Comments on: Managing Combat in Dragon Age: Origins

By: YS

YS — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:27:50 +0000

After playing enough MMOs the pause thing gets really old. I like my fights fast and furious!

Still, I’m engrossed as much as Loyd is for the same reasons: The characters, the voice-acting, the world.

By: Alejandro Hernandez

Alejandro Hernandez — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:27:37 +0000

hey, good tips, Im about to plat DEO, I just bought it and wen have the time with holidays I will engage to to it, thanks

BTW dont get lost so much time, I always check for new articles.

By: QKF

QKF — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:20:25 +0000

Nice coverage of tactics. I agree with the above, I never really ended up using the weapon coatings, and ended up selling them. Probably would have been useful on a couple fights. On other tip, I found it amazingly useful to bind the pause and quick save to my two extra mouse buttons. Being able to pause, queue up all my actions in a fight and unpause with just a couple clicks on the mouse really streamlined combat. Then being able to quicksave easily allowed me to never really lose progress when a fight went badly or I ran across one of the infrequent crashes.

By: Chris Nahr

Chris Nahr — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:41:48 +0000

Good tips. On the subject of buffs, don’t be afraid to use weapon coating potions before a tough fight because you’ll find a ton of them. (I usually forgot to use them and eventually sold them off…)

On the subject of choke points, there’s one catch: the game lacks any sort of “zone of control” mechanism to prevent enemies from moving past your characters. So the smallest genlock will easily push both of your warriors out of the way if he’s targeting your mage in the rear! Using a warrior’s Taunt skill should make him the target and prevent that.