I'm trying to remember all the useful places I put crystals for convenient warping. Kind of drawing a blank, but I know where I put one. If you completely go through the Witchwood, you'll come out on a little cliff almost right outside Cassardis. "Why would I put one there when Cassardis is a warp point?". Because a port there means easy access to the Witchwood, and it's honestly kind of easier to go through the woods in reverse if you need to get to that whole south west area of the world map. Otherwise it's really a slog to get there the normal way.
Speaking of, the ancient quarry to the northwest of Gran Soren. When properly cleared out via a quest (gotten at the entrance to it), it becomes an encounter-free shortcut, putting you out near the Shadow Fort. It is highly recommended to do that as soon as possible.
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There was also that Healing Spring I would often port back to to stock up on some kickass healing water.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
Well finally encountered another huge monster during this Everfall quest. My crew was barely denting the HP bar of this ogre gorilla dude and the only reason we won was because it drop-kicked itself off the edge to its death.Still got the experience points and a level up from it too!
If you want to know what this is about and don't care about minor spoilers:
First off, I'm an unashamed wiki abuser, even on first playthroughs of games. Because of this I've learned about a particularly tough-to-get item in one of the quests, a golden idol you only have one chance to get per playthrough, which is very useful and valuable. Have to hang out with a spoiled little girl around town, and do it perfectly so she's really happy with you.
5 years after the game came out, someone finally noticed that there is a second idol in their house, up high in the rafters. In that thread several people figure out how to get it by stacking barrels and jumping on them, and there's video of someone doing it. It turns out it's actually a forgery, but is still nice to have. You have to do this before she gives you the idol, because it disappears afterward...yeah, she gives you a real one, which removes the forged one from their house. Go figure.
So I decided to try to do this.
The tough thing is that two barrels stacked on top of each other generally isn't enough, you can't quite reach it. Something weird and physics-y has to happen for another barrel to jut upward at least slightly, to give you the tiniest boost.
Through some shenanigans with a barrel that ended up lying diagonally, I found myself able to stand on top of two barrels with a third in hand, and dropped it, which would normally place it directly on top of the other two...which it did, sort of. For some reason, the middle barrel fell out, and the top one stayed where it was, as in the second pic above.
Unfortunately, in spite of this floating barrel, you're not able to stand on top of it! Or at least, I wasn't, as a huge character. Others might have more luck.
I kept messing around, trying to get a barrel into an intermediate position up there, and finally did it, which was the first pic above. I was able to stand on that second one and grabbed the golden idol with ease!
Now, there was another complication to all this.
The part of the game I'm at is the exact point to start the quest to escort Symone around town. Fournival is downstairs with a green quest marker over his head, his disposition is high due to having completed the eviction quest in his favor. I ran all over town gathering barrels and stacking them up in his dining room, and each time I passed him he still had that quest marker.
However, suddenly after hauling in the 5th or 6th barrel, I noticed the quest marker was gone. I hadn't bumped into him or robbed his house or done anything that should've made him feel any differently about me. All of a sudden I couldn't do the quest. He just wanted to act as a vendor. I gave him many gifts but it didn't help. I also reloaded the game and tried barrel stacking at least 3 times (a few times I broke several barrels and wanted to start over) and this happened each time. In fact, when I finally reached the idol and was hoping to still be able to do the quest, I even gave him his own forged idol back to him in the hopes that raising his disposition by a lot would make the difference. It did not.
Right now my hypothesis is that if you enter and exit his house too many times, or let too much time pass from the moment you see the quest offered to actually accepting it, you lose your opportunity.
So I've reloaded my checkpoint and won't be grabbing that idol. But at least I know I can do it, with the power of jank physics at my side!
You can portcrystal through escort-quests, but you don't need to. Most common enemies don't have attacks that will reliably hit a moving target, and if you run so fast that the NPC does not keep up with you, the NPC will move as fast as it is allowed to in a more or less straight line to the goal, and if you do not turn the camera toward the NPC it may occasionally teleport. You do not need to stay close enough to the NPC to see it, or take any action in general after parking at or slightly past the goal. Rate of success is high.
So, the talk of Switch players has gotten me to start up playing on PC again, which has given me a new subject to info dump on (though not nearly as long as the Pawn one)
And that is: Bitterblack Isle cursed items!
