I am trying to do the mission Unfinished Business for Cassandra. I have to hunt down Leo of Lucien Bay in the Western Approach (the desert in Orlais). I have found where he is, bus he is in some kind of fort. The gates are shut and when I click on it a message appears saying it is opened by some kind of mechanism. I have found two of these gates and there may be an entrance at the backside of the fort, but I can't get there. I expect that's an exit only.
I really don't know how to get past these gates. Searching on internet didn't help me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S: this is my first time talking on these forums, so my apologies if I do something wrong. ZandorPizzagasm (talk) 21:27, November 21, 2014 (UTC)
I had a similar problem at one point in time, I haven't gotten all the way yet but there are parts of the Western Approach that you have to unlock on the Map at Skyhold once you get far enough into the desert. Go to the left, from the area map, of the big fortress door and try and loop around behind the door. Eventually you will find an area thats like a valley but it's filled with poisonous gas, there is a half finished bridge at the beginning. You're looking for a spot to put one of those 'claim' flags down, this will trigger a mission on the War Map. Doing that will unlock another part of the area. I'm pretty sure if you go farther down there you can find the way to get past that door. [[User: JoKr}}
Thanks for the help, JoKr. I have done that already and that's how I got to backside of the fort. However, I can't jump high enough on the last part. I'll just wait untill the wiki is updated and hope it says somewhere how to get past it. ZandorPizzagasm (talk) 07:24, November 25, 2014 (UTC)
You get a mission from the captain in the keep you can take in the area. It will be something about investigating darkspawn. Then you go to the claim flag as JoKr said and do the operation on the war table to build a bridge thus clearing the gas. Just follow the built path up the hill and eventually you'll pop out in the section where you can finish Cassandra's quest. (24.240.3.170 (talk) 08:13, November 25, 2014 (UTC))
A gift from SoreEyes: As far as the back entrance goes, you can use your mount to jump up on the ledge to the right of the door. From there, just hop on down and unlock the door. I often use mounts to get to places I normally can't reach. Mounts can also be very useful in taking other shortcuts. For instance, if you've spent some time climbing and don't want to climb back down, get on your mount and jump down. this works just about everywhere except completely vertical drops. If there is a little bit of an angle to the drop, you can fall quite far without resetting. I'm in the area of Cassandra's quest now, and it is quit interesting. be sure to look for the quarry. It looks like a cave not far from where you enter via the ledge. Who nee's mekonizms? We don' nee' no stinking mekonizms!
I've just completed this area and exited the front entrance without using a mechanism. This area DOES NOT need the mechanism to activate it. Again, I entered by using a mount to get up on the ledge to the right of the Gates of Andoral. It can be a bit tricky to get up there, but it didn't take me more than a minute to find the sweet spot for jumping. This was accomplished on 12/27/2014 for those worried about the game being patched. I'm sure that now it's been discovered, it will eventually be patched in an update. This was also done before clearing the toxic area. I have no clue as of how that is done at this time. Hope this has been of some help to you and others in the same situation.