Yeah, I didn't even know about the High Dragon my first play through. This time I'm using a walkthrough 'cause I want to get through the game fast and it was all like "bang the gong and kill the High Dragon" and I'm like "wtf is the High Drag... *bong* OH SHIT DUDE!" and got the dragon scale and had that dude make me some dragon scale armour. Alistair's rockin' pretty hard now.
And holy hell but an Arcane Warrior is all kinds of awesome. She sucks at attacking, but I got my tiny-ass elf mage to wear the juggernaut armor. She looks badass, especially with that unique Arcane Warrior sword. Gotta get her a better shield, though - all she has is a heavy metal kite shield right now. She's all like *slice* *MISS* *dice* *hack* *slash* BOOM FIREBALL, MIND BLAST, CONE OF COLD, *slice*
And man, I'm in Orzamaar right now (did Mage Tower, then Redcliffe, then Breccilian Forest, now Orzamaar) and I'm in the deep roads (Ortan Thaig, etc.) WITHOUT Oghren. I didn't know you could do that. I was dreading having to replace Alistair with him, 'cause he's a 2H'er and Alistair's a 1h+Shield tank, and he's got awesome armour and accessories and I didn't want to have to go through the trouble of switching everything between the two characters, but I guess I don't have to. Pretty awesome. (I've not gotten to Broodmother yet, nor the Anvil, so I don't know if I'm going to have to replace him, but I'll get to that when I get to that.)