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[thrillex]

I just finished the game for the first time, after the archdemon fight, i thought 'wow that was a lot easier than i expected' then i realized, back when i first got the game, when i couldn't even kill a mere ogre, i turned the difficulty to easy for the ogre fight :P

 

next time through, i'll remember to put it to at least normal, maybe hard

 

in my game, i made alistair the new king, and i traveled with leliana

 

how were your games?

[boblehero]

Played it on normal until errrrr the first real boss after the ogre, alistair is king and am still looking for Morrigan, maybe he is over there... with Zevrhan here, tho i don't know why kept it on normal for the demon tho.

[AMDGuy64]

I played hard on my first play through never lowered the difficulty & I made Anora Queen. My 2nd play through I played on Nightmare & didn't let my main character fall the entire game to get the "I'm kind of a big deal" achievement. Second play through was much easier, I had Alistair & Anora marry & my dual wielding warrior journeyed with leliana.

How long did your guys play through's take? my 1st was 81 hours & my 2nd was 67!!!

[Gaias]

I played hard on my first play through never lowered the difficulty & I made Anora Queen. My 2nd play through I played on Nightmare & didn't let my main character fall the entire game to get the "I'm kind of a big deal" achievement. Second play through was much easier, I had Alistair & Anora marry & my dual wielding warrior journeyed with leliana.

How long did your guys play through's take? my 1st was 81 hours & my 2nd was 67!!!

 

You know what is funny about the achievement "I'm kind of a big deal"? Is that you earn this by never acquiring an injury during the Origin, Ostagar and Denerim final battle areas. You can acquire injuries anytime between, as I had 16 of them on my main when I finished the game.

[afgandhi]

At my first run i played a archer,with morrigan,wynne and sten(until i meet the lil dwarf berserker),i played hole game in normal and it was pretty hard at start,the final battle was surprisingly easy,i barely used my army(dwarfs,werewolfs,mages and redcliff soldiers),until i had wynne i had boosted some healing talents on morigan so with 2 mages as healers and wynne as arcane warrior healing in heavy armor it was pretty soft.

Now on my 2nd run im tryin to make a 3 mage and 1 tank group but its kinda hard,since i still dont got the juggernaught set for my tank and morrigan and my main char mainly use AoE skills(grease+inferno+blizzard+lightning cloud) allisair gets totaly destroyed,but he does his job keepin the mos on him while my mages nuke the shiet out of him and them. :)

 

About my first ending,y i pregant morrigan and she left me to a mountain,allistair became king,and i slayed the archdemon and survived.

Great game and great story.

[boblehero]

The final battle is way too easy, i called the elves and went battling the archdemon naked with my bare fists, almost killed it :whistling:

[Vaz2008]

I play on Easy because I'm a wimp.

 

Cimora Cousland v1:

- Missed origin sex, Chasind trail, Shale, Soldier's Peak, Leliana's and Sten's personal quests, various side quests...hence my intent to replay this character.

- Saved Redcliffe Village and got Lloyd killed in the process, sacrificed Isolde, encouraged Teagan and Eamon to let Jowan live.

- Helped the mages, let that one blood mage go, and killed the desire demon with the bewitched templar.

- Got Zathrian to end the werewolf curse, brought Cammen and Gheyna together.

- Sided with Caridin and put Harrowmont on Orzammar's throne.

- Killed the Tevinter slavers in the Denerim alienage.

- Lied to Morrigan about killing Flemeth.

- Did not harden Alistair.

- Won Zevran's loyalty.

- Romanced Alistair and ended up becoming his queen.

- When jailbreaking Anora, surrendered to Cauthrien and then escaped Fort Drakon without outside help (posing as newly recruited guards and leaving "on patrol"). Later conviced Cauthrien to let them into the Landsmeet peacefully.

- Cimora dueled Loghain herself and then let Alistair finish him off.

- Anora is rotting in a tower. Told her she'd have her support in the Landsmeet and, obviously, didn't mean a word of that.

- Did Morrigan's ritual.

- Stayed in Denerim after the epilogue, asking only to continue serving the crown, while Sten returned home, Leliana went after the Urn of Sacred Ashes (and failed because the local dragon wasn't slain), Oghren stuck around, Wynne became an advisor to the court, and I'm not sure what happened to Zevran.

