Reaver spec is ridiculous as well. Up to 200% damage (+1% Damage per HP% lost) and up to 300% (+2% Damage per HP% lost) when you sac 20 HP. With Cleave, it gets disgusting. Rogue still does better (single-target) damage but Cleave and Frenzy empowered Scythe and Whirlwinds is disgustingly awesome. I...

Middle-ish. I have an older half-sister.

Another thing that bothers me about Friendly Fire is how many skills it just seems to make useless. And I don't really want to lower my choices of viable skills any lower than they already are. I don't mind that certain skills are less useful in higher difficulties. I just wish it was the _right_ s...

She has an AoE Backstab. What's not to like. As far as mods are going, I'm contemplating my next run to be on Nightmare with Friendly Fire off. Not liking the only Friendly Fire off mod, though, since it doesn't raise the difficulty otherwise to make up for the lack of "ur killing ur dudes"...

I browse those first but they're typically not priced to great deals levels. I pinch the fuck out of pennies when it comes to eBay >>

Don't know how I feel about $187 3DS on Amazon Warehouse deals already. ... Oh well. @eBay: Bidding before the last like minute of the auction is kind of stupid. I don't even really look at anything I've got my eye on (short of initially marking it for reminders) until the last 15-ish minutes >>

The end of Forbidden Knowledge is supposed to be rough. Or maybe issues with the quest are just getting it to work. Basically, in Nightmare, every fight with a leader unit and one or more assassins can get hairy. With enough burst, assassins become irrelevant though but my group is more good sustain...

Oh, you meant the literal final storyline fights. I thought you mean the "end of that quest line" final fights.

[spoiler]I can imagine the chaos of tons of allies since they all count as friendly fire.

I'mma kill a bunch of people.[/spoiler]

Just curious, have you tried paralyze? I've found that to be one of the best shutdown skills, since it immobilizes for a much longer duration than freezing. I know it's only against one enemy, but still... it works really reliably on most elite-level enemies, and even some bosses (and even some bos...

Not really, it just meant that I had to put some elemental resistance on Alistair in order for me to play exactly like I would have without friendly fire. It seems like a bit of a stretch to call me putting Alistair in Juggernaut armor "a change of tactics" though... Considering it isn't ...

And just curious about a story spoiler, is it true that [hide]a lot of the mages are revealed to be Blood mages? Only heard that the first enchanter is, but if the former's true, that's just funny. And I did wish that there was some kind of notice that you became a Blood Mage, making a deal or just...

The thing is, it didn't really make DA1 hard. I still dropped AOE bombs everywhere, which killed everything easily, and just dealt with the friendly fire damage. Which wasn't really hard, it just meant that my tank had to wear a decent amount of elemental resistance and I had to throw the occasiona...