Anyone else looking forward to Dragon Age? (Spoilers and plot discussion here)

[Barrister]

I have no idea why people would ever need to lower the difficulty on this game....

Redcliffe is dead easy.  Either focus fire or retreat back up the hill of that fails.  It is the easiest significant battle in the game.  By the description in the latest patch everything just got easier too.

In the end I did retreat back up the hills, and that finished things off rather easily.

[Caliga]

Redcliffe is dead easy.  Either focus fire or retreat back up the hill of that fails.  It is the easiest significant battle in the game.  By the description in the latest patch everything just got easier too.

Not sure if this applies to Languish folks, but from the DA forums it seems alot of people charge into every battle headfirst like kamikazes and are then shocked and angry at the game when this 'strategy' fails.  I have to admit I did this quite often at first  , but I never blamed DA or Bioware for it, but rather my own tactical laziness.

[Barrister]

I hardly head kamikaze style into battle.  I send Alistair in to act as a tank, with Morrigan, Leliana and my mage back up the hill to provide ranged damage.  I tried throwing off as many heals as I could to keep the NPCs alive, but they were ultimately overwhelmed.  I also certainly used focus fire (which is why the battle took so long - I needed to pause every few seconds), but the numbers were just overwhelming.

It also didn't help when I would invariably pull  aggro with too many healing spells.

[Grallon]

I think the higher difficulty levels rely heavily on the Tactics system - which one must keep updated depending on the situation.  For instance when I went for Flemeth I had Alistair tanking and Leliana 'programmed' to shoot 'shattering shot' until the dragon went under 25% then she was to switch to 'killing shot'.  Wynn was naturally providing healing mostly for Alistair while I blasted the dragon with electricity.

My problem is that I keep forgetting to use them tactics.



G.

[Solmyr]

Redcliffe is not "easy" if you actually want to keep the NPCs alive. And it's implied that you can do so, since the end speech after the battle includes separate references to e.g. the village mayor.

[Caliga]

I think when I did that battle with my first PC the mayor was the only notable NPC who actually got killed.

[DisturbedPervert]

Only one who died when I did it was the bar owner.  Which was fine with me, he was an ass, and the chick got to take over.

[Caliga]

Only one who died when I did it was the bar owner.  Which was fine with me, he was an ass, and the chick got to take over.

I was mad I didn't get to do her after the battle. 

[Cecil]

Well there are a few extras that you can persuade to join and while the dwarf and his henchmen are pretty easy to keep up the innkeeper is a major hassle to keep alive. The elven archer is usually no probs though since he rarely melees.

[Caliga]

Actually, maybe the elven archer dude died as well.  He seemed to have completely disappeared following the battle.

[Sophie Scholl]

You get a mediocre helm if you keep everyone alive.  I had to do the battle twice as the retard bar owner kept charging into the oncoming ranks by himself and got killed in the last wave on my first go through.  Fucker.

[Valmy]

[Grallon]

Here's my warden Arcane Warrior: Kohan
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[Sophie Scholl]

Crappy shot of my latest character:  Padme, human rogue!

[Jaron]