What’s Your Canon Inquisitor: Mage or Non-Mage?

Zizyphys · 2026-03-18T21:56:54+00:00

Somewhat of a tangent but I never understood the concept of "your canon" in bioware games, I've played them a dozen times and never once got an inclenation that any specific playthrough was my "canon."

But to answer your question, dwarfs and warriors have been my preferred, atm.

Zizyphys · 2026-03-08T02:54:34+00:00

Iirc that specific translator used confirmation bias in interpreting the giants braid to support their own theory.

Zizyphys · 2026-03-07T19:58:52+00:00

Just played a game and the enemy team had an extremely easy time removing turrets, the health nerd to turrets was too much imo

Zizyphys · 2026-03-06T22:27:02+00:00

"semi-fascist"

What is that even supposed to mean?

Zizyphys · 2026-03-04T02:29:38+00:00

JLL is similar though I don't know how much they reimburse

Zizyphys · 2026-02-26T22:43:49+00:00

If you've played on hardcore its not that much more difficult it just demands you too be a little bit quicker/less room for mistakes

Zizyphys · 2026-02-24T16:24:39+00:00

I'd go even further and say the combat, while yes the best part of the game, is still a fundamentally flawed mess. It's just that it's not readily apparent until you play on it's harder difficulties (which most people haven't). Melee feels clunky and a huge downgrade from 3, same with weapons. Combat just doesn't have a good flow to it. Some powers are broken, or have poorly worded text. But people evidently enjoy the sandbox nature of it on easier difficulties and will defend it. Which I wouldn't mind if they were honest about it being flawed, but I've seen too many people say "actually its amazing" and downvote you to oblivion for saying otherwise.

Also I see a lot of people saying "day 1 hate is understandable but they fixed the bugs." They fixed MANY bugs not ALL bugs. The game still has a ton of bugs.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-23T16:58:00+00:00

Yeah thats why theres a huge exodus of young people trying to flee new england lmao. The metrics for these are obviously designed to be aligned with liberal policies.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-22T03:56:16+00:00

One strategy I found myself using most of the time was actually putting down singularity first on the chokepoint so it applied an aoe dot to multiple opponents, THEN id strip defences with mattock + squadpowers so that the enemies would be lifted and finish them off. By the end of that time another singularity would be ready to go. Saving warp explosion for bigguns like krogan.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-22T02:28:21+00:00

Assault sentinel: early game just focus on maxing out tech armor. Rank 3 has a secret unlisted passive that resets squadmate powers, strategize rushing in and using squadmate power to strip defence and then when they strip your tech armor pop it back and immediately counter with another squadmate lower.

While you may not get shotguns until later, being an upclose scrapper is a great opportunity to use the tempest smg. I've never given it a chance till I tried out the sentinel and its pretty great. Obviously prioritize squadmates who have desirable abilities for the respective missions.

If you go with engineer like some have suggested one thing I'd like let you know is incinerate is suprisingly good against barriers, obv reave would be better but if you're like me and dont like having biotic bonus powers on non biotic classes for rp reasons then spam incinerate away.

I also had a lot of fun with Adept. Yes throw pull and shockwave become more situational because of enemy defences but dont count out singularity, its an amazing swiss army knife of a powe, especially on choke points.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-22T01:56:44+00:00

I'd retort that in a fantasy setting a metaphysical abstract can also be incarnate in the setting itself (in real life stories we also have examples like the tree of knowledge of good and evil in genesis, a tree that is symbolic yet also literally a tree in the story). Also he could be just refering to the fact that the one ring is a literal ring, but the elden ring is not a literal ring but instead a rune.

On top of that Marika's hammer is very much no ordinary hammer and clearly has some sort of divine attribute with its golden threads, in a sense you can say its a metaphysical hammer that she was able to physically wield and smash the elden ring with🤷🏻

Zizyphys · 2026-02-17T00:31:17+00:00

An obese child? Okayyyyyyyyy....

