Dragon Age II Questions & Answers

In order to do so, you'll need The Black Emporium DLC, which gives you access to a special potion that allows you to respecialize your talents. This DLC should come at no extra cost if you bought the game new.

Unfortunately not. Warriors must stick to sword and board or two-handed weaponry.

This is of course a difficult question to address primarily because everyone has different playing styles. The Getting Started section in the Basics attempts to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each class, but it all boils down to player preference. Story-wise it seems mages have the advantage of bringing up special dialogue options, but this advantage is instantly leveled when other classes simply place another mage in the party.

Nope, just daggers. If it's any consolation, the daggers kind of look like swords graphically.

While you can certainly win their affection, romances often stem from a simple flirtatious remark, indicated by the heart icon in the dialogue wheel. Pursue this dialogue path whenever it comes up to show them you are interested beyond the level of friendship.

As far as we can tell, the decisions from DA:O impact your game in DA2 insofar as which side quests you have access to. This is determined by your prior fraternizations with certain factions in the previous game. You'll also notice references to your character from Origins throughout DA2.

Just staves it looks like.

No, there's no option for you to do so.

Point for point Dexterity contributes much more to steady DPS than Cunning. However, high Cunning does increase burst damage. There are probably spreadsheets for this, but we would suggest evenly allocating points to both attributes anyway for other useful attribute-derived abilities.

It is automatically equipped when you find it. You don't have to worry about it afterward. Check out the Companions section in the Appendix for information on where to find companion-specific armor.

Yes, you can! You'll find the individual pieces from certain quests in Act 3. The chestpiece from Mine Massacre, the gloves are obtained automatically, the headpiece from Best Served Cold, and the boots are from On the Loose.