How can one improve weapons and equipment in Dragon age inquisition?

I would be stupid not to mention this...Fade touched Silverite.

Pick up all the Silverite you can and travel back and forth to Emprise as often as possible until you pick up Fade touched Silverite.

As soon as you have Fade touched Silverite in your crafting supplies,go craft some armor with it in the Masterwork slot.

This makes you over powered almost instantly.

It adds 5 points to your armor every time you hit a bad guy. So if you hit them more times than they hit you...you're almost invincible.

Also...using regular Silverite in the main slot on armor removes class restrictions. That's right! Heavy armor for your mages and rogues!

Once you get a super set of armor...go to your stronghold and exploit the duplication glitch in the storage chest.

Deposit that armor or weapon.

Now when you go to withdraw it...hit the deposit and withdraw button at the same time. It will now be in your inventory and STILL IN THE CHEST.

Repeat until you have enough of what you want for the whole team.

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@Sotetkriss wrote:

By the way: Is there a way to remove the bogus checkmark and XP? I tried but failed.

Thanks,

A.

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No.

Sadly...the heros here decide if your issue is solved or not...whether it helps you or not.

Drats!!!! The lady in question is no hero to me.

A.

Okay lets go with Staves since you play a human mage. Lets upgrade one for you. Find a staff that has empty Grip and Blade slots on it and use that for this.

Make sure you have a schematic for a staff grip and a staff blade. use the Weapons crafting machine and click on the little picture of a staff in that window. Find a  Staff Grip Schematic you have the materials to make, then find a Staff Blade you can make.

Notice how choosing different materials affects the stats of the item you are crafting.

Once you get them made, go over to the small bench and click on the UPGRADE Weapons side.

Find your staff in that window and click on it.

Now you see the slots for the grip and the blade.

Click each item there to choose the upgrade to apply.

Over at the right see how the stats of the upgrade piece get added to the staff.

Armor works the same, just use the armor crafting table to make armor upgrades and, the Weapons station to make runes, then follow the same method to apply them.

To upgrade companions just select them instead of you at the upgrade table, same as adding abilities when they level up.

Don't feel bad, a lot of RPG games don't have crafting. And actually I have only played 3 RPG in my life. The Dragon Age series, Rift and, The 4th Coming. Those games all do have crafting so, it's a familiar mechanic to me that I just need to figure out the details of for each game.

Level 20 is pretty good, 27 is the cap so, you're close. And yes there is plenty to discover in the game. I usually play a mage as well - Inferno with the Knight Enchanter specialization or, the Rift Mage specialization, depending on if I am doing a solo run for that game or, using a party. There are other guides online, Dragon Age Wikia is one of the better sites but, this one might help you too DAI Maps and Walkthroughs

Thanks again. There is a lot of been there done that in the post, but I will definitely try some I have not encountered before. Will sign off now, severe electrical storms in my area.

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To mckrackin5324

Appreciate the tip  regarding varieties of silverite. Have lots of it, having worked much in the Emprise. However, among scores of recipes for armor creation there is not a single one that comes close in armor rating to the "found" armor that my characters use. Perhaps with a silverite masterwork armor even of a lesser degree, I might still be better off. I'll try it . And along these lines I have all sorts of armor legs, arms and whatnot in inventory -- but none of them are visible or available to modify any armor with. Another cause of my frustration with the crafting process. I have managed to attach a few runes and minor items to some things, but nothing to brag about.

Interesting tidbit about the storage bin exploit, But I suspect that one is a console-only ability because with a keyboard and mouse simultaneous "pushing" of two nonexistent buttons is a bit of a problem. I do not own or plan to acquire a console, having used custom-built high end PCs for all of my computing -- games included. Another drawback of using a PC that benchmarks off the charts is that I have never been able to read any of the hints during scene changes -- they disappear in less than a second and I have not found a way of pausing things to read the "card clues.". May or may not be something where I might have learned something. The frustration of "having to play by the rules!"

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@Sotetkriss; Not sure what you're on about with the "frustration of having to play be the rules".  I craft and equip some amazing armour and weapons all the time, even at fairly low levels (once reaching Skyhold, obviously.) 

It took me until my third-or-fourth playthough to understand the crafting system, (which I think is incredibly over complicated as far as the actual *process* is concerned) which allow players to significantly improve their gear in a fairly consistent manner.

The keys are:

a.  Gathering the right supplies (lots of exploring of the regions helps), and;

b.  Acquiring the necessary schematics (using the Golden Nug after multiple playthroughs, or visiting the Black Emporium with lots of gold, helps.)

For example, even at the single-digit level I routinely equip my team with 200+ armour and 100+ dps staves.

And this without any cheats or mods to make it easier.

[EDIT:  Full Disclosure; I use the "Quicker Looting" mod to so I don't have to wait through the bend-down-and-count-to-five  animation sequence every time I gather supplies.]

