The crafting system as a whole needs scaling down. It was massively overblown in DAI, to the point of absurdity and most players not using >50% of schematics anyway. But, the alchemy was perfectly fine in DAI, and I'm afraid DAVE will be yet another step away from more RPG mechanics. It sure seems like Bioware wants to make the game more accessible at the cost of dumbing down the mechanics of the game, which, to me, is a bad call that's bound to result in lower ratings.

I’m sorry but I love to craft armour because of the unique style you can get and different buff 💪 you can get and damage negation you can get inquisition crafting system was top class to me 👍🏿

sera was never an agreeable girl her tongue tells tales of rebellion but she was so fast and quick with her bow no one quite knew where she came from sera was never quite the quietest girl her attacks are loud and they're joyful but she knew the ways of nobler men and she knew how to enrage them she would always like to say why change the past when you can own this day? today she will fight to keep her way she's a rogue and a thief and she'll tempt your fate (delayed support comment)

I love green pot(s). i didn't like the scarcity of certain weapons, armor upgrade materials. Or that time I it took days to find one wisp essence for my knight enchanter. Your accent is interesting.

It is heartbreaking having a great piece of equipment that doesn't serve your character, but could fit very well your companion, but for some odd reason nobody else can use it. Unique equip define unique characters' builds. DA II didn't have it that much and I understood why. What will be this game's explanation?

Solas is Thanos level evil. He appears willing to kill thousands to create what he alone decides is the proper way the world should be. Why is Solas on his own? At the end of Trespasser he had a huge network of elves? Did they all die? If so who killed them? Or did they abandon him without helping to stop him? The way rook joins Varic and Harding as some pointless random who was good in a bar fight is suspicious. I'm hoping there is in-game back story on how some nobody magically happens to find the only two people in the world other than Neve that know how to find the god that at the very moment appears to be conducting a ritual that will destroy the world. The limited info so far makes rook's part in this seem suspicious or just dumb. I'm pretty sure the game will hopefully make more sense. Why are Varic and Harding the only 2 people in a world trying to stop the worlds destruction? Did Varic and Harding hide that they had located Solas finally at the last minute after 10 years since Trespasser? It's nice we have companions as that is one of the things that make Bioware games great. However, why weren't these groups helping Varic and Harding when a god appeared to be actively destroying the world? I don't think rook can really trust any group other than their origin group and maybe Neve's group. You can't even trust the inquisition (or former inquisition) as they appear criminally absent when the world was about to be destroyed. So far the heroes of the last games appear as big of losers as the demon loving absent greyspawn were in the last game. If rook and Solas do eventually have the option to destroy the world to bring the new Solas world ... I mean the world didn't really seem to care the first time so ...

rip Ghilan'nain you wouldve loved sid from toy story

I loved the weapon and armor crafting of Inquisition, but it was definitely tideous at times. If they can streamline it so i'm not spending a lot of time hunting material but still keep options available on how you and your squad look, thet would be fantastic.

Love transmog for roleplaying, oh and I get you Potions > green pots, I feel we will miss them ahah ^^'. Thank you for getting all those new infos so fast, its must be pretty overwhelming at this stage I imagine ahah. Also, in all honesty, I love a super super complex and flexible crafting system that feels impactfull, hope there's still some dept to it in DAtv !

Im intrigued by what i hear about "gear skills" if teue that will make two big issues fixed ir means we have more open skill usage to the point we might have access to class exclusive skills through gear,and its a active use not on a persent usage!

I normally love crafting stuff but Inquisition made it boring. I’m hoping it’ll be fun here! But I do hope they let us name the stuff, I did enjoy that part.

great vid goose

It better have crafting becuase thats been part of dragon age since origins and its a core part of all rpgs

I had a feeling they waz green lyrium! 😤 Saw a few green rocks nearby a fade rift

I would have liked them to continue progressing with the crafting and improving/streamlining the system. I always felt it was much more logical that a specific armor would perfectly fit a character when it was specifically crafted for them, and not just picked off a random bandit corpse. Especially in Inquisition with how any one armor would look very different depending on what party member you equipped it to.

About crafting: Someone named "@Hrungry" on twitter tweeted information about this. There will be crafting, without a doubt.

Honestly, I'm so happy they are going way from the boring craft system. Running around picking flowers and collecting stones to craft stuff in 5 different benches in DAI felt more like stardew valley than DA to me haha

It might aswell say reduced gameplay. Its a complete joke. By streamlining crafting you alienate RPG fans who like complex systems and deep experiences. The more you water this down the faster it becomes an action-adventure game with the illusion of choice rather than RPG.

Honestly I'm happy to have transmogs seperate from armour equipped. Then I can prioritise stats and aesthetic separately :) Replaying DAI now and the crafting is kinda tedious.

Crafting system can benefit from streamlining, it was all over the place in DAI. Collecting herbs and rocks was tedious af as well as running around between five different work stations to craft four different pieces from several ingredients each. Going through building equipment for entire team always felt like a chore. I think, if they terminate foraging for resources (like make it available with merchants or delivered by Varric's contacts or smth), put all crafting\modifying\enchanting into one work station and spread blueprints in a loot around the world, it would be cool.

