Drop hard saves often. There is no limit to the number of saves you can have. Also, F5 for quick-save is useful as well. This is to mitigate crashes as well as save progress in case you run into difficulty spikes.

I played this for the 1st time last year and it’s one of my favourite games now. I even read the DA books by the games writer which moved me onto the wheel of time books that definitely inspired this game. Good luck with your new channel, this video is great for new players

I was overwhelmed by the tactic system and have to micromanage the pt, but this video helped a lot, thank you. I subbed to watch the rest

This was a great intro for getting back into playing Dragon Age Origins! <3 This has been a favorite game of mine but it has been almost ten years since I last played it. Now I feel a bit more confident to get back to it

Good guide for one of the best games ever made.

I think all the crafting skills have usages just not for every character, you have plenty of companions who can cover herbaliism or poison making for you, your main hero can stick to combat training and coercion as the highest priority picks. You only need 1 of each crafter, I make Sten build traps so he has some use for me than standing in the party camp all game.

The Sleep Demon nightmare mini quest is fantastic.  My favorite part of the game. Love the dwarf origin stories ; both of them. But I prefer playing a mage so I rarely get to use dwarves. But whats neat about DAO is you can play 2 games at same time. So I jump from mage to dwarf rogue when I need a change. Enjoy :)

if you have survivalist, traps work really well when playing solo/nightmare

I found setting the graphics to medium and 2x anti aliasing stopped it from crashing too much

Do you think you could do a few ideas for a main character build? Its so hard to decide

Hi I really like your video I never played any game like this before I’m kind scared to play it because it seems overwhelming

I'm just starting this game for the first time, and your beginner guide is by far the best I have seen. I need all the help I can get, I haven't played an RPG in literally 20 years lol.

What's something you struggle with in Dragon Age: Origins that you'd like me to talk about in a future video?

I've created an archer build and it's going pretty well. It's just the abilities that i'm confused by - Which ones are actually useful?

How to get rid of injuries, all my characters with injuries have injury kit but only option is to inspect no way to apply them.

Also how to quickly change weapons from range to melee for my rogue.

Enchantment?

so can I just set tactics for all the party memember and do my own thing on my character during battles?

Hi, I'm currently on my first playthrough of the game. I'm playing as an elven mage lvl 11 currently. I'm wondering if there's any tips you could give me. Any magic types that work well or the likes.

Character brake down: [lvl 11 mage, no specialization (I don't know where most are, except spirit healer), full ice build, with all hex spells, and arcane spells. And one in healer and life drain.]

how does the attributes work? is it like in dnd that every 2 above 10 you get like a +1 bonus for anything?

I agree that Combat Training and Coercion are the best skills, and the rest are situational, but I disagree about how you tiered them after that. Plus mage only needs 2 points in combat training really (for the mana regeneration). The protection from interruption can be ignored if you ignore spells with long cast times

I think more tactics slots are very important because it makes your companions better on AI, especially those who have and use a lot of activated spells/abilities. The only time anyone would say tactics are useless, are when they choose to micromanage each companion in battle by pausing the game constantly. I prefer to set strong tactics and let them do their thing, pausing only on casted spells

Poisonmaking is probably next best because of it's extra damage and even chances to debuff like slow, stun, and even instant death. The only issue with this is the way the game has coded using them. If using them from the wheel you need to keep exiting the wheel to use another (they all stack if you have the patience to use them all). You can place them on the combat shortcuts though, but since you only get 6 slots, and you want to save them for activated skills, yeah. Even if you just have one character use only Quiet Death or Concentrated Deathroot at the start of every battle thats way more useful than other skills (a small amount of nature resistance from survival for example)

Stealing probably comes next because all that extra junk you get from stealing everything in sight adds up when selling it (even if its tedious waiting for its cooldown when stealing from npcs)

Survival next because of nature resistance but this is nowhere as useful as tactics, poisonmaking, and extra gold overall

Trapmaking worst (for me). However, I know players who do use stealth and place traps but I didn't bother. These players would surely place it higher than last place, but I cant see a world where even they would place it as a top tier skill