Dragon Age Origins: Collective knowledge thread

[tom919]

Ok I got Dragon Age for the xbox and it is EPIC, so epic infact I feel it needs somewhere on the escapist where people can share experience and advice. My first piece buy it NOW!!!! Ask questions and pray for answers from the community

 

[tom919]

yeah sorry about that i just noticed on re reading oops :/

 

[Pimppeter2]

I hope to get this game soon, but I doubt I will before mid December (My bday)

But I'm having plenty of fun with Jak and Daxter:TLF

 

[hieiwrath]

If u think dragon age is epic in xbox, go see the pc version.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Um, in the dwarf lvl, you get a full set of heavy plate armor called "armor of the legion" which is very good. just search all the sarcophaguses when you venture into the darkspawn fortress thing, just after you meet the small band of dwarf legionares.

Once you find drake and dragon scales you can take them to a smith in (Dargrin? not sure how to spell it) with the drake scales you get some fire resistant scale mail, and with the dragon scales you get either light medium or heavy plate, the heavy plate is the best plate I have yet found in the game.

In the elf lvl when you travel the woods you can find the "juggernaut plate" by disterbing the grave sites.

yea thats all I remember right now

 

[ae86gamer]

Once you find drake and dragon scales you can take them to a smith in (Dargrin? not sure how to spell it) with the drake scales you get some fire resistant scale mail, and with the dragon scales you get either light medium or heavy plate, the heavy plate is the best plate I have yet found in the game.

Where city do you take them to? I've been looking everywhere but I can't find the blacksmith anywhere.

 

[squid5580]

If u think dragon age is epic in xbox, go see the pc version.

Bastard. Just add insult to injury there (cuz I really regret getting the 360 version). Damn you MMO's that suck the old lady in and make her tie up the computer for hours on end.

So can anyone tell me in the tactics hp >10% or HP<10% which one means less than 10%?

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Once you find drake and dragon scales you can take them to a smith in (Dargrin? not sure how to spell it) with the drake scales you get some fire resistant scale mail, and with the dragon scales you get either light medium or heavy plate, the heavy plate is the best plate I have yet found in the game.

Where city do you take them to? I've been looking everywhere but I can't find the blacksmith anywhere.

the capital city, Dargrin or Dalgrin? not sure how you spell it, it's in the upper righthand corner of your map it's a big city with lots of little subdistricts that you can go to.

the default one though is the market district (marketplace or whatever it is called) go there

there is a very large building there called (some dudes name that I forget) imporium. They sell only high lvl armor, theres a whiny dude who runs the counter and a smith in the back. ask the dude at the counter about the drake or dragon scales and the smith will run out and take them from you and make something.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

If u think dragon age is epic in xbox, go see the pc version.

Bastard. Just add insult to injury there (cuz I really regret getting the 360 version). Damn you MMO's that suck the old lady in and make her tie up the computer for hours on end.

So can anyone tell me in the tactics hp >10% or HP<10% which one means less than 10%?

hp<10% means: less than 10%

hp>10% means: more than 10%

 

[squid5580]

If u think dragon age is epic in xbox, go see the pc version.

Bastard. Just add insult to injury there (cuz I really regret getting the 360 version). Damn you MMO's that suck the old lady in and make her tie up the computer for hours on end.

So can anyone tell me in the tactics hp >10% or HP<10% which one means less than 10%?

hp<10% means: less than 10%

hp>10% means: more than 10%

Thank you. Now maybe I won't have to spend so much time babysitting them. I was thinking it was the opposite way.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

If u think dragon age is epic in xbox, go see the pc version.

Bastard. Just add insult to injury there (cuz I really regret getting the 360 version). Damn you MMO's that suck the old lady in and make her tie up the computer for hours on end.

So can anyone tell me in the tactics hp >10% or HP<10% which one means less than 10%?

hp<10% means: less than 10%

hp>10% means: more than 10%

Thank you. Now maybe I won't have to spend so much time babysitting them. I was thinking it was the opposite way.

If your trying to set tactics for heals then I would suggest that you order heals whenever a perty member drops below hp<30%, 10% health is one blow away from a knockout and AI controled healers don't always respond that quickly.

 

[tanithwolf]

So can anyone tell me in the tactics hp >10% or HP<10% which one means less than 10%?

HP<10% is less then 10%, but in my experience it's better to use 25% because the delay from either any healing effect or running away will get a character killed if their being wailed on with 10% health left.


hmmmmm just beaten to everything I said in two seperate replys. Damn my typing speed.

 

[Carnagath]

No shop has got it yet in my little town of 5,000. This vexes me greatly.

 

[squid5580]

Thanks guys. I just threw out the 10% as a number. I still have alot of tweaking to do to find the right set up (but first I need a party of my own)

 

[hieiwrath]

The pc version is hard like hell when i went to the tower in the begining i didnt buy heal item, i died a lot in the tower, u need to ambush a lot, and sometimes u cant. So im playing the easy level now, the normal is too dificult.
If u have a pc and choose to buy the xbox version, u missed the chance of having a better game experience, but if u only have the xbox i think thats ok.
I didnt buy the dlc, is it worth?

 

[hieiwrath]

Tip: the first quest u should do is help the mages.

 

[Mrselfdestruct]

It's not fair! I can't get this game until I get my new PC and I want it so much.....
Is it better than kotor?

 

[Slycne]

Once you find drake and dragon scales you can take them to a smith in (Dargrin? not sure how to spell it) with the drake scales you get some fire resistant scale mail, and with the dragon scales you get either light medium or heavy plate, the heavy plate is the best plate I have yet found in the game.

Where city do you take them to? I've been looking everywhere but I can't find the blacksmith anywhere.

the capital city, Dargrin or Dalgrin? not sure how you spell it, it's in the upper righthand corner of your map it's a big city with lots of little subdistricts that you can go to.

the default one though is the market district (marketplace or whatever it is called) go there

there is a very large building there called (some dudes name that I forget) imporium. They sell only high lvl armor, theres a whiny dude who runs the counter and a smith in the back. ask the dude at the counter about the drake or dragon scales and the smith will run out and take them from you and make something.

The city is Denerim and Wade is the name of the smith.

Spoiler

He will make the armor for free, but if you pay him to do it perfect you will get better quality. So far I've gotten 3 sets from him

Bring him 3 Drake Scales for a decent set of light armor. If you bring him another 3 he will make a 'Superior' set and then you can bring him a Dragon Scale to craft a set of medium, heavy or massive armor set of your choice.

I picked the medium set for my rogue. Besides a high amount of fire resist, it has lots of +stamina and stamina regen on it, and when worn as the complete set has almost no fatigue penalty.

 

[ARM02]

my advice to any mage characters is to get high level area of effect spells. They are damn useful. I've gone lightning. Also, the freeze spell will allow your melee characters respite. Stone fist works for that as well, as it knocks enemies down. Mindblast is great for neutralizing large groups of enemies.