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Dragon Age: Origins is an amazingly deep masterpiece of a roleplaying game from Bioware, available on PS3, PC, and Xbox 360. In fact, it has so much hidden depth that even after reading walkthroughs, the wiki, and tip pages, and playing through countless times, as I have, there are still more secrets to discover. To help you get the most out of it, here are the best walkthroughs, guides, resources, and secrets I’ve found.

FAQ

Opening Locked Chests – Unlocking chests and doors without a key is a thief-only skill, and their rank in the skill has to be high enough for the task. If your character isn’t a thief, you can take control of Leliana or Zevran, after they join your party, to have them attempt to pick the locks. Another thing to be aware of is that injuries can cause a thief to temporarily be unable to open chests and doors they otherwise could.Apparently, the ability for all classes to be able to “bash” open locks was meant to be included in the game, but didn’t make it into the final version. If you’d like, you can download a mod that restores this ability here: Lock Bash. There is some realism to it in that you occasionally destroy an item in the bashing, and the broken door or chest are left behind. Installation instructions are in the description at the link.

Like any RPG, one of the best things about Dragon Age Origins is the way it allows you to fully customize your character. I’m guessing it’s more like PS3. Fireball is one of my favorites. Mage is by far my favourite class. Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. Check out the best Rift, Knight-Enchanter and Necromancer mage builds for Dragon Age: Inquisition. All builds tested extensively on Nightmare difficulty.

Curing Injuries – Injury kits cure those persistent injuries that lower your party’s stats; the stronger the kit, the more injuries it can cure at once on the same character. Injury kits can be purchased in limited amounts at merchants, or can be crafted by an herbalist if they have the recipe and sufficient skill. A free way to cure wounds is to take your party back to camp. You don’t have to sleep or do anything special, just be at camp, and the injuries will heal.

Gauntlet Bridge Puzzle Solution – The Gauntlet walkthrough on wikia has the full solution for the Test of Faith and the rest of tests.

Where do I find all of the Black Vials? – This is a tricky quest because one of the vials is in a random encounter, and another is often missed due to a cutscene in the Werewolf Lair. Here’s a walkthrough for the Revenant and phylactery locations: Black Vials Walkthrough.

What’s the deal with landmarks? – Occasionally, you’ll see a landmark marked on your map. When you find it and click on it, if you have the war dog in your party, the game will say something about your dog being interested in it. Switch to your dog and click on it again for a benefit.

My game keeps crashing during the Final Battle with the Archdemon! – At least a few of us are running into problems in that final battle despite our computers handling the game fine until then. If that’s happening to you, possible solutions include turning your graphics settings down, drawing your camera angle as far back as possible, and/or trying to minimize the spell effects on screen at once. I kept crashing when I had the arch demon’s health bar down by 3/4, still with lots of army running around battling. To get through it, I un-ticked “persistent gore” and “sparkle effects around loot” under options, then kept my character on the ballistas rather than under the archdemon’s feet.

Companions in Dragon Age Origins

Alistair – Warrior Templar

Leliana – Rogue Bard

Oghren – Warrior Beserker

Wynne – Mage Healer

“Secret Companion” – If you take the opportunity to recruit someone when Riordan suggests it, you can recruit a new companion as late in the game as The Landsmeet.As “Secret Companion” suggests, it is very possible to miss opportunities to have companions join your party, or even antagonize them into leaving. Some can be aggravated to the point of fighting your Warden to the death, if you choose the right (“wrong”) conversation options and actions. Your only healer, if you’re a non-Mage Warden, for example, can easily be missed, or driven off, or can become so incensed by certain story-line choices she will try to kill you.

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In fact, every companion except Dog can be irritated into challenging you. Most will do so with weapons, willing to fight to the death. Only Alistair will not leave your character before the Grey Wardens make their case at the Landsmeet, no matter how much he hates you. That’s his personality: putting his duty before personal feelings. The others, however, can be driven away or killed, if you wish.And your Healer option – Wynne – can be missed, or driven off at multiple points, so have care with her, particularly your first time through the Tower of Mages.

To gather everyone you can, and keep them, you have to be careful with the conversation options when you meet them, and listen closely to their personalities and approval/disapproval as you adventure with them. Each has gifts they like, and enjoy being listened to, so if your approval ratings with them start to slip, these are ways to bring them back up again. Not being a total jerk of a character helps.For more about the companions:Wikia Dragon Age: Origins Companions SectionWith more information and entries on speculated, temporary, and downloadable content companions.

Specializations

You get two specializations related to your class to further customize your character. Specializations can be taken at level 7 and 14, if you’ve unlocked them. They can be unlocked at any level, and are learned from an NPC or by buying a manual from the game’s NPC merchants. Once you’ve unlocked a specialization, your subsequent characters will have access to it.Companions join the party with one specialization and are able to take a second later.

The specializations are:

Rogue:Assassin, Bard, Duelist, Ranger

Mage:Arcane Warrior, Blood Mage, Shapeshifter, Spirit Healer

Specialization benefits and skills, and who teaches them or where to buy a manual can be found here: Dragon Age Specializations.

Where to Find the Best Armor and Weapons

Just click the item name for a text walkthrough on how to get it. The best weapons and armor in DA:O are: 1) Starfang Longsword or Greatsword 2) Juggernaut Armor Set 3) Hidden Ageless Greatsword 4) Yusaris The Dragonslayer Greatsword 5) Keening Blade Longsword 6) Imperium Crossbow 7) Far Song Longbow 8) Fade Wall Shield

Dragon Age Origins Cheats, Trophies, and Achievements

Cheats for Dragon Age are entered through console commands on the PC. Instructions at the link. Alternatively, Dragon Age has an extensive and talented mod community where you can find items to fulfill just about any cheat need you could want, like:The Utility Sack mod, which can be used to add stat points, gold, items, change the tier level and material of items, add bonuses and remove restrictions on the fly, dispose of items for gold anyplace rather than carting your full pack back to a merchant, and many other fun and useful cheats. Find them at NexusMods.

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This Dragon Age Inquisition Companions Tier List will teach you which companions are the best and which ones you should leave on the bench.

If you’re playing Dragon Age Inquisition, you’re going to want to know which companions you should be taking into combat so that you can defeat all the dragons and every other high level encounter without breaking a sweat. This Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions Tier List will help you do just that.

You may think the best Dragon Age Inquisition companions are simply the ones with the most powerful class specializations, and to a degree that’s true, but a lot of powerful class specializations lose their edge when not being actively controlled by the player.

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I should also note that Dragon Age Inquisition is a fairly balanced game, and you can easily complete it with any balanced party. As long as you have a tanking warrior, a mage and a rogue (ideally an archer), you shouldn’t encounter too much difficulty.

So, without further ado, here is the best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions tier list.

S Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

A Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

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C Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

D Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

S Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

Blackwall

If you didn’t opt to play as a tank yourself, which you probably didn’t, you’re probably going to want Blackwall in your party. Blackwall never dies. In fact, Blackwall almost always has full health and full guard throughout every encounter.

He’s a specialized tank in a game where have a tank in your party is a great asset. The only other character who could conceivably replace him is Cassandra, and Cassandra’s Templar specialty does not compare to Blackwall’s Champion specialty in terms of tanking ability.

When it comes to Dragon Age Inquisition companions, Blackwall is almost a must-have for most parties, especially if you’re going through the game for the first time.

A Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

Sera

Sera, despite being the most annoying character, is probably the best rogue available among the Dragon Age Inquisition companions. Archers, in general, are the best damage dealers in Dragon Age Inquisition and while Sera’s Tempest specialty doesn’t have quite as much damage potential as Varric’s Artificer specialty, the game’s AI handles it a lot better.

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Tempests are able to ignore cooldowns for a period of time which allows them to use Leaping Shot, one of the most broken abilities in the game, multiple times in quick succession. The AI does a fairly decent job of spamming Sera’s skills.

Varric

When controlled by the player, Varric will be S-Tier. The Artificer specialty is mindblowingly powerful, almost entirely because of Opportunity Knocks, which reduces cooldown times whenever someone in the party score a critical hit. When combined with Looked Like It Hurt from the Sabotage tree, which regains stamina for every crit, Artificer essentially ignores cooldowns and stamina requirements if you can get high enough crit on them (about 60-70%).

The problem is that to take full advantage of the Artificer specialization, you want to mainly spam Leaping Shot and use Hook and Tackle to close the distance whenever Leaping Shot takes you too far away from the enemy to do its full damage. The companion AI does not do this.

Spamming Leaping Shot (and to a lesser extent Explosive Shot when enemies are clumped together in large groups) is not only important because it deals a lot of damage, but because nailing its multiple hits are required to keep Artificer stamina high and cooldowns low.

As a result, Varric mainly functions much like Sera, spamming skills regularly, but without the additional bonuses the Tempest tree provides (aside from Opportunity Knocks and Hail of Arrows, which are both OP, the Artificer skills are underwhelming verging on bad).

Solas

Solas is probably the mage-iest mage you have available out of all of the Dragon Age Inquisition companions. Ultimately, Knight Enchanter is probably the best mage specialty, but the companion AI does an abysmal job at handling its more complex mechanics. Rift Mages, like Solas, on the other hand, do just fine under AI control.

As a Rift Mage, Solas gets a bevy of additional useful spells and power-ups. All three of Solas’s unique spells provide excellent crowd control. They get enhanced mana reneration. They do additional damage against weakened enemies which, between Solas’s Rift Mage abilities and the warrior in your group, is going to be all enemies.

If you have Solas invested in the Winter tree as well, trash mobs will spend their entire lifespan frozen or knocked down. Rift Mage skills also remain decently useful against bosses due to their damage and weakening debuff, even if they don’t provide the crowd control they do against normal enemies.

The main problem with Solas is that, without spoiling him, you can’t use him in the Trespasser DLC, which is essentially the endgame of Dragon Age Inquisition. Shame.

B Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

Cole

Rogues are great, especially when they’re equipped with bows, and Cole is no exception. His Assassin specialty is very powerful and the AI does a decent job at taking advantage of it. The only reason Cole is in B-Tier is because there has to be a way to differentiate him from Sera and Varric, because although Cole definitely slaughters enemies, he’s lags behind Sera and Varric in terms of his damage output.

Cole hits a lot harder than either Sera or Varric, but he’s a lot slower in terms of using his abilities. Cole relies on dealing big damage through guaranteed crits from from stealth, which means you’ll want a lot of crit damage on Cole’s equipment.

His abilities synergize better with daggers than they do with bows, but daggers tend to be inferior to bows in Dragon Age Inquisition for a variety of reasons. His main usefulness is Mark of Death, which doubles damage against a target for 8-12 seconds.

While Cole does decent damage because he’s a rogue, due to his specialization you either need to equip him with daggers to get the most out of his abilities, which will result in him dying regularly, or equip him with a bow and watch him do inferior damage to the other archers.

Still, Mark of Death is insane, especially if you’re an Archer yourself or you bring another Archer with you alongside Cole. Doubling Varric’s damage for 12 seconds on top of Cole’s own damage is pretty OP.

When it comes to Dragon Age Inquisition companions, Cole is a solid B-Tier. Probably A- Tier vs A+ tier for the other archers if I set it up that way, but I didn’t, so B-Tier it is.

Dorian

Dorian deals comparable damage to Solas since he has access to a variety of DoTs that provide significant utility in trash encounters by summoning undead allies while also providing decent damage in long boss fights.

Where Dorian’s Necromancer specialty falters is that a lot of its utility is only available for trash encounters, which are trivial. The only time the game really challenges you is in its boss fights, where a lot of Dorian’s skills go to waste.

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Still, he’s a strong mage and his DoTs do a fair amount of damage even though you have to spend 5 arguably wasted skill points in his tree to get them.

Among the best Dragon Age Inquisition companions, Dorian is a solid B-Tier.

C Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

Cassandra

Cassandra is your other option among the Dragon Age Inquisition companions for a tank besides Blackwall, and she’s decent enough. If you really hate Blackwall for whatever reason, you can certainly get by with Cassandra. She sacrifices a bit of Blackwall’s survivability for slightly higher damage and team-wide buffs.

The problem is that almost all of her Templar specialty’s skills are effective only against demons. Which is not huge problem, since you are constantly facing off against demons in Dragon Age Inquisition. However, the biggest threats in DA:I are not demons, and when you’re not fighting demons, the entire Templar tree is just a 15% damage buff and 10% elemental resistance.

Still, unlike Blackwall, who runs out of skill points after maxing out Champion, Vanguard and the left side of Battlemaster, Cassandra can pick up most of the abilities in the Weapon & Shield tree if you ignore Templar almost entirely aside from the damage buff, so in a way you can treat that like her specialty.

Vivienne

Vivienne’s specialty, Knight Enchanter, is a great specialty, probably the best specialty for mages, even after being nerfed in post-release patches. Unfortunately, the AI wasn’t particularly adept at handling the Knight Enchanter mechanics before the nerf, and even less so after.

Essentially, the way Knight Enchanter works is that as you cast spells, your Spirit Blade spell powers up. So you cast your spells, then run in using the Knight Enchanter’s Fade Cloak spell, emerge from Fade Cloak inside an enemy, dealing massive damage, and use your Spirit Blade until its charge depletes, then rinse and repeat.

If the AI does that successfully from time to time, it seems to be purely by chance. Which means under the control of the AI, you only really seem to get Knight Enchanter’s other advantage: massive survivability.

Knight Enchanter’s barriers are supercharged. They last seemingly forever and refill constantly as long as you’re dealing damage. Vivienne is able to take advantage of this. She will very rarely die.

That makes her a fairly great support mage. Unfortunately, aside from Barriers and the occasional Revive, her damage lags behind both other mages by a huge margin.

Knight Enchanter already puts out less damage than the other specialties in exchange for its survivability, and the AI can’t even maximize the potential of that lower damage cap. It also lacks any passive skills that increase damage from the other mage skill trees.

Put all this together and ultimately when it comes to the best Dragon Age Inquisition companions, Vivienne is just C-Tier.

D Tier – Best Dragon Age Inquisition Companions

Iron Bull

Iron Bull is capable of putting out a lot of damage. The issue with Iron Bull, like many of the Dragon Age Inquisition companions, is the AI. Under the control of the AI, he will die almost every fight.

Iron Bull’s Reaver specialty relies on health management through careful use of Dragon-Rage, which costs health, and Devour, which refills health. The goal is to stay around 30-40% health to maximize the damage bonus from Blood Frenzy. The AI is terrible at managing this mechanic.

In the early game, Iron Bull will tear through enemies at little risk to himself. Later, when enemies are more threatening and more numerous, he’ll pump out incredible damage right up until the point where he quickly dies as soon as he gets targeted. If you don’t adjust his AI, he’ll drink all your potions every fight.

A lot of people swear by Iron Bull, but I’ve used him in multiple playthroughs and his most notable contribution to the team is dying even more often than Dagger Cole.

Even though he’s a badass, I can’t in good conscience place him any higher than D-Tier in terms of the best Dragon Age Inquisition companions.

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