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[Dragon's Dogma] Dragon's Dogma 2 in the making. Please be excited.

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  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    I can handle her being aggressive as long as she also starts hitting things with her gigantic hammer.

    It'll help when I finally max out sorcerer and go back to magic archer as well. Then I can actually do things rather than just spamming fireballs.

  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    The biggest problem with pawns is that over time they'll adopt your habits as their own. Fine and dandy if they're the same class as you, but if you're a front range fighter and they're a mage/archer...

    I didn't try it, but supposedly the ideal way to fix it is to get a whole mess of potions that have the skills you want, and just overload them. The idea being that math wise they'll have +100 or so in the skills you want, and thus won't get overwritten with your own playstyle. Or at least for a while anyways.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    That is exactly what the potions are for.

    Two potions for the secondary inclination.
    Then two potions for the primary.

    The primary will push the secondary down from max and overtake it.

    Bam molded to your whims. What each inclination does and which two are best for each type of pawn depends on what you want and what class they are.

    Matatabi knocked back more bottles of suspiciously dark liquid than an Irishman.

    If you want your pawn to smash things with his hammer give him Scather.

    http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Pawn_Inclination

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I look for Acquisitor in hired pawns.

  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    I'm better at it than they are so it was always kind of a waste.
    I liked pioneer though. Pioneer secondary and scather primary will make your hammer warrior range far ahead of you, then scream and charge at the first big monster he see's every time.

    Loooooved utilitarian in sorceror pawns though. Sometimes I wanna just boot up the game again and run around with three sorcs and a fighter. Triple bolide never gets old. I used to go four sorc outside BBI but you need at least one dude to distract them for a little while.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Yeah, Utilitarian is for team casting.

    It's the jack-all-of-trades trait for pawns.

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    Pioneer is nice because they go where you're pointing.

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    I'll have to try that two potions thing. As it was I took one to replace her secondary of guardian with a secondary of challenger, then after half an hour it was just back to guardian. I don't get it. The wiki says that only happens if you use help! or come! commands often, but I never use commands ever for anything.

    Maybe i'll just spam potions to get challenger to an absurd amount and leave it as the primary. Scather isn't going anywhere, since i'm pretty aggressive in attacking monsters.

    Lavender Gooms on
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    gonna be a typical BBI dragonforging run

    collected my two pawns and set out through the garden of ignominy

    death spawns, hired pawns are dumb and get ganked

    own pawn does magnificently (love her) and we eventually scare him off

    continue onto duskmoon because wyverns and curse dragons are goddamn jokes

    only it wasn't a wyvern. it was a firedrake.

    I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS.

    after a long, difficult battle (i'm specced assassin for this, naturally and can't just lolspam ninefold)

    he drops a goddamn level 3 weapon. fuck yes.

    and he and the follow-up curse dragon dragonforge my shit so uh

    mission accomplished

  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Reading the thread put me in the mood so I fire up the game to see how my little pawn is doing. He brought me back 160k rift crystals! Mostly from one person but at least he is being used. I tried to tailor him to bbi. Immune to sleep, blind, torpor, and possession which I think should help with players trying to kill drakes and death. It is still crazy to see how ninety levels of fighter can add up compared to ninety levels of strider. But at least my guy still hits pretty hard just not quite as hard a side of the rest.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Is the game still available on PSN+?

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    DD Quest is available in Japan.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQIUVGSoFCU

    Looks a little like Culdcept.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    yessssssss

    online ur-dragon kill get

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Congratulations. What did you get?

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    abyssinal set, saint george mask, ascalon, totem mace, lambent shield, and talarian white

  • Lavender GoomsLavender Gooms Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Finally maxxed sorcerer, and boy going back to magic archer feels like a breath of fresh air. Having to rely on the pawns for protection is not good times, and it's a lot more fun to have most of the utility yourself so even if they all wander off jumping and picking flowers you can still get things done.

    My main pawn maxxed warrior as well so I set her back to fighter. Is there any particular augment I should get from another class to help her in the fighter role, or will those two mostly cover it?

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    wanted to dragonforge my new armor, decided to spec strider since i hadn't used it since i capped it out, and i had a strider's band boosting downpour volley and helm splitter

    jesus mary and joseph

    brain splitter with eminence is insane

    it took me like, fifteen seconds to kill a cursed dragon

    3 shots to kill a gorechimera

    Elendil on
  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Like Sonic the hedgehog on steroids.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    On the 6th time I got Madeleine.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    got her both times

    completely intentionally

    also: got my last cheevo and finally killed death

    am i gonna have a reprieve from his bullshit now? i've been running into him every other chamber lately please tell me he needs like a week to respawn



    now i just need to beat the dark arisen boss again and then

    and then i dunno

    i don't want to stop

    but i'm all out of stuff

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    You are free. Like the dangan. :P

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  • The Cosmic FunctionThe Cosmic Function Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    So my brother randomly picked this up hoping to burn time and we didn't expect much out of it.

