Was Dragon age really that hard?

[twistedheat15]

My first as a rouge was average, learning how to mess with tactics and what chars to use ect, I own normal mobs but stuff like the glass vial bosses would kick my ass. 2nd I played mage and it turned the game into a joke. The joy of popping a storm of the century in a room full of mobs hard-on worthy. Now I'm playing on nightmare with just my rouge and dog, and having little trouble outside rooms of crushing prison whoring mages.

 

[shado_temple]

I don't see why everyone had difficulty with Wynne while getting the ashes; I walked in, grabbed some, walked out, and didn't lose any members.

 

[Wave Tan]

Hard? You're kidding, right? I beat a chunk of the game soloing on Nightmare as a mage. If anything, the game was too damn easy.

 

[meowchef]

I started my first playthrough on the hardest difficulty. Not a great idea. I died a lot, but slowly moved forward to the Dalish forest where I faced some super skeleton dude at a grave... I could not beat him and had to turn the difficulty down.

 

[Sparcrypt]

I have all the achievements in DA... it could be challeneging at times but not overly so.

 

[Fern Williams]

I played a Mage on normal and found everything pretty easy. I only died 2 or 3 times. If anything i consider it one of the easiest games I have played.

 

[Sacul]

First time I played I had to set it to the lowest difficulty and it was still hard. Apparently I ended up screwing my warriors up by choosing con over dex thinking that if I wanted survivability con was the bestest thing evar! But nope, dex lets you dodge and some stuff I think but can't really recall since I haven't played in quite awhile. Beyond that I had horrible gear beyond two epic armor sets that were easily gotten while doing the main quest, to let you understand how horrible it was I still had the shield from slaying the ogre at beginning as my tank's shield. I also had a horrible looking sawblade and some other piece of junk that I actually think might of been a white tier weapon.

My two mages were the only thing keeping me going and I had no idea what spells were awesome so I ended up just picking whatever seemed best. After that though when my experience with the warrior class was horribly ruined I only went Rogue and Mage and after Lothering at the start I always had to crank the difficulty up to Nightmare at some point for my precious rogues and Arcane Warriors (haven't played a regular mage actually).

 

[Joseph Harrison]

My first playthrough on easy I found it hard and I was a warror and then I played as a mage on easy and din't die once so I played again a few months later as a warrior on normal and found it easy only dieing when I fought the Dragon on Urn of Sacred Ashes. I have not been able to beat the game as rouge on hard but I think I built my character wrong.

 

[kingcom]

I played a Mage on normal and found everything pretty easy. I only died 2 or 3 times. If anything i consider it one of the easiest games I have played.

Thats what I did on my first run. Its the easiest but ive ever played but it was a fairly smooth run.

 

[major28]

i found the game pretty easy on normal i put no consideration into my builds,settings or group didnt even touc my tactics and i played on consol so i only had 4 hot keyed attacks and i only died like twice

 

[justnotcricket]

I don't see why everyone had difficulty with Wynne while getting the ashes; I walked in, grabbed some, walked out, and didn't lose any members.

Ditto - the problem for these people was that they desecrated the urn. Although the party member 'approval/disapproval' mechanic in the game wasn't that sophisticated, it was apparently too much for some. Sure, play as a renegade - but don't expect characters like Wynne and Leliana to like you for it - you'll get more respect from Morrigan for that type of stuff. And vice versa.

 

[DustyDrB]

It was hard, the High Dragon fight kicks my ass every time. Same with Gaxkang and a few others.

Playing on the Hard difficulty, I'm having by far my easiest playthrough right now as a female Elven archer (Bard and Ranger). I had always heard and thought that Archery was underpowered but I'm finding it very much the opposite. I just found out that Shale's Rock Mastery actually slows down your rate of fire (though it states it would do the opposite). I wish they would patch that on the 360.

I still have yet to use Sten much, and this is my sixth playthrough.

I don't see why everyone had difficulty with Wynne while getting the ashes; I walked in, grabbed some, walked out, and didn't lose any members.

If you agree to do as Kolgrim asks, Wynne and Lelianna will turn on you.

 

[Zero=Interrupt]

As long as you make it a point to kill everything yourself and do all of the sidequests, then DA:O is a breeze. Make a Rogue that uses two weapons, has tons of Con and high Str, and severely increase your lockpicking and pickpocketing. Give your party orders that will keep them the hell out of the way (I put my fighters on missile duty), then sneak into every ambush and chuck lots of bombs while invisible (the AI running the baddies is so dumb they'll just stand there and take it). In addition to the extra XP from pickpocketing and lockpicking, you get tons of extra XP.

The dragons are hard monsters, but the trick with them is to go try to kill Flemeth at a earliest opportunity. Yes, she'll incinerate you, but from then on the High Dragon enemies in the game are locked at your ultra-low level. Go elsewhere, do a ton of sidequests, level up, get some fireprrof armor, and then go kill her. The Dragon guarding the Urn shrine will be a breeze too. When you get to awakening, all you have to do is spend your cash on the electricty-proof armor, and you'll poof the Queen of the Marsh in no time, too.

Again, make sure you kill them before your party does, so you get the XP, see?

People like mages, which are fine for sitting back and blasting things, but in the mean time your fighters are scooping up XP by killing easy stuff and leaving you in the dust, and then there's all that free, easy XP you get from opening chests. Sorry, mage players, I love blasting the shit out of things too (especially elves and their equivalents in other game systems) but the Rogue's king at earning cheap advances.

 

[Risingblade]

Tbe game isn't hard they just suck at it

 

[Jodah]

I never understood why people had problems with it. I played on the hardest difficulty and never had any trouble. People were saying they had to use the buff potions but I didn't use a single one. I died a couple times but thats to be expected, and most of it was from silly mistakes.

 

[GiantRaven]

I found that the levelling of enemies was completely insane and schizophrenic. I would spend some fights getting completely slaughtered over and over and then suddenly breeze through without changing how I was playing at all.

Hell, I had to turn the game down to 'casual' difficulty and I'm still getting destroyed occasionally. Although I suppose that could be in part to my general terribleness and playing it on a console.

I still think it could've been balanced better though. Entering a fight not long after starting the game and getting decimated and downed in a mere two hits (without the time to even contemplate healing) is ridiculous.

 

[sora91111]

The high dragon is easy so long as you use Morrigan.

 

[RatRace123]

Once I got used to the strategic mechanics of the game and I got good at setting tactics, and spamming the hell out of gamebreakingly powerful abilities I actually had to up the difficulty to hard in order to get a fair challenge.

Of course I was on the 360 version and I was playing as a tank.

 

[minimacker]

It wasn't difficult so to say, it mostly felt long and annoyingly tedious.

 

[brant0]

Played a Fighter (or whatever) and got my ass handed to me lots of times. Died a lot in all of the quests (mainly the Werewolf and the big city ones). After died at least a gazillion billion times fighting the last boss because I didnt buy potions (or whatever it called), I finished the game.

Well, at least I enjoyed it a lot.