Dragon Age walkthrough hint strategy tips & more
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Hi! This page has information for both Bioware's recently released Dragon Age 2 game, and the older Origins/Awakening parts of the series.
For starters, I'll link you to the official game guide - more specific stuff is farther down this page. This was produced by Prima, who also did one for Origins (linked below). It's available both in print and as a digital copy. The digicopy is on Steam, which also has DA and is probably the biggest & most trusted service for Digital Downloads.
This digital copy isn't very cheap though, and you'll probably find the physical copy much cheaper at any local store or even amazon/ebay. Here's the Steam link (Currently $25 usd!)
Please read the reviews if you're thinking of purchasing this guide (they're at the amazon link below) - there are some unhappy customers.
For starters, I'll link you to the official game guide - more specific stuff is farther down this page. This was produced by Prima, who also did one for Origins (linked below). It's available both in print and as a digital copy. The digicopy is on Steam, which also has DA and is probably the biggest & most trusted service for Digital Downloads.
This digital copy isn't very cheap though, and you'll probably find the physical copy much cheaper at any local store or even amazon/ebay. Here's the Steam link (Currently $25 usd!)
Please read the reviews if you're thinking of purchasing this guide (they're at the amazon link below) - there are some unhappy customers.
Dragon Age II: The Complete Official Guide
Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 02/14/2012)
The same official strategy walkthrough to the game on Amazon, typically much cheaper. This page will show the latest updated price. Unfortunately, you'll also have to wait for it to appear in the mail... some of the links further down this page will help you in the game if you need some *right now*.
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Gamespot Game Guide
A well made online guide to Dragon Age2. I'll link to a few of the bigger sections. The table of contents is on the right hand side of the page and very easy to miss.
Warning: Incredible amounts of spoilers.
Reading ahead of where you are in the game will ruin your experience.
Warning: Incredible amounts of spoilers.
Reading ahead of where you are in the game will ruin your experience.
- Prologue
- From the tutorial to entering the city.
- Act One
- Act of mercy, Blackpowder promise, Deep Roads expedition, Enemies among us, Long way home, Shepherding wolves, Tranquility, Wayward son.
- Act Two
- All that remains, Blackpowder courtesy, Offered and lost, To catch a thief, and several other sections.
- Act Three
- Best served cold, On the loose, The last straw.
- Sidequests
- Only during acts one and two.
Gamefront's Walkthrough
Like gamespot, this videogame-dedicated site produced a large, free, strategy guide to Dragon Age 2. Most of the information is in simple steps, like "go here, do that" with accompanying videos. Unfortunately, it's all presented on one page. Very easy to accidently spoil yourself here.
It should answer any questions you should have though if it wasn't covered in gamespot's:
http://www.gamefront.com/dragon-age-2-walkthrough/
It should answer any questions you should have though if it wasn't covered in gamespot's:
http://www.gamefront.com/dragon-age-2-walkthrough/
Cheats
Courtesy of GameFaqs. You'll need some technical know-how, but this describes how to turn on the Developer Console commands on the PC and what you can do with them. See the page here.
Using a Playstation 3? Cheats and trophies can be found here.
Using a Xbox 360? Try this page instead for tricks & achievements. Some of the ones listed are "Infinite Armor Points", "Infinite XP and Gold Glitch", and a way to dupe items and money.
Using a Playstation 3? Cheats and trophies can be found here.
Using a Xbox 360? Try this page instead for tricks & achievements. Some of the ones listed are "Infinite Armor Points", "Infinite XP and Gold Glitch", and a way to dupe items and money.
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Playing DA: Origins or Awakening instead?
Make sure you check out this other Squidoo lens by Wolftyrs about the game:
Make sure you check out this other Squidoo lens by Wolftyrs about the game:
A very handy page
http://www.dragonageguide.com/
Gotta love those sites that describe themselves with their names. It's a walkthrough for Dragon Age Origins, but not quite done yet. Lots of information is there if you're looking for something specific & well worth visiting.
Gotta love those sites that describe themselves with their names. It's a walkthrough for Dragon Age Origins, but not quite done yet. Lots of information is there if you're looking for something specific & well worth visiting.
From gamefaqs users
- Walkthrough
- Written by noz3r0.
- Blood Magic guide
- Written by atomicmew.
- Character Build guide
- Written by KerathArcwind.
- Class guide
- Written by asmiroth.
- Crafting guide
- Written by Myriddan.
Prima paper guide
Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)
Amazon Price: $12.27 (as of 02/14/2012)
There are a few other versions.
Check the related items on amazon to see them all.
I haven't read this one, but the prima Dragon Age Origins guides are highly rated by people who have. You'll need to wait for it to ship if you grab the walkthrough guide from Amazon. Try calling up your local gamestores, like a Gamestop or even Babbages, and ask them if they have any on the shelves.
Some libraries also carry them. I'm not kidding! Mine does, and we're a pretty small town. Worth a try if you don't mind only borrowing it for awhile.
Dragon Age Strategy Tips
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KatieLay
Nov 21, 2011 @ 8:26 pm | delete
- Some very nice tips found on this lens in the content and the comments. Thanks everyone who added tips.
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chrisd
Apr 9, 2011 @ 2:52 am | delete
- 2 questions: varric can open some of the locked chests can any of the other locked ones be opened somehow?
i start act 3 without isabelle so what did i do wrong in act 2, that i couldnt unlock her in act3?
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Big_Joe
Apr 1, 2011 @ 1:39 am | delete
- I have advice for other Dragon Age players, "Visit this great lens to get tips".
I have beat Origins and I have Awakening but have not beat it yet.
Great lens, *Blessed by Big Joe* - Can't wait to play Dragon Age 2.
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Angela_Rosas Mar 15, 2011 @ 10:26 am | delete
- Go bad. Be a mage
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Chadrew
Jan 13, 2011 @ 4:15 pm | delete
- I played as Mage / Arcane Warrior / Blood Mage. It got almost too easy towards the end. The Arcane Warrior passive ability (doesn't have to be activated) allows you to equip armor using your Magic attribute instead of Strength (Wade's Superior Dragonskin set, here I come!).
Then I pumped Constitution and i used Blood magic to cast all my spells (using my large HP pool) and Willpower only to maintain those sustained abilities (arcane shield, spell might, etc).
With my armor, sustained protection and massive HP pool I had great survivability, not to mention access to lots of powerful spells. When blood magic is active potions and healing spells don't really work on you, but you can just leech HP from your party members using your blood magic skill, and then heal your party members using normal means.
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Jun 29, 2010 @ 8:04 pm | delete
- Does anybody know how to make the guy that tells you were to steal things apear at Denerim? he gets you alot of money
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- you must have a background like human noble,dwarv noble and commoner
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- Does anybody know what smithy to take the metal ore?
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rek
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- you must give the ore to Herren at vigils keep
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Dragon Age Player
Nov 22, 2009 @ 3:29 pm | delete
- Like any other class based RPG, in order to effectively conquer your opponents one must learn to use all the abilities of each character. Each class has a specific role in a fight, typically ranged characters have the responsibility of simply dealing damage, warriors have the responsibility of taking damage so that other characters can fight more effectively, and Mages have the responsibility of either dealing damage or healing other players in the party. Learning to use these roles in a fight can make you a dangerous person to play.
One common strategy is to have your warrior (in the case of Dragon Age: Alistair or Sten) use a skill that will draw all the attention to him (Taunt is a good one). This keeps most enemies attacking him, while your other players focus on killing the enemies one-by-one from a distance.
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The one who just saved the game at wrong place at wrong time -.-''
Nov 14, 2009 @ 2:42 pm | delete
- For the archdemon, remember to take 1 ranged, 1 healer (mage) and maybe 2 melee's... and make sure you have pots before going through the bridge, cause you can't go back :(
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- I can beat the Archdemon with any Group no matter the healers or not. If money is conserved you can buy all special weapons and you can buy all the herbs you need from Dalish Camp
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mike
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- when you make a character, be sure to focus on one or two sets of skills otherwise you will be weak and it will be very tough. set your parties strategies as well, that is very important indeed
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What are your thoughts on the Dragons Age Origins game?
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KatieLay
Nov 21, 2011 @ 8:27 pm | delete
- Game is flat out amazing!
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penis
May 3, 2011 @ 6:25 am | delete
- This game is cool. Right now im about to romance Alister. I'm a rogue and all :D
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Big_Joe
Apr 1, 2011 @ 1:41 am | delete
- Origins was great, all the way to the end. Haven't gotten that far in Awakening yet and I don't have Dragon Age 2.
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- Nice game
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bboy131
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- Great guide. Thanks!
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Angela_Rosas Mar 15, 2011 @ 10:26 am | delete
- Great game, except for my ending anyway. Completely anti climatic
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- If you want some hints on what to do with this lens check out the following lens:-
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One thing you need though, while its riding high in the rankings and getting traffic you need products on it, try adding the Prima Guide for Dragon Age from Amazon and the different versions of the game ie XBox360, PS3 and PC.
Your intro module also needs a better picture, the one you have got is bland and doesn't do you any favours.
