

You don't see these areas in the main game and the DLC doesn't make you revisit the same cave seven times over, for example. If you can get past these rather ham-fisted introductions to the DLCs, it gets better.įirst, both utilize entirely new areas. The Crows are there because.I don't know. The contact was going to meet you about an invitation to a party. In MotA, Crow assassins show up to kill Hawke and company when they go to meet with one of Varric's contacts and Tallis just happens to be there. The attacks happen before the DLC starts and you arrive at their "base" to find a way to stop them. In Legacy, you are being attacked by the Carta (dwarven mobsters basically), but no one knows why and Varric's Carta contacts have no explanation. Now I'll go over the specifics to explain what I mean.īoth DLC have really lame intros, I must admit. The game could have been SO much better, if the DLC is any indication. They angered me because they were, in my opinion, better than the main game and showed that BioWare could put together something far more competent and coherent than what they released as a $60 game. I'm of two minds when it comes to the DLC: I actually enjoyed them far more than the main game but they also angered me. Since I started a new character to test out the DLC and a S&B build, I wanted to get it done sooner rather than later, too. Assuming your sibling is alive, you can take them along on the DLCs regardless of where you are in the story, but I felt Act I worked best. I hate Anders and having to take him along, so that's why I did this in Act I so I could take Bethany instead. In hindsight, should have had an entirely ranged party, but I'll get to that later. I dropped Varric for Tallis in MotA and respecced her to his role, since they were both ranged rogues. I took Varric (concealer, CC), Isabela (aggro re-director), and Bethany (healer, elemental damager) through Legacy. My Hawke was a sword and board vanguard / reaver / berserker.

That way, I had the best possible gear, stats, and equipment for the DLC without moving on to Act II. I played through the DLC during Act I of the main game, after I had completed all other quests before the deep roads expedition. With all that in mind, I bought and played them both. I do find the DA lore interesting and enjoyable to a degree and I knew that Legacy especially was lore-heavy. This was not the case for Origins or the Mass Effect games, but I didn't see those sorts of claims for their DLC at least, not in the numbers I saw for DA2. What I heard that intrigued me though was that some claimed that the DLCs were better than the original game. I mostly knew what to expect from a story standpoint. I had heard the spoilers and read reviews.
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I didn't buy the weapon packs or the (suspiciously in the game code already) character, but rather the two separate campaigns (Legacy & Mark of the Assassin). I've been somewhat desperate for new RPGs to play and gave into temptation: I bought the DA2 DLCs.
