+Darkawk ikr o_o. when I figured out that I can switch to blackwall and run into the middle and just taunt everything i stopped using cassandra. I was use to using the old sword and shield aveline I guess.
I also recommend getting "Clean Burn" in the fire tree: Each spell cast reduces cooldowns by one second. Since you're spamming Spirit Blade the Cooldown on barrier, Fade Cloak and anything else you might have is getting reduced quickly.
Downside to this is that if you go down the Spirit tree and the KE tree as far as is needed, then you're going to be pretty high level before you get to the point you can get Clean Burn. I agree with the theory, but it's just not plausable without sacrifices that you shouldn't be taking.
I just beat my first dragon today and it was so satisfying. My character is a KE as well but I also fought with the objective of keeping my entire party alive. I brought Cassandra, Iron Bull, and Solas. I spent quite a bit of my time in the Tactics view commanding everyone specifically. I'm not even playing on Hard or Nightmare, but I'm not that good and this is my first Dragon Age game. First time I saw the Ferelden Frostback I ran towards it with the mindset of the Dovahkiin, needless to say I got face rolled. One hell of a welcome to the series, but in already hooked. I'm about to spend my entire winter break on this game and there will be no regrets. But my main point is, I don't see the fun in playing a broken character, but whatever, people can play the game however they want as long as it's not affecting anyone else (i.e. Multiplayer).
First dragon age game? I highly recommend hitting rewind and playing from the beginning of the series as you miss the entire story up to DA: Inquisition. That's like watching Return of the Jedi and saying you've seen Star Wars.
I share your feeling, I've never felt bad killing a dragon in a game, in Skyrim for instance, I didn't give an f, but in DAI, it was painful even with the great loot.
This tutorial/ build really helped, I dont usually take Vivienne in my group, but the build works just as well for my main mage. Thank you so much for putting this up.
Ferelun You don't even need a tank in this game even on nightmare, spec'd right. Necromancer/Knight enchanter can basically become immortal and obliterate every enemy type in the game. Walking bomb is completely broken, because you can exploit it with the fade touched walking bomb material + spirit barrage + flash point allowing Dorian to basically spam detonations. Giving him a walking bomb ring just makes the AoE damage insane.
I LOVE VIVIENNE omggggggg she's one of the best companions in the whole game and she's one of my fav companions in any bioware game ever. when she talks to your party members and argues with them im literally laughing out loud omg she's so funny I love her and she's so cocky and full of herself lol but I love that about her! and she should be!! she's amazing omg
Alex Malik I know right i love her ! especially when she insults my furniture and steals my sense of wonder and insults my other companions ! i love her !!!!
Haha i love bringing her and Sera along just for their "conversations". Theyre just complete polar opposites, it makes for some great banter. The time where Sera farted made me laugh pretty freakin hard
I solo dragons with dual wielding rogues. All you have to do is stay under it and the most she can do is swat you with her foot. Her flames/ice don't do a thing because it doesn't even come close to you. If you have the guard/hidden blades/fortress enhancents, you probably won't even have to use a potion.
I've been trying to kill dragons for sooo long and didnt suceed. Thanks to you and your video, and to Vivienne of course, I finally killed 3 different dragons, in only 5 min each, thank you very much mate
Stumbled upon the fade shield + barrier + spirit blade combination last night fighting the storm coast dragon and it surprised the hell out of me to see how effective it was. My entire party died on me except for Vivienne and she seriously pulled through with essentially .01 percent of life left and an infinite barrier. I have the terrible habit of never paying attention to skill trees and such, and this was a bit of a wake up call lol. Thanks for the vid ign, I tried explaining this to a mate of mine today, whos playing aswell and I honestly couldn't explain exactly what happened. Pretty much ended up being, "yeah bro - she wouldnt fucking die! Barriers bro, barriers!" Cheers!
I tried taking this same dragon last night with a normal build/group. Going to give this a shot. My Inq is also a Knight Enchanter so i might try it with her for a bit
So this is basically just praising the Knight Enchanter specialization, not Vivienne herself. Well, at least I know her specialization now, that means I can go on playing as a Necromancer and still have access to Knight Enchanter.
but you can also become a knight enchanter and let dorian do the necromancing for you? dorian AI takes advantage of his specialization....vivviene really doesnt. also: Dorian>Vivien
Allen the Fallen Too bad that necromancer got the short stick in this game. Simulacrum is bugged (it's not supposed to be using mana, but it is), spirits just do their own thing and no loot or death flag is triggered until the spirit dies too, all that remains are a few good debuffs. Rift Mage was much more enjoyable imo.
Isn't praising the knight Enchanter specialization the same as praising Vivienne since that is her USP and none of the other characters can do what she does and vice versa?
Stasis field is actually a really good one to have for her build-up because it's a spell that forms around Vivienne, with her at the center. So since all her other specialization spells really are for up close and personal BIG enemies (like dragons as this video mentions), if you're overwhelmed by a number of forces, using Stasis Field is a good way to slow enemies down enought o either run away, or deal with the biggest threat first. It doesn't really have a use outside of this tactic because enemies bigger than her stasis field are immune. BUT if you're surrounded by a bunch of red-templar knights? A pretty nifty trick to pull.
IGN The term for "magical tank" is 'battlemage'. Also, the 'e' in riposte is silent. ri·poste rəˈpōst/ noun 1. a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism. synonyms: retort, counter, rejoinder, sally, return, answer, reply, response; informal comeback "an indignant riposte" 2. FENCING a quick return thrust following a parry. verb verb: riposte; 3rd person present: ripostes; past tense: riposted; past participle: riposted; gerund or present participle: riposting 1. make a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism. "“I'd have made lamb chops had I known you're a vegetarian,” Kris riposted" synonyms: retort, counter, rejoin, return, retaliate, hurl back, answer, reply, respond, come back "“Heaven help you,” riposted Alicia" 2. make a quick return thrust in fencing.
Funny thing is, one of the ending passives for Champion spec makes you gain guard for every successful attack you land. I haven't lost health against anything since about level 15, and I'm level 26 or so now.
i'm over 20 hours in and I just now sealed the rift in the cathedral. I'm trying to bolster my forces and shit before I get too far in so I can hopefully be ready for anything!
omg getting to the skyhold is supposed to be the first 10 hours of the game is like the third main story mission, you have a long long long way to go like a 80+ hours to go.
I've gotten skyhold now, I need to start following the storylines lol the recommended level for the storyline quest i'm on now is 8-12 and i'm level 14. :P
You should always get fade step... it's a great move to close distances to enemies that jump around a lot or when you need to close the gap between a ranged enemy. All that time you spent running toward the dragon could've been avoided. On tougher difficulties the amount of time spent closing the distance on enemies could mean life or death.
I think it's after one completes the star puzzles (sorry not played it in a while) and you get a staff that is like a lightening sword from it. I'll try to find it again.
My mage is a knight enchanter I use a lot of fire and Lightning skills with my Spirit blade as well as Frost step to gain distance or close it and just destroy everything from up close or a distance.. I use Iron bull as Sheer DPS with maybe one guard skill and I keep Blackwall as my Tank and he's near invincable. my third is usually either a a defensively built mage or a rouge like Cole or Sera
throw fade touched silverite (the guard+5 one) with some silverite Superior Battlemaster Armor (or if you don't have the short list perk the sturdy version) on your knight enchanter they would be beast.
So nice to know that the Arcane Warrior-like prestige Class is somehow even more overpowered than AWs were in Origins. I guess we'll be calling this one Dragon Mage: Inquisition.
This is a few week old post, I realize, but all you need is the KE tree (not including the last skill or the spirit blade upgrade), fire down to fire mine, and barrier if you like. The rest is optional, and even fire mine is optional but pretty awesome. Skip all the other spirit stuff.
I had a build like this on my Inquisitor but I had an armor piece with a fade-touched mineral that, with each attack, I have a 10% chance to activate "Walking Fortress" for 5 seconds which makes me ignore all damage for 5 seconds.
After 200 hours and counting, with three dragons defeated, and only one campaign mission remaining, I played with, and barely ever switched from, my two-handed Dwarven Tank Warrior. Only recently have I been informed of Vivienne's Knight-Enchanter Qualities. This will make a fun, creative end to my Inquisition play-through on Hard.
They didn't mention that fade cloak also allows you to instantly recover from knockdown and status effects. It's like a mini dispel that only affects the caster, which is handy. You can also make the build even more ridiculously unkillable by mastercrafting a set of robes with fade touched silverite, giving you +5 guard every time you hit something. Still not as much fun as the Arcane Warrior though.
I usually make this my inquisitor's build, and I tank with it. There's also an amulet for mages that lets them keep aggro, and suddenly I can walk around without a warrior in the team.
Hey IGN, there's a spec I used with my mage Knight-Enchanter. Do the Enchanter tree just like you did, and give guardian spirit and the barrier in spirit tree as well. Instead of doing full spirit tree though, I went to fire and if you look about halfway down the tree, you'll see a passive that gives your fire spells (all spells maybe?) a huge boost in damage depending on how much barrier you have on you. At one point, I remember 3 shotting a giant at level 24 with Immolate in the emerald graves. Its a pretty effective spec I like to do if I dont need more survivability, though if you do this, Id advise your setup here with vivienne or yourself (if your a knight enchanter mage) Its like a glass cannon sometimes... (not really if you have the guard and health on hit fade touched items lul)
I run my Inquisitor as a KE with a similar build to this. I took Winters Stillness rather than Winters Grasp, so I gain mana when I feel like using my range with my staff, and I dont feel I need to freeze anything. I love KE because I can tank or cast so the people I run with dont matter, I switch groups often. A bit of a down side is that I feel I need to keep everyone geared up, but Im fine with that.
I took it a step further and added gard per hit on a staff on my character (night enchanter) and even if they made through my barrier still had to make it through gard.
She's extremely OP I've been using a form of this build for a while now and she's been destroying dragons. Of course I'm only level 21 at this point so my fights haven't been too serious.
I recommend using a rogue, and when presented with the option to specialize, become a tempest. I believe sera is one as well, and the focus based ability is a number of blade attacks that do 300% weapon damage per. Once you get the inquisition perk for 300% focus amount, you will do 55 of these attacks. Really easy way to drain a dragon of half or more of it's health in 10 seconds.
my best setup-inquisitor: unlock half of the spirit skills and unlock all lighting magic, they are really effective-sere: use her as an archer unlock all her skills for the bow and some of the toxic potions-blackwall: (this guy is an absolute beast) with all the one handed sword skills unclocked (the attacking shield is lethal) and unlock some taunting skills ( get him a 30 dps shield, darkspwan shield is the one I use, ensure it has fir damage guard and his gear can have lighting guard) equip him with a 180 dps 120-30 damage sword with a corruption or dragon slaying rune OMG!!!-the rest is optional but I used dorian with all winter spells unlocked.. but I trust Vivienne with blackwall could be unstoppable
+Mr TriickZ I never really saw a point in giving Blackwall points in the 1h tree. If you just max out the tanking tree and champion specialty he pretty much never dies, and very, very rarely loses threat if you set his abilities right. The 1h tree doesn't really offer much for the amount of points it takes. The damage seems negligible compared to how much tankier you can make him, and he doesn't have an issue with keeping threat without it.
My Inquisitor has a similar build... though I also went down the Winter tree. Running takes too long. Dragon fly-hops away, Fade Step into it's face and recommence smacking it with your Spirit Blade.
He should ditch Fade Cloak. He doesn't need it with all that barrier. What he should have is Fade Step to help him close in on the target so that the slow running speeds don't cost him his barrier.
Even more sick, make your inquisitor a knight-enchanter too, two indestructible mages. I do the fire tree. Massive damage keeps barrier at 100%, the choatic focus ability overcharges spells by depleting barrier which of course is immediately refreshed. Ya, I solo dragons.
I started a new playthrough, inquisiter, and vivienne as aes with this build it pretty unfair. I started jaws a hakkon with the duo at level 11, only died once. lol
it is not just Vivienne who is op actually she isnt at all. it is the knight-enchanter class that is op. choose it for a mage character and get the perks shown here and you will be as strong as what they show in this video.
Hell, at a point you get good enough gear (armor/guard generation per hit, health per kill/hit etc) you don't even need health potions or Vivienne. Rock out dual weild, with The Iron Bull/Cassandra, Sera/Varric, and Dorian/Solas you're good. And if you get Deft Hands, you don't need another rogue, grab another warrior for DPS or mage for barriers.
Well If you want to make a Knight Enchanter really strong. Grab a Fire staff, Take Barrage and step into the fire tree. Gives more options for ranged sustained damage. The passive which consumes barrier really doesnt hamper survivability. Immolate -> Barrage -> Frost step is a fun opener especially if you try to tank (Skipping treath reduction). If you crit with immolate you can also get 2x Barrages off for mega damage. Any dragon is soloable as knight enchanter, especially if you match a vurnability with barrage (so you can build barrier at range when required). This is fully possible using either the Inquisitor or Vivienne. Kinda regret i did my first playtrought as a knight enchanter inquisitor. But felt kinda heroic taking on the last mission solo, just for the heroic parts.
As for my spec. Masterworks: 3x Mortalisari Staffs one of each element (since the schematic is rare it can be subbed by first enchanter staffs). The Masterwork of choice whould be Hidden Blades x5, kinda hard to get but is farmable in hiddenwastes. Adds more dmg then alternatives especially when matching bosses weaknesses(the dmg is based on staff element). Alternatively you can try critical crafting on staffs and instead add hidden blades on robe. As for robes i made different ones. I have a hard time deciding on a masterwork who fits. Tried poison, walking bomb etc. But pull of the abyss works nice for AoE stacking (its not reliable). IF your fine with just making one robe id recommend put hidden Blades and different ones on staffs. Shieldbash is a decent alternative, 10% chance for extra raw dmg with huge bonus to armored works really well with barrage. Core skills: (16 points) Knight Enchanter: Spirit Blade - Defending Blade(Optional never found much use for it) Combat Clarity - Fade Shield - Knight Protector (Remaining skills and passives are optional) Spirit: Barrier - Elegant Defence (Optional, Since you can manage without casting your own barriers but decent as a fail safe) Rest of the spirit tree is optional, the mana regen and extra defencive options synergizes well with KE. Storm: Energy Barrage + Energy Bombardment Conductive Current (Since you shreds alot of your mana in burst its a decent dmg increase). Winter: Fade Step + Frost Step (Its mostly for mobility, but extra damage / barrier / dodge can be very usefull). Inferno: Immolate + Wildfire or Flashfire + Blistering Pain (if you really want a fear). Flashpoint - Pyromancer - Cleanburn - Chaotic Focus Once the core is complete id recommend abilities which focus on mana control / barrier control. Most likely filling up spirit tree, dispel and lifeward is really nice. Fade step is great for higher difficulties.
