My parties end up with at least one of each class as a default set up, which is my cautious side going "but you might neeeed them".
For Origins, I stuck to Alistair, Morrigan and Leliana pretty consistently. I only swapped Leliana for Zevran in my second playthrough because I was romancing him.
With DA2, once I played a few times, I broke the class balance rule to mix it up and get interesting banter I hadn't heard before. I also tend to keep rarer characters such as the Hawke twin and Sebastian in as much as possible while they are available. But it's a rare playthrough I don't take Fenris everywhere.
Inquisition is the one that has been affected the most strongly by my character's preferences. While my first Inquisitor stayed close to Varric, Cassandra and Solas, my second had Iron Bull, Vivienne and Sera.
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For Origins, I stuck to Alistair, Morrigan and Leliana pretty consistently. I only swapped Leliana for Zevran in my second playthrough because I was romancing him.
With DA2, once I played a few times, I broke the class balance rule to mix it up and get interesting banter I hadn't heard before. I also tend to keep rarer characters such as the Hawke twin and Sebastian in as much as possible while they are available. But it's a rare playthrough I don't take Fenris everywhere.
Inquisition is the one that has been affected the most strongly by my character's preferences. While my first Inquisitor stayed close to Varric, Cassandra and Solas, my second had Iron Bull, Vivienne and Sera.