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rook | they/them | 24 (likes and follows will be from rookfern) dragon age sideblog for some mischievous shit

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didn't think I'd be making so many Veilguard posts this early, but since I am, my spoiler tags are #dragon age veilguard spoilers and #dragon age the veilguard spoilers. Also gonna be tagging all my liveblogging posts as #rook liveblogs da4 if anyone wants to block that too

[bumblewarden]

The world is in great peril, and you are the unlucky protagonist who must save it! Spin this wheel three times and get your Dragon Age party that you're stuck trying to save it with.

Feel free to reroll repeats. Most are companions, but there are also a few companion-adjacent possibilities. You can assume that you as the protagonist have a basic level of combat competency even if you don't in real life, so don't worry about yourself

How does your party fare?

The world is in good hands

You'll do it, but you'll be arguing the whole time

The day is saved but at what cost?

Distracted from the main plot indefinitely

Tearing each other to pieces before the enemy gets a chance

It's so joever

Nuance/I'm bald

Voting ended onMar 18, 2025

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cringe is dead, the world is my oyster

made a Rook that's just... Kieran

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having now played a full game with each of the different classes, I think my ranking goes: mage → warrior → rogue

some thoughts on each

mage: my overall favorite, but specifically for orb/dagger since I've hardly done any combat with staff (and have not overcome the learning curve with the little I have done). It's fluid, it's flashy, and I can rock some bangin' damage. The only issue is that enemies constantly want to aggro you and you are but a squishy mage (if you prioritize light armor for that sweet ability damage)

warrior: I have a soft spot for the warrior class, and it was my favorite in DA:I. I didn't really touch much of the two-handed because I'm a sucker for sword-and-board. I loved the shield throw; the bouncing combo damage was woof. Definitely the easiest class to play, and the most forgiving. By the end of my run, specced into champion, I was taking negligible amounts of damage. A little too easy for my play style, but I'm a bit of a masochist who's not satisfied unless the combat is making my brain explode

rogue: bottom of my ranking only because A) you couldn't switch to the bow as a full weapon/it auto-prioritized the daggers, and B) early game combat as a rogue was a bitch. Rogue is definitely more fun late game. Were it not for those two points, it would probably be fighting with orb/dagger mage for top. The move sets are fun and flashy, and I could shred enemies apart with my necrotic damage at the end of the game. Really not enough CC/AOE skills early on, though, and if I got mobbed at that point, I was dead

[rosieofcorona]

hossberg wetlands i love you. your weird scary atmosphere and gothic look and haunted vibes from the real ghosts in the wells of your farmers and the rumored ghosts in your old-money mansions, your eternal darkness and choked sun and flora that cannot be killed in the face of the blight, your resilience hand-in-hand with your grief and all the life that insists on persisting!! i love you hossberg wetlands!!

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I can't decide what faction I want to do for my next playthrough... being tempted by Crows or Mournwatchers

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almost finished my second run of Veilguard (literally on the last mission), and I gotta say, while I enjoyed my Lords of Fortune run, playing as a Grey Warden is on another level in terms of tiny lore bites

[veilguardss]

idk if this is a thing people still do but i am desperately looking for more dragon age tumblrs to follow 👁️👄👁️ need 2 talk to people about their rooks Immediately

[maia-beans]

Weisshaupt mission was insane I still think about it ghghghhg

[fridgemeats]

doodle of Assan

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requesting that you look at my boy

[vivispec]

Hey seeing a lot of veilguard negative comments on my dash (its actually like my....whole dash atm) so I'm looking for new people to follow who are just as in love with the game as I am! Or at least who don't post a ton about disliking it. I don't mind some criticism, I have my own, but I feel like 75% of my dash is very critical and I'd very much like to bask in the game I'm enjoying so much, or at least even out that percentage. So please interact if you:

Actually like/don't mind Veilguard (bonus points if you love it)

Like/don't mind Solavellan

Like/don't mind elven lore

Love DA games in general and aren't posting Veilguard negativity

I do a decent amount of writing myself, and would love to support other fanfic writers as well. Like or reblog and I'll check you out ☺️

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my art book arrives today! I'm so excited

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I have a great desire to draw one (or both) of my Rooks but that means I have to actually draw

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I can be trusted with photo mode

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I wanted to make a comprehensive reference (both for myself for future use and for anyone else who might be interested) of the spellblade build I used for Sylh.

It focuses on maintaining a constant high buildup of stagger while still outputting decent damage with critical strikes.

I played it very fast-paced with a high offense, finger always on the dodge trigger. No parrying here.

(All of these screens are grabbed from the very endgame, so this is the gear I used to beat the end bosses with.)

Some of the skill points in my tree could be switched around for some branches, since some of the more reaching ones were there for far-off defensive abilities, but that also might threaten the actual survivability of the build.

Mage's Gambit remained my go-to orb as soon as I picked it up (and I believe I got it during the Cauldron quest). I would sub it out on occasion for a necrotic damage orb, but in the end it was my ride-or-die. (I also believe I had a +25% Stagger enchantment on it.)

And I am not going to lie, I only ever used my staff in battle to take pot-shots at dragons while I was running closer, or when I forgot to switch when entering a fight. I mostly used it to kill blight boils.

I always prioritized Ability Damage over Defense when it came to armor.

I also ended up having A Pale Reflection much earlier than I should have, since it is picked up during an optional endgame boss fight that I stumbled into at level 25. (However, I would also like it to be known that this build allowed me to beat that boss fight on my first try despite being 20 levels under the boss.)

The Amaranthine Loop at full ability unlock would greatly improve this build, I am sure; however, the game refused to give me many duplicates.

I tried swapping out different runes as I got them, but Pierce remained my go-to. It was great for breaking barrier and shield on tanky enemies, and good for eviscerating horde enemies with an area attack.

Most of my companions were structured around this build to be mostly support. My A-team was Davrin and Harding, and I would use Davrin's warcry ability and Harding's adrenaline rush ability as soon as they came off cooldown. (The upgraded warcry ability to trigger automatically at low health was a life saver many a time, as well as the perk in its tree to give it a ticking healing buff.)

When I could, Davrin was a party staple, but I would sometimes sub out Harding for Emmrich or Lucanis. Lucanis dealt good combination damage with his ability to detonate Overwhelmed, and Emmrich was my main damage dealer outside of myself (and also came with the benefit of additional healing abilities if Davrin was on cooldown).

For the most part, I could rely on having sufficient support from my companions so much so that I rarely needed to use my potions and would often come out of a fight unscathed.

The fundamental core of this build requires constant movement to sustain high damage and to not get hit since it is not very tanky, and performing a Takedown on an enemy as soon as it was staggered was a must.

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the only time Solas has been attractive to me was in big-ass wolf form