Post Your Favorite Dragon Age Origins Party

[Pike]

PYF Dragon Age Origins Party

I'll start:

Mahariel warden
Zevran
Alistair
[whoever else, usually Wynne for heals]

[Madame Adequate]

Mahariel warden
Wynne
Sten
Random Temporary Guy Who Always Gets The Ogre Kill Atop The Tower
Leliana (Love Zevran but always found Leliana better in combat)

If Warden is a rogue, then instead of Leliana, I'll bring Morrigan for mad deeps.

[Madame Adequate]

Okay the above was a joke really it's Barkspawn, Daveth, and two Ash Wraiths

[Spuuky]

Anyone but Alistair is fine, what a loser he is. Sorry buddy, I can see that you're a frail little flower using self-deprecation to hide from your shame, but it doesn't actually make me respect you as a human being.

Shale is the best (of course) in an independent sense, but I prefer Sten's interactions with others. Have to have a mage, obviously. My "ideal" party if I were to replay, for maximum combat balance and non-Alistair-related banter, would probably be Morrigan, Sten, Leliana, and obviously I'd be a mage personally.

[Formalhaut]

My 'ideal' party is usually:

Tank: Alistair, always. Guy can shrug off damage so adorkably.
DPS: My Dual Dagger Female Cousland fitted this spot.
Support: Wynne, typically, but Morrigan could adequately fulfil this role too.
2nd DPS: Anyone else. Another offensive Warrior, Leliana or the unused Mage. Zevran was used the least in this role.


Basically, whatever role I filled, I tended to use the character who also filled that role less. In DA:II, I played a Fem!Snark!Hawke, who wielded a two-hander. Fenris, while a great guy, didn't get so much of a look in combat. Playing the tank is probably the worst choice you can make. Alistair, Aveline and Blackwall all fulfil the role of tank remarkably. Having your Warden also be a tank is rather a redundant choice.

EDIT:

Anyone but Alistair is fine, what a loser he is. Sorry buddy, I can see that you're a frail little flower using self-deprecation to hide from your shame, but it doesn't actually make me respect you as a human being.

You dislike Alistair?!

[Madame Adequate]

Fenris, while a great guy, didn't get so much of a look in combat.

smurfed up if true

dude's a BEAST once you get some points into his personal tree

[Pike]

Alistair is a Cute. But I usually play guys in games so I get together with Zevran. Who is the best character in the game btw.

Edit: I like being a ranger warden and shooting things

[Formalhaut]

Fenris, while a great guy, didn't get so much of a look in combat.

smurfed up if true

dude's a BEAST once you get some points into his personal tree

I'm aware, but I was also a two-hander. Couple that with the virtually mandatory tank of Aveline, that's three front-line warriors. I try to have two ranged, two close combat generally.

My next DA:II playthrough will probably be as a Mage (just so I can.... experience Carver). I'll probably use him more then.

[Vermachtnis]

Last time I played, I was rouge. I used Morrigan, Shale, and Oghren. We were the most heroic people who ever did hero.

[Del Murder]

Warrior Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne, Leliana. Yes I chose the tank path because I didn't really know much about it. In DA2 I was a dual wield rogue and cut up everything and in DAI I am a mage who blows up everything. Both are much more fun than tanking.

[Shauna]

Warrior Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne, Leliana. Yes I chose the tank path because I didn't really know much about it.

Yep. It worked out all right in the end.

[Formalhaut]

I suppose if you were to play as a tank, you could respec Alistair to become more offensive. It's what I'm doing in Inquisition, actually. My Inquisitor is a Artificer Archer, so I made Varric become a Dual-Dagger Artificer. No sense both of us occupying the same role!

[Del Murder]

Or you can just not use Alistair because there are better characters.

[Formalhaut]

You could, but I'd find it strange never using a character. Even characters I dislike (like Vivienne, good God she's awful).

[Shauna]

I never had Zevran or Sten or Oghren in my party at all. They were recruited and got to hang around a campfire.