Talk: Barrier rune tracings

Acquisition Workaround[]

Console commands[]

This workaround is only possible for pc users:

Download this mod.
Copy the ncs file to "My Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override"
Activate the Console.
In-game type the following command: runscript additemwmat gxa_im_cft_run_110.uti 1
- That will give you the Journeyman Barrier Rune Tracing.
- Respectively, in order to generate the Expert Barrier Rune Tracing, type: runscript additemwmat gxa_im_cft_run_210.uti 1
- The item ID codes for the rest of the Barrier Rune Tracing versions respectively are:

gxa_im_cft_run_310 - Master Barrier Rune Tracing

gxa_im_cft_run_410 - Grandmaster Barrier Rune Tracing

gxa_im_cft_run_510 - Masterpiece Barrier Rune Tracing

gxa_im_cft_run_610 - Paragon Barrier Rune Tracing

12:16, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Third party mod[]

A third party mods allows Ambassador Cera to sell barrier runes and their trackings. Click here and follow the instructions in order to download & install the file named "Cera sells Barrier Runes stuff". 23:27, December 4, 2013 (UTC)

GFF editor[]

An easy way to add paragon barrier runecrafting would be to use the GFF editor on a saved game file.

16003 SAVEGAME_PARTYLIST 16227 SAVEGAME_CRAFTING_RECIPE_LIST "Add" Change new value to 20106

Save changes, and load saved game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.157.121.112 (talk • contribs) 21:05, November 24, 2013

Toolset script[]

A more in depth but longer lasting fix (recommended if you have some Toolset experience), is correcting skill starter recipes upon character creation/new files in Origins. It looks like due to an oversight from the sys_chargen.ncs file, and that runecrafting might have originally meant for DAO, but cut—then released for DAOA.

Original sys_chargen.nss:

const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE1   = R"gen_im_cft_run_102.uti";     // upgrade flame
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE2   = R"gen_im_cft_run_103.uti";     // upgrade frost
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE3   = R"gen_im_cft_run_110.uti";     // upgrade storm
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE4   = R"gen_im_cft_run_111.uti";     // upgrade sun

These recipes do not exist, but gxa_im_cft_run_102 (Journeyman Flame Rune Tracing), gxa_im_cft_run_103 (Journeyman Frost Rune Tracing), gxa_im_cft_run_110.uti (Journeyman Barrier Rune Tracing) and gxa_im_cft_run_111.uti (Journeyman Stout Rune Tracing) do. Aka the "gen" -> "gxa" replacing needs to happen.

To fix open your Toolset (if you don't have, then download), go to scripts search sys_chargen, open -> right click it's tab -> "Open a Local Copy" -> edit the following (see below) -> Save -> Export without dependent Resources -> go to your C:\Users\...\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override\toolsetexport. Delete everything but sys_chargen.ncs (not the .nss). Your next play through should now include the recipe, and you will not have to manually add via console ever again for new files/playthroughs.

const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE1   = R"gxa_im_cft_run_102.uti";     // upgrade flame
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE2   = R"gxa_im_cft_run_103.uti";     // upgrade frost
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE3   = R"gxa_im_cft_run_110.uti";     // upgrade storm
const resource RUNE_MAKING_STARTING_RECIPE4   = R"gxa_im_cft_run_111.uti";     // upgrade sun

This will work for "new" Origin game files from now on (after this is put into your override folder), that are to be then imported to Awakenings (does not work on previous created save files or new character creation's for Awakenings). Basically, you are patching Origins so that when you finish the game and import to Awakenings it already corrected. I am still trying to figure out how to to fix this for creating new Awakening characters, but maybe that is why it is incorrect—character creation for awakenings is done differently (DAOA doesn't seem to have a sys_chargen.ncs script included), it was also done incorrectly, and why console or GFF editor modifying is required.

Hollowness | Talk | Contr 00:07, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Comments[]

It's a pity all these issues weren't addressed in the patches. For instance, I still think it unreasonable one has to side with smugglers in order to get a shopkeeper to stock particular tracings :-( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.157.121.112 (talk • contribs) 21:05, November 24, 2013