The devs said we will be able to craft and equip our companions with different armor

Elgar'nan to Solar: It's always been about love and hate, now let me say I'm the biggest hater I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it's gon' be direct

A bunch of ugly liberal women made the veilgard game. It's not worth paying for. Wait until it's 75-90% off on the play store and then check it out. At least you won't pay that much to be disappointed.

Liked your point at the end where BioWare seems to be a victim of their own bad marketing. DAVe might turn out to be a great game with all the lore they can draw from, but they're doing a bad job of showing it off so far. Cool video.

I can fix him

Omg I love this video!!! So in-depth. Subscribed

Sorry, long theory coming up! You triggered something xD ----- If we compare the Elvish creation myth of Elgar'nan with the Christian one (as devs have taken inspiration from our world's history, myths, legends and religions), then we could say the following; The spirits were modelled after angels, full of the power to create but not having the creativity or will do do so. They were jealous of the second creations; humans, who lacked the spark of creation, but had plenty of will to shape the world around them to their needs. (Quick refresher on Solas' creation story, pieced together from various codex entries, Cole and other sources; Solas was given a body made from the earth by Mythal. He was a spirit of Wisdom or something similar and she called him down into the body. He bore her Vallaslin for a while and after he burned that off for some reason, he chose to keep a scar on his forehead to remind him of it. Back to Elgar'nan and the other Evanuris;) If the earth doesn't mean Titan but creatures that are not spirits, than the sky/sun could be the spiritual world. Elgar'nan was the first spirit to make/take a body. Other spirits were jealous as Elgar'nan now had the power to not just dream but also create. The other spirits were jealous, leading to demons that he had to take care of for a while. That is until Mythal, another spirit, also learned how to make/take a body and calmed everything down. Elgar'nan was not alone anymore, and the jealous spirits understood there might be a way for them to get a body too; by having Mythal make them. As Mythal has been rumored to have created a body for Solas eventually, I think she made one for their five 'children' first. Those Evanuris that the Dalish often think are direct descendants from Elgar'nan and Mythal, but whom I think might be the first five they gave bodies too, the strongest spirits to show a will to have a body. Further proof of this might be Mythal's mosaic where she holds 5 smaller elves in her arms, like children; Falon'din, Dirthamen, Andruil, Sylaise and June. We know Ghilan'nain was lifted to godhood later. I think she started as an elf and aspired to become more, hence her body dysmorphia and experimentations. Perhaps after years of creating lesser elves, someone recognised some strong spark of magic (the ability to dream ánd shape) in her and shared with her the knowledge to become more. The Evanuris were the strongest among their people, gained followers and that idolation made them even stronger. Like how certain strong beliefs and emotions can shape a stronger spirit or dreamlandscape in Thedas today, leading to spirits like Justice and Cole being able to take shape. Worshipping one of the Evanuris made them stronger. Hence Falon'din wanting more and more followers, until he had to be stopped in fear of overpowering the other Evanuris. Solas' wolven statues are found guarding or warning (either laying down or howling), so I think he might have been called down by Mythal into a body as a peacekeeper of some kind. It allowed him access to all other Evanuris' domains, let him see how they treated their 'followers' (slaves), and secretly undermine them without them realising it. He could move among them with ease. Mythal might have even offered him a body just to help her stop them, with him being a powerful spirit that at first did not want a body but she convinced him. Once Andruil found the Taint in the Void (inside the body of a corrupted/sick Titan perhaps) Mythal had to cure them and remove the knowledge of where they got it. But the Evanuris now knew there was a place where they could find more power. Even more than the Lyrium and hearts they already took by force from the other Titans. So they eventually got Tainted again, and Solas ended up working together with Mythal to stop them. The other Evanuris realised she was undermining them, so she got killed before her and Solas could execute their plan. Solas he did what he could and ripped the entirety of Arlathan out of the ground and sealed it away, as a prison and a quarantine measure. Solas might not have known he had cast the Veil over Thedas as a whole and only after sleeping for 2 millenia did he see he made the world near-Tranquil. Or perhaps it required too much strength to contain the Veil to one specific area, so he just cast a wider net, just let it flow everywhere? And the Forgotten Ones he sealed away could either be the Titans (long forgotten since then) being put into a long slumber, especially if one or more were Tainted.. Or it could refer to the original bodies of the Evanuris they took, in the form of dragons (the Old Gods/Archdemons). ----- Long rant end, thanks for reading ;P

wait! Solas means pride?! He told me it meant Charlie in Elven.

Does this spoil Inquisition? Need to know before watching.

I think that most/all Evanuris probably turned into dragons, and considered dragons their divine symbol of sorts (and it's why they punished non-Evanuris who took on dragon form).

8:33 Can someone please explain where did we find out that the magisters and the old gods were in war with the Evanuris? I didn't follow much in the last few years and that information made me crazy, but i simply can't seem to find it.

