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

[Barrister]

Don't you mean main DPS *or* the healer?

I don't have enough mana to do both...

You will.  Plus your staff does a lot of range damage mana free.

Mage healing is really just a backup to when taking healing pots isnt enough  - because the character is stunned or otherwise unable to take the potion.  Also - regeneration is your friend.  It is very mana efficient.

Oh, I learned that the staff does a nice bit of damage mana-free, so I've certainly been using that.

Still struggling with the tactics on everyone else though.  How do I get them to "attach whomever the tank is attacking, but nobody else"?  I can usually get them to attack the tank's target, but sometimes when that target goes down and nobody else is in melee range they start racing off in different directions.

[crazy canuck]

I am pretty sure their is a tactic command to attack the target of ??? or it might be attack whoever is attacking ???.  Take a look at that.

But I wouldnt do that.  I like letting my tank soak up all the aggro and have the other three take down the mobs the tank is not on first. 

[Barrister]

I am pretty sure their is a tactic command to attack the target of ??? or it might be attack whoever is attacking ???.  Take a look at that.

But I wouldnt do that.  I like letting my tank soak up all the aggro and have the other three take down the mobs the tank is not on first.

There is.  But I *think* the problem is that once the tank has no target, they do to their second target, who isn't who I want them to attack.

In factI'm not quite clear how the different ranks of tactics work at all...

[Neil]

Also I read that there's a mod in the works to finally enable the romance for guys with our favorite young templar. 

Interesting fact:  If you load a homomod, the game will disable itself.

[Jaron]

I cant wait for someone to make a mod to have sex with the dog.

[katmai]

Great the brain hacked Jaron account again.

[garbon]

I wonder when a family values group will speak out against this because of its simulated gay sex scenes.

[Martinus]

I finished the game last night. Yay.

[Scipio]

Multiple mage parties are ridiculously easy.

[Martinus]

Damn, I am already thinking of replaying the game. I'm considering either a human noble or a human mage. Any suggestions?

I think a human noble offers more variety in terms of story line... but not sure.

[Berkut]

I cannot finish the Redcliffe zombie attack thing. Simply too amny of them, and I get overwhelmed every time.

Shale sucks. He just runs off and dies every time. is there anyway to change your party composition when you are not in a camp?

[garbon]

I actually had that same problem, Berkut, and then when time when I tried, I simply didn't have it anymore. During one of the quiet periods I walked down to the docks (side of lake closest to mill) and killed a few stragglers over there. A little while later I got a cutscene. Can't really what I did differently that time though.

[Grey Fox]

I cannot finish the Redcliffe zombie attack thing. Simply too amny of them, and I get overwhelmed every time.

Shale sucks. He just runs off and dies every time. is there anyway to change your party composition when you are not in a camp?

Use the knights

[Caliga]

I cannot finish the Redcliffe zombie attack thing. Simply too amny of them, and I get overwhelmed every time.

Like with many of the Bioware games, you just need to make sure you have shitloads of health potions at all times.  That's what it took for me to get through the Redcliffe battle.

I need to mess with the tactics thing more to see if there's a way to trigger your AI-controlled companions to automatically consume poultices/lyrium potions when their health/mana pools drop to a certain level.  As it stands my peeps always fight to the death, though healers like Wynne do heal themselves and others.

[garbon]

Yes you can set tactics to use them. Then they use them furiously.