@monogram
Don't play a dwarf if you like your romance options to be very few.
Er... the only race locked romance options are Cullen and Solas. So technically humans get one more option (Cullen) and elves get two (Cullen and Solas).
So based purely on race (Dwarf) that leaves 6 optoins. I dunno that I'd call Dwarves having 6 and humans having 7 leaving dwarves as having 'very few' romance options.
I hate Sara.
Sera. It's SERA. Why do people even make this mistake? All of you need to die in a fire. >.<
I don't like her much either, though.
Both of these builds need to be nerfed big time. Otherwise the game lacks any real challenge. The Archer/Assassin especially so since you can simply snipe enemies from a distance and because the AI only reacts within a certain distance, and you can shoot farther than that distance, most enemies will just stand there until dead.
Uh... you do realize you can do that with mages, too? Anything you can click on, you can hit with your activated projectile powers, more or less. Any mage with any kind of projectile power can kill pretty much anything they can see from a distance. Archer/Assassin isn't terribly special in that regard.
Couple that [Knight Enchanter] with an armor mastercrafted with Enchanted Obsidian(which gives you 3 armor per hit)and you're nigh-unkillable.
There's another one that gives you 5 Guard per hit, and either of them make most characters pretty close to unkillable. I solo'd the level 23 dragon on a dagger rogue just to see if I could, and you totally can. Knight Enchanter certainly adds a level of invincibility on top of that, but it's real OPness is that it can do so while also dishing out such incredibly insane amounts of damage, especially against Guard and Barrier, which a number of Elite enemies (and dragons) use to bolster their HP.
Legion of the Dead armor is pretty awesome. If you're a dwarf warrior. I believe it's the best overall armor in the game. Why that would be reserved for just a dwarven warrior is beyond me, but most tier three armors fall just slightly short of it.
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Do you even Dragon Age?
The Legion of the dead is an elite subset of the Dwarven army. Hence Dwarven warriors only.
I'm curious how the DLC for it will be. It's a BioWare game by EA, OF COURSE there's going to be DLC.
I'm not convinced. The only DLC they've even whispered about is multiplayer stuff. Seems like they put everything in the main game they intended to, more or less. Plus they've got a fuck ton of devs dedicated to the next Mass Effect game at the moment.
I'm sad. I wanted this to be cool but it's not skyrim and I just can't get into it.
Not being Skyrim is not a criticism. Skyrim's got its place, but ugh. This was so much better than that. The best thing Skyrim had going for it is modding, which it's a shame this doesn't have.
My problem with Sara is that there is absolutely zero growth with her. She's childish, hypocritical, short-sighted...I could really go on and on. Her calling out Varric on his stuff is fine, someone does, but everything else, she is a horribly written character with zero depth and zero growth as a character. Everyone else, that actually do some amount of evolving from where they were when you first met them, but Sara is nothing but static. She wants everything to fit into her little world where everything caters to what she thinks it should be. If it wasn't so obscenely immature, I could maybe go with it. But it's not.
While I don't like Sera, this seems like... enh. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you looking at it that way is exactly why she's written to see things the way she does. These games are full of people making big sweeping decisions 'for the good of the world', who can't (or won't) let themselves get bogged down thinking about what the decisions they make do to the everage person. The ones who are stuck living with the outcome or fallout of those decisions, who make up the bulk of the world those decisions take place in.
She's not supposed to get past that, and pretty resolutely says as much. That somebody has to think of the little guy, because the bulk of the movers and shakers are so focused on The Big Picture that they don't have the time, energy, or luxury of doing so.
If everyone were like Sera, the big decisions would never get made, but as she points out more than once there's no shortage of people ready and able to make those big decisions for everybody else. She even gets frustrated because she realizes that those big decisions HAVE to get made, and she doesn't like having to face the fact that her worldview isn't one that lets that happen. Sera isn't going to save the world, and she knows it, and it frustrates her that looking out for the little guy might end up with all the little guys everywhere getting killed.
I don't really like her, but I feel like you're sort of proving the validity of her point by pretending it's just childish nonsense. Plus you accused them of adding her to appease the tumblr crowd which just makes you sound like an ass.
And she looks like Gollum.
Yeah, she is pretty fugly. 