The Dead Trenches last night.
This, this was NOT what I was expecting. I picked up the Key to the City, and the equipment shuffle has been very good to both myself and Alistair. So, I'm stylish and protected in my Legion of the Dead armor, Alistair is rocking chunks of the Effort set, and Leliana and Morrigan, well, they.. look good?
Note to self, upgrade mage and rogue equipment.
So, Dead Trenches. VERY intimidating opening cinematic. Enough said there, I'll save you the spoiler. However, the level itself was a letdown. The encounters were far to 'friable', the two times I got wiped, I was able to 'hold' my party back around a corner or other choke point, stick my hairy dwarven snoz in front of whatever bad guy crushed us last time, and he'd happily run after me...
Leaving the rest of his Evil Team behind. Guess they were on hold, too.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to make sense out of the Broodmother encounter, reading stuff and even making notes, then I got there, and my entire brain fell out my ear. MASSIVE KUDOS to Bioware, especially since they made the runup to this encounter work so very good with 5.1 channel sound.
Thoroughly freaked out (I imagine, in-game, Morrigan and Alistair sharing a 'you have GOT to be kidding me' look at my Warden and Leliana, who are probably cringing together like chilly kittens at this point), I completely forgot what the hell I was thinking and planning, waltzed into the broodmother encounter, and proceeded to trash everything in the room.
Except for one off moment when a half-dozen tentacles turned Leliana into a Japanese Schoolgirl trope (guro, unfortunately, not hentai. I think I got liver in my hair), the encounter went VERY well. Morrigan dinged, and we're investigating the Spirit Healer spec.. delicious Group Rez.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
This, this was NOT what I was expecting. I picked up the Key to the City, and the equipment shuffle has been very good to both myself and Alistair. So, I'm stylish and protected in my Legion of the Dead armor, Alistair is rocking chunks of the Effort set, and Leliana and Morrigan, well, they.. look good?
Note to self, upgrade mage and rogue equipment.
So, Dead Trenches. VERY intimidating opening cinematic. Enough said there, I'll save you the spoiler. However, the level itself was a letdown. The encounters were far to 'friable', the two times I got wiped, I was able to 'hold' my party back around a corner or other choke point, stick my hairy dwarven snoz in front of whatever bad guy crushed us last time, and he'd happily run after me...
Leaving the rest of his Evil Team behind. Guess they were on hold, too.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to make sense out of the Broodmother encounter, reading stuff and even making notes, then I got there, and my entire brain fell out my ear. MASSIVE KUDOS to Bioware, especially since they made the runup to this encounter work so very good with 5.1 channel sound.
Thoroughly freaked out (I imagine, in-game, Morrigan and Alistair sharing a 'you have GOT to be kidding me' look at my Warden and Leliana, who are probably cringing together like chilly kittens at this point), I completely forgot what the hell I was thinking and planning, waltzed into the broodmother encounter, and proceeded to trash everything in the room.
Except for one off moment when a half-dozen tentacles turned Leliana into a Japanese Schoolgirl trope (guro, unfortunately, not hentai. I think I got liver in my hair), the encounter went VERY well. Morrigan dinged, and we're investigating the Spirit Healer spec.. delicious Group Rez.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies