Talk:Exploits (Dragon Age II)

Aveline Armor Exploit
Not exactly sure how I activated this in one of my games, but it's odd. Toward the begining of the game, shortly after speaking to Varric for the first time, I picked up Aveline. A little later when I found two new shields for her, I began uniquping both of them. To see based on her stats which might be superior. And that's the odd part - her armor rating kept going up everytime I equiped and unequiped a shield; never back down. Now I'm not exactly sure if in practice, her armor (and damage reduction) was actually permanently going up mechanically wise. Or if it was just a bug as far as the inventory text goes. I kept doing this until I had her with over a thousand armor and 100% damage reduction, and I could swear afterwards in combat she was hardly taking any damage, if at all (I play in nightmare mode, so it's very easy to notice whether or not someone is taking damage).

I can't really say what may have triggered it. I own the signature edition of the game for the X-Box 360 and this all occured before the deep roads expedition. I didn't need both shields to do it, just the one afterwards. The one shield had superior armor while the other had less armor and a +health bonus. As far as other equipment, I gave her the black emporium ring with cunning, hp, and damage reduction. She also had an amulet with ~180 magic resistance to two different elements. The last piece of equipment was a common ring with +attack. I can't remember if this was before or after I completed the first portion of her companion quest. I picked up multiple abilities for her, but mostly the tank-typical stuff. I also did a lot of side quests not related to the deeproads expedition questline. My party was probably either level 8 or 9 before I discovered this glitch. As for abilities, she had very common tank-related ones. Like Turn the Blade and the first one she gets in the Guardian tree.

Either this glitch is very easily activated or very tricky I think. Once I figured out the shield thing, I was able to go back anytime afterwards and unequip and reequip shields on her to continously beef her armor up. This also continued regardless if I saved and reloaded my games, or went to new areas. Didn't seem to matter what shield I used afterwards to trigger it either.

I probably won't be visiting this page anytime soon. And I deleted that save file to start a new game, so anything I say would be based on my memory at this point. But if anyone is intrested in trying this out be my guest, I hope my info helps. --74.65.102.32 (talk) 19:58, March 13, 2011 (UTC)