Took me a month, due to low play times, to get out of Hinterlands. I didn't 100% it by any means. Only level 5. But getting back to Haven, learning all the crafting stuff, and getting to the war room to start doing those missions has been really cool.
I've also added Sera and Vivienne to my party. Quick question on that though. What would be the point of not taking them in? You can choose who you want in your party, and change it up whenever, so why would anyone just neglect them? Changes the story?
Also, with my super low play times, I was playing on Nightmare, and things were going slow as shit. Lots of deaths, lots of resting. Dropped it down to Casual, and while the fights are stupid easy, at least I feel like I'm getting something done when I play for 20 minutes. Will probably settle on something in the middle, like Hard to balance it out.
I can't decide between Cassandra, Solas, Vivienne, or Cassandra, Varric, Sera. Or just balanced and go 1 mage, 1 rogue. I'm a 2 handed warrior, but I feel like the 2 mages would be really awesome. But having a dagger rogue, would be neat too.