As requested: the Engineer - probably the most ignored class. People think it's weak because it can't tank damage like other classes, but it has so many advantages compared to others: disabling enemy powers like biotics, tech, and even husk attacks, disabling enemy weapons, and rockets, destroying shields and weakening enemy damage resistance etc. I put a twist on this playthrough though - no health damage for Shepard + no medi-gel for the team! A little disclaimer for "No health damage": this means "visible" health damage. I did not see my health move at all when I played, or when I watched the whole footage back. However, based on my other Engi test subjects, as you level up and automatically gain more health, by the end, your health bar seems like it only visibly registers damage from 2 or more points of health loss. This is why I deliberately did not improve my health with Spectre Training and I did not put a medical interface in my armor(the squad got them because no medi-gel is allowed for them). Obviously, I did not want to ruin the experience by keep opening the character menu and checking my health in the middle of combat, which means that I could have taken 1 point of damage somewhere while my shield was still up and my health bar was not moving. I'm speaking of course about those tech attacks that would go through shields and damage your health directly(but based on my tests they were most likely blocked by my tech resistance). I never lost my shield completely so nothing hit my health that way - acid, rockets, biotics, and tech attacks with visible damage were all dodged/eaten by squadmates. So how do you avoid aoe attacks that would damage your health directly? Well, usually you can just send your team ahead. They will trigger tech attacks for you and you can be safe. Biotics? Same thing, but sometimes you have to stay far away/dodge like crazy to left or right, depending on who you face. A single high-level Warp can hit your entire party even if Wrex is in front eating it, and goes straight to your health(commandos and battlemasters love to start with Warp). Which is why the Alestia fight was by far my biggest fear. Small room, and the girl throws Warp at you instantly, so you have to dodge like crazy towards her(dodging left or right is not a good idea here) to mess up her aim while Liara can lift up the whole room up. Same with the stupid Krogan who argues with the VI. He just loves to start the fight by slapping you with Warp. The other fight that was also a challenge was the one with the Batarians at the end of Bring Down the Sky. They have 3 Engineers who can use tech attacks that will damage your health directly and they are hard to dodge if they surprise you from the sides. Oh and the Geth jumpy shits on Feros before the elevator? I definitely did not enter that mess! I sent Wrex and Liara to tank all the tiny barrier-penetrating tech attacks and sniped them from afar with my pistol/tech attacks. The Saren fight was pretty smooth, thankfully I quickly managed to find cover, since in the LE, Saren has backup and they can snipe you. The rest was pretty easy to do by just being careful, checking the minimap often, and by disabling enemy powers. This "no health damage" run gave me a fresh new experience on the game, and I really enjoyed it. I completed all the quests and side quests(except two on Noveria because my Shep is paragon and she does not do illegal stuff), but I did not waste time collecting every collectible. The order in which I complete the quests is almost always universal with every character I make because I think this is the easiest/fastest way to level up in the LE. Especially since Mako kills don't get XP penalty here, unlike in the original. When it comes to handling that "drunken rhino", I think I did okay. I think I only tipped over once lol. Most of the time I tried to avoid health damage on the Mako(I think I only got red damage from Tresher Maws), but it was not something I paid particular attention to. Whoever's idea was to remove the tank control, should be forced to drive it around on Nodacrux while getting peppered with geth lasers. I miss the old Mako where you could move forward while still seeing what is behind you. I decided to pick up shotguns since I had to pick a special training, so I thought I might as well copy Tali. Plus I figured shotguns are handy against organics when they rush you. Citadel fast travel/loading and most of the Galaxy map loading screens have been sped up x4 so hopefully they won't bother you. Elevators(and hacking) are not skipped/sped up - they are part of the Mass Effect experience! :) Anyway, I hope you enjoy the playthrough! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Character Creation - I already had a face I created earlier so I can just paste the code and make this quick. 1:16 Game Starts 16:31 Eden Prime 55:08 Citadel Arrival 1:36:44 Becoming a Spectre 1:48:57 Geth Incursions(I gave data to Tali later) 2:24:33 Missing Marines Part 1 3:22:11 Major Kyle 3:33:57 Espionage Probe 3:48:33 Hostage 3:57:08 Lost Freighter 4:02:20 Distress Call(Metgos) 4:06:19 Privateers 4:24:43 Scanning all Keepers 4:50:21 Rogue VI 5:09:12 Dead Scientists 5:27:32 Missing Survey Team 5:40:42 Hostile Takeover 6:03:08 Asari Diplomacy 6:22:11 Missing Marines Part 2 6:33:32 Hades' Dogs 6:44:50 Family Armor 6:52:17 Lost Module 7:00:28 X57: Bring Down The Sky 8:14:31 Therum - Find Liara T'Soni 8:53:23 I Remember Me 9:29:58 Find Dr. Saleon 9:34:50 Noveria - Geth Interest 10:16:01 Noveria - Peak 15 11:10:08 Benezia 11:26:57 Listening Post Theta 11:34:24 Listening Post Alpha 11:51:43 Depot Sigma 23 12:11:22 Besieged Base 12:43:05 Feros - Geth Attack 13:41:46 The Thorian 14:34:34 Derelict Freighter 14:40:40 Colony of the Dead 14:53:37 Exo-Geni Facility 15:22:03 Virmire - Mako Ride 15:45:34 Virmire - Assault 16:18:48 Saren 17:02:58 Ilos - Race Against Time - The Conduit 17:32:35 Citadel - Race Against Time - Final Battle 17:56:15 Sovereign If you like my videos, you can support the channel here: www.buymeacoffee.com/akisherceg 🍕 Thank you! :)