So, here's the fun little trick in regards to them; The RNG seed that's used for deciding which item you get when you purify was created when you started the game, is specific to each type you can purify, and never changes. If, for example, a Bitterblack gear Lv1 gave you a Virtuoso Ring, and you reloaded, you will get the same ring with the same stats. If you reloaded, gave that specific gear to another pawn and purified a different lvl 1 gear, you would still get that same ring. If you reloaded, purified other stuff, and then did the lvl 1 gear, you would get the same ring. What you get next for your cursed items is immutable.
...With one exception. When it comes to Weapons, Armor, and Gear that turns out to be skill-changing rings, there is a second parameter that's taken into account: What type of Vocation you and your primary pawn are. It uses this to pick between a set of up to 3 different pieces, based on whether you both are Fighters/Warriors (aka "Red" vocations), Striders/Rangers (Yellow), or Mages/Sorcs(Blue), with Hybrid vocations counting for the two "colors" that make up that vocation and picking randomly between the qualifying colors. This means that if, for example, you are a Sorc and your pawn in a Mage, it will always give the "Blue" result for that specific purification, but if your pawn is a Ranger, it's a 50/50 shot for a Blue or Yellow result.
So when purifying Weapons, Armor and Gear, the smart thing to do is to sleep at the bench next to Orla (this creates a checkpoint save, which is faster to reload from than a normal save) switch both you and your pawn to the same "color" vocations, purify everything at once and write down the results, reload and do it twice more with the other colors, and then reload one more time and swap vocations as needed to get the gear you actually want.
How do hotkeys work on switch anyway? I have one assigned to lantern but it just gives orders to my pawns instead.
You have to hold L and R when using the hot keys. A little awkward but I’m using it for the lantern and healing.
Also super early though, quick question: I have no sense of how this game is paced. Apparently I missed a couple side missions because I followed the main quest for like, ten minutes, barely out of the starting area. Should I be shooting off on my own this early? I just got access to pawns, so it seems pretty sudden.
Also, on pawns: if I take in a high level pawn of a friend’s am I essentially turning on easy mode? I’m hesitant to hire anyone given the limited currency, but these free super high level pawns seem like they could break the game.
How do hotkeys work on switch anyway? I have one assigned to lantern but it just gives orders to my pawns instead.
You have to hold L and R when using the hot keys. A little awkward but I’m using it for the lantern and healing.
Also super early though, quick question: I have no sense of how this game is paced. Apparently I missed a couple side missions because I followed the main quest for like, ten minutes, barely out of the starting area. Should I be shooting off on my own this early? I just got access to pawns, so it seems pretty sudden.
Also, on pawns: if I take in a high level pawn of a friend’s am I essentially turning on easy mode? I’m hesitant to hire anyone given the limited currency, but these free super high level pawns seem like they could break the game.
Hiring a pawn that is the same level as your group shouldn't cost anything iirc.
Also, on pawns: if I take in a high level pawn of a friend’s am I essentially turning on easy mode? I’m hesitant to hire anyone given the limited currency, but these free super high level pawns seem like they could break the game.
It certainly does make it easier, but it's not quite as free as it seems; having pawns that are higher-level than you slows down your exp gain.
Hey, whoever on Switch has Marin as their pawn, I noticed you taught her some more skills! I'm using Marin all the time as my healer, she's great.
From what I have read online, it's best to teach them the second level heal but not the third, because all pawns will ALWAYS charge up skills to their highest possible level, until they are either interrupted by an enemy or decide on their own to do something different. This means with the highest heal they will never decide a lower level is "good enough," all your heals will start taking a really long time to go off as they charge it all the way up, and there's no way to drop the skill back down to an earlier level.
Also super early though, quick question: I have no sense of how this game is paced. Apparently I missed a couple side missions because I followed the main quest for like, ten minutes, barely out of the starting area. Should I be shooting off on my own this early? I just got access to pawns, so it seems pretty sudden.
There are a lot of snap decision game changers in this game. Stuff that seems minor but ends up having a butterfly effect on future encounters. For example if you fail to save the life of the guy being attacked by goblins at the very start of the game, you miss out on his shop and the quests he offers.
Essentially your choices are read a detailed guide as you go, or decide that it doesn't really matter to you and you'll take it as it comes, because the game has new game+ and you can always do those quests the second time around. But yeah. Follow along with a wiki or you're probably going to miss a lot, and you have to make your peace with that.
