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Weiand13 · Mar 3, 2015

Got to Skyhold....... down in the like basement, I found my storage chest. Shows it will hold 500 items. I like.

As well as armour tint and other stuff I havn't checked out yet. Storage will be quite handy

Geddyme · Mar 4, 2015

That storage in the Undercroft is new with the update that came out yesterday. I'm already stuffing it with elemental weapons and elemental defense armor before I go after my last two high dragons, the Highland Ravager, the strongest high dragon, and Vinsomer,
she is not much easier.

Then I go after Coryphy-s h i t e, as Sera likes to call him.

Weiand13 · Mar 4, 2015

I was glad to find that.

I still havn't even left skyhold yet. Still exploring it and trying to find everything and navigate it. It's HUGE

Eggnogga · Mar 4, 2015

^^ Just wait until you get to the Hissing Wastes. You'll bring up the map, and notice the camps all look relatively close, and then you start walking around... noticing it takes you 10 minutes just to make it an inch on the map. HUGE

Mellor44 · Mar 4, 2015

I "cheated" a bit there. Finished the story on nightmare to claim my achievement and then lowered to casual to finish the last of the dragons off. Probably should have given them a bash on nightmare but I was beginning to get tired of the character and had
re-rolled on the 360 anyway to play again. I was done and dusted by the 80-90 hour mark if I recall so I definitely didn't do the exploration you guys have done. I was a bit peeved on the low lesbian options for my female rogue to be honest. Ended up with
Josephine as Sera did my head in a bit after a while, I was gunning for Cass though until she shunned me for being female lol. My male mage will bag her on the 360 though lol.

No chest for storage for me, not that I really missed it to be honest, crafted gear is just too darn good.

Weiand13 · Mar 7, 2015

Since Skyhold.... the maps are HUGE.

Skyhold was fun to explore to begin with, but now it's getting a little annoying having to open doors all the time and the lack of fast travel areas within skyhold. Kinda spend to much time walking around skyhold.

The new areas...... Oye! definatly need more camps / fast travel points, especially with the clumsy movement & virturally no climbing ability.

After finding Cole.... wicked 'lil **** he is with daul daggers.

Weiand13 · Mar 7, 2015

I don't seem to be getting XP anymore when I kill people/animals/etc. .....

I'm guessing I went over the "monster" lvl for areas.

This will make it a bit difficult to lvl up more

Mellor44 · Mar 7, 2015

I found Skyhold a little lengthy to navigate too.

And yeah 3 levels above the enemies and you stop getting XP, I think its that.

Weiand13 · Nov 1, 2018

Finally traveld to hissing wastes.... Oye! Makes me tired watching them clumsy walk/run around there.

The 3 lvls above giving no xp kinda blows. Coulda done the lower % / amount type thing. Seems like most areas now I get no xp for killing, just xp on finding stuff, rifts and the sort.

Geddyme

That storage in the Undercroft is new with the update that came out yesterday. I'm already stuffing it with elemental weapons and elemental defense armor before I go after my last two high dragons, the Highland Ravager, the strongest high dragon, and Vinsomer,
she is not much easier.

Then I go after Coryphy-s h i t e, as Sera likes to call him.

boot61

the world is fantastic to explore!

Weiand13

Seems I've a long ways before I can open all the doors then. I still don't have all the areas opened up yet. Do have the shards from the areas I have opened. Still deciding to go with the mages or the templars, so I'm sure that is holding up more areas being
opened. Still have a few side quests an all the exploring and blah blah.

IF the save is measured in game hours, which Ithink it is, I'm showing over 100 hours of game play, still only lvl 13 an not all areas opened up yet.

Geddyme

You need all 114 shards in the game to complete all the doors for the Ruin in the Oasis, you mention.

I found, location-wise, the most time consuming was ... [highlight following text for mild spoiler]

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the Oasis itself, given all the different levels and that maze of mines and wooden walkways you have to negotiate. The most difficult to actually collect were the last 7 I needed. You have to kill the top two high dragons (not including the final boss fight)
in the game in order to, ONE; get to the Oculara without getting eaten, TWO; actually collect the last of the shards that are sprinkled around these monsters.

I'm a rouge and I couldn't stealth for long enough to sneak by Kahltezahn (level 21), reach his oculara, and use it. Had to bring my crew and smash his head in, one tough hombre. Killed us all a couple
times. before we finally finished him.

Before all this though, you have to rebuild Judicael's Crossing at the war table AFTER you oust the Red Templars from the fortress in Emprise Du Lion.

Mellor44

Yep that is good advice, go to Skyhold often and trade it all in. At the same time set your "officers" to work on the war table and if you are after all the achievements get pruning some herbs while you are there.

Although the dragon dropped materials are the best, the other tier 3 things you will collect are almost as good. I killed enough dragons to give my character the best gear, then my tank. I finished the rest of the dragons off once I had finished the story
(which I should add I really enjoyed). You can even save before a dragon fight and kill the same dragon multiple times if you want the achievement only. One dragon you have to kill though if you want all the shards and he is one of the tougher ones. If you
are desperate for a fade touched version of a material then you can use the same repetitive save loading trick.

Depends what you want from the game though, decent crafted gear makes the game incredibly easy even on nightmare. My rogue even could have full guard up all the time if I crafted him so. I like playing the glass cannon role though and he would go down in
one hit, but would kill most in one hit unseen too.

I loved the game thinking back lol, not sure it overtook Origins for me though or not. Well worth a 360 visit if you haven't already. I am a serious Bioware fanboy, probably the main reason the Xbox has been my choice over the other system. Although it seems
pretty equal now across platforms.

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