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There's Futanari in DA now?

When one character uses a health potion, is it supposed to also remove a potion from the supply on the rest of my characters? This seems like a bug since I have to spend a resource to replenish each non-standard health pot on each character.

Also, I can't seem to find the approval rating for each of my companions. Unless they decided not to include one this time around.

I started crafting. It's not nearly as complicated as the game makes it sound. The stuff I've made is far better than anything I can buy. Some of the rare loot I've picked up is a bit better, but not by much. The only hard part is getting the crafting diagrams. You're going to need a good bit of money to buy them, or you're going to need to do a ton of exploring to loot them.

Edited, Nov 21st 2014 12:24am by Turin

Finally progressed in the story a bit! For a long while I was jumping between the Storm Coast, Fallow Mire, and the Hinterlands. I actually hit level 10 before going to Val Royeaux. I've now picked up Sera, Vivi (yes, I will call her Vivi, because she is LITERALLY A BLACK MAGE), Bull, and Blackwall. I've switched up my party to use Vivi and Blackwall... I was torn between keeping Varric or switching to Sera, but I like Varric too much. Sorry Sera, maybe when I can romance you next run...

As for their personalities, I'm a bit torn. First, I like Vivi... but she can't be romanced, which is too bad as I don't find the other female options (Cass and Josephine) as appealing. I also like her view on mages and their actions after Anders' fireworks in DA2. It perfectly mirrors my own views: he was a terrorist, and the mages who declared their independence immediately after Anders' actions were basically giving their support to mass murder.

Sera is hit-or-miss. Juvenile, but fun, personality. Iron Bull I think will be awesome, but I don't want to use him as a tank necessarily and I'd prefer a second mage to a second warrior in my party. Blackwall's history is going to be interesting, and I don't yet understand why Vivi dislikes him. I'm mostly using him instead of Cass just for a change of pace.

So, only two characters left to find. I think it'll depend on who I ally with first, the Templars or Mages? Just a guess. I have to say, I'm still feeling more sympathetic to the mages because Lucien is a jerkface, but Fiona is like a Mini-Orsino. Meh, we'll see.

I too started crafting, and that along with respeccing my mages made a HUGE difference in combat ability. As others said, now my own items are as good or better than what I've found. The enhancements were the best part, though I need more schematics... I heard there's a vendor for them in VR? I might have to go back and check.

Anyone buy the 10,000 gold mystery box? I'm sitting at like 9,700 right now and I'm tempted to...

As mentioned I also realized I was making some mistakes with my mages so I respecced. Putting points into the Winter tree helped a lot; Winter Stillness (+50% mana regen while standing still) means now instead of being constantly mana-starved I can cast a spell every few seconds. You can also get Fade Step to get to it, which is a mana-free 4 second cooldown speed burst; ideal for exploration or a quick escape. Spirit is still awesome... did I mention Dispel before? GET DISPEL. I hugely underrated this spell at first. It banishes enemies from rifts before the wave begins, it strips off enemy barriers (but not guard) and it heals negative status ailments. It makes Rifts MUCH easier, and fighting mages and demons with barriers simple as well. Get it! The rest of my Inquisitor's points are in Spirit and Storm, but I may respec again... the Inferno Tree seems great, and I'd love to get Fire Mine. And then once I get Knight-Enchanter I'll have to respec once again... oh well, worth it.

Now, if only I had thought as much about my other characters' trees as I did my mages'... oh well. I also need to learn how to better use cross-class combos. But at least I'm learning, and no fight recently has been too hard! Well, being level 11 now doesn't hurt either. I finally closed that darn level 12 elite rift in the Hinterlands that massacred my party at level 6, but I'm not brave enough to take on the dragon there yet.

Questions for the group:
1. Where is the last landmark in the Fallow Mire? I've found 4/5 and I've completed all the quests I had for the area. I don't see it on my map.
2. How do you get in the cave/ruin in the Storm Coast that has the red lyrium deposits in it? Presumably, at least. Between me and the deposits on the map is only mountains on one side, ocean on the other, and what looks like a closed entrance to a dwarven ruin in between.
3. Where are people finding schematics? Or buying them, at least. It is in VR, right?
4. What Inquisition Perks are people getting?

Random thoughts:
-I named my character Harold, so whenever anyone calls him the Herald, I imagine him whining "No no no, HAROLD, not HERALD!"
-If you haven't gotten to VR yet, you might want to get all the Codex +exp perks you can first. There are SO many Codex entries and things to read there.

Edited, Nov 21st 2014 8:38am by LockeColeMA

There is one in VR for sure I was checking it out last night. The schematics are spendy though. I don't now how to get to the other side of the mountain spine on the coast yet either. I went up and down the beach enough to get Ibull and do a few random quests and ended up jetting out to keep collecting companions. Plan to explore it more tonight after work.

Crafting is OP, but the patterns are crazy expensive (I've only found one vendor that sells anything worth buying; he's in Val Royeaux).

The game isn't very keen on letting me know where I should be adventuring at any given level. Case in point, I was running around the Hinterlands at level 5 or 6 stomping out bandits, and mistakenly ran into an area with a dragon flying around. He charred the whole party in one hit. So far, the most useful ability is quicksave.

Edit: clarified some ambiguous wording.

Edited, Nov 21st 2014 11:01am by Demea

PC Master Race.

You just need to wait for the DLC with the +50 approval gifts.

Speaking of, I demand to know what became of Schmooples. Also, the nice girl who once wanted Schmooples.

The more I think of it, the more convinced I am that my Warden must have really eff'd Leliana's head up in their post DA:O relationship

Lack of evidence to the contrary, I'm just going to assume that Schmooples is running Leliana's spy network in Orzammar.

Looks like they weren't able to find the same voice actor for Alistair. And also forgot what he looked and acted like.

I think I have an issue. I cannot leave side quests alone long enough to continue the main storyline. To give a mostly non-spoilery example, it took just about 35 hours for me to get to Skyhold. Most people do it in half the time, or so I've heard. Now I finally feel like the game is actually beginning, and it's almost overwhelming because I have about a half dozen new areas to explore, tons of side quests, and I just spent the last hour and a half chatting with my companions.

Speaking of which, the shine has quickly worn off with Vivienne. Unless I'm missing something, her defining characteristic is that she's a jerk to EVERYONE. My party for the last while has been her, Varric, and Blackwall, but she just squabbles with them. It's not even humorous. I think I'll switch her for Dorian, because that guy is hilarious.

I've completely finished up the Fallow Mire and the Wandering Oasis (although I need more shards for the temple, I finished Spoilerthe fire side to the end. I think besides the dragon and the quest to bring a flower to a grave I'm done with the Hinterlands. And now that Skyhold is open I think I can finish up Storm Coast. My party is level 13. And I had enough Power to open all the options on the table when I went to Skyhold.

I think I'll just take my time around the hold for a bit, chat with everyone, and then create some new gear since I have all tier 2 materials now.

Also, the entire game should be mages Fade-stepping and me saying "LOL, Nope" and chain harpooning them.