Well, god damn it. Like I said, everything in this game balances on a razor's edge of doing it just right or you miss out on stuff.
Just missed out on a bunch of things because I walked through the wrong door in the castle. The game immediately made an automatic checkpoint save which is like a double-save, none of the load game vs. restore from checkpoint, it's all the same save.
After meeting with the duke, you walk out into the courtyard and you're supposed to get a scene where you see a lady in the garden, and you have to go talk to her directly before walking to the exit, otherwise she's just absent from the game along with her quests.
Well I dicked around and went into the dungeons, and went out the secret exit there, and circled back around to the front of the castle and went in the main entrance, which skipped the scene where you see her at all and saved over everything irrevocably.
So...I guess that's new game+. Except I don't know if I'll have time or the stomach for that, which is why I was kind of hoping to do everything the first time through.
You dodged a bullet she is the worst character in the game.
Like, not just the worst character in the game but her quests are frustrating and the stuff that happens due to interacting with her actively makes the overall experience worse.
When I started NG+ I marched up to the castle, picked her up, and threw her off a cliff into the ocean.
Marin is my pawn. Wow, thanks for the advice. I'll make sure to keep her heals at level 2.
I mentioned this in my massive pawn post only a couple pages ago... :sad:
But yeah, Grand Anodyne (which requires equipping a special ring, so not exactly irreversible) takes too long. Some people even stick with normal Anodyne, since it's even faster, but High Anodyne continues to heal you even after leaving the AoE, albeit slowly, and IMO makes it more useful.
Also, you'll want to max out Sorcerer vocation on Marin to get the Articulacy augment that reduces cast times for spells, and perhaps Gravitas so it's harder for Marin to get knocked down while casting.
Beyond that, biggest must-have in terms I'd augments for everyone, pawn and Arisen, is Sinew in Fighter, which increases carry capacity. Warrior and Sorc also have Clout and Acuity, respectively, which are %increases to Strength and Magick Strength.
Also, FYI augment descriptions can be hella confusing (probably mistranslation.) When it talks about "cumulative damage" in regards of debilitations, what it's really taking about is speeding up/slowing down how long it takes for debilitations to take effect. The wording kinda makes sense when you realise that debuffs aren't a chance on hit thing, but rather a build up until they take effect thing.
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Not a mistranslation, they're just very bluntly speaking about the hidden status gauges that work exactly the same as in dark souls and monster Hunter. It wouldn't be confusing if you could actually see them fill up, but only dark souls shows this on screen.
Anyone getting service not available messages when accessing servers on switch? Happened last night when I tried syncing my pawn at an inn. Still happening today, and will hang on an NPC conversation if the game tries accessing servers giving the error message as well. Which is weird because I can still search for pawns in rift stones.
Well, god damn it. Like I said, everything in this game balances on a razor's edge of doing it just right or you miss out on stuff.
Just missed out on a bunch of things because I walked through the wrong door in the castle. The game immediately made an automatic checkpoint save which is like a double-save, none of the load game vs. restore from checkpoint, it's all the same save.
After meeting with the duke, you walk out into the courtyard and you're supposed to get a scene where you see a lady in the garden, and you have to go talk to her directly before walking to the exit, otherwise she's just absent from the game along with her quests.
Well I dicked around and went into the dungeons, and went out the secret exit there, and circled back around to the front of the castle and went in the main entrance, which skipped the scene where you see her at all and saved over everything irrevocably.
So...I guess that's new game+. Except I don't know if I'll have time or the stomach for that, which is why I was kind of hoping to do everything the first time through.
See now if you weren’t playing from a walkthrough you wouldn’t know this and then the next time you played the game and mixed it up you’d be surprised and delighted.
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
I'm treating this game like a tabletop campaign. I may miss out on X because I chose to do Y and that's just how it goes.
I did look up what do to about this thief's tome quest because I'm lost and killed all the female thieves including the one with the red marker over her head (they attacked my male party members). The walkthrough mentioned a man who you rescue who advances the quest and I definitely remember him screaming for help but oops it was nightime and I failed to help him. I am just fucking up left and right but the quest hasn't failed yet so whatevs.
Anyone getting service not available messages when accessing servers on switch? Happened last night when I tried syncing my pawn at an inn. Still happening today, and will hang on an NPC conversation if the game tries accessing servers giving the error message as well. Which is weird because I can still search for pawns in rift stones.
There are a set of procedurally generated stock pawns for offline. You can tell because each vocation will have the same 3 sets of abilities, augments and inclinations for a range of I *think* 5 levels.
I'm treating this game like a tabletop campaign. I may miss out on X because I chose to do Y and that's just how it goes.
I did look up what do to about this thief's tome quest because I'm lost and killed all the female thieves including the one with the red marker over her head (they attacked my male party members). The walkthrough mentioned a man who you rescue who advances the quest and I definitely remember him screaming for help but oops it was nightime and I failed to help him. I am just fucking up left and right but the quest hasn't failed yet so whatevs.
That's because you can sequence break the whole quest and...
just loot it from it's chest at the top of the Male bandit stronghold to the south
In fact, you can sequence break a lot of stuff in this game, especially in New Game+. Every non-equipable item in the base game can be counterfeited by Montblanc, and a somewhat disturbing number of them turn out as perfect duplicates that can let you completely skip steps and even entire quests the second time around.
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and theres a Rhaegar as a pre made name
i see you devs
i see you real well
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Man the network stuff on switch is a real bummer. I haven’t been able to connect to the service for like 2 days now and even before that connecting to the server takes a bizarrely long time. Why is this suddenly an issue?
Man the network stuff on switch is a real bummer. I haven’t been able to connect to the service for like 2 days now and even before that connecting to the server takes a bizarrely long time. Why is this suddenly an issue?
Yeah I'd play offline but searching online about this and read trying to send away hired online pawns with the servers down might corrupt your data somehow?
Man the network stuff on switch is a real bummer. I haven’t been able to connect to the service for like 2 days now and even before that connecting to the server takes a bizarrely long time. Why is this suddenly an issue?
Yeah I'd play offline but searching online about this and read trying to send away hired online pawns with the servers down might corrupt your data somehow?
I don't see how...? Only thing I could think of is something wonky about trying to send away stuff and the server never being able to sync it.
There actually might be a way to test this though: Rest at an inn for a checkpoint save... and then throw the online pawns into the ocean. Brine-devoured Pawns are immediately released, with no gift or comment and a 3 star rating on everything. They also don't cause a checkpoint save when they leave your party in this fashion, unlike jumping into the rift, so if it does mess with the next normal save, the game should(?) default back to that checkpoint save and you know to keep hands-off till the server issue is fixed.
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They're just talking about the pawn's release data becoming corrupt, which means their master gets naught from it. Any gift given becomes a rock and they might only get the minimum Rift Crystal reward.
Tried the checkpoint save and gave my pawns a dunk in the sea and everything seems fine on my end, but that does make more sense. Switched to offline and recruited the stock pawns. Now it seems like the battle music never ends after fights. Just keeps playing until you enter a cave or town to force a loading screen. This is really annoying me now, probably going to shelve this until the online stuff get fixed and/or a patch drops.
Well, god damn it. Like I said, everything in this game balances on a razor's edge of doing it just right or you miss out on stuff.
Just missed out on a bunch of things because I walked through the wrong door in the castle. The game immediately made an automatic checkpoint save which is like a double-save, none of the load game vs. restore from checkpoint, it's all the same save.
After meeting with the duke, you walk out into the courtyard and you're supposed to get a scene where you see a lady in the garden, and you have to go talk to her directly before walking to the exit, otherwise she's just absent from the game along with her quests.
Well I dicked around and went into the dungeons, and went out the secret exit there, and circled back around to the front of the castle and went in the main entrance, which skipped the scene where you see her at all and saved over everything irrevocably.
So...I guess that's new game+. Except I don't know if I'll have time or the stomach for that, which is why I was kind of hoping to do everything the first time through.
See now if you weren’t playing from a walkthrough you wouldn’t know this and then the next time you played the game and mixed it up you’d be surprised and delighted.
I have much more enjoyment overall playing alongside a walkthrough. Don't kinkshame.
The servers really just seem turbo fucked. I released a level 25 Marin thinking she was probably higher level, and now she shows up in my past summons list as 23? What a weird thing.
Scary error code. My Switch has crashed before but just the regular "an error has occurred" and you can hit home to get back to the menu. But this seems much more serious and seems like it often has to do with hardware, possibly overheating, possibly RAM. But the fact it's happening to others in Dragon's Dogma is a little reassuring that my Switch isn't dying.
I bought this for Switch yesterday. I made my pawn (her name is Maribelle and she's adorable), then died about a dozen times trying to figure out what I was supposed to do next, culminating in looting some ancient ruin behind a waterfall with only a rusty sword to my name while trying to find a route to the capital. Then I found an equipment shop and the upgrade mechanic for the first time. And THEN I found the plot.
In my half-hearted defense, this isn't really the right subgenre of RPG for the "sleep at every inn" trope. At least I got some pretty nice armor out of the deal.
Also I'm pretty sure Maribelle fleeced that poor shopkeep when I wasn't looking, because I walked out with more money than I had BEFORE buying our new weapons.
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Speaking of, the ancient quarry to the northwest of Gran Soren. When properly cleared out via a quest (gotten at the entrance to it), it becomes an encounter-free shortcut, putting you out near the Shadow Fort. It is highly recommended to do that as soon as possible.
If you want to know what this is about and don't care about minor spoilers:
5 years after the game came out, someone finally noticed that there is a second idol in their house, up high in the rafters. In that thread several people figure out how to get it by stacking barrels and jumping on them, and there's video of someone doing it. It turns out it's actually a forgery, but is still nice to have. You have to do this before she gives you the idol, because it disappears afterward...yeah, she gives you a real one, which removes the forged one from their house. Go figure.
So I decided to try to do this.
The tough thing is that two barrels stacked on top of each other generally isn't enough, you can't quite reach it. Something weird and physics-y has to happen for another barrel to jut upward at least slightly, to give you the tiniest boost.
Through some shenanigans with a barrel that ended up lying diagonally, I found myself able to stand on top of two barrels with a third in hand, and dropped it, which would normally place it directly on top of the other two...which it did, sort of. For some reason, the middle barrel fell out, and the top one stayed where it was, as in the second pic above.
Unfortunately, in spite of this floating barrel, you're not able to stand on top of it! Or at least, I wasn't, as a huge character. Others might have more luck.
I kept messing around, trying to get a barrel into an intermediate position up there, and finally did it, which was the first pic above. I was able to stand on that second one and grabbed the golden idol with ease!
Now, there was another complication to all this.
The part of the game I'm at is the exact point to start the quest to escort Symone around town. Fournival is downstairs with a green quest marker over his head, his disposition is high due to having completed the eviction quest in his favor. I ran all over town gathering barrels and stacking them up in his dining room, and each time I passed him he still had that quest marker.
However, suddenly after hauling in the 5th or 6th barrel, I noticed the quest marker was gone. I hadn't bumped into him or robbed his house or done anything that should've made him feel any differently about me. All of a sudden I couldn't do the quest. He just wanted to act as a vendor. I gave him many gifts but it didn't help. I also reloaded the game and tried barrel stacking at least 3 times (a few times I broke several barrels and wanted to start over) and this happened each time. In fact, when I finally reached the idol and was hoping to still be able to do the quest, I even gave him his own forged idol back to him in the hopes that raising his disposition by a lot would make the difference. It did not.
Right now my hypothesis is that if you enter and exit his house too many times, or let too much time pass from the moment you see the quest offered to actually accepting it, you lose your opportunity.
So I've reloaded my checkpoint and won't be grabbing that idol. But at least I know I can do it, with the power of jank physics at my side!
And that is: Bitterblack Isle cursed items!
So, here's the fun little trick in regards to them; The RNG seed that's used for deciding which item you get when you purify was created when you started the game, is specific to each type you can purify, and never changes. If, for example, a Bitterblack gear Lv1 gave you a Virtuoso Ring, and you reloaded, you will get the same ring with the same stats. If you reloaded, gave that specific gear to another pawn and purified a different lvl 1 gear, you would still get that same ring. If you reloaded, purified other stuff, and then did the lvl 1 gear, you would get the same ring. What you get next for your cursed items is immutable.
...With one exception. When it comes to Weapons, Armor, and Gear that turns out to be skill-changing rings, there is a second parameter that's taken into account: What type of Vocation you and your primary pawn are. It uses this to pick between a set of up to 3 different pieces, based on whether you both are Fighters/Warriors (aka "Red" vocations), Striders/Rangers (Yellow), or Mages/Sorcs(Blue), with Hybrid vocations counting for the two "colors" that make up that vocation and picking randomly between the qualifying colors. This means that if, for example, you are a Sorc and your pawn in a Mage, it will always give the "Blue" result for that specific purification, but if your pawn is a Ranger, it's a 50/50 shot for a Blue or Yellow result.