To: Dark Amaranth

Apologize for the storm interruption when I was planning to make a more complete reply.

Although to a lofty  expert I may seem to be utterly ignorant, I do have a long enough history of RPG gaming to have learned the fundamentals. I even imagined (before encountering Inquisition) that I had a great deal more than the fundamentals. Hubris, no doubt. However, if you had read my original post, you might have seen my assertion that I have studied Wikis, Wikias, walkthroughs and videos. That should have hinted that I have spent lots of time on every single reference you recommend. The fact that I did not glean the information from them that may be hidden in them is my fault. I also know exactly how the creation and upgrading of equipment is done. The one thing that I have not and do not understand is that none of the "found" equipment my characters use, and ALL of which have better armor rating or weapon DPS than ANY of the schematics in the creation bench, ever appear in the upgrade machine. Possibly I have missed the point that what is found cannot be improved, and only things I have created are available for modification. Since anything I could create (I have scores and scores of schematics) would have a lower armor rating or weapon DPS than what I am already equipped with, it has not seemed reasonable to me to create a "worse" item than I already have. An outstanding example of frustration is this example: There is a Youtube video which purports to show how to crate the "best staff in the game." It required starting with Iron Bull's companion quest (successful) followed by several other war-table missions. After completing those there was the "payoff" mission that would deliver the needed schematic. Unfortunately, after all the time wasted, I opened the war table and discovered that the "payoff" mission does not exist. Hours wasted for nothing. This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder why I am wasting my time on a game whose design appears to be the frustration and infuriation of the player with a huge dose of boredom thrown in for good measure. And I actually paid money to  get this program! Foolish, for sure.

I am sure that you can see that everything in your post is something I know, have seen or have done. Which is why my dilemma is not advanced by your undoubtedly well-meant post. Accepted solution? By whom and by what psychotic criterion?

My lack of experience with forums means that this series of conversations has been an eye-opener and puzzler. I had no idea that instead of helping out a fellow gamer for the satisfaction of sharing experiences, the forum is a dog-eat-dog competition for glory and rank and bragging rights, all run by some shadowy clique who decide what is an accepted answer and award points. Personally, people like that I would not ask for advice about dishwashing detergent. To be fair, there does seem to be the occasional unselfish poster who seems to want to help and not for ulterior motives. I wonder if this is the sort of attitude that drives people who participate in "social media." I can't say since I have never even looked at one. And I am definitely getting the message that like Dorothy observed , the forums "are not Kansas any more." I should probably "call the whole thing off."

Thank you for taking the time and effort.

Tschüss,

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@Sotetkriss;   You have to ignore some of the responses your queries generate.  Like on social media, anyone and everyone is free to express an opinion and tone-of-voice or body language simply don't get expressed well.

Ich entschuldige mich, wenn Sie das Gefühl nicht willkommen gemacht wurden.

[EDIT:  And I play exclusively on the PC.  Don't own, or want, a console or a game controller.]

Dear Thandal,

I am suitably grateful for all attempts to help, and must admit I never expected to be a "Hero magnet." I have already noted elsewhere that I have yet to complete the game even once -- which is why I was looking for advice -- and therefore I do not have the advantages that apparently accrue from multiple playthroughs. I also have no DLCs and no desire for cheats or mods. As for the Black Emporium, that was on a previous installment of the series. One that actually made sense and bamboozled me into getting the third installment. Little did I know...

Forgive me for declaring that even if I were to finish the current playthrough (which is very much in doubt), the idea of doing another sounds to me like offering your other hand to someone who has just pulled off all your fingernails on the first one. Masochism. Not into it. I am suitably amazed at those of you who do it. Gluttons for punishment? Furthermore I have better things to do than waste my time -- again -- on a game I find exceedingly annoying. Still. I like to finish a game at least once. There have been a few I have discarded for sheer insults to my intelligence -- and this one may well join that elite group.

Also, even if things actually worked for me in this game, the enormous amount of boredom is mind-numbing. The endless plucking of spindle weed  and all the rest of the "farming." Strictly for the under 80 IQ set. I understand why you chose a mod which make that a wee bit less annoying.  And there is no better example of boredom than crafting. Basket-weaving seems exciting in comparison.

As for your first question kindly read my previous post again. "By the rules" refers to the storage crate cheat that I was told about. I do not cheat. I do not mod. I do not use a console.

Incidentally, as a Hero you might know what is wrong with this forum's word processing function. Spontaneous alteration of words into typos, run-on characters make it a challenge to create posts.

Thank you for your Heroic attempt to educate me. Although it did not work, never doubt that I appreciate the time and effort in writing your post. Not enough to mark it as the solution or to award  bragging points (which is the job of the "Dark Cabal anyway. I have commented on this to another Hero whose totally useless and unhelpful post was so marked and awarded. Not by me, of course), but I am commensurately grateful.

Sincerely,

A.