Hello guys, hope all of you are doing good!!

P.s:

This sort of grind is something I have always hated. I am more of a guy who would go with the flow. Enjoy the story and the animations. This game itself is for people who love the strenuous farming.

Last time you saw the Herald going for the new adventure at Orlais with new party members. Vivienne, a mage with high influence in major part of the city had joined the Inquisition and is helping in their quest.

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Located and collected the shards first thing was the first thing that I did. The rocky place was very hard to traverse. I only found afterwards that there were easier routes yet I chose the more difficult ones when collecting the shards. I came down the mountain and suffered a good 130+ damage in order to collect a shard by the Upper Level of mines.
• I found a new base camp. On the way to the camp I was engaged in a battle. I was losing a battle with a pack of wolves. After seeing that, I decided to switch. Swapped Vivienne for Varrick. Boy was it a good decision, the only tank I had was Cassandra so the over all HP of the group was being compromised.

I found 3 new mining networks that were enormous. It was funny to see that Cassandra was the one to knock down the wooden barricade when the Herald was a much bigger fellow, looked stronger too. I found my mortal nemesis in the game. They asked me to get it’s eggs and an Ichor. That is, a spider. I hate spiders. Always hated them, it will continue even when I am not around. Nothing would change my mind.

I found and closed 2 rifts so far.

I found obsidian. Not sure if it was from the earlier lands or here.

I found a new cave, an ancient one that required shards. Good thing that I had been collecting them. I opened the first lock and saw that a similar second one was present just ahead, that didn’t show how much I would need.

• Underneath it was a dungeon. It had 3 different enemy types: fire, ice, spirit.

All dungeons required an amount of shard to unlock. I unlocked the fire first. The loot inside was good considering that I had gotten over 500 coins there.

I opened other other 2 dungeons and saw that each have me a ring of resistance to their respective elementals and that they each had a second door. They also gave me a good number of coins too. I am aiming for the expensive stuff that I had seen back at the Black Emporium. That needed more shards.

Many times Cassandra was pointing at how the shards led us there. I believe this is a huge side quest.

I haven’t even gone for the main quest yet😅.

I ran out of shards and so I went back to the sandy rocky lands in search of the shards. During this time my storage was reaching it’s maximum and so I had to return back to Haven.

I sold all the valuables.

Enjoy the gameplay!