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    Dancing Chocobo Post Your Favorite Dragon Age Origins Party

    PYF Dragon Age Origins Party

    I'll start:

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
    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?!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
    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

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
    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.


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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
    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.

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    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!


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

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


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

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