Dragon Age Inquisition

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This Friday honestly can't come quick enough for me. I've a few days' holiday to use up so have booked it off to get into the game properly (Sad I know!)

New Trailer

I've rolled a human rogue with twin daggers in my 6 hour trial and that's been fun so far with some very nice stealth attacks as you'd expect. Bit squishy though so will need to get a decent healer into the group.

Can't wait!

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Couldn't resist posting this little gem!

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EtcEtc said:

What size is the environment compared to Skyrim?

Slightly difficult to compare as the game seems to be made up of 10 or so sub-environments that you travel between. Each is larger than the entire DA2 game environments combined. It's probably of a size and just as stunning with some wonderful variety.

Don't do what I did and spend too long int he first proper environment "Hinterlands" as I'm pretty over-levelled now (Just been to Val Royeaux for example which is the second story level and recommended for L4-7 and I was L12)!

There's so much to do in the game it's a real time thief

[Mannginger]

I love the idea of the twin dagger rogue but found it too squishy and found myself missing DPS when mobs wandered off. I re-rolled an archer rogue and am really anjoying it. It can get a bit monotonous taking down high HP creatures but I like the positioning tactics (Always look for height!) and the consistent DPS is nice whilst allowing NPC Tank to hold attention and cloaky-rogue for massive hits whilst I use my mage to control mobs using ice

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LandR said:

On the harder difficulties it's a real problem, I'm sick of my archer or mage running up and attacking from spitting distance from an enemy and predictably get squished. I tell them to hold position but the whole party holds position, is there no way to tell one char (e.g. Varric) to just stay away from the action! You have a crossbow! WHy you are trying to facetank a massive enemy. On hard and nightmare they just die so quickly.

I have Varric with some poison abilities and I noticed that when he was doing one of them (Think it generated a cloud of poison) he'd run into the mob to do it, so I marked it as do not operate and he's been much smarter since - could be worth checking you've not go a similar thing going on?