re: Official Dragon Age: Inquisition Nonstop Fapathon

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always clear the Hinterlands, then move to the Storm Coast to get Bull in my party. Clear out the Coast and move to the Fallow Mire and then the Oasis. Stick Crestwood somehwere in there. I always forget to find Varric on the ramparts to meet Hawk to get Crestwood opened up so I'm always way overpowered by the time I get to Crestwood.

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That seems about right. I've actually never used Bull in any of my playthroughs. If I need a 2nd tank I've always preferred myself if I'm playing KE, or Cass.

I've decided to just finish up all the remaining stuff that's still available to me right now having finished all the MQ stuff. I'm going to do HW, finish up the Oasis, craft a bunch of shite for all party members, and hunt the remaining Dragons. Hell, might even re-spec my Rift Mage's skill points. I want to have finished everything that I can before DLC comes out.

My party 90% of the time is Blackwall, Iron Bull and Solas. I'm a Warrior myself. I never use Varric unless I have a door that needs to be opened.

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On nightmare, I switched Cassandra for Blackie. He seems to do more damage but I have no clue if that is true.

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I feel Blackwall is just better built for tanking, but it's just a gut feeling. I can't prove it. I've been using Blackwall and Cassandra with Solas on my nightmare run. I'm a rogue. In a few more levels and for dragons I'm going to ditch Blackwall for Iron Bull. I'm intentional about using Solas thanks to the ending, I want to see more of his banter and interactions. I used Viv, Blackwall, and Serah on my first playthrough (Hard).

Honestly on hard I rolled a KE and just solo'd everything. Whole party wipes? IDGAF. Just keep spirit blading and dropping fire mines. That being said, so far I've found nightmare to actually be easier, but I attribute that to being better at the game.

To each their own. I hate warrior/tank characters. I never play them. EVER. DPS4Lyfe. On Hard I didn't craft, and Blackwall was consistently up in situations where Cass would fall. Blackwall's ability to generate guard was so extreme that it made my playing so much easier. I felt like Cass's ability definitely could enable her to deal out a little more pain, but against the high level mobs she would croak way too soon and I was trying to revive her. But that was just my playthrough and I honestly never analyzed the damage output/survivability.

Decided to just go ahead and start a new nightmare run with the sword & shield reaver. I'll just take it slow, and make it a long-term project. I'm thinking my main party will be Cass, Bull, and Solas. Maybe Viv if I find myself getting destroyed. I'll bring in Sera occasionally to open doors for me.

I currently have 47/50 achievements. I lack Keymaster, Burning Wings, and Belle of the Ball, which is bullshite, because I had 100 court approval on my last run.

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To each their own. I hate warrior/tank characters. I never play them. EVER. DPS4Lyfe. On Hard I didn't craft, and Blackwall was consistently up in situations where Cass would fall.

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Yeah, same here on tank characters, not my thing at all. The fact you didn't craft would be the main issue there, and I can see how Blackwall would stay alive better for you in that case, as the champion abilities are much better for keeping the single tank alive for sure (walking fortress by itself is ridiculous for that). But if you actually craft then Cass is not going to have any issues staying alive even on nightmare against dragons.

And in that case her 15% buff to group damage, 10% increase to electric/fire/ice/spirit resist for the party, huge damage to spell shields with spell surge/shatter, and destroying demons and stunning groups of enemies for 6 seconds at a time with wrath of heaven is huge. I find she really gets tremendously better than Blackwall at around level 11-12 or so once you can fill out the templar tree and have some key vanguard abilities.

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Just curious, but why use two tanks if you yourself are going to be the main one?

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Because I want to use Bull. No other reason than that!

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If you spec her daggers and make lightning elixir and fire elixir her priorities along with Twin Fangs she will do ridiculous damage. And if you give her two points in stealth and +3 guard on hit her survivability is much better than Bull.

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This seems very strong. And the AI controls her well enough? I may have to try this now, and switch up Cass and Bull occasionally.

EDIT: Actually I guess AI doesn't really matter all that much since I pretty much do all combat in tactical view.

I just started a new character, making a reaver build on nightmare. I was caught off guard with how much more challenging it would be early in the game. I almost didn't not make it past that pride demon at the very beginning of the game. Now I have my specialazation though, and I'm wrecking shite.

Yes, I really like Iron Bull, but the problem is the AI doesn't control the reaver correctly. Also, I mainly only want to control my character so I just made a reaver, and he is pretty freaking powerful.