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Dragon Age II Hints
Hightown
1 of 12: Since you start the act in the Viscount's Keep, that's the best place to start looking for loot. (If you want to add companions in right away, go to the keep's exit and use the "gather your party" gimmick.)
2 of 12: There's a chest with a complex lock on it in the office that's just SW of the viscount's office. Your rogue will need a Cunning of 30+ to open complex locks.
3 of 12: Down in the guard barracks, there's a simple-locked chest in the north side room, and an unlocked chest in the west side room.
4 of 12: Exit to Hightown, then look for a lootable barrel along the north side of the square.
5 of 12: Go to the east side of the square and enter the Hawke Estate, which is your new home base. After a conversation or two take place, look around the main room to find your storage chest, writing desk, and item-ordering stations, plus Sandal and his enchantment station. Bodahn doesn't run a merchant store anymore, but you can talk to Sandal to get a special weapon rune.
6 of 12: Look in the eastern upstairs room for a chest with some finery in it, then look on a bench near the exit door for a Thedas calendar that you can get a codex entry from.
7 of 12: Exit the estate and go west to the chantry courtyard, where you'll find a lootable sack in the NE corner and a chest on the upper walkway NE of the chantry's entrance.
8 of 12: Enter the chantry and look for a codex item on the floor near Grand Cleric Elthina, then go to the northern upstairs area to find another codex item near the fireplace and a locked chest in the west room.
9 of 12: In the southern upstairs area, there's an evil tome that'll give you the "Forbidden Knowledge" side quest if you don't already have it, plus a lootable crate in the west side room.
10 of 12: Exit the chantry and head south to the Hightown Estates area, where you'll find some lootable rubble in the main area, plus a crate in the west courtyard area.
11 of 12: Go north to the market area and check the inventories of the three merchants for new items (including a backpack and some companion armor upgrades), then look for a bench near the NE corner of the area that has a codex item on it.
12 of 12: Enter the Blooming Rose and look for a lootable sack in the SE corner room, a locked chest in the southern upstairs room, and an unlocked chest in the northern upstairs room.
