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Okay, now that that's out of the way.....I just need to vent, that's all. I don't really expect feedback of any type, so thank you to those of you that read this senseless drivel.

I'm torn. I've been craving Dragon Age: Origins, but I have no idea what I want to play as. I have a few achievements that I haven't gotten yet, and I'm trying to decide if I want to do a playthrough just to get those, or if I should just do what I want. But I don't know what I want!!! Hence the miserable flopping. I think I want to do a playthrough that I like, more than one solely based on achievements, since I plan to import it to DA2 and possibly DA3.

I was going to play a dual-wield rogue (human noble) and romance Alistair and do the whole king/queen thing, but I've already done that before. While it was a nice enough ending, I just don't know if I want to do it again. So then today, I was trying to think of what else I could do.

As far as achievements go, the main ones I'm missing that are feasible at this time are: mage to level 20; recruit Loghain (thereby recruiting all possible members across all playthroughs); side with werewolves; keep Anvil of the Void; sacrifice Alistair/self/Loghain; romance Zevran (thereby achieving all romances).

I mulled it around in my wee brain for most of the day today, and by the end of the night I had decided that I definitely want to romance Zevran. Aaaand that's about as far as I've gotten. I could have sworn I read somewhere that there's a conversation you can only have with him if you're a noble, something about him asking whether you're going to try to become queen/king. Therefore, I was thinking of playing a human noble (one of my favorite storylines, too). But then I was wondering, is it weird for him to be this lithe little man in leather, and I some ferocious she-beast warrior in massive plate? That and I'm not sure how plate armor looks on women. I don't to be so bulky that you can't tell I'm female. But, I think that storyline would suit my personality best because I'm can be rather quick-witted and sarcastic IRL, and the human noble opening gives plenty of those opportunities (plus I'm having a hard time passing up the chance to get it on with a random lady's son).

Being a tank, my party would be me, Zevran and Wynne, and then whoever else as a second damage person. I probably wouldn't use Alistair unless I specced him to 2H, and even then I'd probably use someone else; and I may ask him to marry Anora and then sacrifice him or something to get the achievement. As long as I don't let myself get too attached to him, I should be fine (there's no way I could let that happen if I'm romancing him, I'm too emotional for that). In this playthrough, I'd probably side with the templars (at the end of that quest line, so that I can make sure Wynne doesn't leave) and keep the Anvil of the Void. And as much as I'd like to side with the werewolves, if I'm dating Zevran I just don't think I have it in me to slay his people, even if their leader is in the wrong (in my eyes).

My second option was to be a healer mage. My party would then be me as the healer, Zevran again and Alistair as the tank, and then a second DPS. I always seem to take over for Wynne anyway in past playthroughs (no matter how anal I am with their combat tactics), and I don't mind healing. But...I dunno. I can't seem to stick with mages. I've probably tried them at least three times by now, and each time I get to about level 12 or so and just stop. I don't know if I find them boring or what.

I think ultimately what will end up happening is that I'll do two more playthroughs. This one I'll do half the achievements I'm missing, and then in the second playthrough I'll do the other half. The main reason I was even having this much difficulty was because I wanted a super-duper save file for DA3 when it comes out, so I wanted to make sure it was exactly what I want and perfect and all that. But then the other part of me wants to get some of these achievements, and I genuinely would like to see what happens with Zevran and some of the other story choices. After all, do I want to do another playthrough of crap I've already done (in most cases twice?). So I dunno what to do. Truth be told, I don't really know what I'd consider the "perfect" save file. I always thought it was me as queen and Alistar as king, but that seems almost...bland? I think I'm more of the wandering and adventuring type, not some stuffy queen in a stuffy castle. It's all very romantic, but it's almost too perfect for me. I like adventure and passion and killing things.

I think the most fun I've had in a playthrough so far was when I played a male city elf warrior tank and romanced Leliana. Tanks are fun for me, I love getting in there and being nigh unstoppable, but that's also what I did in the last playthrough and I didn't know if I wanted to do it again. That's why I initially started out with a rogue. Then I decided I wanted to romance Zevran and I don't really need two rogues in a group (and I don't like archery, it's boring). Bah!