Disruption field completely stuns enemies, not just a slow, not sure what they're talking about. That ability is great, especially for stopping a big enemy from hitting you, or prevent mages from teleporting.
Knight enchanter is awesome but if you want to tear through everything you learn that and fire mine it really changes the game you do like 1 to 5000 each time it goes off then hack at it with the spirit sword
Actually i crafted for her a staff what its a MAGIC SWORD !! like a lightsaber its called "sword of Tidarion" it do melee attack only so it works exactly as a warrior sword, with around 200 points of melee damage. plus i crafted it to build guard when it hit an enemy and put on her armor a seal for extra guard so i turned Vivienne ON A WARRIOR WITH MAGIC SPELLS AND GUARD, i think no one noticed she its a knight enchanter and can easly turn on a magic warrior, and with her spiritual damage she turns on a amazing warrior of melee
dude you have to test out this builds 4 mages: 2 healers 2 attackers it epic the healers constently give you berriars and if you commend everyone to stay in place its looks like an amzinge cinamatic (i know i have bad grammer)
it's much more rewarding when you defeat the dragons with actual strategy. of course I'm not trying to knock down anyone who's using vivienne's amazing abilities.
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Vivienne's literally black Maleficent.
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING, LMAO
@@venus1844 With a reverse snow-white loyality mission lol. I see what u did Bioware.
I remember making her a killing machine. I could not figure out how to make her godless. She stayed religious no matter what I did.
For real, that's the only reason I even watched the video.
Lmao
She can literally take down an entire rift when everyone is Ko... I get bored when this happens.
SHE IS A GODDESS
blackwall is immortal though
+Darkawk ikr o_o. when I figured out that I can switch to blackwall and run into the middle and just taunt everything i stopped using cassandra. I was use to using the old sword and shield aveline I guess.
no you just aren't doing it right
+MrDcofjapan iron bull sera and Dorian/vivienne
blackwall,ironbull,and sera for me works just fine
blackwall literally never dies because of his armor
At first I didn't like the game then I became quickly addicted haha
I also recommend getting "Clean Burn" in the fire tree: Each spell cast reduces cooldowns by one second. Since you're spamming Spirit Blade the Cooldown on barrier, Fade Cloak and anything else you might have is getting reduced quickly.
Downside to this is that if you go down the Spirit tree and the KE tree as far as is needed, then you're going to be pretty high level before you get to the point you can get Clean Burn. I agree with the theory, but it's just not plausable without sacrifices that you shouldn't be taking.
Rukifellth The Shadow
KE: 4 (Blade, Mana Regen, Barrier, Cloak)
Spirit: 4 (Barrier, GS, MB, SoS)
Fire: 2 (Immolate, Clean Burn)
Total Level: 10
Cassandra can solo dragons also. Shield wall is a beast. Literally zero fucks are given.
I just beat my first dragon today and it was so satisfying. My character is a KE as well but I also fought with the objective of keeping my entire party alive. I brought Cassandra, Iron Bull, and Solas. I spent quite a bit of my time in the Tactics view commanding everyone specifically. I'm not even playing on Hard or Nightmare, but I'm not that good and this is my first Dragon Age game. First time I saw the Ferelden Frostback I ran towards it with the mindset of the Dovahkiin, needless to say I got face rolled. One hell of a welcome to the series, but in already hooked. I'm about to spend my entire winter break on this game and there will be no regrets. But my main point is, I don't see the fun in playing a broken character, but whatever, people can play the game however they want as long as it's not affecting anyone else (i.e. Multiplayer).
Lol @ the Skyrim reference
First dragon age game? I highly recommend hitting rewind and playing from the beginning of the series as you miss the entire story up to DA: Inquisition. That's like watching Return of the Jedi and saying you've seen Star Wars.
Chris Atkins actually you can skip da2 that game was shit. if you need the story on 2 you can just wiki it. its not even worth playing through 2
I liked DA 2.
Chris Atkins So did I, its worth a play for the story
I kinda wished that I didn't have to kill the dragons/ they were not just hostile killing machines. They're kinda cute =)
+Kat McGee I felt terrible finding the hinterlands dragon to kill it.... until it almost killed everyone, then I felt proud
+Kat McGee and some were realy cool loking
I know right. I wish we can just leave dragons alone.
I share your feeling, I've never felt bad killing a dragon in a game, in Skyrim for instance, I didn't give an f, but in DAI, it was painful even with the great loot.
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This tutorial/ build really helped, I dont usually take Vivienne in my group, but the build works just as well for my main mage. Thank you so much for putting this up.
I always need black wall and viviviene on my team each time I play through it. Vivviene as a healer, Blackwall as a tank.
+Ferelun
My go to is Dorian- healer, Cassandra- one-handed tank, and Iron Bull- two-handed tank
Ferelun You don't even need a tank in this game even on nightmare, spec'd right. Necromancer/Knight enchanter can basically become immortal and obliterate every enemy type in the game. Walking bomb is completely broken, because you can exploit it with the fade touched walking bomb material + spirit barrage + flash point allowing Dorian to basically spam detonations. Giving him a walking bomb ring just makes the AoE damage insane.
Keeping this in mind for my Nightmare playthrough! Thanks!
I LOVE VIVIENNE omggggggg she's one of the best companions in the whole game and she's one of my fav companions in any bioware game ever. when she talks to your party members and argues with them im literally laughing out loud omg she's so funny I love her and she's so cocky and full of herself lol but I love that about her! and she should be!! she's amazing omg
Alex Malik I know right i love her ! especially when she insults my furniture and steals my sense of wonder and insults my other companions ! i love her !!!!
Agreed shes so saucy~
Haha i love bringing her and Sera along just for their "conversations". Theyre just complete polar opposites, it makes for some great banter. The time where Sera farted made me laugh pretty freakin hard
Alex Mattel Vivienne looks like a supermodel. Very high fashion.
ac521 Agreed
They actually patched this, making the blade attack consume more mana, and the barrier regenerates hardly at all on strikes.
Ya I noticed the quality of Knight-enchanter drop considerably after I picked up the game recently.
Thank you Maker for this! No seriously this video thank you, I never knew she held such power! No dragon can stop me now!
Does anyone else enjoy slowly killing a dragon with a guard tank like Cassandra?
Devon Core she never dies it's so strong xD
I solo dragons with dual wielding rogues. All you have to do is stay under it and the most she can do is swat you with her foot. Her flames/ice don't do a thing because it doesn't even come close to you. If you have the guard/hidden blades/fortress enhancents, you probably won't even have to use a potion.
Dark Souls and Dragon Age, two vastly different series but both hugely entertaining.
damn this is badass! thanks for the tip! i use dorian so much and dragon battles are always nail-biting close... THANKS!
Thank you for the info. Greatly appreciated!!!💪🏽😔
I've been trying to kill dragons for sooo long and didnt suceed. Thanks to you and your video, and to Vivienne of course, I finally killed 3 different dragons, in only 5 min each, thank you very much mate
HOLY CRAP! doing this tonight when I get home...
"Dragon Age: Inquisition - Make Vivienne a Godless Killing Machine"
- I think u mean to type "Goddess" rather than "Godless"
that would be fitting too
Love dragon age I can't wait until they come out with the new one.
Stumbled upon the fade shield + barrier + spirit blade combination last night fighting the storm coast dragon and it surprised the hell out of me to see how effective it was. My entire party died on me except for Vivienne and she seriously pulled through with essentially .01 percent of life left and an infinite barrier. I have the terrible habit of never paying attention to skill trees and such, and this was a bit of a wake up call lol. Thanks for the vid ign, I tried explaining this to a mate of mine today, whos playing aswell and I honestly couldn't explain exactly what happened. Pretty much ended up being, "yeah bro - she wouldnt fucking die! Barriers bro, barriers!" Cheers!
Works great. Took care of that achievement in no time.
I tried taking this same dragon last night with a normal build/group. Going to give this a shot. My Inq is also a Knight Enchanter so i might try it with her for a bit
Next play through I'm telling Vivienne to take a hike when she asks to join... lol.
I love her too. She is JUST GREAT!!
So this is basically just praising the Knight Enchanter specialization, not Vivienne herself. Well, at least I know her specialization now, that means I can go on playing as a Necromancer and still have access to Knight Enchanter.
but you can also become a knight enchanter and let dorian do the necromancing for you? dorian AI takes advantage of his specialization....vivviene really doesnt. also: Dorian>Vivien
Macder10 I just prefer being a Necromancer. Melee doesn't suit a mage and it's cooler to play with death.
Allen the Fallen Too bad that necromancer got the short stick in this game. Simulacrum is bugged (it's not supposed to be using mana, but it is), spirits just do their own thing and no loot or death flag is triggered until the spirit dies too, all that remains are a few good debuffs. Rift Mage was much more enjoyable imo.
Isn't praising the knight Enchanter specialization the same as praising Vivienne since that is her USP and none of the other characters can do what she does and vice versa?
***** Except the Inquisitor.
He literally just described the build I used for my Inquisitor, not that much of a secret
Stasis field is actually a really good one to have for her build-up because it's a spell that forms around Vivienne, with her at the center. So since all her other specialization spells really are for up close and personal BIG enemies (like dragons as this video mentions), if you're overwhelmed by a number of forces, using Stasis Field is a good way to slow enemies down enought o either run away, or deal with the biggest threat first. It doesn't really have a use outside of this tactic because enemies bigger than her stasis field are immune. BUT if you're surrounded by a bunch of red-templar knights? A pretty nifty trick to pull.
i normally watch videos with only 1 headphone in so i didn't realize there were multiple people talking
IGN The term for "magical tank" is 'battlemage'. Also, the 'e' in riposte is silent.
ri·poste
rəˈpōst/
noun
1.
a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism.
synonyms: retort, counter, rejoinder, sally, return, answer, reply, response; informal comeback
"an indignant riposte"
2.
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a quick return thrust following a parry.
verb
verb: riposte; 3rd person present: ripostes; past tense: riposted; past participle: riposted; gerund or present participle: riposting
1.
make a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism.
"“I'd have made lamb chops had I known you're a vegetarian,” Kris riposted"
synonyms: retort, counter, rejoin, return, retaliate, hurl back, answer, reply, respond, come back
"“Heaven help you,” riposted Alicia"
2.
make a quick return thrust in fencing.
Funny thing is, one of the ending passives for Champion spec makes you gain guard for every successful attack you land.
I haven't lost health against anything since about level 15, and I'm level 26 or so now.
i'm over 20 hours in and I just now sealed the rift in the cathedral. I'm trying to bolster my forces and shit before I get too far in so I can hopefully be ready for anything!
omg getting to the skyhold is supposed to be the first 10 hours of the game is like the third main story mission, you have a long long long way to go like a 80+ hours to go.
I'm pretty sure I fucked myself by taking vivienne and iron bull though. lol :P
I've gotten skyhold now, I need to start following the storylines lol the recommended level for the storyline quest i'm on now is 8-12 and i'm level 14. :P
This is very useful build for nightmare!!!
This is amazing
You should always get fade step... it's a great move to close distances to enemies that jump around a lot or when you need to close the gap between a ranged enemy. All that time you spent running toward the dragon could've been avoided. On tougher difficulties the amount of time spent closing the distance on enemies could mean life or death.
The disruption shield is soooo good because you can freeze the dragon to give you time to revive you party members
That poor dragon just didn't have a clue. Or a chance for that matter.
You can find a staff that gives any mage a sword in Crestwood (I think). It's pretty badass, lightening sword.
what ?! explain please! there is a sword for mages ? I'm so confused 😥
I think it's after one completes the star puzzles (sorry not played it in a while) and you get a staff that is like a lightening sword from it. I'll try to find it again.
+SexyBaconGod thanks man, I found it :)
I wish people knew how the volume controls worked so when viewers like me can hear what they are saying.
My mage is a knight enchanter I use a lot of fire and Lightning skills with my Spirit blade as well as Frost step to gain distance or close it and just destroy everything from up close or a distance.. I use Iron bull as Sheer DPS with maybe one guard skill and I keep Blackwall as my Tank and he's near invincable. my third is usually either a a defensively built mage or a rouge like Cole or Sera
throw fade touched silverite (the guard+5 one) with some silverite Superior Battlemaster Armor (or if you don't have the short list perk the sturdy version) on your knight enchanter they would be beast.
This video tickles my ears... ^^
i used the same build before i even watched and i recommend blackwall a lot if you need a really good tank
So nice to know that the Arcane Warrior-like prestige Class is somehow even more overpowered than AWs were in Origins. I guess we'll be calling this one Dragon Mage: Inquisition.
This is a few week old post, I realize, but all you need is the KE tree (not including the last skill or the spirit blade upgrade), fire down to fire mine, and barrier if you like. The rest is optional, and even fire mine is optional but pretty awesome. Skip all the other spirit stuff.
I had a build like this on my Inquisitor but I had an armor piece with a fade-touched mineral that, with each attack, I have a 10% chance to activate "Walking Fortress" for 5 seconds which makes me ignore all damage for 5 seconds.
After 200 hours and counting, with three dragons defeated, and only one campaign mission remaining, I played with, and barely ever switched from, my two-handed Dwarven Tank Warrior. Only recently have I been informed of Vivienne's Knight-Enchanter Qualities. This will make a fun, creative end to my Inquisition play-through on Hard.
They didn't mention that fade cloak also allows you to instantly recover from knockdown and status effects. It's like a mini dispel that only affects the caster, which is handy. You can also make the build even more ridiculously unkillable by mastercrafting a set of robes with fade touched silverite, giving you +5 guard every time you hit something. Still not as much fun as the Arcane Warrior though.
Great now my tree that I was going for is going to get nerfed
Wow this looks so fun...
I have my character and viviene set up this way. It's so fun
a killing machine who take same time to kill this dragon as me clean all the area and make a toast
qunari death mage with ice armor is a really fun build and quite difficult to die
Holy crap. Guess I gotta start a new character now
I usually make this my inquisitor's build, and I tank with it. There's also an amulet for mages that lets them keep aggro, and suddenly I can walk around without a warrior in the team.
Hey IGN, there's a spec I used with my mage Knight-Enchanter. Do the Enchanter tree just like you did, and give guardian spirit and the barrier in spirit tree as well.
Instead of doing full spirit tree though, I went to fire and if you look about halfway down the tree, you'll see a passive that gives your fire spells (all spells maybe?) a huge boost in damage depending on how much barrier you have on you.
At one point, I remember 3 shotting a giant at level 24 with Immolate in the emerald graves. Its a pretty effective spec I like to do if I dont need more survivability, though if you do this, Id advise your setup here with vivienne or yourself (if your a knight enchanter mage) Its like a glass cannon sometimes... (not really if you have the guard and health on hit fade touched items lul)
The most pretty woman in DA:I and one of the best characters.
The good ol' days back before Spirit Blade had to build up charge
I run my Inquisitor as a KE with a similar build to this. I took Winters Stillness rather than Winters Grasp, so I gain mana when I feel like using my range with my staff, and I dont feel I need to freeze anything. I love KE because I can tank or cast so the people I run with dont matter, I switch groups often. A bit of a down side is that I feel I need to keep everyone geared up, but Im fine with that.
I took it a step further and added gard per hit on a staff on my character (night enchanter) and even if they made through my barrier still had to make it through gard.
Wow this is great
Knife in the Shadows + stealth + leaping shot = fun times against dragons.
This is almost the exact build on my Inquisitor
She's extremely OP I've been using a form of this build for a while now and she's been destroying dragons. Of course I'm only level 21 at this point so my fights haven't been too serious.
I recommend using a rogue, and when presented with the option to specialize, become a tempest. I believe sera is one as well, and the focus based ability is a number of blade attacks that do 300% weapon damage per. Once you get the inquisition perk for 300% focus amount, you will do 55 of these attacks. Really easy way to drain a dragon of half or more of it's health in 10 seconds.
found my new setup for Vivienne and myself
my best setup-inquisitor: unlock half of the spirit skills and unlock all lighting magic, they are really effective-sere: use her as an archer unlock all her skills for the bow and some of the toxic potions-blackwall: (this guy is an absolute beast) with all the one handed sword skills unclocked (the attacking shield is lethal) and unlock some taunting skills ( get him a 30 dps shield, darkspwan shield is the one I use, ensure it has fir damage guard and his gear can have lighting guard) equip him with a 180 dps 120-30 damage sword with a corruption or dragon slaying rune OMG!!!-the rest is optional but I used dorian with all winter spells unlocked.. but I trust Vivienne with blackwall could be unstoppable
+Mr TriickZ I never really saw a point in giving Blackwall points in the 1h tree. If you just max out the tanking tree and champion specialty he pretty much never dies, and very, very rarely loses threat if you set his abilities right. The 1h tree doesn't really offer much for the amount of points it takes. The damage seems negligible compared to how much tankier you can make him, and he doesn't have an issue with keeping threat without it.
My Inquisitor has a similar build... though I also went down the Winter tree. Running takes too long. Dragon fly-hops away, Fade Step into it's face and recommence smacking it with your Spirit Blade.
He should ditch Fade Cloak. He doesn't need it with all that barrier. What he should have is Fade Step to help him close in on the target so that the slow running speeds don't cost him his barrier.
love Dragon age duel wield rogue builds
Probably just gonna try build my mage like this if its possible not super far through yet Loving the game though
Even more sick, make your inquisitor a knight-enchanter too, two indestructible mages. I do the fire tree. Massive damage keeps barrier at 100%, the choatic focus ability overcharges spells by depleting barrier which of course is immediately refreshed. Ya, I solo dragons.
Your ability to "expose" a broken mechanic that was discovered early on and not even use it right has been properly demonstrated
I started a new playthrough, inquisiter, and vivienne as aes with this build it pretty unfair. I started jaws a hakkon with the duo at level 11, only died once. lol
Used Vivienne like this on 2nd playthrough with my char being warrior champion. I was basically pointing and laughing at everything that attacked us.
tried the build love it was able to kill lv 23 dragon on lv 19 yay!
Definitely keeping Viv on my team after seeing that
it is not just Vivienne who is op actually she isnt at all. it is the knight-enchanter class that is op. choose it for a mage character and get the perks shown here and you will be as strong as what they show in this video.
