Life of a Rogue Champion in training, part 1 runing,swimming and digging

So I leave the Warden behind, I do not have the patience of dealing with origins combat system to deal with Awakening and Witch Hunt DLC, plus out of the 20 or so points that get transferred over when a import is done i did like 14 of them, so I am fine not doing the rest. So no we go back in time some, to when the Blight was destroying the town of Lothering. This time I am trying to Platinum the game, so I will be making choices I am not used to, and being very very detailed to make sure I find all the tiny miss able crap, then having 2 save files for the 3rd act, one for the trophy..then using both or maybe carry onto Dragon Age 2. This time I think it will b easier given all the DLC item packs I have so I am way buffe rat the beginning and I can save money making everything easier.

Now I love the Rogue in 2 over Origins, they are fater and back stab is a skill and not circling around the a=target, plus you can crit with out being behind them, there is alos the wonder of not having to level up your dual weapon skills, you just learn dual wield and thats it you rock at it. I also enjoy the mages in 2, and dislike warrior across the board, but since I like to dis arm traps..plus crazy speed, I am going to be a rogue. And since I like looking hot while I am saving the city and killing everything that moves, I go with a female Hawke, but the standard like 2nd preset, damn those blue eyes. Plus I choose Rogue because I know which sibling will die..and I fucking hate Carver..I smile everytime the Ogre crushes his spine.

Anyway, I meet up with Aveline and then Flemeth before The Warden killed her, and was sent along my way to Kirkwall, and this is when it starts all going to hell, since my Uncle Douchebag had spent all of our money, so I ally up with some shady characters and get into Kirkwall, while I am slaving away, the Warden saves the world from the blight. Now a tear later..

I run into Varric, and sign up for some crazy mission to go back to the Deep Roads, I despise the Deep Roads the only thing more is the fucking Fade..Now on the quest to get money to g to the Deep Roads to find more money. Along the way I meet a crazy set of friends, since I choose to go with speed and control in my team, my team ended up being Me--Varric---Merrill(favoring thunder magic)-Isabela. Getting money wasn't to hard..and I choose to not take Bethany into the Deep Roads, so she didn't become a Grey Warden..But I did take Anders into the Deep Roads, because the boss there is kinda hard, but I didn't need his help this time...It was easy and I kicked the guys ass..got my riches and lfeft the deep roads..

Next time, Life of a Rogue Champion in training, living the high life

From Feredeln to Kirkwall

So now that I have stopped the Blight, saved the land of Fereleden, had hot lesbian sex with a red headed bard, what am I going to do now..? Write about I become the Champion of Kirkwall, with a complete import save, and how I finally Platinum Dragon Age 2.

Seriously my own complaints with Dragon Age Origins are the combat and the skill build systems, Dragon age 2 did those perfectly, if you take 2's combat and skill system and put them into origins game, it would literally be the perfect game.

So stay tuned for a Life of a Rogue to be Champion in Kirkwall..that title will change.

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.

Dragon Age 2 Item pack 2 DLC look into

Another set of Equipment Packs for Dragon Age 2 has come out today, lets look at each most note worthy pieces.

Rogue:
You now can dual wield with hand axes that mostly increase crit % along with a bow that ups attack and crit%.

The accessory you receive for Varric, Isabela, Sebastian all seem to up their chance for critical, and the damage that happens. A Long with improves magic and or physical damages, and the all improve on level ups

Warrior:
Weapons wise you get a 2 handed hammer that ups crit damage and normal damage. Also a hand axe that has +161 attack and +12% damage. The sheild improves defense +50 and 8% magic resistance.

Avelines new belt increases health, attack, magic resistance and she gets healed better. Fenris gets a ring that gives 1+ to all attributes, ups his HP, attack and physical damage %. Carver gets a amulet that gives him strength, health,attack, and attack speed.

Mage:
The one mage staff you get up all 5 types of elemental damage by 16% a great have for any wizard.

Merril's Amulet ups fire/cold/spirit damage by 13%, givers her 1+ magic, +54 attack and more mana regeneration. Behtany's ring gives her more magic stat, ups her spirit damage, and increases her heal powers.. Ander's belt ups his mana pool, mana regeneration rate, his elec/spirit damage and makes him a better healer


As with the previous item pack Dragon age 2 item pack 1, the armor is all pretty much useless in any post game content as you will be too strong, the weapons are all fantastic at any point in the game, along with the accessories your partners receive. So if you have beaten the game and the extra DLC don't invest in these, but if you are just starting over these packs like the previous one swill make things so much easier for you.

Dragon Age 2 Legacy DLC and Class Equipment Packs

SO I bought the new DA 2 DLC and equipment stuff. So lets go into it some, first the equipment packs.

There are 3 Equipment packs, one for each class, they give a lot of high powered weapons and armor plus some accessories for your team mates.

The Good:
Getting free stuff for your team always fun. Weapons and Accesorites to help them and help you.

The Bad:
All the armor yu get is of course bound to you, now the armor is great but only really good if you are just starting out, if you have beaten the game, more than likely the armor won't help you at all. And it doesn't even sell for much either.

Overall take:
If your starting the game brand new or just trying again as a different class but them all or at least for the class your going to be. There is a price cut if you buy all of them at the same time vs individually. But if your beaten the game and just playing again for more DLC, not worth your cash.

