Dragon Age Origins class question/poll

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#1 Essian
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Hey guys, so I am going to be starting a new DA playthrough, since I just got the expansion, and I am trying to figure out what class to play. Right now, the choice is between 3 types of characters, including Arcane Warrior. My question is, is Arcane Warrior a viable DPS class, or is it mostly a tanking spec for caster characters?

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#2 Flame_Blade88
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Never used the Arcane Warrior. But I was most comfortable with the Warrior cIass the first time through, but honestly the Rogue was my favorite to play.
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#3 burnroasted
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I played through as a rogue and it was fun to play as. Is the game actually fun to play through a second time?

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#4 GabranthXIII
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Warrior with 2 hander is a beast, tho mage is imba.

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#5 -Hoax-
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My first playthough I was a rogue, but I'm having much much more fun with the Mage, I've made him into an Arcane Warrior its fun watching my Mage wear the best armour in the game and chop Darkspawn up with a 2h sword.
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#6 greensthooligan
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warrior i find is better. morrigan and wynne are both great mages and i thought liliana was a great long range rogue.

my party was. my warrior=dps

alister=tank

wynne=healer

liliana=archer

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#7 yokofox33
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I had the most success as a Warrior, but I do enjoy playing as a Rogue. I just like being able to open chests and doors at any time. It leads to good items and free exp. I also like repeatedly stabbing someone in the back as a rogue.

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#8 Essian
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all good answers... honestly this is all good stuff, since it leads me to want to play through the game multiple times to play as both as Arcane Warrior mage and a rogue stabbing people in the back
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#9 Sokol4ever
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Tank Warrior my personal favorite, especially as a dwarf race. Add Oghren as berserk to that companion list and the adventure becomes nothing short of hilarious with a lot of humor. :)

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#10 Essian
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Tank Warrior my personal favorite, especially as a dwarf race. Add Oghren as berserk to that companion list and the adventure becomes nothing short of hilarious with a lot of humor. :)

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yeah, tank was my favorite, and I am contemplating doing another tank run... but I kinda wanna branch out and try some new things. I have decided that Arcane Warrior (as melee) is not really a prime DPS spec... either that, or I will just find it absurdly boring. So right now it is between a 2H DPS warrior and a duelist/ranger rogue. Not sure which one I want yet...
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#11 Delroc
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mage is the most versatile and different. warrior was fun as well being my first run through. rouge seemed boring at times and was my least favorite out of the 3, i would find myself playing as the other party members all the time. ironically my rouge is going to be my main/first Import into DA2. its insane that i have beat this game 3 times and still am planing one last run through AFTER i beat DA2 1 time.
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#12 Essian
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I actually am gonna end up making an assassin spec rogue as my next character... so I hope I find it more interesting.
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#13 deactivated-5ec2b2cb7a41e
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my second playthrough was with a female warrior dwarf as a tank and Sten And oghren and wynne as a healer. Yes 3 melee and a healer.. i played it on nightmare and occasionaly on hard especially in the beggining.. seriously now whoever says that 2 h sucks should have seen this.... we pawened everything.. indomitable FTW..... wynne was only healing i did not use any crowd control spells...

Oghren and Sten and me just wiped all the darkspawn battlefields ..

but my best character was with my dual dagger wielding rogue... i loved him!!!!! plus i "scored" morrigan!!!

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#14 Ospov
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I liked Mage the most. If you're an arcane warrior it's a lot of fun. Tons of AoE spells to take out a lot of enemies really quickly. The walking bomb spells are great fun and mana clash is awesome against enemy mages :D

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#15 Sepewrath
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My first playthrough was with a Mage and it was a blast, I had a team of three Mages and a tank and I dominated with it. My second playthrough was with a Rouge and that was great, dual wielding, with high dex so he rarely got hit and could use a bow to pick off enemies from range at times. His specialization was ranger and duelist, so he was really hard to hit lol and had an extra ally, my Rouge was great. Haven't tried a Warrior yet, and I intend to go back and use an Arcane Warrior Mage.