Dark Urge or not?

[SnyferX]

Hello everyone, I have a problem regarding the creation of a character.
Basically I would like to do an evil path and I would have an idea of ​​being an evil half-demon sorcerer, but I'm not sure about the background, because with the Dark Urge background bonuses are given to skills that are not very useful for the sorcerer, i.e. medicine and intimidation, instead of more useful skills for the sorcerer such as deception, persuasion, arcana, and intuition.
The fact is that I don't need medicine skills for the character I have in mind (intimidation a little better, but still not much) and this leads me to give up other skills such as Deception, Persuasion and Intuition, which I could have with a other background.
Now the question is: should I give up the role of Dark Urge for the creation of this evil character to make room for a background with skills more suitable for the sorcerer? Or should I give up some abilities for the Dark Urge?
The point is that I know you can take on an evil role even without the Dark Urge, but I wonder if it's as good as the Dark Urge.

[victorvnv]

You want evil you need to be d urge

[Remnant Melody]

You can literally change every aspect about Dark Urge. You do not have to play it as default if you don't want to. I'm a Drow bard/warlock in my current playthru. You can't change durge's couple of starter profficiences.. but your race/class etc and feats all get added together with it. It won't hurt you in the end of things.

Dark Urge just has its own unique tie-in to the story, can still roleplay your own headcanon while using Durge's story bits as creative fodder. If you want to -resist- the evil within, its a bit more compelling.. sure.. but nothing wrong with being an absolute bloodthirsty menace. You are not missing out if you don't care to add bits of its story/help it fuel you own.. you miss a Cape that allows you to go invisible when you kill (useful on rogues.. always goes to Astarion for me) and a beastly form known as The Slayer that isn't.. super great if you choose to slay an important NPC later.

Durge is rewarding in its own way, but not required to be evil.

[Calaestra ♥]

Durge is truly good for being "evil". All those scenes.

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by SassyKitKats:

You can literally change every aspect about Dark Urge. You do not have to play it as default if you don't want to. I'm a Drow bard/warlock in my current playthru. You can't change durge's couple of starter profficiences.. but your race/class etc and feats all get added together with it. It won't hurt you in the end of things.

Dark Urge just has its own unique tie-in to the story, can still roleplay your own headcanon while using Durge's story bits as creative fodder. If you want to -resist- the evil within, its a bit more compelling.. sure.. but nothing wrong with being an absolute bloodthirsty menace. You are not missing out if you don't care to add bits of its story/help it fuel you own.. you miss a Cape that allows you to go invisible when you kill (useful on rogues.. always goes to Astarion for me) and a beastly form known as The Slayer that isn't.. super great if you choose to slay an important NPC later.

Durge is rewarding in its own way, but not required to be evil.

Exactly! Treat it exactly as the name is. Just some dark urges

Roleplay like your normal character with these dark urges. Try to imagine how they manifest. For example, my last playthrough was a durge that was scared of the urges, and treated it like a disease. Tried finding every cure, every way. Scared of hurting others. Turned to necromancy in an attempt to satiate her urges on the already dead and tried to keep her lover safe

[Hawke]

The Dark Urge has a very specific background and the evil there is of the Chaotic Evil, murderhobo, type. Though, for a completely custom character playing evil is mostly the same - kill everyone with rather little payoff (the Good-aligned quest chains go through the whole game, the Evil ones do not).

So, I suppose, the Dark Urge has more motivation in terms of gameplay and story.

[Simbolic]

Can use any companion for about 95% of all dialogue. Using there high specific skill for a roll.
The preset origin background is really not going to hurt your casting build. over the entirety of the game.