Dragon Age: Origins is an epic fantasy role-playing game featuring a rich story, personality-driven characters, and tactical, bloody combat. It is considered a spiritual successor to the Baldur's Gate series.
I'm really not so far into the game, and have not met all the people that you can recruit, but so far I like having my dog Wolfy just because I like him, Alistair for humor, and Leliana cause yeah, she's hot. Don't like Morrigan's personality much, she seems to disapprove of everything I do...
morrigan, sten, and gwynn. Their personalities are all conflicting, it's great. My impossible dream party, though, would require a fourth mage. It would go something like this:
Main character - Arcane Warrior, Spirit Healer Gwynn - Spirit Healer, Arcane Warrior Morrigan - Shapeshifter, Blood Mage Character that doesn't exist - Shapeshifter, Spirit Healer or Blood Mage (Haven't spent much time with the Blood Mage yet)
This party would be unstoppable. If mages could backstab, they'd pretty much be able to do everything. Arcane Mage is undoubtedly the most powerful specialization in the game with the right gear and spells. Basically, one of my main goals now is to figure out which spells can be cast with weapons drawn. Virulent Walking Bomb doesn't require the character to sheathe their weapons, but Walking Bomb for some reason does. (This is a thread topic I plan on creating later, once more people have had time to come to the same realization as I.) I have a suspicion that most of the healing based spells don't require free hands and some of the more powerful AOE spells don't either, especially the ones with a charge time like Tempest and Chain Lightning. I'm going to have to literally force myself to play as a warrior character, because they don't really do anything noteworthy or particularly worthwhile. I'll probably only do one warrior out of all my playthroughs, if that. I'm going to make the human noble a warrior, and then get pissed about the annoying dog immediately after the orgin story is complete so I have an excuse to go back to my mages and rogues. I hate DLC, but if Bioware made new content with another mage character, I'd almost be forced to buy it.
Right now it's me as a duel wielding rogue, Alistair as shield/sword tank, Morrigan as damage mage, and then dog.
I am just past the battle of Redcliff, and I was thinking about changing it up as soon as I get Wynne, and trading Morrigan out for Leliana and dog out for Wynne.
Reason I am trading out Morrigan is also because she dissaproves everything I do. I could change my decisions to please her, but I don't want to change who my character is. Instead I think I'll make a more mean and chaotic character on my next play through and use her.
Arcane Warrior specialization is my biggest regret yet. I rely alot on the Primal - Frost branch and the whole weapon/casting animation thing is killing it for me.
I personally roll with Alistair (Champion / Templar) - Sten (Beserker) - Morrigan (Spirit Healer / Shapeshifter) and myself an Elven Mage (Arcane Warrior / Blood Mage).
Reason I am trading out Morrigan is also because she dissaproves everything I do. I could change my decisions to please her, but I don't want to change who my character is. Instead I think I'll make a more mean and chaotic character on my next play through and use her. "
Yeah she obviously seems to be more for those on the chaotic route but I just imagine my main dude is really horny.
My party is: My Mage, Alistair, Morrigan and Oghren.
My mage is primal/heals so I throw around some healing when necessary as well as use some health pots. Don't have anyone dedicated strictly to healing, but it works for me.
my party rite now is me (rogue duelist) morrigan (ranged dps), alistair (tank) and sten (big dmg two hander) rite now thats workin out pretty well dont rlly see a need to put wynne in cuz i gave morrigan a couple healing spells to use when i see fit.
my char (a healing mage), alistair (tank), morrigan and shale (on his dps stance). thats what i pretty much used during my 46 hours with it (except when i didnt have shale, then i used either sten or the dog)
" My party consisted of Alistair, Morrigan and Wynne for the majority of the game. "
I'm still trying to hash it out, but I'm thinking it's gonna wind up being this since I'm a rogue (I desperately want to be a Duelist, since I find backstabbing not that useful since it only works against one enemy and I'm generally facing...a lot more than one, but I can't find the Duelist handbook), and I just find it too easy to get overwhelmed without Wynne keeping the main char's and Alistair's health up, plus Morrigan to do area of effect.
Depends on the situation but I usually had Leliana, Shale and Morrigan in my party when I was playing a warrior. Now that I'm playing a mage, I have Leliana, Allistair, and Shale instead (though I sometimes replace Allistair with Wynne). Lelian and Shalre are requisities for looting/ranged attacks and tanking respectively. The final member depends on the situation, but I usually just had a mage when I was a warrior (useful against crowds of archers), and another warrior when I'm playing a mage. When I get back to my Rogue playthrough I'll probably replace Leliana with another warrior-type.
It's my Final Fantasy 1 set-up (Warrior, Warrior, Black Mage, Red Mage). Works so great with this game, since you usually fight large amounts of enemies and need two tanks to coordinate the battlefield, then mage with aoe dps.
Currently playing on hard, and I've only died once, and I just got done with the mage tower and just finished saving Redcliff. Might need to go to Nightmare.
" My party consisted of Alistair, Morrigan and Wynne for the majority of the game. "
I'm still trying to hash it out, but I'm thinking it's gonna wind up being this since I'm a rogue (I desperately want to be a Duelist, since I find backstabbing not that useful since it only works against one enemy and I'm generally facing...a lot more than one, but I can't find the Duelist handbook), and I just find it too easy to get overwhelmed without Wynne keeping the main char's and Alistair's health up, plus Morrigan to do area of effect. "
I'm pretty sure you can be taught to be a duelist at the brothel in Denerim. The pearl or whatever it is called. There is a rogue there who can teach you.
Thread: I had myself (sword and shield warrior with templar and champion specialization), Shale as a second tank, Wynne for the healing (also had her as Arcane Warrior specialization but didn't use it much.) and Leiliana (Bard and Ranger)
" morrigan, sten, and gwynn. Their personalities are all conflicting, it's great. My impossible dream party, though, would require a fourth mage. It would go something like this: Main character - Arcane Warrior, Spirit Healer Gwynn - Spirit Healer, Arcane Warrior Morrigan - Shapeshifter, Blood Mage Character that doesn't exist - Shapeshifter, Spirit Healer or Blood Mage (Haven't spent much time with the Blood Mage yet) This party would be unstoppable. If mages could backstab, they'd pretty much be able to do everything. Arcane Mage is undoubtedly the most powerful specialization in the game with the right gear and spells. Basically, one of my main goals now is to figure out which spells can be cast with weapons drawn. Virulent Walking Bomb doesn't require the character to sheathe their weapons, but Walking Bomb for some reason does. (This is a thread topic I plan on creating later, once more people have had time to come to the same realization as I.) I have a suspicion that most of the healing based spells don't require free hands and some of the more powerful AOE spells don't either, especially the ones with a charge time like Tempest and Chain Lightning. I'm going to have to literally force myself to play as a warrior character, because they don't really do anything noteworthy or particularly worthwhile. I'll probably only do one warrior out of all my playthroughs, if that. I'm going to make the human noble a warrior, and then get pissed about the annoying dog immediately after the orgin story is complete so I have an excuse to go back to my mages and rogues. I hate DLC, but if Bioware made new content with another mage character, I'd almost be forced to buy it. "
morrigan leliana alistair was my first playthru very good party banter. i tried to switch around some ppl for my second playthru but my playstyle is still the same so i only wound up switching to wynne as my healer.
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