Just a tip! For the Crow/Shadow Dragon reputation, you can actually still raise it for the faction even if the main merchant for them is no longer available. Just head to the spirit market in the Crossroads and find a wisp merchant with the correct flag above their store and sell to them, they become available a bit later in the story and you can even buy gear you might have missed before the main merchant disappeared, I managed to get Shadow Dragons to 3 stars even though I no longer had their vendor available. You can't upgrade the merchant rank sadly, but you can still get 3 stars this way at least :)
This took me waaay too long to realize. I also learned that you can buy valuables from other vendors and sell them to one of the factions for reputation - helpful for upgrading the Crow/Shadow Dragon reputation that can be harder to increase through quests.
You can but you lose the appearances and decors for the factions if you dont upgrade so my suggestion is upgrade the destroyed faction to level 4 before you choose if you want those items. Xenon and that faction spirit only give mementos and non appearance armour and weapons.
I just hit 20 hours in this game and I feel like I barely scratched the surface. Tbf, I've been taking my time learning and exploring the game but man, for a non-open-world, they still managed to keep the scale feel pretty large.
Most open world games basically are just open field with some way point for quests. Though I love a big cities where you can explore freely. The animation is something that you need to get used to for a while. It’s a different DA games than inquisition and origin but still OK imo
Yeh the sense of space is really well done. Its an improvement over the older games. Im starting to realise i love games that have a central hub included as well. The crossroads and mirrors are really good.
That said the first 2 mission feels ridiculously linear... First bad impression counts... :( But I got over it, and the game keeps getting better and better! :D
Stuff I fund helpfull: just destroy all the stuff you can destroy. You get Money, stuff to sell and other things, also its funny to destroy stuff. Second think: Pet all the Cats and Dogs third think: remember always to pet and cuddle with Assan. Also you "Unlock" new interactions with him. (I think) And when you notice, 2 companions are close to each other in the lighthouse, go to them, most of the time you hear funny talks
6:05 this puzzle is actually achievable first time you visit the lighthouse there’s no need to gather any companions other than the ones you get from the prologue. The second step of bringing wisps to the room is attainable after you get Emmrich
Was there anything else that might need to be done? I did the puzzle first time at lighthouse, and I have caretaker now but don't see the wisps at all. :(
This was my 1st da game, 98 hours and platinum later i loved it. Had such a good time. Doing my rogue playthrough now and seeing what i can change this time around.
You absolutely DO NOT need all the companions to unlock the music room door. I did it the first time i visited the lighthouse courtyard, with just the starting 3.
@@bigwillistyl Incorrect you need a certain companion to access the secret area of the music room howwever it certainly possible to access the room before they are in your party
Very True, you can do the first part with the statues as soon as you get to the Lighthouse, the second part is after you recruit every companions and the last part is done any time after Act 1
Kind of funny to hear about getting the statue from the Inquisitor being the one starting the quest, when I in my first playthrough had at that time already fully cleared out the Crossroads and found every single one of the statues XD
@@MaxPower-v9zThis person specifically said losers are trolling your post, so if you don't classify your comment as a troll, why did you feel the need to reply? Because there is a difference between a valid criticism and someone trolling. So if you are saying that the trolls and the criticism are one and the same then that's your opinion. That's what you are saying. But this person specifically said Losers are trolling. If you're not a loser and you're not trolling, why do you care?
Loving this game! Thanks for the tips and especially the last one. I will prob just do all the side quests I can before A Warden's Best Friend because I'm paranoid lol.
The explorations great. Spent many an hour searching the Crossroads and Arlatthan forest. Got a kick ass uber special headpiece in AF too (and a boss that nearly kicked my ass)
Today I played 1 story missions to get the Assassin. But I ran around like you in those areas today for 5 hours. Had a blast. Love the companions quests to. They are cute and really got me to feel for my companions.
if you walk up to the gem locked doors you'll get the quests for the champions (Most of them aren't in the crossroads, so far only the first required one was for me.) so you can just walk up to them all and leave the crossroads be until you got a gem to go a new place. i hate being walled off from stuff too.
On the secret door at the light house, you can do the statues at the very beginning of the game, however the wisps do not show up until you have recruited all the companions.
12:00 if you pick any of the statues up in the crossroads (some are not hidden behind the doors) it'll also start the quest but you can't place them in the keep until you meet the inquisitor. I had three more to get by the time i met the inquisitor and two after.
Good tips video thanks! ya i dont get all the negativity about this game. so glad i just bought it and didnt listen to the negative reviews. also nice to play a new game that works properly with almost no glitches at launch.
