Yeah the removal of healing magic is a load of baloney, and that Casual mode shares a potion with the entire party...I can run through all of those potions in one bad fight ☹️
Indeed. This is a bit stupid. Playing on hard and one battle with a tough set of enemies (which pop up all over because of the ridiculous respawn rate with creatures popping up like whack-a-mole) and I am back to a camp to make more potions. Can't I carry a mortar and pestle to make my own in the field? There's water everywhere, elfroot... what's the problem?
I haven't looked too far into it, but if there are no healing spells I don't see myself playing this much longer. This is just Hinterland, I can't imagine when it gets harder. And if someone dies I can just touch them and they revive? Really? So we can resurrect people as much as we want but putting on a bandaid is an enormous challenge?
This is to say nothing of potion capacity. Ok so I can carry only 8 healing potions between all party members but a backpack full of swords, hammers, and armor is no problem. WTF? And the number of potion types looks to be VERY limited.
I really don't think this game has been well thought out at all. Need to send the DA:I designers to school to learn from the designers of Skyrim or the Witcher so they can learn how to make a proper open world RPG... or just hire the ones who made Origins back.
-J
Heck, DA2 was better about this. I did like that 2 got rid of different tiers of potions each taking up their own inventory slot. Believe me, it's riduculous enough on Casual--I don't think I have any prayer of doing this on Normal or Hard, whereas in DA2 I could do Hard mode battles just fine, especially if I had both Hawke and Anders on heal/res duty.
It's funny that Nightmare is the easiest mode in this game it seems, from my point of view anyways, I literally never tell my party what to do and just spam with my rogue and I have never lost a fight or even had a challenge in the game outside of reminding myself to play the game despite bugs every 3 steps.
