vanagace

I've finished game with 20th lvl dual-wield warrior (berserker/champion) on normal difficulty easily. Died just a few times, when ganged by a lot of soldiers. Overall I prefer dual wield because of the bonuses you get from 2 weapons instead of one. One handed weapons can have up to 3 sockets, in which good runes might be added, like 20physical resistance ones, multiply it by 6 (2weapons) - you have 120 additional phy resistances - by this immunity to stuns, knockbacks. Of course trading damage for defence. Also there are amazing skills in dual wield tree - punisher, riposte, flurry for single target, whirlwind, dual sweep for AoE. Berserk stance gives around 9 damage for both hands, champion's rally gives +10 to both defence & attack.

Now repeating game with rogue(assassin/ranger) doing everything differently than before (mostly evil way of quest completion to unlock other achievements).

By the way - ranger is very powerful specialization, because you get a pet which is almost as strong as Wardog. Wolf gets warhound's skills, bear gets slam & rage, spider gets web & poison spit. It's like an additional DPS party member. At lvl20 Leliana's bear had 520HP!!!

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