Thread: Dragon Age Origins

Originally Posted by Stovetop

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Zombies

I suspected that this is where you were having trouble with your rogue.

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This is also where I had made up my mind that rogues weren't playable. Honestly, this is a pretty difficult part of the game, and many people will probably go there first especially becaue Alistair suggests that you do so. I too went here right after Lothering.

I'm not sure what to tell you except that once you get past the zombie invaision you'll probably have an easier time. Make sure you have a warrior with Taunt. If possible, also bring a mage with a healing spell, but if Morrigan doen't have that you'll just have to make do with as many healing poultices as you can get your hands on. If you haven't freed Sten from his cage, I suggest you do so and use him as your main tank with Alistair as an off-tank since Alistair doesn't come with Taunt as a base ability but Sten does if I remember.

If possible, you could use your rogue as an archer. Unfortunately, archers do relatively poor damage in this game for some stupid reason, as though rogues weren't already behind as it is.

Originally Posted by hydro

The difficulty is levelled anyway. It's not like Oblivion's ridiculous scaling, but no matter what order you do the city questlines in, they will all deliver fairly optimum difficulty.

Are your tanks using Threaten and stuff like that? There are a few skills that contribute to getting enemy attention. It might be worth investing in as many as possible for the appropriate characters.

It's less about the difficulty in terms of raw stats and more about the fact that that early on your characters don't have many abilities that would be very useful: your tanks may not have Threaten (Alistair doesn't start out with it for example), your mages may not have Heal (if you didn't realize yet that it is a very helpful spell), etc.

Originally Posted by Stovetop

Your advice is amazing.

My party consists of rogue, Morrigan, Sten, Allistair. Only im using Allistair as the tank, and Sten has a bunch of skills in the 2H weapon dept. Perhaps I should have them both attmept to be tanks. I also attempted to use a bow with my rogue, but as you said, that was even more worthless.

You have failed me for the last time Allistair, I now will no longer take your advice.

Also, did you see how much poisoned weapons actually increases your damage? I have made as much poison as what is on me will allow, but it still doesnt seem to help a whole lot once they decide my rogue needs to die.

Sten should still be useful as an offtank with that party composition, even though he's wielding a two-hander and not a sword and board. I honestly don't know what it's like to only roll with one mage since my party has always had two.

As for Rogue bows, I've heard that the abilities are pretty good, but the auto-attack sucks. There is apparently an experimental hotfix by a Bioware developer that might serve as a band-aid to the problem until a full patch is released:

http://dragonage.gulbsoft.org/doku.p...ity_hotfix_101

Note the warning at the bottom of the page before you install: the hotfix affects enemies in the game as well, so encounters with a ton of archers become considerably more difficult than they are now.