Dragon Age Inquisition Patch 13 〈iOS〉

Forget combat tweaks. Forget ability balancing. The single most celebrated line in the Patch 13 notes was a simple sentence: "A new special delivery has arrived at the Undercroft for players who have completed the main game."

This was the Golden Nug.

Before Patch 13, Inquisition suffered from a severe case of "New Game Plus Envy." If you wanted to start a second playthrough with your hard-earned schematics—the rare Dragon materials, the unique Superior Battlemaster Armor, the Masterwork tier items—you were out of luck. Every new Inquisitor began with nothing but a rusty sword and a prayer.

The Golden Nug changed everything. This small, gilded statue of a nug (a recurring, comical rodent-like creature in the series) appeared on a table in the Undercroft of Skyhold. Interacting with it would synchronize your entire schematic collection across all save files on that platform. Beat the game on Nightmare? Your fresh Level 1 rogue could now craft Tier 4 gear from the start.

It was a lore-friendly, elegant solution that turned Inquisition from a one-and-done narrative into a true sandbox for experimentation. Suddenly, players were speed-running to Haven just to unlock the Nug. Build-crafting exploded overnight. dragon age inquisition patch 13

Because Patch 13 fixed the metadata carryover, the choice to disband or keep the Inquisition now properly flags for potential import into Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (assuming its rumored 2028 release uses The Keep 2.0). Hardcore roleplayers refuse to finish Trespasser without Patch 13 active.

Technically, The Black Emporium DLC launched shortly before Patch 13, but the patch integrated it seamlessly into the core experience. For free. Players could now visit Xenon the Antiquarian—a decaying, talking corpse with impeccable taste—to buy rare crafting materials, schematics, and most crucially, The Mirror of Transformation.

The Mirror allowed players to completely re-customize their Inquisitor’s appearance (though not race or class). That awful vallaslin you chose at 2 AM? Gone. The haircut that looked great in the character creator but horrible in actual cutscenes? Fixed. Patch 13 normalized the idea that you shouldn't have to restart a 100-hour RPG because you messed up your character's nose.

Looking back, Dragon Age: Inquisition Patch 13 represents a turning point in live-service support. It arrived just as BioWare abandoned the game’s promised "single-player DLC season" (only Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser were released). Fans had expected a fourth DLC set in Weisshaupt Fortress with the Grey Wardens. Patch 13’s quiet release all but confirmed those plans were dead. Forget combat tweaks

However, in the pantheon of "final patches," Patch 13 ranks alongside Fallout: New Vegas’s final update and Mass Effect 3’s Extended Cut. It didn’t add content, but it fixed the foundation so that the existing content could shine.

As one Reddit user, u/SolasDidNothingWrong, put it:

"Patch 13 made Inquisition feel like the game we saw in E3 2014 trailers. Not perfect. But finally, finally playable without rage-quitting over inventory menus."

Beneath the shiny surface of golden statues and magic mirrors, Patch 13 was a scalpel to the game's combat meta. BioWare listened to the forums, and the changes were surgical: "Patch 13 made Inquisition feel like the game

No major patch is perfect. While Patch 13 fixed a thousand cracks, it introduced a few hairline fractures of its own.

Given the age of the game, you might be playing a physical disc copy without an internet connection. Here is what you need to know:

Warning for Disc Users: If you play the base v1.0 disc without connecting to the internet, you will be playing a broken game. You will suffer the "banter bug," the "Sutherland and Company" table bug, and the "Hissing Wastes dragon resurrection" glitch. Do not play Dragon Age: Inquisition offline.

While Patch 13 was primarily focused on fixes, it did introduce some changes to gameplay mechanics to better balance the experience: