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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]

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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]

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[The Amazing World of Gumball]

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[Agents of Shield]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Galavant]

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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]

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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]

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(Neil Gaiman)

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Hey hey! Welcome to the club.

I wouldn't say there's a wrong way to play the game - if it's your first time playing it, you probably don't want to get bogged down by doing everything or getting every character to 100% affection, stuff that generally takes a guide and requires spoilers. But a couple of general tips off the top of my head:

-Don't be afraid to sell stuff you don't need. I'm always afraid to sell unique items, but they just end up clogging my inventory and I never use them. Avoid selling to the dwarf in your party camp - it's not bad, but other vendors usually will give you more for your items. Definitely sell armor and weapons you've grown out of because:

-Inventory can fill quickly. Be on the look out right away for any vendor that is selling "Backpack" items. It gives you more inventory - buy those instantly before you buy anything else, because you can miss them along the way! It's easy to get too much clutter, but two of the same item will only count for a single item. So keep that in mind if you ever get full and need to destroy something to make more inventory.

-Also keep an eye out for Gifts! I think they are under the "other" tab when you are at a merchant, so they can be easy to not notice. I believe they are marked as a gift (with pink text or something iirc). Stock up on them, even if you don't hand them out right away.

-I always recommend Mages go for Cone of Cold right away (besides the obvious Heal) because it is just an excellent spell. Freezing enemies not only stops them for a few seconds, but the chance for critical hits to "Shatter" them is a KO.

-Getting high affection gets characters stat boosts. Unless you're really committed to roleplaying it otherwise, try to get everyone's affection as high as possible. Gifts and such will help

-Do you have any of the DLC? I recommend them! The Stone Prisoner gives you another party member, who is awesome. Another one gives you a storage chest, which is nice if you don't want to carry stuff that you'd really rather not sell. Some useful stuff, and you get more utilization out of the DLC if you have them sooner rather than later.

-There are pretty much a limited number of possible battles you can do, thus you can't really grind in this game (do plenty of sidequests to get as much as possible!) Companions not in your party will still level up, though - I think the rule is that they jump a level if they fall two levels behind your Warden. You'll probably be around level 21-22 on a casual game by the ending, though if you do all the sidequests you can hit up to 25.

-Search the world - you also get experience points for reading codexes and stuff. It's always worth it to check out every corner, and search for items everywhere. There's a lot of junk, but some sidequest items are randomly found that way.

I think I remember the dwarves at camp selling a backpack...I am just low on money, alas!

I have the DLC (I got the Ultimate Edition that includes everything) and I was wondering, is there a set level for the DLC? Like, can you do those quests whenever or do you need to level up first? I don't want to send my lvl 7 party to fight lvl 15 elites/the DAO equivalent of that.

DLC: You can do Leliana's Song (separate gameplay), Warden's Keep and Stone Prisoner whenever - they scale to your level. Soon is better for the rewards. Return to Ostagar as well, but most people do it later in the game for story reasons.

Post-game: Awakening, Golems, Witch Hunt.

Darkspawn Chronicles is a what if scenario best played after the game.

Awesome! So Bodahn, the dwarf at camp, should sell SUPER gifts (the feastday ones). I try to avoid using them unless I really need to, but you have that just in case! I think he'll also sell "prank gifts" which actually lowers approval - there's no real need for you to do that (except occasionally fixing glitches where if you make someone like you to too high of a tier without exhausting all their conversation options, you can miss some stuff, including romance) but they're fun just to see how the characters act when they hate you.

Anyway, I think all the DLC is level scaled. I personally like getting Shale fairly early on, just because it's an extra character and all. Return to Ostagar I think is a little better to play later in the game, you don't have to of course, it just makes the experience more nostalgic. Warden's Keep, I'd probably wait until you feel a bit more comfortable with the game, because though the game is scaled the strategy is probably a little more difficult than the first couple areas you go through in the main quest, but definitely don't wait until the end because that's where the storage chest is, and I like to get my money's worth with that!

A couple of the DLC take place "before" the game or separate. They don't use your Warden. Leliana's Song can be played before (and if you play it through, you get a item rewards that transfer to your main game), same with A Tale of Orzammar. Technically Darkspawn Chronicles too, but I wouldn't play that one until you've beaten the game at least once because it's basically you play from the point of view of the Darkspawn, and it'll spoil the ending.

The ones you play AFTER you've beaten the game: the best order is Awakening (which is basically another game, using your same Warden, though it's much shorter than Origins), then Golems, then finally Witch Hunt.

Then you transfer everything into Dragon Age 2! :D

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