Damn, I wasn't aware .... Always went with NEcro, which is pretty hot, but aahhh
one of the hottest females in game :cant have a releatinship with her cant eveen have sex : legit
thats a nice build and all but you can also make varric basically solo a dragon with his specialization even on nightmare difficulty
Hell, at a point you get good enough gear (armor/guard generation per hit, health per kill/hit etc)
you don't even need health potions or Vivienne.
Rock out dual weild, with The Iron Bull/Cassandra, Sera/Varric, and Dorian/Solas you're good.
And if you get Deft Hands, you don't need another rogue, grab another warrior for DPS or mage for barriers.
when you leave auto play on and leads you here
Holly dragon balls I just tested this out and it really does work she is a beast I beat the dragon first try with her
I'm OK with my right earbud out.
Well If you want to make a Knight Enchanter really strong. Grab a Fire staff, Take Barrage and step into the fire tree. Gives more options for ranged sustained damage. The passive which consumes barrier really doesnt hamper survivability. Immolate -> Barrage -> Frost step is a fun opener especially if you try to tank (Skipping treath reduction). If you crit with immolate you can also get 2x Barrages off for mega damage.
Any dragon is soloable as knight enchanter, especially if you match a vurnability with barrage (so you can build barrier at range when required). This is fully possible using either the Inquisitor or Vivienne. Kinda regret i did my first playtrought as a knight enchanter inquisitor. But felt kinda heroic taking on the last mission solo, just for the heroic parts.
As for my spec.
Masterworks:
3x Mortalisari Staffs one of each element (since the schematic is rare it can be subbed by first enchanter staffs). The Masterwork of choice whould be Hidden Blades x5, kinda hard to get but is farmable in hiddenwastes. Adds more dmg then alternatives especially when matching bosses weaknesses(the dmg is based on staff element). Alternatively you can try critical crafting on staffs and instead add hidden blades on robe.
As for robes i made different ones. I have a hard time deciding on a masterwork who fits. Tried poison, walking bomb etc. But pull of the abyss works nice for AoE stacking (its not reliable). IF your fine with just making one robe id recommend put hidden Blades and different ones on staffs. Shieldbash is a decent alternative, 10% chance for extra raw dmg with huge bonus to armored works really well with barrage.
Core skills: (16 points)
Knight Enchanter:
Spirit Blade - Defending Blade(Optional never found much use for it)
Combat Clarity - Fade Shield - Knight Protector (Remaining skills and passives are optional)
Spirit:
Barrier - Elegant Defence (Optional, Since you can manage without casting your own barriers but decent as a fail safe)
Rest of the spirit tree is optional, the mana regen and extra defencive options synergizes well with KE.
Storm:
Energy Barrage + Energy Bombardment
Conductive Current (Since you shreds alot of your mana in burst its a decent dmg increase).
Winter:
Fade Step + Frost Step (Its mostly for mobility, but extra damage / barrier / dodge can be very usefull).
Inferno:
Immolate + Wildfire or Flashfire + Blistering Pain (if you really want a fear).
Flashpoint - Pyromancer - Cleanburn - Chaotic Focus
Once the core is complete id recommend abilities which focus on mana control / barrier control. Most likely filling up spirit tree, dispel and lifeward is really nice. Fade step is great for higher difficulties.
Disruption field completely stuns enemies, not just a slow, not sure what they're talking about. That ability is great, especially for stopping a big enemy from hitting you, or prevent mages from teleporting.
Knight enchanter is awesome but if you want to tear through everything you learn that and fire mine it really changes the game you do like 1 to 5000 each time it goes off then hack at it with the spirit sword
Actually i crafted for her a staff what its a MAGIC SWORD !! like a lightsaber its called "sword of Tidarion" it do melee attack only so it works exactly as a warrior sword, with around 200 points of melee damage. plus i crafted it to build guard when it hit an enemy and put on her armor a seal for extra guard so i turned Vivienne ON A WARRIOR WITH MAGIC SPELLS AND GUARD, i think no one noticed she its a knight enchanter and can easly turn on a magic warrior, and with her spiritual damage she turns on a amazing warrior of melee
Where did you get that schematic? Explain in detail please!! Sounds awesome!
You need to complete a task in mission's table to take the schematic for this blade.
dude you have to test out this builds
4 mages: 2 healers 2 attackers it epic the healers constently give you berriars and if you commend everyone to stay in place its looks like an amzinge cinamatic (i know i have bad grammer)
Doing this on my inquisitor, I solo killed a dragon 2 levels higher than me. Insanely over powered
Vivienne strongly reminds me of Ikora.
it's much more rewarding when you defeat the dragons with actual strategy. of course I'm not trying to knock down anyone who's using vivienne's amazing abilities.
I figured this out 2nd day this game came out.
/golf clap
Like how he didn't mention how fade cloak does 1000% weapon damage if you appear back on top of an enemy.
On my game Vivienne doesn't have the specialization mentioned in this video even all my other companions do. Is it something I messed up?
she wont have her specialization until u reach skyhold.