@@DamnOldAlready Few hours into a playthrough I already came across a Dragon in a cut scene. Whether we fight that dragon or not is another story entirely, I'm still getting a feel for the gameplay and checking out the classes lol
The vendor you lose in the Minrathous/Treviso questline will show up again at The Crossroads during Act 2!! You have use that green spirit essence stuff as currency instead of gold but otherwise it works the same re gifts, gear and upgrades for companions and building faction points 😊😊
heavens i want this game so badly! haven't got it yet but appreciate a lot all this kind of videos since i normally do all the things one shouldn't do haha
Hope it’s helpful: Took me way to long to realize the caretaker can also enchant rooks abilities - it’s not in the equipped menu so I didn’t notice it till late game.
4:00 I would say upgrading items is a mistake in general, since upgrading them does not really make you super powerful, and if you find the item, it will uprgade automatically to max caretaker level, which simply means: Leave uprgading to the endgame - to level 9 or 10 once you have already maxed weapon rarity and there is no way to uprgade item level for free.
its a RPG, live with your choices I say. that's the best part. follow your gut or whatever, stick to your decisions and progress the story. then next play through, you try different choices!
Also keep in mind, if you don't choose the CORRECT city to save, then it will also lock you out of the best ending... which sucks. Seems the devs offer choices, but then it's clear they expect you to make a specific choice in order to get the best ending.
This isn’t true. I chose the ‘wrong’ city and I got the best ending. You just have to make sure all factions have at least 2 stars. Most of mine were at 3. All companions need to be hero’s of the veilguard.
I wasn't aware that there was a wrong city to choose, you can get both to 3 stars (by vendoring trash to them) before you even need to make the choice and afterwards at least for me, it didn't even knock me down a tier (I chose to save Treviso)
Yes in order to get the best of something you need to make choices according to that… How exactly do you think picking the worst choices and then getting the best ending is how it should be? Whats even the point of them then?
@@mouuuuuu9000 it seems that both are correct, but reputation with the one you didn't pick is harder to get after you pick. not impossible, just more difficult. on my second character I'm building up the rep with the city i'm not saving so that I don't have to do the long way which is elsewhere in the comments of this video.
The vendor you lose shows up as a wisp in the crossroads. So you can still sell items there for that faction rep and buy the items they would have sold.
8:10 actually you don't need those quests. If you unlock the companion then you can use their skill right away without having them in your party. For me it was strange because i was able to move rocks alone before I even know there was a quest for this with Harding
I don't know if you have beaten them now but for anyone else who is having trouble, even on hardest difficulty I would recommend bringing in Lucanis with his Abominate ability which permanently reduces target defenses by 15. One thing I disagree with the guide is that I don't use detonations at all, they have too long of a cooldown on companion skills to set up and don't do enough damage to justify it (for my mage on nightmare at least). What build are you going?
How do you get the black emporium? Im already about to start chapter 9 and im finishing up companion quest now and the caretaker still will got give it to me
I unlocked the music room but there are no wisps nor is there any of those spots to put the Wisps I wonder what the actual trigger for the Wisps are I assume it has something to do with neve but.
(⚠️: Story flow light spoiler? Just in case? 😆) Hi! Appearance of the music Room wisps is linked to companion recruitment, as far as I understand it. Go to Nevarra :) Opportunity to do so occurs after the cities event.
@@inalaara thank you so much I did notice a wisp fly away after I unlocked one of the champion barriers after I posted this so I'm wondering if there's multiple wisps for multiple upgrades to the lighthouse thank you for answering my question without spoilers it is appreciated. At first I thought maybe I had a glitched game ♡
@@amandaritzau2602 Correction (again, story flow spoiler? Kinda? 😆 No details though, just allusions to the trigger): Wisps from the music Room appear after you recruit both final team members. Just the one isn't enough, you need a cutscene first. Just did it again and just one recruit bore no wisp appearance to my attempt.
Having completed the game, I don't believe that you can buy the items from the lost vendor from the Black Emporium if they were locked when you lost the merchant. Not even leveling the faction from the Crossroads merchant fixed this for me. I lost the Crow merchant and was never able to buy the Scourge rune throughout my playthrough which requires a level 2 merchant level. I'm trying a new playthrough and am going to try leveling the merchant I lose before the big decision and see if the Black Emporium inventory changes.
1. Buy the game. 2. Installing the game. 3. Starting the game. 4. Creating a character. 5. Naming a character. 6. Entering the game. 7. Playing the game. 8. Continuing the game. 9. Not shutting the game off. 10. Not uninstalling.
Trolls are so insecure of their sexuality that they are so allergic on Options that they can ignore. The biggest mistake is they don't ignore it and they cannot move on.😂
@@SomeRandomDudeAF Bg3 not gonna compete with that. It is obviously top notch. Else like Dragon'sDogma2 that doesn't have iconic story to remember than its original DD1 too. also men wear bikini armors cuz it has better stats. Haha
@@stevenwoodward5923 No. Like you could like the game or not but no one give a flying f*ck outside of three websites. It does not influence community IRL or whatever. Also what community ? From where ? It such a weird thing to say.
I mean, @@SomeRandomDudeAF, we got Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age, two of the biggest RPGs of the past few years. The conservatives got us the Cosby Show and NFTs.
I wish I watched this before I started I got blindsided!! After a wardens best friend are yoy locked out of the side quests in those cities if you hadn't completed them?? I was trying to get Emmerich as fast as possible I didn't realise I would be faced with a choice like that!
Cause we love the DA series, and finally got the next part. But it's just an empty game, with nothing from previous parts at all. Boring dialogs, boring quests, boring companions. I feel myself frustrated cause I was really waiting for this game. And I don't give a shit about LGBT content if the game is good in total. But Veilguard isn't good at all
Strange, because the game reminds me a LOT of DA:I. The combat is very similar to how I played, I never used the tactical menus, I just fought every battle as a hack & slash like I play DA-VG now. The dialogue can be a bit cheesy, but it's modeled after how people used to treat each other in the past... where they were actually friendly and courteous... not hateful and rude like today. So it's kind of nice actually having everyone being nice... compared to what we have to deal with IRL.
DAMMIT!!! I wish I would have seen this video before going to that level that you talked about where you lose the vendor. I was really hoping that they would come back LOL. Crap!
So I completed the lighthouse statue puzzle immediately when I first got there. It opened up the door and the room but there are no wisps/receptacles there. I’m now over 10 hours in and this hasn’t changed. Is there another trigger that needs to happen?
Another tip is do not rely on autosave when you're in the Crossroads. Autosave works so well that I just relied on it when doing the main quest. But it is not nearly as reliable within the Crossroads. I lost progress a couple of times because of not having recent saves within the Crossroads. Also I noticed you had the Harding quest Unfinished Business in your video. I lost a couple of hours of playtime on that quest because I couldn't figure out how to finish it. I searched for solution on the internet and RUclips but did not find out. Finally I had to revert to a save before I entered the area.
Finding it so hilarious that all the mean comments on this video (and many other videos) are all just basically the one joke. Sounds about right that they're just parroting each other with no intelligent thought haha
Hate campaign fueled by youtube clickbait mafia, and these people don't even realize they are being milked for ad revenue while they happily type hate away. You'd think if they cared about videogames as much as they pretend to do they would be playing some and not just hate shitting on others enjoyment. Sad losers.
The chests are NOTRNG. The same items drop every time from each chest. If you get a weapon, you will always get a weapon appropriate for your class. Same with armor. So, unless there is a patch after the posting of this comment, if there's an item you want, it will be in the exact same box you got it from the 1st time. The unique gear isn't the best gear, this is false. Some are perfect for some builds, however many of them don't give enough benefit for the nerf you get for equipping. All subjective to the kind of build you're going for but it's misleading to say the unique gear is the best. Next, every faction can be maxed well before the end of the game. There are more mementos than required. There are actually enough so that you don't have to buy a single one from the vendors if you don't want to & you'll still max out the caretaker power. momentos at the shops are only required if you want to complete the codex &/or level up caretaker faster.
If your final build doesnt have at least 1 unique item, you're doing something wrong. I be the game on custom difficulty with everything turned all the way up and it would not have been possible without the last resort ring.
Settings - gameplay. You'll find the difficulty settings there. You can just turn it down or open up the advanced settings and change it how you like 👍
Aren't loot chests determined? As opposed to procedural. Won't help you on your first run though. And I heard the chests are different on each class. Meaning it will only help you when you replay that class later.
I don't think they are determined. Some at the ends of levels might be, but I died after opening one and came back to find something else. I might have just gotten it confused, though.
@@SunniestAutumn You're confused, chests are definitely not random. The gear slot and faction association is always the same; the item itself changes based on what class you are playing.
@AlliedGhost it just sucks bc I chose neve for obvious reasons but I'm using a necrotic build lol. Since gear is randomly upgraded in this game (huge mistake from bioware) i wish there was a way to farm certain pieces of gear
I am 76 hours into this game and just getting to the companion quests. I went to start the last quest, and I have about 4 companion quests and 25 side quests that I haven’t done, I was told to finishing at least the companion quests first. By the game itself 😂
at 41 hours I have a 100% save. All gears, shrines, boxes and full upgrades. Best ending and secret ending. I played as a MAGE. And let me tell you the game combat wise and speedwise is MASSIVELY biased towards mages. You can be 100 yards from fights, there is countless pieces of gear that both raises whichever element you choose as a focus and your basic light attack and charged light attack. I dont remember using the heavy attack even ONCE in my playthrough. I tried out both of the other classes and they are SO SLOW. I even made sure to look up builds for them to focus heavily on MASS dps and they still were WAY too slow. I hope for people in the future they get balanced because right now there is no reason to play as another character. There is no endgame, or chapter cleanup no new game plus and thats unfortunate. Ive already made sure I backed up my save and ive already uninstalled it. It was fun for a little while until I saw how much better that mage was then i stopped having fun sadly
Finally Im understood what abilities are detonates with each other. It would has to be some kind of tutorial in the game, this mechanics are not obvious
I felt this. They sounded really interesting but most just had too many negatives or absolutely atrocious stats to even consider them. I think I maybe used two across the entire game? And the only one I really remember is a helm for my warrior that made my abilities cooldown based instead of resource based... which was just more of a change than a compromise haha
Lies you don't need your companions special abilities to interact with certain areas as that would require planning an effort , if you come across elements in the world that would require a certain party member and they are not in your team just use your dagger ... easy barely an inconvenience
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Just a tip! For the Crow/Shadow Dragon reputation, you can actually still raise it for the faction even if the main merchant for them is no longer available. Just head to the spirit market in the Crossroads and find a wisp merchant with the correct flag above their store and sell to them, they become available a bit later in the story and you can even buy gear you might have missed before the main merchant disappeared, I managed to get Shadow Dragons to 3 stars even though I no longer had their vendor available. You can't upgrade the merchant rank sadly, but you can still get 3 stars this way at least :)
The spirit market was an amazing surprise to me. I came back in to the crossroads to use a gem and there was this WHOLE GHOSTY TOWN!
@@Avrysatos Agreed! It was really nice to see
This took me waaay too long to realize. I also learned that you can buy valuables from other vendors and sell them to one of the factions for reputation - helpful for upgrading the Crow/Shadow Dragon reputation that can be harder to increase through quests.
Oh man thanks for this
You can but you lose the appearances and decors for the factions if you dont upgrade so my suggestion is upgrade the destroyed faction to level 4 before you choose if you want those items. Xenon and that faction spirit only give mementos and non appearance armour and weapons.
Thank you for not just trashing the game and actually giving it a chance. Signed, a humble DA fan 😂
I just hit 20 hours in this game and I feel like I barely scratched the surface. Tbf, I've been taking my time learning and exploring the game but man, for a non-open-world, they still managed to keep the scale feel pretty large.
Most open world games basically are just open field with some way point for quests. Though I love a big cities where you can explore freely.
The animation is something that you need to get used to for a while. It’s a different DA games than inquisition and origin but still OK imo
Yeah, it was a learning curve but im enjoying it alot. @@yohanes2034
Sounds great.
Yeh the sense of space is really well done. Its an improvement over the older games. Im starting to realise i love games that have a central hub included as well. The crossroads and mirrors are really good.
That said the first 2 mission feels ridiculously linear... First bad impression counts... :(
But I got over it, and the game keeps getting better and better! :D
Stuff I fund helpfull:
just destroy all the stuff you can destroy. You get Money, stuff to sell and other things, also its funny to destroy stuff.
Second think: Pet all the Cats and Dogs
third think: remember always to pet and cuddle with Assan. Also you "Unlock" new interactions with him. (I think)
And when you notice, 2 companions are close to each other in the lighthouse, go to them, most of the time you hear funny talks
I did actually unlock a new interaction with assan so this is true.
6:05 this puzzle is actually achievable first time you visit the lighthouse there’s no need to gather any companions other than the ones you get from the prologue.
The second step of bringing wisps to the room is attainable after you get Emmrich
Was there anything else that might need to be done? I did the puzzle first time at lighthouse, and I have caretaker now but don't see the wisps at all. :(
@ perhaps something I triggered with neve’s quests, bc she has wisps around her room. That’s the only thing I could think of.
@@chrisperry4014 seems to be once you have Emmrich! 🥳
@ ah, yes! That makes sense as they are spirits after all 😁
@@chrisperry4014 thank you for the tip! I spent much too much time yesterday trying to figure this thing out 😂
This was my 1st da game, 98 hours and platinum later i loved it. Had such a good time. Doing my rogue playthrough now and seeing what i can change this time around.
You absolutely DO NOT need all the companions to unlock the music room door. I did it the first time i visited the lighthouse courtyard, with just the starting 3.
Same here. ☺️
Yeah but you can’t utilize the room until you get certain companions
@@bigwillistyl Incorrect you need a certain companion to access the secret area of the music room howwever it certainly possible to access the room before they are in your party
@bigwillistyl you can do everything within the music room as long as you have 1 specific companion..
Very True, you can do the first part with the statues as soon as you get to the Lighthouse, the second part is after you recruit every companions and the last part is done any time after Act 1
Thanks bruh, having a blast playing this game!!
yeah, white girls and black girls. the modern audience. all 70k of them.