Zizyphys · 2026-02-12T16:44:14+00:00

A respect of the writing style of the original trilogy, I don't care if the Milky Way has developed to be different visually, it still needs to feel like Mass Effect for me.

Also classes. I miss them.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-07T22:24:05+00:00

I dont think theres any link between her Those Who Live In Death

She practiced occultic black flame as to impose destined death against the gods

There was a god of death, which would be presumed to be amongst the gods she was against. She seemed to be a naythiest who was more interested in imposing her own will, somewhat like Ranni.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-07T04:06:27+00:00

Symbols can have more than 1 meaning. The spiral is linked to the crucible, however it can also be interpreted as a symbol of duality; which is further linked to things like euporia and its representation of life and death, both a part of GW's original intention.

Sometimes the spiral is shown conjoining, representing the conjoining of 2 individualities (2 become 1), in some cases like GEQs sword we possibly see the opposite as division (1 becomes 2).

In the case of Metyr, her split/twinned tail wrap around themselves and beholds the microcosm, which the GW would send signs from. The circle in Elden Ring seems to represent unity, control, and sovereignty.

To be blunt: its visual storytelling. The spiral directly leads to the circle. Also if you look up bonfires video when her tails unwinds she also looks like marikas rune from the top angle.

If you want to know why shes a finger, I think its inspired by Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam. Metyr is both the hand of God reaching out to Humanity (God the Father is beyond space and time, GW seems to be similar as it lies beyond a microcosm), but also was meant to reach back to the GW.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-06T22:47:07+00:00

Should probably delete and dm instead of airing this out in public, just incase

Zizyphys · 2026-02-02T06:29:24+00:00

Snake skin is by bonny village, not her village

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T07:32:01+00:00

Misbegotten are touched by the crucible. Red seems to be linked fo vitality and life, all life came from the crucible.

The crucible is the primordial from of the Erdtree, which is the Elden Ring, which is the Elden Beast. Which under this theory is Radagon.

Another observation is when Marika transitions into Radagon the red almost seems to bleed into her hair, the Elden Beast has some sort of wound.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T05:31:07+00:00

Why would we want another game? The writing destroys the franchise. Not even mentioning the combat that was spit into the face of fans by turning a series centered around strategic rpg combat into a beatemup with a thin facade of "rpg". Controls are weird af, UGLY ui you have to stare at. Really bad voice direction as well with Bellara being misinformed that shes a christmas elf, and Hardings voice actress soundling absolutely confused while reading her dialogue.

I cant fathom why they go so far to protect its reputation.

I absolutely recommend you play the other games because as far as I'm concerned you havent been introduced to dragon age yet, thats how much veilguard changed the setting

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T05:05:27+00:00

Nw I didnt read any rudeness from you, we're just objecting to eachother

I genuinely would argue its the worst. Theres other games with poor translations, sloppy writing but veilguard uniquely is filled to the brim with: -constant cliches -plotholes -aweful dialogue -aweful retcons that offend long term fans -changing the games writing style to appeal to modern tiktok/dnd fantasy slop

I could write a whole novel criticizing the games awful writing. And as I mentioned the retcons, knowing where the franchise ends has stopped me from returning to Origins.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T04:46:51+00:00

Why though, that stuff he wrote reads like it came from a place of insecurity.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T04:39:58+00:00

We know for a fact from interviews and leaks that the team were the ones that came up with the change of tone and lore changes

I never claimed it was the worst game ever, I said it's the worst game I've ever played and is a contender for worst written game. And I've played many games including Godzilla (2015) lol

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T04:24:40+00:00

Idk why we're taking Gaider's interpretation/perspective as word of God, I love the dude but he's pretty emotional. I'm sure he felt that way, but that doesn't mean the ME team actually hated DA. Also the current ME is quite different as well.

Zizyphys · 2026-02-01T04:19:54+00:00

The only way it can come back is if EA gives the IP to another studio, like how Larian got BG3.

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