Dragon Age 2 DLC, Mark of the Assassian

SO now we look at the new Dragon Age 2 DLC, Mark of the Assassian. And yes the new character Tallis is voiced by Fecila Day. Also a warning, this is going to be one of those rant kinds..because there was more bad in the DLC than good. I will try to be as spoiler free as possible.

This is Tallis, Elven dual wield dagger assassian. She has  abasic rouge skill set with her leaning more towards cloack and dagger stuff, she has a points into the Subterfuge skill line, along with her own personal skill set aka Infiltrator that helps her sneak and destroy. But no points anywhere else, so I upped her Dual Wielding skills and her speed. She also can throw her daggers, making her a short range yet long range.

Now to the bad parts, first off her Attributes, for DEX and CUN are in the mid to upper 30's when you get her, and unless you have a Breath of the Maker or do a lot of questing that is where she is going to stay, so her damage out put is pretty low. And because of said low DEX, any super cool daggers you might have laying around are all going to be useless, so your stuck with her base shitty equips. The same goes for her armor, unlike our previous DLC add on character Sebastian, you can't upgrade Tallis's armor..so expect her to die and die..and die... ALso her personality is a very egotisical and snarky one, "Yes you may be the Champion of Kirkwall..but I am still better than you"..and seriously that ton will get on your nerves. Does Felicia Day do a good job voice acting, only kinda..the voice seems kinda flat..no real emotion or inflectional change in her voice.


Now onto the actual mission, which again was more annoying than interesting/fun. Now it may of been that I was only at lvl 23 when i attempted this, it could of been that i brought my favorite party, expect Isabella since Tallis needed a spot..but besides them I had Varric and Merrill. But I died a ton while doing this, mostly while doing a quest where i faught some People who Prayed to the Sky..and fighting one of the story scripted bosses..but oddly enough didn't die much during the final boss.

The DLC takes place after the huge battle with the The Arishok but before the final Battle, since it is brought up in conversation. also you see characters from Dragon Age Origins..and turns out one of them knows Tallis from sometime, I won't say who, but I hope they expand on this some.

Now if your are a trophy/achievement hunter, like I am..4 out of the 5 are farily simple. You get 2 by default. One of them you just need to wander around and find all needed materials needed to hunt your "prey"..now onto the 3rd one also known as Blackjack Subtle. Now with this you need to sneak around in the shadows and distract guards walking around without being seen once. But the game tells you that you can use skills to hid as well, so unless you put points into Subterfuge skill tree..get ready to probably get caught a lot. This gave me horrors of Metal Gear Solid every time i got caught. Save often..because if you get caught then load a save, it doesn't count that you got caught. Now the 4th trophy is just guarded by tile puzzles..I hate tile puzzles..I mean really who doesn't hate tile puzzles..?

I would like to thank the guys at video games blogger for their videos to get me through the sneaking around and the tile puzzles, seriously would of been driven mad with out them.

 If finale, if you play this Post Game, as with most of all the other DLC that has been released you will be disappointed in the equipment area. The enemies might give you some of a challenge depending on your party and level you are at. You might be driven mad about the puzzles and sneaking around. And in all seriousness, i have yet to see one person who was actually happy with Tallis as a character, but get it if you want more EXP, and if you like hear Varric's stories, I damn well do.