 

Ganin Tabris:

- Slaughtered pretty much everyone in the estate during the origin story, including the Arl's son and his cohorts. Took full responsibility for the incident in attempt to shield Soris.

- Saved Redcliffe Village but failed to kill off Lloyd and instead gave Bella money to leave and find a better life for herself. Went to the Circle for help against Connor's demon. Rescued the mages, let that one blood mage go, let the desire demon and the bewitched templar go, and upon returning to Redcliffe he had Wynne go into the Fade. Didn't care what happened to Jowan.

- Got Zathrian to end the werewolf curse, brought Cammen and Gheyna together.

- Sided with Caridin and put Bhelen on Orzammar's throne.

- Killed the Tevinter slavers in the Denerim alienage.

- Having "romanced" Morrigan initially, Ganin killed Flemeth. There was no romance between them as far as Ganin was concerned, but eventually a good friendship developed, even after he left her for Zevran.

- Zevran + Ganin = Love

- Hardened Alistair, did not harden Leliana, retrieved Sten's sword, earned Shale's friendship.

- Fought Cauthrien when jailbreaking Anora and defeated all but her and one of her soldiers before succumbing and being thrown into Fort Drakon. Escaped by seducing a guard, snapping his neck and taking his uniform, and then stealing a password note.

- Had to kill Cauthrien before entering the Landsmeet.

- Told Anora she'd have his support in the Landsmeet but put Alistair forward instead. Ganin dueled Loghain and then let Alistair finish it.

- Agreed to Morrigan's ritual, bedding her himself rather than making Alistair do it.

- Returned to the Grey Wardens after the epilogue. Zevran accompanied him and helped to train new Wardens, though never becoming one himself. Ganin asked Alistair to elevate the elves and so Shianni became a bann. Shale went to the Tevinters to see about restoring her mortality and dwarven body, and Wynne accompanied her. Leliana's expedition to the Urn of Sacred Ashes succeeded. Sten returned home with his honour intact. I'm not sure what happened to Oghren.

 

 

I apologise for the long, boring post. xD

EDIT: Eek, it's even longer than it looked in the fast-reply box.

[thrillex]

I played hard on my first play through never lowered the difficulty & I made Anora Queen. My 2nd play through I played on Nightmare & didn't let my main character fall the entire game to get the "I'm kind of a big deal" achievement. Second play through was much easier, I had Alistair & Anora marry & my dual wielding warrior journeyed with leliana.

How long did your guys play through's take? my 1st was 81 hours & my 2nd was 67!!!

 

i also got the i'm kind of a big deal achievement, but thats only because its set on easy :P

 

the next time through i'll do normal or hard, still deciding

[RebelOConner]

With my first character, a female wizard, i made arnora queen, alistair died and i travel with leliana.

 

with my second, a male noble human fighter, i force alistaire and arnora to marry and i become councillor( not sure of the translation) of alistair.

[Stormwind32]

My first play through was on Easy, because I wanted to enjoy the storytelling and understand the game mechanics without having to reload too often. I used a walk through posted online but I was unhappy with that in hindsight. It was not well written and spoiled the plot twists for me, while not offering much assistance beyond puzzle solution. One of the funny things is that when it reaches the point of the Sloth Demon in the Fade it says "Hopefully you have some ice salves with you....". I remembered thinking "Wow! would have been nice to mention that BEFORE I started going through the tower!"

 

Nature of the Beast was the one quest I didn't use a walk through for, and I enjoyed it the most. It is still my favorite and I wish there was more content to it. Deep roads was too long, I wish they had taken content away from that and added it to this quest instead. I have heard that with high enough cunning it is possible to recruit both the werewolves and the Elves, but I have not been able to find a dialog tree that does that.

 

My second play through started as normal and ended with hard. Once I downloaded the Advanced Tactics mod and finally set up the tactics the way I wanted, I started playing on Nightmare and enjoyed it. Nightmare is the only difficulty I play with now. I solo'd nightmare twice as an Arcane Warrior and once as a Sword'n'Board. My challenge right now is doing a 2H warrior solo but its proving difficult without all the spell resist items I need to really make this work.

 

I never played as a rogue, so I might try that one day. From what I have seen of Zevran, I am not impressed. I have played as Warrior/Archer twice now - without any of the archery mods. For me Archery was the most fun in the Brecilian forest and in the final onslaught - It was amazing to finish off all those one-hit darkspawn quickly without having to chase after them. But it is definitely hard at the beginning.