If you’re looking for hints, tips, and cheats for BioWare’s epic RPG Dragon Age: Origins, you’ve come to the right place. Who are BioWare, you ask? They’re the lovely folks behind Mass Effect and its follow-up, Mass Effect 2.
I’m not saying we’re going to hold your hand, but we’ll help give you a fighting chance against those dreaded Darkspawn. There are glitches to exploit and general hints to keep in mind that will make your time playing Dragon Age a whole hell of a lot easier.
Specialization Books For Free
Specialization books can be a great help, but they also cost a pretty penny. Wouldn’t it be nice to get them for free? Here’s what you do: find a vendor that sells the book you want and then save your game before buying it. Purchase the book, and you’ll unlock the specialization. Then, reload your game to the point right before the purchase. You’ll have all of your gold back, but the specialization will still be unlocked.
Level Up Exploit
Important: this glitch has been corrected by a patch, so there’s a good chance that you can’t use it. A few Dragon Age Origins cheat codes for the Xbox 360 have been made obsolete like this. However, for those few that haven’t downloaded the update, here it is.
When working on the Tainted Blood mission in Ostargar, collected the vials of Darkspawn Blood but do not get the Grey Warden Treaties. Return to Duncan and speak to him, and then choose the dialogue option that tells him you have the blood, but not the scrolls. You won’t be able to turn in the mission without them, so he’ll turn you away, but you’ll still get the experience.
And it gets better! You can repeat this conversation as many times as you’d like, all the way up to the level 25 cap, though it will take a while. If you have the patience to max your level through this, my helm is off to you.
Traps Are a Girl’s Best Friend - Gold and XP Exploit
Again, this is another one of the Dragon Age Origins cheat codes for the Xbox 360 that has been corrected by some Xbox Live updates, but it’s still worth mentioning, because I’m sure it will help some.
In the city of Lothering, you can get the quest Traps Are a Girl’s Best Friend, as long as you haven’t been caught stealing in the city. Otherwise, the quest giver won’t talk to you. The quest doesn’t seem like anything special at first, but you can do it as many times as you’d like, earning XP and a good amount of gold each time.
Unequip Your Party in the Origin Story
Despite the name of this article being “Dragon Age Origins cheat codes for the Xbox 360”, some of these aren’t cheats at all, but rather hints. Still, hints help just as much.
This one may be a little tricky during your first playthrough, as you won’t know exactly when your origin story will end. Each tale in Dragon Age begins with a little origin quest that sets up your story before you jump into the main game. Once you begin the main game, you’ll leave any allies you had prior behind. Because of this, it’s a good idea to unequip them shortly before you move on, so you get to keep all of their weapons, armor, and trinkets. This way you can give them to other allies later on or just sell them. If your allies have them equipped once you move past that chapter of the game, you’ll lose them forever.
Unlimited Enhancement Crystals
In Redcliff, when you have to defend the town, you can convince the innkeeper to join the fight. This results in the barmaid taking over the inn, and she’ll give you anything in the shop for free, including the enhancement crystals that Shale uses. You can leave the inn and come back and she’ll have more, different crystals. However, after you reach the “Cear” tier, she will start charging 1 gold each.
Be sure to not leave the town before defending it, otherwise the barmaid may end up dead, and your sweet deal along with her.
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You can do this glitch when you are doing the quest at the beginning for the gray wardens where you have to go into the wild and get the three vials of darkspawn blood and the warden papers. Go into the wilds an get the blood but not the papers, go back to Duncan and talk to him, you will get the experience every time you talk to him. You can keep talking to him as many times as you want to.
It is possible to recruit loghain, but it is pricey. First, you must win the landsmeet against loghain. Then you have to duel him as yourself, not with any other party members. When you beat him, show him mercy. Alistair will want to kill him, but riordan will give you the option to put him through the joining. If you say yes, loghain will join your party, but alistair will leave your party, and you will never see him again.