So the Legacy DLC takes place outside of Kirkwall, now where in the story with the Champion does it take place, just from beating it already, it loks like it takes placebefore the nd of the game, since that Seeker Girl is still talking to Varric. Look into it more and get tips for playing here Legacy Wiki

While wandering around you learn some about Varrick, so bring him along. And since the mission is about your Family bring either your brother or sister along, trust me if you do you will get a bronze trophy at the end.

While going along you do some other quests giving you a deeper understanding of what the hell you are doing.

Weapons down there aren't to impressive even more lack luster if you got the Equipment Packs. Expect the quest item called "Hawke's Key" which as you progress you can add 3 different stat mods to it from elemental damage, to draining hp/mp to increasing speed and crit. I say speed and crit because I did it as a Rogue.  There is also a Grey Warden Scout armor set down there, that gives a total set bonus, but I couldn't find a part, its possible the set is better than the "Champion" armor set, but the Champion armor set just looks at cooler in my opinion.

If you miss anything Weapons..Quests..Codex entries..you can't go back afterwards since the area kinda collapses..SO be anal when hunting around.

Well it was a good 4 hours spent on it, I just think it was a little over priced at $10, should of been like 7$. But I highly recommend it if you love this game.

Escapeing the NightMare for now

SO I am on my 2nd full run through of Catherine, and I think I am going to take a break from it. Not that it is a bad game but that I guess I played to much to close to fast and playing the last part over and over to get 4 of the endings. I guess that I am suffering a little bit of burn out.

So I am going to play the last episode of the Back to the Future game and the new DLC from Dragon Age 2.

SO for now I have escape the Nightmare, but I know I will sink back into them again.

Dragon Age 2 Trophy worry

So I am playing Dragon Age 2, play through 2 and 1 thing really worry's me about Platinuming this game.

The Supplier Trophy: Found every crafting resource.  I hear this trophy is bugged is, and is very easy to miss.

But with the Black Emporium DLC, you can buy the resources after each act. I have heard this doesn't count towards the trophy, I have heard this does count towards the trophy, I have heard that you have to get more than 66 resources.

Any help on this..?

Gaming to do list

So I bought Mass Effect 2 on Ebay. And Parasite Eve on the PSN. After those I took a mental note of all the gaming I need to do.

Finish 2nd Play through of Dragon Age 2 and side with the Templar
Parasite Eve 1
Back to the Future episode 2
Trophy whore my self to Back to the Future Episode 1
The 3rd Birthday- after a Parasite Eve 1
Mass Effect 2- possible 2 plays


That's a lot to take take care of..I should finish Dragon Age 2 before Mass Effect 2 gets here..

Cheating to be Champion

SO I restarted Dragon Age 2 as a mage so I can be a trophy whore, and get my first Platinum.  So I was talking to my good friend @odin42 on Twitter so he said for me to try the infinate money and exp cheat code.

Well I looked it up and after debating on it for a while, since I did beat the game 1 time as it was ment to be. I went off and got my self over 600 gold and made my self level 29.  You would think with 600 gold I should be able to just buy all of Kirkwall or at least get my house back, but alas I still need to continue with the story.  Also being level 29 you think the bad guys would be push overs, will either I am slacking in my new found awesomeness or Bioware keep the enemies levels close to yours, either way the bad guys are no simple push over.

While I was doind this i rememered and old show from G4, back when they were actually good but thats a different day. The show was called Cheat. Ahh memories..


"When life's got you down, throw it into God-mode and keep kickin' but"-Cory Rouse

Dragone Age 2 Trophy hunting

So I am not one to be a trophy whore..mostly because the trophy's are out of my skill range, but Dragon Age 2, the Trophy's in Dragon Age 2 are actually able to pull off.

So i am playing through my second time and get into act to and realize that I have missed one part for some Chantry trophy, you need to find all 4 History of the Chantry trophies, and I missed part one..So I kept playing thinking for a 3rd play through.

So I approach the end of act 2, try to not have spoilers here, and it hit me to just restart instead of playing for another like 50 hours, I mean Dragon Age 2 is a great game but I got other stuff to play. So I am going to restart again, but what class..I was having fun as a Mage the AoE skills are just AWESOME!, but being a Rogue caused me to get trapped and blown up less..since I usually take the lead, even as a mage.  But I pl;ay with 2 mages, 1 rogue, 1 tank..and we destroyed the battle field. But playing as a rogue is easier skill wise..I only used 3 active skills with my rogue: back stab, the skill you use after a chain, and assistante, since i focus on passive skills than active.

I think I might do the mage..but the rogue..AAAAHHHHH i DON'T KNOW!!!


help..? Also I will not play a warrior..i hate warriors..lol

Dragon Age 2 Obi Wan

So my friend has started playing Dragon Age 2, and me with like 50+ hours invested in the game with rogue and mage knowledge, offered to help out my friend.

I reset his skills which were a mess, magically made expired DLC work so he got the black emporium for free. And helped him finish some quests to show how a mage was done. Also helped him with some trophies and gave him some links to help.

Yes my pupil, with me you can complete your training, I will make you the champion.