Kind of funny to hear about getting the statue from the Inquisitor being the one starting the quest, when I in my first playthrough had at that time already fully cleared out the Crossroads and found every single one of the statues XD
Thanks for the great tips! Sorry so many losers have nothing better to do than troll your posts.
ah yes.. anybody that has an opposing and accurate viewpoint from you is wrong. i forgot that.
You don't need to shove your viewpoint in every video though and mass downvote anyone who covers the game. That is called harassment and is not okay.
@@MaxPower-v9zThis person specifically said losers are trolling your post, so if you don't classify your comment as a troll, why did you feel the need to reply?
Because there is a difference between a valid criticism and someone trolling. So if you are saying that the trolls and the criticism are one and the same then that's your opinion. That's what you are saying. But this person specifically said Losers are trolling.
If you're not a loser and you're not trolling, why do you care?
@@Grimjr7 get offline troll, you're drunk
@@MaxPower-v9z "opposing and accurate" the irony of writing this went right over your head, huh?
Loving this game! Thanks for the tips and especially the last one. I will prob just do all the side quests I can before A Warden's Best Friend because I'm paranoid lol.
The explorations great. Spent many an hour searching the Crossroads and Arlatthan forest.
Got a kick ass uber special headpiece in AF too (and a boss that nearly kicked my ass)
Today I played 1 story missions to get the Assassin. But I ran around like you in those areas today for 5 hours. Had a blast. Love the companions quests to. They are cute and really got me to feel for my companions.
For the city that doesn’t get saved you can’t find a vendor in the crossroads to trade with that will increase that factions strength
I am having a blast but the Crossroads are definitely not my cup of tea. I hate locked doors and puzzles so much and I am constantly lost. 😂
if you walk up to the gem locked doors you'll get the quests for the champions (Most of them aren't in the crossroads, so far only the first required one was for me.) so you can just walk up to them all and leave the crossroads be until you got a gem to go a new place. i hate being walled off from stuff too.
On the secret door at the light house, you can do the statues at the very beginning of the game, however the wisps do not show up until you have recruited all the companions.
I play on hardest difficulty and those damn champions are quite hard. But it is fun that skills matter in how you fight and move. Love that.
12:00 if you pick any of the statues up in the crossroads (some are not hidden behind the doors) it'll also start the quest but you can't place them in the keep until you meet the inquisitor. I had three more to get by the time i met the inquisitor and two after.
Great video. I’m almost done with my first playthrough and I benefitted a lot from seeing this
Good tips video thanks! ya i dont get all the negativity about this game. so glad i just bought it and didnt listen to the negative reviews. also nice to play a new game that works properly with almost no glitches at launch.
the negativity comes from racists and sexists using a beloved ip to push their agenda onto people. These devs are toxic.
I genuinely like this game quite abit. Dont understand why there are sooooo many haters about it
Because it's called Dragon Age. There is no DA in it.
@@DamnOldAlready Few hours into a playthrough I already came across a Dragon in a cut scene. Whether we fight that dragon or not is another story entirely, I'm still getting a feel for the gameplay and checking out the classes lol
@@violabeaumont3758 Did you play the other games?
@@DamnOldAlready Multiple times over yes
@@violabeaumont3758 Then I hope you'll not become as disappointed as I am.
The vendor is actually in the crossroads where all the spirits are, if you were wondering. It doesn’t fully disappear.
The vendor you lose in the Minrathous/Treviso questline will show up again at The Crossroads during Act 2!! You have use that green spirit essence stuff as currency instead of gold but otherwise it works the same re gifts, gear and upgrades for companions and building faction points 😊😊
heavens i want this game so badly! haven't got it yet but appreciate a lot all this kind of videos since i normally do all the things one shouldn't do haha
Hope it’s helpful: Took me way to long to realize the caretaker can also enchant rooks abilities - it’s not in the equipped menu so I didn’t notice it till late game.
4:00 I would say upgrading items is a mistake in general, since upgrading them does not really make you super powerful, and if you find the item, it will uprgade automatically to max caretaker level, which simply means: Leave uprgading to the endgame - to level 9 or 10 once you have already maxed weapon rarity and there is no way to uprgade item level for free.
its a RPG, live with your choices I say. that's the best part. follow your gut or whatever, stick to your decisions and progress the story. then next play through, you try different choices!
These are great! Spending more time exploring the crossroads is a big one for me, it’s very easy to just ignore the place.
Also keep in mind, if you don't choose the CORRECT city to save, then it will also lock you out of the best ending... which sucks. Seems the devs offer choices, but then it's clear they expect you to make a specific choice in order to get the best ending.
This isn’t true. I chose the ‘wrong’ city and I got the best ending. You just have to make sure all factions have at least 2 stars. Most of mine were at 3. All companions need to be hero’s of the veilguard.
