History GameBreaker / DragonAge

** Lasting Mark removes Mark of Death's ability to be detonated early, in exchange for a longer duration. Considering that MoD was already a game breaker, this allows for more ridiculous detonations.

* The Assassin's Mark of Death ability. When it goes off (and can be triggered early for more damage), it deals damage proportional to the amount of damage the target received during its duration. Couple it with massive-damage abilities like Mark of the Rift or the aforementioned Thousand Cuts ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill or both]]), and it can tear down ''[[BonusBoss dragons]]'' in mere ''seconds''.

** The Arcane Warrior is pretty much totally invincible once you have Shimmering Shield. You barely need a party on the hardest difficulty with this spec, even the hardest bosses can be easily worn down by yourself.

* With quick fingers, once can basically earn unlimited money. If you take an expensive item (the recommended one being The Veshialle, an axe you can buy from Bodahn Feddic from ''the start of the game''), put it in the Junk category (where you presumably stick your VendorTrash), then go to any merchant, you can sell it. However, if you hit the 'Sell all Junk' button and the regular sell button (normally your confirm button, PC players can remap their keys for this), you'll sell the item, but get it's monetary value twice. Buy the item back, and you only pay half the money you got. Do this for a few seconds and the game's economy means nothing.

** Sadly, the Trespasser DLC nerfed the specialization's signature ability, Spirit Blade. Now, you have to cast spells to charge up your blade, which will otherwise do significantly reduced damage. Since originally you could take upgrades that gave you shields based on the damage you did, you could be a nigh-unkillable melee warrior. But since the above change, you can't just stay at point blank anymore. It admittingly forces you to actually do things besides just spam the spirit blade spell endlessly, but it also certainly removes one of the most broken elements of the specialization. Still, the synergies mentioned above have lost nothing of their power (some were even enabled by the DLC in the first place), leaving Knight-Enchanters as broken as before overall, if not more so.
** Trespasser's Knight-Enchanter is a sight to behold and a joy to play. The new gears and ability upgrades are so tailor-made for the Knight-Enchanter that make you wonder if Bioware is overcompensating for the nerf of Spirit Blade. The most basic combination of Spirit Blade [[note]]increase damage with each hits from other spells[[/note]], Fade Touched Silverite/Obsidian [[note]]guard on hit[[/note]], optional Fade Touched Velveteen [[note]]Hidden blades on hit[[/note]] and new weapon Blade of Tidarion [[note]]2 elements, '''24''' Energy Barrage bolts[[/note]] creates an unstoppable killing machine that constantly maintain max blade charges, max armor and activate Hidden Blades every other energy barrage; cherry on top, you can take the Clean Burn passive [[note]]reduce cooldown with every spell[[/note]] and swing that zero-cooldown, mana-efficient Spirit Blades a few time to get Energy Barrage back up to unleash hell all over again.

** Trespasser's Knight-Enchanter is a sight to behold and a joy to play. The new gears and ability upgrades are so tailor-made for the Knight-Enchanter that make you wonder if Bioware is overcompensating for the nerf of Spirit Blade. To wit, the new weapon Blade of Tidarion (which you can get the schematics for doing War table missions immediately after reaching Skyhold) is a mage weapon that can have two elements at once [[note]]one innate and one from rune[[/note]], thus improving versatility and avoid overspecialization; the two elements also trigger '''24''' [[MagicMissileStorm Energy Barrage bolts]], not only dealing massive damage but also ''instantly'' charge Spirit Blade to full and max out Guard. With a proper armor with "gain X guard on hit"

** Trespasser's Knight-Enchanter is a sight to behold and a joy to play. The new gears and ability upgrades are so tailor-made for the Knight-Enchanter that make you wonder if Bioware is overcompensating for the nerf of Spirit Blade. To wit, the new weapon Blade of Tidarion (which you can get the schematics for doing War table missions immediately after reaching Skyhold) is a mage weapon that can have two elements at once [[note]]one innate and one from rune[[/note]], thus improving versatility and avoid overspecialization; the two elements also trigger '''24''' [[MagicMissileStorm Energy Barrage bolts]], not only dealing massive damage but also ''instantly'' charge Spirit Blade to full and max out Guard.

* An optimized dual-wielding spirit warrior. On the one hand, he benefits from the overpowered intensity runes, of which he can have six (meaning +30% crit as well as +60% crit damage for either weapon ''on top of the traits the weapons already have''); and on the other he benefits not only from spirit damage ignoring armor, but also from elemental bonus damage. A chest piece with three amplification runes (+5% on all elemental damage sources) and two spirit rings (one with +10% and one with +5%) bump this spirit damage by yet another 30%. With his over 80% crit rate fully buffed crits between 250 and 300 damage for every attack are basically standard.

* Bow wielding [[TrapMaster Artificers]] have a particularly potent [[EliteTweak combination of abilities]]. The two central abilities are their [[LimitBreak Focus Ability]], [[RainOfArrows Hail of Arrows]], and Leaping Shot in the Archery tree. Also necessary are Opportunity Knocks in the Artificer tree and Looked Like It Hurt in the Sabotage tree: Opportunity Knocks [[CooldownManipulation reduces all active cooldowns]] every time the user gets a critical hit, while Looked Like It Hurt restores the user's stamina on every critical hit. For this to reliably work, the Artificer needs a critical hit rate of at least fifty percent. When Leaping Shot is used during Hail of Arrows with the mentioned passive abilities, the shear number of hits can completely negate Leaping Shot's cooldown while fully restoring the Artificer's stamina, making it possible to continuously spam it the entire time Hail of Arrows is active. Against small enemies, Hook and Tackle can be used to make sure that every shot hits. Against large enemies, Hail of Arrows lasts long enough that the Artificer can just run back into position. With this combination, it is possible to take down a High Dragon in a matter of seconds. On Nightmare mode.

