Is it possible to get through Dragon Age Origins without a healer?
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I got up to the last mission without a healer and halfway through realized what a terrible mistake I had made by not recruiting one. I used all the potions at my disposal and still died...
It is, I did a run a few months ago with only using warriors. More specifically, 3 Two handed warriors (Me, Sten, Oghren) and a tank (Shale or Alistair).
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I will just say that the restealth ability of rogues is like a wow vanish and pretty overpowered once you have that your rogue can solo most groups. Its pretty funny.
Very possible. You will need:
A 'controller'. A mage with multiple debilitating moves such as sleep, paralyze etc.
A defensively built warrior. Maybe not a tank as such, but one who you can send in first knowing he won't die instantly.
Grenades. These are seriously powerful, make lots and use gratuitously.
Potions. You have no healer, get loads of these things!!
Lots and lots of DPS. Drawn out battles will be the death of you!
A 'controller'. A mage with multiple debilitating moves such as sleep, paralyze etc.
A defensively built warrior. Maybe not a tank as such, but one who you can send in first knowing he won't die instantly.
Grenades. These are seriously powerful, make lots and use gratuitously.
Potions. You have no healer, get loads of these things!!
Lots and lots of DPS. Drawn out battles will be the death of you!
I always wondered personally if it was possible to get through DA:O without gouging your eyes out in boredom myself...I know I sure wasn't able to do so.
That and the fact leveling up is completely pointless, taking out the entire point of playing an RPG, they honestly might as well just start you out at the max level and not have level ups at all. Terrible game.
That and the fact leveling up is completely pointless, taking out the entire point of playing an RPG, they honestly might as well just start you out at the max level and not have level ups at all. Terrible game.
It isn't all that hard you just need to have a herbalist so you can stock on potions.
On my first playthrough on normal I killed Wynne and didn't even miss her all that much.
I was a dual-wielding dwarf rogue and had Morrigan (without any healing spells) plus Alistair
as a tank, the last slot I rotated.
On my first playthrough on normal I killed Wynne and didn't even miss her all that much.
I was a dual-wielding dwarf rogue and had Morrigan (without any healing spells) plus Alistair
as a tank, the last slot I rotated.
Yes, you can play the whole game without a healer. Easily. I never bothered having a healer in my party in that game, because I found Wynne a bit boring as a character. So I'd usually go with me (a rogue), Sten, Shale, and usually the dog. If you make Sten a Champion he gets an AOE stun shout. So does the dog. So does Shale. So fights usually broke down like this: CHARGE SHOUT (everything's stunned) DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE rinse repeat. On the rare occasions when my party members ever got hit, I'd just down a health poultice and move on.
It's even possible to do this in DA2.
Granted, I don't bother playing nightmare, but I know people on the Bioware forums who solo'd nightmare mode in Origins on a rogue and never used a single health poultice. So it is certainly doable.
It's even possible to do this in DA2.
Granted, I don't bother playing nightmare, but I know people on the Bioware forums who solo'd nightmare mode in Origins on a rogue and never used a single health poultice. So it is certainly doable.
I managed to do it on hard, through what I must say was some incredible crowd control, strategic decisions and a fuck load of potions.
I played a crowd control mage that used as many combinations as possible, with Alistair as a tank, Leliana as a buffer and Zevran as a assassin.
It took me 120 hours to complete the game, that shit was hard!
'twas my second playthrough though, so I sort of knew what I was doing, so I'll applaud you for trying and say good luck : D
I played a crowd control mage that used as many combinations as possible, with Alistair as a tank, Leliana as a buffer and Zevran as a assassin.
It took me 120 hours to complete the game, that shit was hard!
'twas my second playthrough though, so I sort of knew what I was doing, so I'll applaud you for trying and say good luck : D
On easy, yeah, I was able to get past the fucking Brood Mother without a healer on easy. On normal, maybe but it's gonna be about 5000 times harder. Beyond that, it's probably technically possible, but it's also technically possible to knock down a brick wall with your forehead.