I wasn't aware that there was a wrong city to choose, you can get both to 3 stars (by vendoring trash to them) before you even need to make the choice and afterwards at least for me, it didn't even knock me down a tier (I chose to save Treviso)
Yes in order to get the best of something you need to make choices according to that…
How exactly do you think picking the worst choices and then getting the best ending is how it should be? Whats even the point of them then?
so which one is the correct city minrathous or treviso?
@@mouuuuuu9000 it seems that both are correct, but reputation with the one you didn't pick is harder to get after you pick. not impossible, just more difficult. on my second character I'm building up the rep with the city i'm not saving so that I don't have to do the long way which is elsewhere in the comments of this video.
I have been FT every where ! Thanks for the xroads tip , heading there now !
very helpful, ty!
Thanks! I was a bit overwhelmed but this helps a lot
The vendor had tons of items still locked when i selected the other city. How do you max a vendor this early in the game? 🤔
same question here..
The vendor you lose shows up as a wisp in the crossroads. So you can still sell items there for that faction rep and buy the items they would have sold.
8:10 actually you don't need those quests. If you unlock the companion then you can use their skill right away without having them in your party.
For me it was strange because i was able to move rocks alone before I even know there was a quest for this with Harding
After “A Warden’s Best Friend” the faction merchant who dies, their merchant spirit can be found in the crossroads market
😂😂 ive done so many things wrong, but ive had a great time so far lol. Ah well next time i suppose. Thank you for the video
Spent 20 minutes fighting a dragon 15 lvls above me, solid gaming experience 😊
The mini bosses in the crossroads have too much HP ! A way to make it easier ?
I don't know if you have beaten them now but for anyone else who is having trouble, even on hardest difficulty I would recommend bringing in Lucanis with his Abominate ability which permanently reduces target defenses by 15.
One thing I disagree with the guide is that I don't use detonations at all, they have too long of a cooldown on companion skills to set up and don't do enough damage to justify it (for my mage on nightmare at least).
What build are you going?
Great vid tks
Some good can come from this game as other game developers in the future can look at it and see what NOT to do.
Luckily I’d grabbed the companion gift before they were hardened just prior to watching this video. Avoided that oops! Great video!
For lvling up the gear they will all be the same lvl if you just get them at base form and then get the rarity up especially if you farm recourses
Sounds like the guy that did the skillup review. Probably the same person. They're the same person
Whose you're favourite companion so far?
Harding
Weirdly enough the Disney princess Bellara is much more enjoyable than I expected. Thought she would be my least favorite but the opposite happened.
Taash: she don't take nobody's bullshit
Harding and Emmerich have been a great combo for my warrior
Lucanis
How do you get the black emporium? Im already about to start chapter 9 and im finishing up companion quest now and the caretaker still will got give it to me
I unlocked the music room but there are no wisps nor is there any of those spots to put the Wisps I wonder what the actual trigger for the Wisps are I assume it has something to do with neve but.
(⚠️: Story flow light spoiler? Just in case? 😆)
Hi!
Appearance of the music Room wisps is linked to companion recruitment, as far as I understand it. Go to Nevarra :)
Opportunity to do so occurs after the cities event.
@@inalaara thank you so much I did notice a wisp fly away after I unlocked one of the champion barriers after I posted this so I'm wondering if there's multiple wisps for multiple upgrades to the lighthouse thank you for answering my question without spoilers it is appreciated. At first I thought maybe I had a glitched game ♡
@@amandaritzau2602
Correction (again, story flow spoiler? Kinda? 😆 No details though, just allusions to the trigger):
Wisps from the music Room appear after you recruit both final team members. Just the one isn't enough, you need a cutscene first.
Just did it again and just one recruit bore no wisp appearance to my attempt.
Having completed the game, I don't believe that you can buy the items from the lost vendor from the Black Emporium if they were locked when you lost the merchant. Not even leveling the faction from the Crossroads merchant fixed this for me. I lost the Crow merchant and was never able to buy the Scourge rune throughout my playthrough which requires a level 2 merchant level. I'm trying a new playthrough and am going to try leveling the merchant I lose before the big decision and see if the Black Emporium inventory changes.
*Talks about not skipping crossroads* proceeds to show Necropolis ghosts
useful, thanks
Is it possible to get the city you're going to sacrifice to 2 stars before the choice
had 2 stars with in this moment with both citys
Thanks! Im enjoying the game so much
1. Buy the game.
2. Installing the game.
3. Starting the game.
4. Creating a character.
5. Naming a character.
6. Entering the game.
7. Playing the game.
8. Continuing the game.
9. Not shutting the game off.
10. Not uninstalling.
Thanks !
Trolls are so insecure of their sexuality that they are so allergic on Options that they can ignore. The biggest mistake is they don't ignore it and they cannot move on.😂
I have a female friend who is a gamer and also part of the LGBTQIA+ community and said, this game sets the community backwards.