Hmm, after typing all this out, I think I have perhaps convinced myself to play the female human noble tank and do a few of the achievements, and save the rest for another playthrough.

And then in Dragon Age 2, I was going to be a warrior since I don't have that achievement yet, but now I'm wondering if I want to play a warrior twice in a row. Maybe I'll go with the rogue again in that one (I had a lot of fun with it). In my first playthrough I was a mage and romanced Fenris. In my second playthrough I was a rogue and romanced Anders. I much prefer being a rogue and lovin' on Fenris (he's so...*drool*). But that warrior achievement calls to me, and it might be nice to do a playthrough without Aveline. I like her well enough, I just don't know if I want her in my party every time I play that game. I suppose I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. If I ever do. I've restarted DA:O more times than I care to count. >.<

Thanks for reading (if anyone even survived that)!!! ^.^

Crap, I found some pics of some of the cloth armor on females, and it's nice looking:

My favorite I think:




Others:




Hmm indeed.

My first playthrough of DAO was as a DW rogue. And they kick so much a**. Defiantly worth playing. Sadly in DA2 rogues take forever to kill things, but they look pretty awesome doing it. Mages in DAO are pretty boring, i snore so much playing one. But in DA2 they are the most OP of the 3 classes you can play. Anyway, defiantly play a DW rogue, even an archer rogue is a lot of fun as well.

Thanks for the input!!! Oddly enough, I seem to be of the opposite opinion of you, though. Not that that's wrong, just that I think it's funny. I found mages in DA2 boring since the cooldowns seem so much longer, whereas I really liked my rogue.

Anyway, I think I decided today to try something a bit unusual and go spirit healer/blood mage. Just being a spirit healer may get boring, but I think having the blood magic aura will help keep things interesting. I'll have to watch my character more closely, and I think the control spells will be really nice. And when the whole team isn't getting beat, I can actually do some respectable damage rather than standing there flinging bolts from my staff.

Plus, I have this...thing...where I find it fun and interesting to take something that most would consider bad or evil and use it to do good. Like, as a blood mage in DA:O, I won't use it on my allies, only on myself and my enemies. In SWTOR, I use the dark side to help innocents and to get revenge on the wicked. I just find it fun and interesting to take something bad and make it good.

It has me excited to try a mage, so that's good!

I am actually facing a similar problem. I bought DAO on PC for the Mods...and I hate it..Just the control bug me..I LOVE the mods..but I hate the actual mechanics....so I went to DAO for xbox...and I like the controls...so now I just got to decide what I want to play. I like the human noble 2 sword warrior idea..but after watching hobbit..I kinda want to do a badass dwarf too...

I tried it on PC too after giving my brother my XBOX copy, but I had really bad choppiness. I thought my computer could handle it, and in fact it was fine up until Ostagar, but then it just went to poop. Also, even though I'd get some cool mods and better graphics on the PC, I enjoy being able to curl up on the couch with a big blanket and play DA:O on our big-screen TV. Ahhhh.

Anyway, a friend of mine says the dwarf noble origin story is actually really good. I just can't bring myself to play a dwarf in that game for some reason. I really like the human noble origin story, as well as the city elf origin story. I guess because they both feel more...personal...than some of the other stories. Just my opinion, though.

Good luck to you!

Now I'm trying to figure out ahead of time whether or not the blood magic persistent aura drains health when you use other persistent auras (such as Telekentic Weapons), or if those take up a portion of your mana instead. If it takes a chunk of HP, that could kinda suck. I'm trying to plan so that I know whether to put my stat points into constitution or willpower. Thus far, I've been dumping all my points into magic.

My plan was to take Spirit Healer first at level 7, then Blood Mage at level 14. If that's the case, then I'd probably want a little more willpower so I can cast more healing spells without going out of mana. But then on the other hand, I don't want to put too many points into Willpower if I'm going to be using my health pool later on.

Decisions, decisions.