Dragon Age Origin Warrior Build
One of the first companions you gain in 'Dragon Age: Origins,' Morrigan has access to several powerful elemental trees as a mage. Depending on your class, there are two primary ways you can take her: the damage route or the healer route. Like any other mage, Morrigan lacks the essentials needed to withstand direct attacks, so it's not possible to bulk her up as a tank.
Morrigan's Primary Stats
As a mage, Morrigan primarily focuses on two main attributes: magic and willpower. Depending on how you want to build this party member, the attribute you'll focus on will vary. Magic bulks up spellpower and mental resistance, but spells that use heavy amounts of mana demand a bigger pool; that's where willpower comes in. Each point of willpower increases Morrigan's maximum mana, letting her pull off more attacks before running out.
Spirit Healer
Rather than have Wynne act as the party's healer, you can learn the art from a tome from the Wonders of Thedas store in Denerim, opening the option for Morrigan. As a spirit healer, Morrigan gets a boost to magic and access to new abilities. Unlocking the Revival ability is essential; this lets a fallen party member get back up in the middle of combat, giving you a second chance to end the battle. With Group Heal, Morrigan helps heal some of the wounds of the group. If coupled with the Blood Mage specialization, be sure she stays on the outskirts of battle; the constant toying with her health bars leaves her far too vulnerable to be near enemies.
The Arcane Warrior is an interesting combination of concepts. It blends, quite seamlessly, the spells of a mage and the survivability of a warrior. Massive armour, damage from both spells and melee prowess and utility abilities makes the Arcane Warrior one of the most versatile classes in Dragon Age: Origins (henceforth DA:O). Dragon Age: Origins - Character Builder Tool. The Character Builder is a GUI tool for designing character builds. It allows you to select a class, race, and origin and beginning levelling up. You can spend attribute points, skill points, and talent/spell points to see what your character's attributes, skills, and talents/spells will look like. Dragon Age Awakening Builds – The 2 Handed Warrior “Tank”. Marrke’s Equipment: Armor of the Sentinel found in Blackmarsh. Vigilance as a 2 handed sword (side quest for Wade), Girdle of Kal-Hirol (belt), and the same amulet and rings he began with.
Dragon Age Origins Warrior Build Sword Shield
Elemental Fighter
It's not necessary to focus on specializations; Morrigan can wreak plenty of havoc with the Primal tree. Be sure to unlock the high-level fire and ice spells; having a mixture of Inferno and Blizzard creates devastating conditions for any enemy who dares cross your path. Just make sure to pay attention to positioning if you play with friendly fire enabled; otherwise the elemental damage won't discriminate on the battlefield. For added damage, unlocking Chain Lightning helps with group settings, giving Morrigan an aggressively powerful build.
Blood Mage-Shapeshifter Hybrid
Often a result of tweaking for Nightmare difficulty, hybrid trees can create powerful combinations with incredible results. In Morrigan's case, her natural shapeshifting ability and the Blood Mage tree can give her a major advantage. Using the abilities in the Blood Mage tree destroys enemies but draws health as a resource instead. When she runs low, have Morrigan shift into a Flying Swarm. You must unlock the Master Shapeshifter ability to access this. When you do, she'll regain the health needed to unleash her blood magic once again.
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Dragon Age: Origins Builds
If you're an RPG fan and haven't been hiding under a rock in, you've most certainly heard, and probably even played, the best RPG game of 2009 (reader's choice) called Dragon Age: Origins.
If you haven't played it yet, drop whatever you're doing and get it. It ranks up there with the classics like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. Even if you've finished it once, there's no excuse not to play it again while waiting for Dragon Age 2 to come out, especially with all the awesome DLC out there, the Awakening expansion, and not to mention the MODs.
Enough about that, let's get to my top five Dragon Age builds!
Before Starting Dragon Age: A Few Notes
Before we begin, a few things to note:
- Besides your main class that you choose at start-up, you get to choose two specializations in the Origins Campaign and an additional one in the Awakening Expansion.
- Each main class has a total of six specializations you can choose from making. Also, each specialization gives you four extra skills you can learn.
- There are four specializations available in the original game for each class, and two more get added in the Awakening campaign.
- The game is relatively easy! That being said you can pretty much choose whatever you want and still eventually win, at least on normal difficulty.
The Top Five Dragon Age Builds
Below, you'll find my top five Dragon Age builds, listed in no particular order.
1. Mage / Arcane Warrior / Blood Mage / Battlemage
This is the cookie cutter, end-it-all build for the power gamer out there. You can:
- Equip any armor, sword, or shield
- Deal huge melee damage and take very little
- Use any spell in the game—though not as often as a real mage without draining your HP.
Blood mage spells are overpowered and Battlemage spells are overpowered—it is boring! Also you can't really hold aggro either, which can lead to some really nice wipes especially when fighting against those nasty High Dragons.
Your physical resistance, being a mage, will be also be quite low unless you turn on a special constant mana draining ability. So expect to get knocked down pretty often by regular enemies.
2. Mage / Arcane Warrior / Spirit Healer / Battlemage
- This is the same as above except for the blood mage part, meaning that you will cast less spells, and do less damage with magic as the other build.