Hope this helps and feel free to delete this comment once read.
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ZablonMukuba Oct 18, 2010 @ 10:25 pm | delete
- this game is cool
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Wazman
Mar 24, 2010 @ 1:26 pm | delete
- does anybody know what smithy to take the metal ore too?
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No One
Apr 22, 2010 @ 8:04 am | delete
- You take the ore to the smith at Warden's Peak. He's on the right when you enter. He should have someone beside him (a cousin or sort). You can either have a two-handed weapon or one-handed. Both pretty good but it really matters what you need it for...
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SamoGuy
Feb 19, 2010 @ 7:52 pm | delete
- I like Dragon Age a lot. But I didn't like how your character doesn't talk. Mass effect is better in that regards, but that is a different game.
But the characters are generally interesting. Who would you vote for the most interesting character?
http://www.kingofthewall.com/kotw-wall/60/Best-Dragon-Age-Origins-Party-Member.php
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Sue Williams
Mar 3, 2010 @ 11:56 am | delete
- I like Dragon Age quite a lot but wish that it could be played as if in the game, as if seeing through your character's eyes, as in Oblivion. I don't like moving my character around and seeing her all the time. I do, however, like the storyline and the characters such as Alistair.
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EmilyJeanius
Mar 5, 2010 @ 1:53 am | delete
- Don't you just love Alistair! (:
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david
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- the game is geat. one question any thoughts on how to beat the last dragon.
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David Blyth
Apr 12, 2010 @ 4:15 pm | delete
- I beat the Arch Demon (finally) with Alistar, Sten, Wynne, a PC Flame/Electric/Spirit Mage and 20 Healing Poltices My basic strategy was:
[Spoiler ahead if you don't want to read them!]
1) Beat on the ArchDemon (using just those 4 chars) until its 1/2 strength and it calls for reinforcements. Wynne used the closest balista and gave out heals and buffs (and 1 rez). I was completely out of Health Poltices by this point.
2) Call for your own reinforcements. I used 50 RedCliffe soldiers because I needed melee against the ArchDemon Reinforcments and my Dwarfs had already been beat up in an earlier fight.
3) Rest and heal as much as possible while Redcliffe neutralizes the first wave of dragon reinforcements.
4) Use your main party and what's left of Redcliffe to:
a) neutralize the second wave of dragon reinforcements
b) melee the dragon to ~10% health. I was out of Redcliffe soldiers at this point.
5) Use up my last spirit balms or spirit shards to help neutralize dragon vortices
6) Ding it to 2% health. I lost Alistar and Sten twice by then (Wynne rez both with 1 shot.
Put them close to eachother!).
7) My mage was near 20 hits by then, so he put himself into a Force Field while:
o the dragon kicked, swatted, bashed, breathed on, chewed, and smashed the Force Field.
o Wynne picked off the grunts the dragon uses as it's last reinforcments, one by one.
My mage had done most of the damage so the dragon ignored Wynne.
8) Zap out of the Force Field, get healed by Wynne and we both used Archane bolts to finish things off.
This was an extremely close fight (my PC mage died, Wynne was near death and 30 mana when the ArchDemon finally keeled over). Very exciting.
In retrospect, I'd do the following things differently:
o Get more health poltices.
o Use more spirit balms then I did. I used some, but should have bought and used more.
o Use Morrigan instead of Sten, because she does lots more damage, and/or
o Pick more cold spells for my main PC mage. The ArchDemon, as I discovered
to my dismay, just shrugged off most of my best Flame/Electric spells. Gar!
I like Lilliana, but didn't really need her on any of the fights before the ArchDemon. At a guess, you can win the game with nearly any combination of chars and reinformcements (assuming you play them well!) but some are going to be easier to work with than others and I definitely recommend Wynne.
Good luck and have fun!
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loganadrian
Jan 13, 2010 @ 9:20 pm | delete
- I have a friend who love this game a lot.
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Dylan Abbott
Jan 13, 2010 @ 6:29 am | delete
- This the bst gme in the fkin world
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Jan 12, 2010 @ 8:29 am | delete
- i nee help with the landsmeet at alienage what do i do to get in the alienage
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sifushan
Feb 14, 2010 @ 2:01 am | delete
- keep progressing in the story. you have to try to free the queen and later you get access to the alienage.
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Lindsay
Nov 25, 2009 @ 3:34 pm | delete
- This game is really good.
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- <3
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- Learning to use these roles in a fight can make you a dangerous person to play.
One common strategy is to have your warrior (in the case of Dragon Age: Alistair or Sten) use a skill that will draw all the attention to him (Taunt is a good one). This keeps most enemies attacking him
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