I’m definitely joining this conversation a little late! It’s been over 3 weeks since both trailers were released. We’ve gotten a slew of words on a screen. Robust skill tree! Intricate difficulty settings! Amazing CC! great! …so why aren’t they showing anything else yet? In the months before DA:I they had shown a gameplay video in the area of Crestwood. The first thing I saw was banter between Cassandra, Vivienne and Varric. Needless to say this conversation was removed. In the video, the player had to choose between saving the village of Crestwood, or the Inquisition’s holdings there. I was looking forward to participating in this. That never happened. Outside of a Loghain cameo, the area was as dynamic as a piece of cardboard. To say I was disturbed would be an understatement. I’ll not lie, I’m somewhere in the kinda-on-the-fence-but-yeah-I’ll-likely-buy-it side of the discussion. That being said… There’s an old saying: believe half of what you see, and absolutely nothing that you hear. What I’m hearing sounds good. Damn good. It did in the months leading up to Inquisition, too. For me to feel better about the game, I’d love to see much more. And get a release date. At a minimum, I wish they’d do an updated roadmap, we’re in ‘more to come all summer’. Talk is cheap BioWare. Show us what you have.

There's been some speculation that Elgar'nan is the god of eclipses - as he has imagery associated with him regarding both the sun and moon (and his story involves literally burying the sun). I don't know what that means in the long run but uh... yeah.

I think you're wrong. Solas wants to mend his wrongs but his careful planning and manouvering over ten years seems to indicate that he isn't willing to do it at any cost. And while he might not have been willing to kill the Evanuris originally, he says that he's deal with them in either Trespasser or Tevinter Nights. There's also an interesting hint in Dalish customs. Then Dalish put Fen Harel statues around their campsites facing outwards. This is said to be done in order to remind the Dalish to be watchful of spirits and demons. However, the placement rather indicates that the statues were originally meant to protect the camp. After all, the fluffy butt of a wolf is a lot less dreadful then the toothy end.

Regarding Corytheus, Solas tells us that he expected the orb to kill Corytheus when he unlocked it. So, to me that sounds as if he saw it as a convenient to birds with one stone solution. The orb gets unlocked and he takes out the former high priest of Dumat in the process.

that's cool. i am going to make 1000000 money. by the way. any idea to edit weapon stats?

He's a Qunari. Finally the theories about his Qunari connection are confirmed!

Another great video! Thanks for making wait for Veilguard more bearable 🤗 I really like a theory, that Evanurises great war was with titans. Reminds me about Greek and Nordic mythology.

If blue lyrium is the color of a Titan's pure blood, and red the color of its Blighted blood. Maybe green 'lyrium' is not Titan blood at all but a collection of spirit-magic forced into a solid crystaline shape? The description in the story gave a single crystal, no veins or powders or liquids. And the only green shaded magic we see is the Fade and manipulated Fade energy that mages wield through their own body. If Bioware could choose any color Lyrium to add, green would be a weird choice as we already associate it with the Fade. So I don't think it is Lyrium at all but a concentrated form of spiritual/soul magic instead of blood magic like Lyrium is. Dwarves have a resistance to lyrium due to genetic exposure to Titans, but are unable to cast soul magic. They don't dream and don't attract spirits either. But they, unlike other races, can make enchantments using Lyrium. Only Tranquil can do this too, because they are seperated from the soul magic as well. Lyrium is used to boost a Templar's ability to 'reinforce reality', to negate soul magic. Mages use lyrium to enhance their abilities of affecting the 'real' world. Suggesting that soul magic, the green color, holds the ability to change your environment by dreaming it and then willing it to be real. While Titans shaped what is already real, they changed the lands as they moved through them. The Chant also talks about the First of the Maker, but I forgot the full phrasing and will only mention it here because it speaks of the different use of magic. Or perhaps of two different magics? So yeah. TL:DR; I think the green color symbolizes possibility, soul magic from the spiritual world, currently known as the Fade, which mages can call through themselves to affect the physical world. And blue (and red) magic is tangible magic wielded by the Titans, used by them to literally shape the world.

I think the beasts of the air are the Griffons. They are hybrids/chimera like creatures and still exist

Yet another outstanding video, Lady of Lore!

The internet is suvh a negative place. Im personally very excited for this game and the negative people are honestly just looking for attention

Now that u mention it, it kinda sounds like zeus, chronos and gaea.

sure that even if you make a video about the american elections, it will be listened to... (a body language analysis of trump for 1,000 subscribers special)

He just wants to bring me comfort from his reign

Who said they were villains?

So think about this, if the elven gods have been trapped in the fade for god knows how long she probably ended up experomenting on herself to try and find a way out maybe even assimilated demons into herself

Elgar's dad threw out all his toys, so he pushed him down the stairs when he wasn't looking. Not much of a final boss if you ask me. And what's with his clothing? What an emo.

It is beautiful and even calm, but don't hook me up with the first notes like the trespasser OST, I feel nothing... so I share hope that it's just ambient