. That was the issue for you. Anything that is listed as relating to a particular group doesn't have the arms and leg slots. Prowler, battlemaster, mattlemage, enchanter and a few others, all have arms and leg slots. If you pick up Dalish, Warden, Templar and others named after particular groups, they don't have arms and legs.
Are you talking about the 1st game? If so, you were really close to moving to the more interesting areas. Even the final battles of that zone can be fun, though the early parts of it were fairly boring. I wasn't counting the short time in the Witcher castle when I said 1st town.
yeah, but 22 hours....
I made it to near the end of the 2nd area--that decent-sized city with large sewers and even larger swamp outside with some wizard tower and wolves and bats or vampires or some such"
40 hours into both of those games...still can't get into them. :\
still, it's something I really want to like, it is something that I should like, but it just never happens
As a side note - the combat in this game is why I STILL haven't bought this game yet. I want to, but all the game play videos I've seen, all the reviews I've read, show the combat as moving towards more twitch based, geared towards controllers, and the keyboard and mouse controls as being mostly crap.
I assume at some point I will break down and buy this game, but that lingering feeling of disappointment at how they've changed the game hasn't allowed me to yet.
You do realize if you just always hold the right mouse button, you move in any direction you want with mouse turning.Now, people still use their KB/M--because they are stubborn, I guess--but even tolerating that means that you accept only moving in cardinal directions which, to me, is revolting.