@@SomeRandomDudeAF Bg3 not gonna compete with that. It is obviously top notch. Else like Dragon'sDogma2 that doesn't have iconic story to remember than its original DD1 too. also men wear bikini armors cuz it has better stats. Haha
@@stevenwoodward5923not my problem. Im okay with those options up and it doesn't affect my being.
@@stevenwoodward5923 No. Like you could like the game or not but no one give a flying f*ck outside of three websites. It does not influence community IRL or whatever. Also what community ? From where ? It such a weird thing to say.
I mean, @@SomeRandomDudeAF, we got Baldur's Gate 3 and Dragon Age, two of the biggest RPGs of the past few years. The conservatives got us the Cosby Show and NFTs.
At the end of the day, what you do in this game doesn't matter. Solas ends up in the fade no matter what and all your choices don't mean shit 🤷♀️
I wish I watched this before I started I got blindsided!! After a wardens best friend are yoy locked out of the side quests in those cities if you hadn't completed them?? I was trying to get Emmerich as fast as possible I didn't realise I would be faced with a choice like that!
i dont get these people who leave all these mean comments if you dont like the game why are you clicking on videos about it? it makes no sense
Cause we love the DA series, and finally got the next part. But it's just an empty game, with nothing from previous parts at all. Boring dialogs, boring quests, boring companions. I feel myself frustrated cause I was really waiting for this game. And I don't give a shit about LGBT content if the game is good in total. But Veilguard isn't good at all
To warn people about how unfaithfull this game is to the DA franchise
Because they need justification for thier opinions by other haters
@@aytucto you probably don't love DA if you're talking shit about it online instead of playing it.
Strange, because the game reminds me a LOT of DA:I. The combat is very similar to how I played, I never used the tactical menus, I just fought every battle as a hack & slash like I play DA-VG now. The dialogue can be a bit cheesy, but it's modeled after how people used to treat each other in the past... where they were actually friendly and courteous... not hateful and rude like today. So it's kind of nice actually having everyone being nice... compared to what we have to deal with IRL.
Don't buy gear from vendors until Caretaker is maxed out first
Thanks! One of my favorite RUclipsr's :)
when wolves mix with dogs, they get huge, weird genetic quirk, pure wolves aremuch smaller than their mixed pups
I let Treviso fall, and the Black emporium showed up in Dock town..
Why isnt the workshop discount work for me? i did the puzzle but no wisp thing is showing neither the activation spot for it?
They only showed up for me after I had all of the companions. The second wisp won't show up until you place the one that spawns in the music room.
@@SonicAlpha ohh i see alr
12:46 A sudden realization lol
Are the uniques leveling with you? Because gou cant upgrade them right?
Uniques start at Maximum as soon as you get them.
Thanks for the video!
DAMMIT!!! I wish I would have seen this video before going to that level that you talked about where you lose the vendor. I was really hoping that they would come back LOL. Crap!
Thanks for the tips!
I opened the secret room at the lighthouse but there's no wisps or even pillars there to activate the second door ?
I did as well. I think we are just gonna have to wait it out till we get everyone at the lighthouse
Same for me, but I think it's like Baba said. We need all the companions to be at the Lighthouse.
@@Savathos Not all, just the necromancer ^^
My biggest mistake was playing the game and not just watching someone play it on twitch. It wasnt for me
Okay so what about if you dont care about gear?
So I completed the lighthouse statue puzzle immediately when I first got there. It opened up the door and the room but there are no wisps/receptacles there. I’m now over 10 hours in and this hasn’t changed. Is there another trigger that needs to happen?
They showed up at chapter 8 for me, after recruiting all companions.
You need to have Emmrich recruited
Another tip is do not rely on autosave when you're in the Crossroads. Autosave works so well that I just relied on it when doing the main quest. But it is not nearly as reliable within the Crossroads. I lost progress a couple of times because of not having recent saves within the Crossroads. Also I noticed you had the Harding quest Unfinished Business in your video. I lost a couple of hours of playtime on that quest because I couldn't figure out how to finish it. I searched for solution on the internet and RUclips but did not find out. Finally I had to revert to a save before I entered the area.
Finding it so hilarious that all the mean comments on this video (and many other videos) are all just basically the one joke. Sounds about right that they're just parroting each other with no intelligent thought haha
Hate campaign fueled by youtube clickbait mafia, and these people don't even realize they are being milked for ad revenue while they happily type hate away. You'd think if they cared about videogames as much as they pretend to do they would be playing some and not just hate shitting on others enjoyment. Sad losers.
