History GameBreaker / DragonAge

** Coming Through, the new upgrade for Combat Roll, does 250% weapon damage to anyone the warrior passes through, turning a handy mobility talent into a hard-hitting, relentlessly spammable AreaOfEffectAttack...that is also a handy mobility talent.

** The latest patch of the game has nerfed the Thousand Cuts exploit. But there is a compensation tactic one can use with Tempest. As a Rogue, get the Throwing Knife skill. Upgrade the skill so that each knife thrown does more damage. Get the Fire of Flask, and upgrade it so there is no cooldown when using skills for 5 seconds. What you get is a powerful skill to spam for 5 seconds and do damage almost as brutal as Thousand Cuts.

*** All is not lost, as the Spirit Blade has a new upgrade: Amplified Blade, which builds up charges faster, but expends all of it in a single attack. This doesn't sound that beneficial until you consider Amplified Blade as a sort of LimitBreak, building charges with other attacks before walloping your enemies with a single, massive strike.

* ''The Descent'' DLC adds a quartermaster to your first camp in the Deep Roads who buys items for several times what any other merchant will. You can set up this camp shortly after reaching Skyhold, and money problems become a thing of the past.

** Mass Paralysis is a powerful crowd control spell that, unlike blood wound, has no restrictions on enemy type, leaving large groups of enemies sitting ducks for the entire party to slaughter. One of its prerequisite spells, Paralyze, is also extremely useful for freezing a powerful single enemy. A mage with high enough [[OneStatToRuleThemAll spellpower]] can even paralyze a High Dragon. Mass Paralysis does have the limit of requiring a charge period, but that is easily solved with...

** Add a Masterwork armor with Fade-Touched Silverite (which grants 5 Guard on hit), and you have ''another'' level of defense that you don't have to micromanage. At this point even on Nightmare difficulty, the only things that can possibly get past your defenses are the various rogues that appear in the DLC (backstabbers and rapid fire archers deal a lot of damage in a single strike)

** Add a Masterwork armor with Fade-Touched Silverite (which grants 5 Guard on hit), and you have ''another'' level of defense that you don't have to micromanage. At this point even on Nightmare difficulty, the only things that can possibly get past your defenses are the various rogues that appear in the DLCs (backstabbers and rapid fire archers deal a lot of damage in a single strike)

** Fade Cloak makes it very easy to avoid telegraphed attacks from bosses, but the upgrade allows the Knight Enchanter to TeleFrag any enemy they're standing inside when the effect ends. This causes a very large amount of damage, which translates to a very large amount of barrier from Fade Shield for when the Knight Enchanter is visible again.

** There's also the Archery skill Full Draw, a devastating blow at the beginning of an battle: When used on an enemy at full health, it hits for a whopping 1600% weapon damage, making it the single most massive attack bonus in the game. Flask of Fire means that you can do this multiple times, allowing you to land multiple devastating blows over the course of the five second duration. This can quickly thin the enemy ranks at the beginning of a fight, and at the end, you can use Stealth, and be hidden for 30 of the 32 second cooldown for Flask Of Fire. While the attack may lose some of its sting after the first hit, it is still one of the strongest attacks an archer can use, with an 800% damage bonus.

** Gathering Storm is an extra line of defense for most mages. For the Knight Enchanter, who will likely be hit while spamming Spirit Blade, it's even more damage [[UpToEleven on top of Veiled Riposte]].

* Much like Arcane Warrior before it, the Knight-Enchanter specialization for mages is hilariously broken. An Inquisitor and/or Vivienne with the proper build mix of the Knight-Enchanter and Spirit trees can cast a huge, damage soaking barrier that MUST be taken down before enemies can actually hurt you. Its mandatory for most mages since any other playstyle is a SquishyWizard, and Barrier is a much-needed safety net, but Knight-Enchanter gives you huge buffs to said barrier: it refills itself as you hack things with your Spirit Blade or any of your other damaging spells, decays more slowly, refreshes its own cooldown if it DOES go down, AND your mana regens much faster while you're near enemies. You can add other effects to it from other trees too: such as Mana Surge from the [[AnIcePerson Cold Tree]], which causes an icy explosion and lets you cast one spell for no mana cost when your Barrier goes down, and/or Rejuvinating Spirit from the Spirit tree, which increases mana regeneration even more any time you have a barrier active, which will be all the time thanks to Fade Shield. Your Barrier will never run out, and you never run out of the mana to fuel your Spirit Blade, which can reflect projectiles and does triple damage to enemies with Guard/Barriers of their own, making you a tank that can massacre other tanks. Oh, and you get a skill called Fade Cloak, which lets you become intangible for several seconds, allowing you to easily phase through telegraphed boss moves, and TeleFrag anyone you're standing inside when the cloak runs out. Videos of Knight-Enchanters easily solo-ing High Dragons on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare Difficulty]] with the rest of the party dead have already been made. Perhaps the most broken non-Knight Enchanter passive to use with the class is the Clean Burn ability from the Inferno tree, which reduces all active cooldowns by one second any time a spell is cast. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill This combines obscenely well with Spirit Blade and lets the Knight Enchanter throw their other spells much more often]].

* Some fade-touched materials allow for the masterwork ability "gain X guard on hit". Give this to a dual-wielding Rogue, and you end up with a nigh-invulnerable storm of knives. Fade Touched Silverite for example can be randomly found in Emprise du Lion giving players 5 Guard on hit which the player doesn't have access to until two-thirds of the game.
** Fade-Touched Obsidian does the same, if a bit less in numbers, and can be found waaay earlier.

* Much like Arcane Warrior before it, the Knight-Enchanter specialization for mages is hilariously broken. An Inquisitor and/or Vivienne with the proper build mix of the Knight-Enchanter and Spirit trees can cast a huge, damage soaking barrier that MUST be taken down before enemies can actually hurt you. Its mandatory for most mages since any other playstyle is a SquishyWizard, and Barrier is a much-needed safety net, but Knight-Enchanter gives you huge buffs to said barrier: it refills itself as you hack things with your Spirit Blade, decays more slowly, refreshes its own cooldown if it DOES go down, AND your mana regens much faster while you're near enemies. You can add other effects to it from other trees too: such as Mana Surge from the [[AnIcePerson Cold Tree]], which causes an icy explosion when your Barrier goes down, and/or Rejuvinating Spirit from the Spirit tree, which increases man regeneration any time you have a barrier active. Your Barrier will never run out, and you never run out of the mana to fuel your Spirit Blade, which can reflect projectiles and does triple damage to enemies with Guard/Barriers of their own, making you a tank that can massacre other tanks. Oh, and you get a skill called Fade Cloak, which lets you become intangible for several seconds, allowing you to easily phase through telegraphed boss moves, and TeleFrag anyone you're standing inside when the cloak runs out. Videos of Knight-Enchanters easily solo-ing High Dragons on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare Difficulty]] with the rest of the party dead have already been made. Perhaps the most broken non-Knight Enchanter passive to use with the class is the Clean Burn ability from the Inferno tree, which reduces all active cooldowns by one second any time a spell is cast. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill This combines obscenely well with Spirit Blade and lets the Knight Enchanter throw their other spells much more often]].

* The Tempest specialization for rogues has an ability called Flask of Fire which allows the Rogue to use all abilities with no cost or cooldown for 5 seconds. Normally that wouldn't be too impressive except that this effect also applies to Focus abilities, which are designed to be extremely powerful with the trade off of having to build the Focus resource in order to use them. With the only drawback removed they are exactly as overpowered as one might think. The Tempest's own Thousand Cuts ability with full tier 3 Focus can take off about 30% of a High Dragon's health in 2 seconds and it can be used whenever Flask of Fire is itself off cooldown, which is every 30 seconds.

* The Tempest specialization for rogues has an ability called Flask of Fire which allows the Rogue to use all abilities with no cost or cooldown for 5 seconds. Normally that wouldn't be too impressive except that this effect also applies to Focus abilities, which are designed to be extremely powerful with the trade off of having to build the Focus resource in order to use them. With the only drawback removed they are exactly as overpowered as one might thing. The Tempest's own Thousand Cuts ability with full tier 3 Focus can take off about 30% of a High Dragon's health in 2 seconds and it can be used whenever Flask of Fire is itself off cooldown, which is every 30 seconds.

* Some fade-touched materials allow for the masterwork ability "gain X guard on hit". Give this to a dual-wielding Rogue, and you end up with a nigh-invulnerable storm of knives. Fade Touched Silverite for example can be randomly found in Emprise du Lion giving players 5 Guard on hit which the player doesn't have access to until two-thirds of the game.

* Much like Arcane Warrior before it, the Knight-Enchanter specialization for mages is hilariously broken. An Inquisitor and/or Vivienne with the proper build mix of the Knight-Enchanter and Spirit trees can cast a huge, damage soaking barrier that MUST be taken down before enemies can actually hurt you. Its mandatory for most mages since any other playstyle is a SquishyWizard, and Barrier is a much-needed safety net, but Knight-Enchanter gives you huge buffs to said barrier: it refills itself as you hack things with your Spirit Blade, decays more slowly, refreshes its own cooldown if it DOES go down, AND your mana regens much faster while you're near enemies. You can add other effects to it from other trees too: such as Mana Surge from the [[AnIcePerson Cold Tree]], which causes an icy explosion when your Barrier goes down, and/or Rejuvinating Spirit from the Spirit tree, which increases man regeneration any time you have a barrier active. Your Barrier will never run out, and you never run out of the mana to fuel your Spirit Blade, which can reflect projectiles and does triple damage to enemies with Guard/Barriers of their own, making you a tank that can massacre other tanks. Oh, and you get a skill called Fade Cloak, which lets you become intangible for several seconds, allowing you to easily phase through telegraphed boss moves, and TeleFrag anyone you're standing inside when the cloak runs out. Videos of Knight-Enchanters easily solo-ing High Dragons with the rest of the party dead have already been made. Perhaps the most broken non-Knight Enchanter passive to use with the class is the Clean Burn ability from the Inferno tree, which reduces all active cooldowns by one second any time a spell is cast. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill This combines obscenely well with Spirit Blade and lets the Knight Enchanter throw their other spells much more often]].
* Some fade-touched materials allow for the masterwork ability "gain three guard on hit". Give this to a dual-wielding Rogue, and you end up with a nigh-invulnerable storm of knives.
* Not quite as bad as in the last game, but the two-blade Assassin specialization still puts out obscene amounts of damage while avoiding most enemy attacks.