- What you gain however is another character that can heal or revive fallen comrades, so if you don't like living on the edge, this is the 'safer' over-powered build.
- Sword and shield or two-handed is the way to go.
3. Warrior / Campion / Berseker / Spirit Warrior
This is a two-handed weapon build, centered around wearing heavy armor and dealing lots of damage.
- You won't be such a great tank since you have only a few tools to hold aggro, except your high damage. But it sure is fun!
- You can buff your allies and yourself, and Spirit Warrior turns all your melee damage into spirit damage, which makes damage numbers over 100 a frequent sight.
- You also have great AOE capability, enough even to be able to skip having a mage.
4. Rogue / Bard / Ranger / Legionnaire Scout
This is the ranged support build.
- You only really need the first spell from the bard specialization since that is the best, and feel free to go into the ranger tree as deep as you want.
- Obviously rogue will focus mostly on archery skills and the Legionnaire Scout offers some nice survival tricks and a hefty bonus to hit points and stamina.
- Support means splitting stats between dexterity and cunning for that very useful disable trap and open locks skill.
- Great damage comes later on at the price of stamina when you're using skills that automatically score a critical hit. There's even some AOE capability and disables in there.
5. Rogue / Assassin / Duelist / Shadow
Mortal kombat xl pc. This is the melee DPS backstab build.
- All your stat points need to go into dexterity and talents will focus mainly on the dual wield, as well as the specialization talents you have.
- Be sure to learn to use poisons effectively and you will be a DPS powerhouse that's also hard to hit.
- There's also some micromanagement needed for all that backstab action, but that only makes it even more fun!
While Mage AW/whatever it's definetly the best class in DAO. I wouldn't said the same for DAOA, yes you are unkillable, but you lack the damge of a Warrior or Rouge.
You can get 100% evasion with anyclass making the AW high survavility useless, archers are ridiculoisly OP in awekening and Spirit Warrior is simple awesome.
It's hard to say who is the best in Awekening, the 3 classes are equally OP, but if I hace to choose one, I will go for Warrior (DW or archer) because Spirit Warrior.
When I played this game I was able to get it for free on the Playstation through the free monthly game deals with Playstation Plus. I didn't have any DLC at all, and no mods (Obviously), so any builds I made were limited to content in the base game. This is the one I had the most success with.
Mage/Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage
While in the base game Arcane Warrior grants regeneration to Mana instead of Health, making these abilities essentialy useless, their stacks towards armor, resistances, and the chance to avoid attacks completely helps greatly with keeping you alive when you have to sling spells around at the expense of your health. The ability to channel the magic and spellpower stats into your physical damage and strength attribute allows you to pile on more armor and use melee weapons with heaps of damage thanks to weapon buffs like flaming weapons and ice weapons, and the blood mages ability to steal health from allies helps with sustainability and extra juice for spellcasting. I then used the Juggernaut armor (for epic aesthetics and tons of resistance bonuses), Howe's Shield (due to the extra resistances in addition to the only real downside being a loss of willpower, which a blood mage doesn't really rely on anyway), and Spellweaver (because of its bonuses to mage based attributes.)
Main Spells:
-All Weapon Augmentation Spells
-Heroic Defense
-Heroic Offense
-All Blood Magic Spells
-All Arcane Warrior Spells
Altogether the build works as a mage tank, able to absorb continuous damage with almost no affect, allowing for plenty of health to shoot off spells with blood magic and add extra damage to everyone's weapons (including your own) with fire and ice weapon spells.
I made a tank build
Worrior/champion/berserker/spirit worrior:
50 points to strength then put the rest on constitution
Use the Two handed skill tree
Equip the biggest armor and health regeneration accessories
With this build you would swear to God that your immortal
You don't seem to know very much about this game and how overpowered one can get. With the way song of courage (far superior to song of valor) and and other rogue buffs stack, a party of 3 rogue archers and one warrior archer can kill every boss in Awakening in under 15 seconds .. on Nightmare difficulty! You don't even need tanks or healers that way
THIS is your top 5? just awfull, not even a spirit warrior archer.. stacking dex in a backstab rogue? pure fail
I played arcane warrior year ago.It was unbeatable.Maybe because it was bugged by the special ?armor of blood dragon? or something like that,what i got with the game :PP
- I was fully enchanted,could cast one low mana spell per battle,but have a nice dmg and armor about 100!! with full resistances.
whatever inneedofcoffee
the game seems to be a bit easy once u learn a few basic building tips.but as always bioware delivers on a great story line.
P.S .. by easy i mean i can solo any boss or group in the game on hard difficult setting
I'de just escaped from the tower and met the witch in the forest when my computer broke. Still waiting for it to get back to me..
Anyways, I played a mage, but I found it a bit difficult. I'm not used to playing from the back. Thinking of trying a warrior once my computer gets back.
It's a very good game so I'm told, My nephew plays it all the time and fills me in on the details.
He's a wiz at this kind of stuff..Need to check it out myself.
Alternative Prime
This sounds like a very good game. I've heard LOTS of good things about it. I'll have to buy it one of these days. :)
Thanks for the useful hub! :D