People thought Engineer is weak? I will admit some of the abilites are indeed lackluster and probably put 1 point but the same thing can be said about other classes
Definietly try it out. It is even more fun in ME2 and ME3. In ME3 you have three summons, and in ME2 you can mind control both synths (AI hack) and organics if you unlocked domination once (side with morinth once to unlock)
@@istvangaluska That is a great approach if you go for a controller build! I went with damage however, so I picked up Geth Shield Boost instead(it receives the bonus from tech cooldowns so its very fast with the Engi). Especially since I go for No Health Damage and No Medi-Gel in the second game too(and no Squad death as well, which is a massive pain - they are extremely stupid), so GSB saved my hide a billion times.
Engineer was so underrated in the first game. It was better in 2 obviously, and in 3 it’s an absolute powerhouse. I’ve played every class at this point and soldier will always be my favorite. Nothing more enjoyable than 80 rounds for F-- You to the enemy. But engineer was definitely one of my favorite runs.
New sub here. You're doing some great work. Appreciate your expanded way of thinking with these RPG's. I know it can't be easy, which puts you in a league above the rest💪
Hell yea bro love your channel especially the dragon age origins builds! Im trying a dual weapon str dex rogue, so far so good on nightmare. This game might be next
I really prefer your DA videos over this. Probably because I have played the ME trilogy more than the DA one. I'll continue to watch this Heavy Mech of a video, in case I've missed something. But I find myself not as invested in it as I was with your mage's LP.🙅
Love the content keep up the great work, question what do you want to see return the most in Mass Effect and Dragon Age, for me it’s the Paragon/Renegade system from the OG trilogy(hopefully a little more complex) and I would love to see the Friendship/Rivalry system from DA2 return(it’s so much better than the bland approval system of origins and inquisition.)
I like the Paragon/Renegade system of ME, but I also like the approval system from DA. It definitely needs tweaking, especially since in Inquisition you don't even have a clue of where you stand with your squad when you first go through the game, since there is no indicator. In Origins, it is butchered by the Feast day pranks dlc. However, I think it is the closest to what happens in real life. Our actions influence what people around us think about us, and they will either like or hate us for them. They should make this translate into real actions during gameplay and the story. Make it matter weather or not they like you or hate you, other than just: if they like you they stay and tell you they like you, or if they don't, they tell you you are bad and they leave. Make them catch a bullet for us like Varel in Awakening or something if they like us. Or have them actively try to kill us/sabotage our goal if they hate us. This would give more meaning to the approval system. The Friendship/Rivalry was never really my thing. I don't understand how can someone be loyal to me who I constantly screw over. So Isabela will come back with the book because I constantly called her a no good slut and did everything I can to go against whatever she wanted? Anders will completely abandon his seemingly uninterruptable whining about the mages and actually start helping me kill them because I kept telling him that he is annoying and he should shut up? I don't know. Is it about you actually convincing them that they are wrong, and they give in? I know that if I side with the mages, which is what I always do, everyone will stick with me, even if I literally did not say a word to them after recruiting them(Fenris will turn on you but then all you have to say is "Hey, fight with me." and he joins you again lol). So this is what I usually do, which makes me totally ignore them unless I want some xp for their quest or some passive buffs. So I admit, I spent the least amount of time figuring out that system(mainly because I care for the companions severely less in DA2 then in DAO, DAI or ME) so I might not fully understand it. :)
13:36:24 oh look the worst enemy on insanity, can't believe they can one shot you no matter what, the only time the shotgun was ever useful for me in the whole series
@@lulukomadori9651 My fav is the shotgun. It’s power is amazing. Only the sniper matches it when it comes to stopping power, but the sniper overheats much faster.
It’s not that tough. This is Insanity and “no health damage”, so it is supposed to be even more difficult than regular Insanity. Still I didn’t have that much problem with it aside from a few places. :)
Hey man just wanted to say thank you for all your work. Do you happen to know any fixes for dragon age 2? Whenever I beat the dark spawn and try to load into Kirkwall my game crashes at the loading screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! Sadly I have no idea about that. Oddly DA2 is the most stable game from the Trilogy for me, I rarely have crashes. You can try lowering the graphics and running the game on Dx9 while you load into Kirkwall, hopefully that will help. :)
I heard of it. Played it a bit but never owned the game. Actually I remember little from the gameplay. And I think I played the 2nd game not the first. :)
@@hsin4665 Max out Lift and Warp, and you will have no problem with him. If you bring 2 biotics, he can't even attack you. Which is why I think in the LE they added a group of geth every time you face him. In the original he was a joke for biotic users. Then again, a biotic can even lift up a Colossus in ME1 so it's not surprising. Hence the downgrade of biotics in ME2 - they can't go through defenses anymore.
Never liked the Fem Shep model in any version. Always created my own Shep face. Same goes for the male too, although he is not as bad as the girl(passes as paragon, but still too soft for a renegade - at least to me). :)
I saw your comment, so I checked it out. It's wired. I'm just sitting here confused and disappointed. It's goofy(in a "for a modern audience" kinda way), it's confusing, and the music is way too upbeat. I don't like the art direction one bit(those are the darkspawn now? why are those skeletons looks like they are from a pg13 mobile adventure game?). The plot sounds so serious but the presentation is so unbelievably immature it's hard to take it seriously. I'm going to sleep now, and hope that it was all a dream lol.
@@AKisHerceg I just hope they realize that people aren’t happy with it try and change something because this could be the end of their BioWare I don’t understand why they didn’t talk to us they always did I don’t understand it doesn’t make any sense oh well we will just have to wait and see what they have and hope it good 😬🤞🏿
So what do you think about the new dragon age veilgaurd name and will you be watching any possibly buying dread wolf and yes I’m going to call it that because veilgaurd sounds soft there supposed to be dropping game play on Tuesday on there dragon age RU-vid channel
I'm out of the loop completely lol. Now that you said it, I decided to check it out, because I did not even now about the name change. I think with the name change they are basically copying Inquisition. Instead of the antagonist, they name it after the group/faction that you are with. I think it's fine(but it feels like they are trying to play it safe). Too superficial for me to really care. I will be interested to see the gameplay. But from what I just watched, it looks like they will lower the party size to 3 from 4, which is something I don't like. It will feel more like Skyrim when you are on a mission with a companion, than DA. It seems like it will be even more streamlined, and I feel like the game will want you to pick one of each class(rogue, mage, warrior) at all time as a party, hence the 3 member party limit. I could be wrong but this is what I think. Overall, I would say I'm interested, but not overly excited. I hope it will be good. :)
@@AKisHerceg I feel the same way I feel like there trying to play it safe with the name because when they gave it the name dread wolf there was so much expectation for it the reason they gave for the name change doesn’t really add up there saying the reason we change it to veilgaurd is because of the companion we made the Game Centre on the protect the veil from solas but it doesn’t make sense I understand that dragon age is an adventure RPG and that you will always have companions on your journey helping you so I don’t know if they felt people would forget about there companions which is impossible and only focus on solas and the other eleven god that we will be fighting but i feel with this name change they took the hype right out of it and if you and I feel like there playing it safe you better believe other people feel the same way