    Quite a few hours later my opinion have changed dramatically. Why does no one talk about this game? The combat blows away every other open world game I've played in recent years. There are some issues to be sure, like the traveling system(kind of the extreme opposite end of the recent elder scrolls easy warp system) and the repetitiveness of some encounters, but the boss fights! The combat system! The lack of level scaling and hand-holding!

    Sure the story is non-existent but I don't really play games to hear a story much anymore. I wish I would start discovering more dungeons and less chimeras though haha.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    The story exists. It's just veeeeeery slow.

    Also it doesn't care if you character is male or female or whatever you've done with your character setup, so you have things like a noblewoman hitting on my tween heroine.

    Once you've had Arisen you never go back, baybee.

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  • AusarAusar Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    So I've been playing Dark Arisen.

    I suck.

    I had to go on Easy mode because I suck so badly.

    But my pawn is awesome, due to her being a arrogant but loyal commrade who cares about me. Also she grabs monster for me to kill.
    Honestly awesome.

    Also random, I've notice everyone loves talking about the game, not a lot about the story. I hear it's kinda crazy at the end.

    Ausar on
  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    In the earlier parts of the game the bandits are tough but most of stuff doesn't require to change to easy. Most people just run past them.

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  • AusarAusar Registered User regular
    Also I've learned that being a Magic Archer is awesome.

  • KainyKainy Pimpin' and righteous Registered User regular
    So my brother randomly picked this up hoping to burn time and we didn't expect much out of it.

    Quite a few hours later my opinion have changed dramatically. Why does no one talk about this game? The combat blows away every other open world game I've played in recent years. There are some issues to be sure, like the traveling system(kind of the extreme opposite end of the recent elder scrolls easy warp system) and the repetitiveness of some encounters, but the boss fights! The combat system! The lack of level scaling and hand-holding!

    Sure the story is non-existent but I don't really play games to hear a story much anymore. I wish I would start discovering more dungeons and less chimeras though haha.

    I actually like the story quite a bit, it's just really easy to get off track because exploring is so fucking fun

    But yes. This game is like an Elder Scrolls, if Elder Scrolls had combat that wasn't awful. The lack of attention it gets is criminal.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    It has flaws but I love it.

    BTW, I just got a Cursed Light from BBI. Why are that one and Magebreaker almost impossible to find?

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    there are a ton of level 2 warrior weapon possibilities

    developments over the holidays:

    picked up Blackwing Bow - fucking finally
    picked up Devilsbane
    just now picked up Oblivion Coat (completing the set)

    as far as stuff i actually care about goes, i'm pretty well done

    which is why, a few days ago, i made a new live profile and started an alt

    that's a great scam

    i can gift myself BBI cursed items, everfall gear, ur-dragon loot, and drag my alt pawn through BBI to earn Texas RC

    one day, i hope to have my alt level enough where i can use two of my own pawns

    suck it, randoms!

    (i'm gonna try rolling a mystic knight, i.e. the warrior type character who's not completely incompetent at range)

    Elendil on
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    right now i'm collecting bitterblack novelty 3s in the hopes of acquiring the athleticism augment on my alt before i start using ferrystones to go literally everywhere

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    The problem with the MK is the low physical attack growth.

    People have doing the extra alt account from the beginning. The thing that could impact you would be stamina drain from the weapons if you don't have high enough level.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Ausar wrote: »
    Also I've learned that being a Magic Archer is awesome.

    I'm a MK guy but MAs are also the most stylish class in the game. Haha.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    yeah, i'm not using the super stuff yet

    it'll just be there when i need it without having to go through all the hoops i did last time

    ascalon: not a great sword, level 140, post-BBI

    probably a great sword at like, level 50

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    Well, the enchanted weapons hardly compare to the raw damage level 3 weapons can provide. They are there for some special attacks like Holy furor and Stone Forest.

    They are dependant on the elemental enchantment spells for the extra damage.

    I've been toying with Dark Enchanter with my MK and I think I insta-killed a regular ogre.

    Archsorcerer on
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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    I still have trouble picking the augments for the MK. Clout, Acuity and Sinew are the important ones but I can't decide on the other ones.

    Stability seems mandatory with all the dragons in the area.

    EDIT: Also, Deep Down

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTwPVlvwFA

    Archsorcerer on
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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Yay! Level 100 finally.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    is this not your first character

    i'm like, level 170 now

    and i got it like a month ago

    alternate possibility: i've played way too fucking much

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    6th character. :D

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  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I stick to one, when possible. Altitis is a condition developers inflict me through arbitrary limitations.

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    fuck me

    i gifted one too many things to my alt at once and lost my goddamn berserkin

    i went through hell getting that fucking thing

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