* Varric's crossbow Bianca is easily the strongest ranged weapon in the game. It puts out ''massive'' amounts of damage with just the basic auto attack. And it only gets stronger as the game goes on, automatically getting stronger as Varric levels up, allowing you to use it the entire game. Good thing too, since its the only weapon Varric can use in Dragon Age 2.
** Sadly in Inquisition, it got nerfed hard. It no longer automatically scales with Varric's level. You can upgrade its abilities through attachments, however the stronger attachments are often hard to find, and even with them Bianca's damage tends to be worse than regular bows of the same quality level. And like 2, Varric won't use any other ranged weapon besides Bianca, so his performance is a lot worse. Unlike 2, you can just slap him with 2 daggers instead, but considering his subclass, you won't really get the same mileage out of him as a dagger rogue as you would with Cole.

* It's quite easy, with the right build, for a Rogue to obtain a 95% chance to dodge. This is just as overpowered as it sounds, and makes most non-Mage enemies a joke.
** With the right equipment and build, mage can obtain both 100% chance to dodge AND 100% magic resistance. You can easily combine it with any spells mentioned above.

** The Mage spell Mana Clash drains enemy demon, abomination, or spellcasters' mana pools, and does Spirit elemental damage (which few enemies have a resistance to) in proportion to the mana it drains. It is entirely possible to [[OneHitKill one shot]] even the strongest of enemy mages with this spell, especially when empowered by its prerequisite Spell Might. It can usually take out entire rooms full of opponents in a single shot, which basically allows you to walk through the Circle Tower quest (where about 90% of your opponents will be vulnerable to it). It also does more damage to the victim if they have larger mana reserves, which means it allows you to make mincemeat of magic-wielding bosses (sometimes you can even kill them with a single shot if you use the aforementioned Spell Might). A lot of missions in the game become much, much easier if you bring along a Mage who can cast Mana Clash.

* With quick fingers, once can basically earn unlimited money. If you take an expensive item (the recommended one being The Veshialle, an axe you can buy from Bodahn Feddic from ''the start of the game''), put it in the Junk category (where you presumably stick your VendorTrash), then go to any merchant, you can sell i. However, if you hit the 'Sell all Junk' button and the regular sell button (normally your confirm button, PC players can remap their keys for this), you'll sell the item, but get it's monetary value twice. Buy the item back, and you only pay half the money you got. Do this for a few seconds and the game's economy means nothing.

* The same trick as above can also be used for duplicating items, so long as you have at least two. This also applies to the exceedingly rare tomes. While this means you have to wait for the skill and attribute tomes (the quickest way to get two has you wait until you've finished three main quests), this means that once you have two (easy for the Arcane and Physical Technique tomes; if you buy both from Bodahn when you first meet him in Lothering, then check back with him when you first access your camp, his inventory restocks completely, allowing you to buy them, then perform the trick; even better is that they even pay for themselves, since the item's buy value when you sell it is the exact same as it's sell value; unless you exit the merchant's menu without buying the items back, you essentially get them free (if you did exit, judicious application of the infinite money rick works wonders).

** If you get through enough of the [=DLC=] to get level 33, you get a ''fourth'' specialization. If you thought the Arcane Warrior was broken before, imaging an Arcane Warrior/Spirit Healer/ Blood Mage/ Battle Mage.

* Much like Arcane Warrior before it, the Knight-Enchanter specialization for mages is hilariously useful. Videos of Knight-Enchanters easily solo-ing High Dragons on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare Difficulty]] with the rest of the party dead appeared very quickly. On their own, the Knight Enchanter's abilities are simply powerful. What really destroys the game's difficulty is the synergy with spells of every other school, with not a single combination precluding another aside from limited skill points. To sum up: when the Inquisitor tells fellow Knight Enchanter Vivienne that they are the finest mages in Thedas, it is NotHyperbole.

** Sadly, the Trespasser DLC nerfed the specialization's signatur ability, Spirit Blade. Now, you have to cast spells to charge up your blade, which will otherwise do basically no damage. Since originally you could take upgrades that gave you shields based on the damage you did, you could be a nigh-unkillable melee warrior. But since the above change, you can't just stay at point blank anymore. Annoyingly, the combo animation the spellblade has is basically useless as only the first blow will do any real damage before expending the charges you built up. It admittingly forces you to actually do things besides just spam the spirit blade spell endlessly, but it also certainly removes one of the most broken elements of the specialization. Still, the synergies mentioned above have lost nothing of their power (some were even enabled by the DLC in the first place), leaving Knight-Enchanters as broken as before overall.

** Sadly, the Trespasser DLC nerfed the specialization. Now, you have to cast spells to charge up your blade, which will otherwise do basically no damage. Since originally you could take upgrades that gave you shields based on the damage you did, you could be a nigh-unkillable melee warrior. But since the above change, you can't just stay at point blank anymore. Annoyingly, the combo animation the spellblade has is basically useless as only the first blow will do any real damage before expending the charges you built up. It admittingly forces you to actually do things besides just spam the spellblade spell endlessly, but it also certainly removes one of the most broken elements of the specialization.