You are told that when you slay the archdemon, you die with it, thus ending the game right there. This death can be avoided, but it takes a while. First, you must have morrigan in your party at all times from when you get her. You have to bring her approval meter all the way up, and you have to sleep with her. Then, the night before the final battle, go to your room at castle redcliffe and she should be there waiting for you. She will ask if you want to have sex with her, and the baby will take the archdemon spirit. If you agree to have sex with her, when you slay the archdemon, the spirit will go into morrigan and no one dies. Plus, you get a 50g achievement.
Mages are very crucial if you want to survive in the land of ferelden I'm play a warrior but mages area spells came come in handy in many different ways. They can be used at great distances to get the drop on your enemies and have most eliminated before any melee combat ensues, they can also be used through walls at safe distance without enemy detection until its too late, combining area spells at multiple locations deals tremendous damage to foes as well. when fight dragons and other bosses cone of cold can stop even the most devastating of there attacks right in there tracks allowing you and party members to move from harm.
Watchguard Of The Reaching - Reward Is Yusaris 2H Sword
Statues on Third Floor (Watchguard of The Reaching) - Reward is Yusaris Two-Handed Sword
Click Left Statue
Click Right Statue
Click Middle Statue, then go click on statue in the Circle of 4 Statues near Stairs Up Next go down 2 floors to basement entrance in the Apprentice Quarters . Click on door & be ready to fight a semi-difficult demon.
Summoning The Sciences Exercise #4
Summoning the Sciences Exercise # 4 (Unless you have atleast Expert Stealing Skill, make sure Lileina with you)
A. Click on Summoning Font
B. Tome of Spirit Personages
C. Rodecromes Uncommon Calling (first column support shelves)
D. Magus Gorvish Statue
E. Elvorn's Grande Beastiary
F. Click on Common Table
G. Spiritium Etherialis
H. Magus Gorvish Statue
I. Novice Phylactery
J. Click Fourth Summoning Flames around the back of the wall near stairs up and when the Ghost guy reappears target him & click on Stealing to get your reward.
While going through the mages tower as the gray wardens early in the game, while saving the mages tower from the demons you enter a room with the summoning items, such items are summoning font summoning 1, 2, 3 etc. Anyways some of the combinations that I found for this room are as followed. 1. Summoning font, tome of spirit personages, summoning the first. A slain lamb will appear (i do not know what this does but that was the 1st 1 I found). 2. Summoning front, elvorn's grande besiary, common table carbing spot, spiritorum etherialis, magus gorvish, novice phylactery, 3rd summoning portal. *you will fight a fade ruifter. 3. Summoning front, elvorn's grande bestiary , rodercoms uncommon calling, magus gorvish, summoning the second. A man will appear (ghost) I do not know of his meaning just yet maybe he will be of later use...
Archdemon Finale: How To Get It Done
Ok, after the first 7 times I died trying to kill the Archdemon I decided to take a more environmental look at it. Attacking head on worked great until the Archdemon flew over to an area seperated by a giant crack/fissure in the ground thus rendering myself (or you) helpless to the unending wave of darkspawn minions to eventually weather you out and kill you. Like I said before after the first 7 or so times I looked around that area for things that may help. In doing so I found 3 ballistas (may have been a fourth but found no need to locate it). If you do this right you shouldn't need fire one arrow or swing your sword once and only use maybe 4 health potions tops. From the very start turn around and go up the stone ramp behind you. You'll see a ballista and another one on the other far side. Turn the first one around (will automatically zone to Archdemon) and commence firing repeatedly. I suggest you summon the mages to help you out. After a while the dragon will fly around back and forth but just keep turning the ballista and firing and you may have to use the ballista across from it when needed. After another long while the Archdemon will fly over to that seperated area of land I mentioned earlier and summon an army of darkspawn. If ur mages are all dead id summon the elves next for suppressing fire. IMMEDIATELY after the Archdemon flys over there, head back down the ramp you first ran up and head across the way up another one and through an open area into another area enclosed with another ballista that's DIRECTLY facing the Archdemon now and is in close range, fire until it flys again right behind you in that new open area I just mentioned and turn and fire until you think its safe ( you should be but be wary don't die after all this) and run up to the Archdemon and it should either collapse or you just have to finish it off. You'll then see a cinamatic of your character finish it off. Congrats you killed it.