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

[Valmy]

That often happens to my main (mage) and Morrigan due to the massive aggro they typically draw.

By the way a game breaking tactic is to draw agro then force field yourself.  The monsters will happily hack away at you fruitlessly while your companions slaughter them.  It is the ultimate cheese though.

[viper37]

Got to the last series of fights. 

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I'm wasting general #1 tonight, maybe #2 if I have time.If I don't use any of my allies for either of these battle, can I still use them for the final one?
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[Martinus]

Got to the last series of fights. 

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I'm wasting general #1 tonight, maybe #2 if I have time.If I don't use any of my allies for either of these battle, can I still use them for the final one?
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Yes. You can also reuse them if they are not killed.

Essentially, you can deploy one type of troop on the battlefield at a time. If you complete the area with some of the troops still alive, they go back to the "pool" and you can deploy them again in another area (including the final battle). You can also deploy new type of troops once the ones currently deployed are all dead. What you cannot do, however, is to "withdraw" the troops on the battlefield to deploy a different kind - you need to wait for them to be dead first.

[Jaron]

Just as a warning though your allies are useless for the last fight, especially the dwarves. Use them in the battles beforehand.

[Martinus]

Just as a warning though your allies are useless for the last fight, especially the dwarves. Use them in the battles beforehand.

Disagree. Golems were very useful for me.

[Jaron]

Not all of us have golems, you evil bastard.

[Barrister]

Okay, mostly avoiding this thread, but now I have to ask:



how do I defeat the zombies in Redcliffe?

I may have made a mistake by making this one of the first places I went after leaving the village, so I'm still fairly low level (7) and I don't have any kind of AOE skills.  So while I can easily defeat the first group, once I go down  to the town itself I wind up being overwhelmed.

[Valmy]

how do I defeat the zombies in Redcliffe?

I may have made a mistake by making this one of the first places I went after leaving the village, so I'm still fairly low level (7) and I don't have any kind of AOE skills.  So while I can easily defeat the first group, once I go down  to the town itself I wind up being overwhelmed.

Yeah I just focussed my attacks and had Wynne stand in the back and heal.  Since you do not have Wynne does Morrigan have any healing spells?  Make sure you are stocked up on healing poultice things and focus all damage on one at a time to take them down fast.

You cannot really use AoE in that fight anyway unless you want to blow up all the militia men to so don't worry about that.

[Barrister]

how do I defeat the zombies in Redcliffe?

I may have made a mistake by making this one of the first places I went after leaving the village, so I'm still fairly low level (7) and I don't have any kind of AOE skills.  So while I can easily defeat the first group, once I go down  to the town itself I wind up being overwhelmed.

Yeah I just focussed my attacks and had Wynne stand in the back and heal.  Since you do not have Wynne does Morrigan have any healing spells?  Make sure you are stocked up on healing poultice things and focus all damage on one at a time to take them down fast.

You cannot really use AoE in that fight anyway unless you want to blow up all the militia men to so don't worry about that.

So there's no trick to it then? 

My main has a bunch of healing spells.  Focused damage worked for awhile but eventually the militiamen all die, the zombies overrun my small group, and it becomes almost impossible.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the combat system.  I can leave the NPCs along to generally attack in an intelligent manner, but I constantly have to pause and control them to attack the right targets.

[garbon]

Redcliffe is just annoying. That's all there is to it.

[Martinus]

how do I defeat the zombies in Redcliffe?

I may have made a mistake by making this one of the first places I went after leaving the village, so I'm still fairly low level (7) and I don't have any kind of AOE skills.  So while I can easily defeat the first group, once I go down  to the town itself I wind up being overwhelmed.

Yeah I just focussed my attacks and had Wynne stand in the back and heal.  Since you do not have Wynne does Morrigan have any healing spells?  Make sure you are stocked up on healing poultice things and focus all damage on one at a time to take them down fast.

You cannot really use AoE in that fight anyway unless you want to blow up all the militia men to so don't worry about that.

So there's no trick to it then? 

My main has a bunch of healing spells.  Focused damage worked for awhile but eventually the militiamen all die, the zombies overrun my small group, and it becomes almost impossible.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the combat system.  I can leave the NPCs along to generally attack in an intelligent manner, but I constantly have to pause and control them to attack the right targets.

Have you done all the mini quests to prepare Redcliffe's defenses?

[MadImmortalMan]

how do I defeat the zombies in Redcliffe?

I may have made a mistake by making this one of the first places I went after leaving the village, so I'm still fairly low level (7) and I don't have any kind of AOE skills.  So while I can easily defeat the first group, once I go down  to the town itself I wind up being overwhelmed.

Yeah I just focussed my attacks and had Wynne stand in the back and heal.  Since you do not have Wynne does Morrigan have any healing spells?  Make sure you are stocked up on healing poultice things and focus all damage on one at a time to take them down fast.

You cannot really use AoE in that fight anyway unless you want to blow up all the militia men to so don't worry about that.

So there's no trick to it then? 

My main has a bunch of healing spells.  Focused damage worked for awhile but eventually the militiamen all die, the zombies overrun my small group, and it becomes almost impossible.

Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the combat system.  I can leave the NPCs along to generally attack in an intelligent manner, but I constantly have to pause and control them to attack the right targets.

Crowd control like cold spells and paralyze work well.

[Barrister]

Have you done all the mini quests to prepare Redcliffe's defenses?

Think so.  I got the elf to help, I found the flaming oil.  Decided not to lie to the guards about the trinkets.

[katmai]

Settles it, beeb sucks.

[Barrister]

Settles it, been sucks.