9:01 whats the mistake? That there are two variations??? Hows that a mistake
The chests are NOTRNG. The same items drop every time from each chest. If you get a weapon, you will always get a weapon appropriate for your class. Same with armor. So, unless there is a patch after the posting of this comment, if there's an item you want, it will be in the exact same box you got it from the 1st time. The unique gear isn't the best gear, this is false. Some are perfect for some builds, however many of them don't give enough benefit for the nerf you get for equipping. All subjective to the kind of build you're going for but it's misleading to say the unique gear is the best.
Next, every faction can be maxed well before the end of the game. There are more mementos than required. There are actually enough so that you don't have to buy a single one from the vendors if you don't want to & you'll still max out the caretaker power. momentos at the shops are only required if you want to complete the codex &/or level up caretaker faster.
Sooooo is nobody going to talk about the unique chest/statue bug?
I gotta be honest. this game is brain dead easy. Everything can be maxed out with out trying. good lord....
40 hours in and just got my full team together, there is alot to this game and it gets better the more I play.
Your first tip should be how the fk do I get the game to run. It’s my second day playing and I keep getting a Load Error.
If your final build doesnt have at least 1 unique item, you're doing something wrong. I be the game on custom difficulty with everything turned all the way up and it would not have been possible without the last resort ring.
Thank you, Sincerely. Question: How can I make this easy? Do I custom the game play? I’m a VeilJumper.
Settings - gameplay. You'll find the difficulty settings there. You can just turn it down or open up the advanced settings and change it how you like 👍
@ Thank you for the kind find back. Hardly any RUclips channel are like this. I’m going to subscribe.
Aren't loot chests determined? As opposed to procedural.
Won't help you on your first run though.
And I heard the chests are different on each class. Meaning it will only help you when you replay that class later.
I don't think they are determined. Some at the ends of levels might be, but I died after opening one and came back to find something else.
I might have just gotten it confused, though.
@@SunniestAutumn You're confused, chests are definitely not random. The gear slot and faction association is always the same; the item itself changes based on what class you are playing.
The only mistake that needs avoided is playing the game in the first place.
Thank you man.
Don’t choose nightmare as difficulty setting
Probably a dumb question
But do you think performance mode is better or quality?
I beat Manfred at rock paper scissor
For the first big decisions. Is there a way to get that certain merchant back later on ? Kind of sad it doesn't tell you anything about losing it.
No :/ although its possible the city merchants may have some of the gear.
@AlliedGhost it just sucks bc I chose neve for obvious reasons but I'm using a necrotic build lol. Since gear is randomly upgraded in this game (huge mistake from bioware) i wish there was a way to farm certain pieces of gear
@@tokamnich4709 Well, the Mourn Watch faction has a lot of necro gear and they are not impacted by this decision.
You don't need all the companions to get into the music room, I did it the moment I got to the lighthouse
Major mistake #1 to avoid: Buying the game!
I know others have made that joke, but it was too good to resist for a millionth time
Stop letting people tell you how to live your life.
I am 76 hours into this game and just getting to the companion quests. I went to start the last quest, and I have about 4 companion quests and 25 side quests that I haven’t done, I was told to finishing at least the companion quests first. By the game itself 😂
at 41 hours I have a 100% save. All gears, shrines, boxes and full upgrades. Best ending and secret ending. I played as a MAGE. And let me tell you the game combat wise and speedwise is MASSIVELY biased towards mages. You can be 100 yards from fights, there is countless pieces of gear that both raises whichever element you choose as a focus and your basic light attack and charged light attack. I dont remember using the heavy attack even ONCE in my playthrough. I tried out both of the other classes and they are SO SLOW. I even made sure to look up builds for them to focus heavily on MASS dps and they still were WAY too slow. I hope for people in the future they get balanced because right now there is no reason to play as another character. There is no endgame, or chapter cleanup no new game plus and thats unfortunate. Ive already made sure I backed up my save and ive already uninstalled it. It was fun for a little while until I saw how much better that mage was then i stopped having fun sadly
1 buying the game
Finally Im understood what abilities are detonates with each other. It would has to be some kind of tutorial in the game, this mechanics are not obvious
"I just can't seem to beat him!" being said as you're literally beating him is just great
i beat the first times itired and safter that ididnt
i beat manfred on the first try
Man i am NOT feelin the uniques. At this point their all more negative than positive with a niche trait. i hope they get better.
I felt this. They sounded really interesting but most just had too many negatives or absolutely atrocious stats to even consider them.
I think I maybe used two across the entire game? And the only one I really remember is a helm for my warrior that made my abilities cooldown based instead of resource based... which was just more of a change than a compromise haha
Spoilers?)
Lies you don't need your companions special abilities to interact with certain areas as that would require planning an effort , if you come across elements in the world that would require a certain party member and they are not in your team just use your dagger ... easy barely an inconvenience
You need to unlock those companions skills before you can use them with the dagger