So when purifying Weapons, Armor and Gear, the smart thing to do is to sleep at the bench next to Orla (this creates a checkpoint save, which is faster to reload from than a normal save) switch both you and your pawn to the same "color" vocations, purify everything at once and write down the results, reload and do it twice more with the other colors, and then reload one more time and swap vocations as needed to get the gear you actually want.
You have to hold L and R when using the hot keys. A little awkward but I’m using it for the lantern and healing.
Also super early though, quick question: I have no sense of how this game is paced. Apparently I missed a couple side missions because I followed the main quest for like, ten minutes, barely out of the starting area. Should I be shooting off on my own this early? I just got access to pawns, so it seems pretty sudden.
Also, on pawns: if I take in a high level pawn of a friend’s am I essentially turning on easy mode? I’m hesitant to hire anyone given the limited currency, but these free super high level pawns seem like they could break the game.
Hiring a pawn that is the same level as your group shouldn't cost anything iirc.
It certainly does make it easier, but it's not quite as free as it seems; having pawns that are higher-level than you slows down your exp gain.
From what I have read online, it's best to teach them the second level heal but not the third, because all pawns will ALWAYS charge up skills to their highest possible level, until they are either interrupted by an enemy or decide on their own to do something different. This means with the highest heal they will never decide a lower level is "good enough," all your heals will start taking a really long time to go off as they charge it all the way up, and there's no way to drop the skill back down to an earlier level.
There are a lot of snap decision game changers in this game. Stuff that seems minor but ends up having a butterfly effect on future encounters. For example if you fail to save the life of the guy being attacked by goblins at the very start of the game, you miss out on his shop and the quests he offers.
Essentially your choices are read a detailed guide as you go, or decide that it doesn't really matter to you and you'll take it as it comes, because the game has new game+ and you can always do those quests the second time around. But yeah. Follow along with a wiki or you're probably going to miss a lot, and you have to make your peace with that.
Does anyone else need getting server errors?
Just missed out on a bunch of things because I walked through the wrong door in the castle. The game immediately made an automatic checkpoint save which is like a double-save, none of the load game vs. restore from checkpoint, it's all the same save.
Well I dicked around and went into the dungeons, and went out the secret exit there, and circled back around to the front of the castle and went in the main entrance, which skipped the scene where you see her at all and saved over everything irrevocably.
So...I guess that's new game+. Except I don't know if I'll have time or the stomach for that, which is why I was kind of hoping to do everything the first time through.
Like, not just the worst character in the game but her quests are frustrating and the stuff that happens due to interacting with her actively makes the overall experience worse.
When I started NG+ I marched up to the castle, picked her up, and threw her off a cliff into the ocean.
I mentioned this in my massive pawn post only a couple pages ago... :sad:
But yeah, Grand Anodyne (which requires equipping a special ring, so not exactly irreversible) takes too long. Some people even stick with normal Anodyne, since it's even faster, but High Anodyne continues to heal you even after leaving the AoE, albeit slowly, and IMO makes it more useful.
Also, you'll want to max out Sorcerer vocation on Marin to get the Articulacy augment that reduces cast times for spells, and perhaps Gravitas so it's harder for Marin to get knocked down while casting.
Beyond that, biggest must-have in terms I'd augments for everyone, pawn and Arisen, is Sinew in Fighter, which increases carry capacity. Warrior and Sorc also have Clout and Acuity, respectively, which are %increases to Strength and Magick Strength.
Also, FYI augment descriptions can be hella confusing (probably mistranslation.) When it talks about "cumulative damage" in regards of debilitations, what it's really taking about is speeding up/slowing down how long it takes for debilitations to take effect. The wording kinda makes sense when you realise that debuffs aren't a chance on hit thing, but rather a build up until they take effect thing.
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See now if you weren’t playing from a walkthrough you wouldn’t know this and then the next time you played the game and mixed it up you’d be surprised and delighted.
I did look up what do to about this thief's tome quest because I'm lost and killed all the female thieves including the one with the red marker over her head (they attacked my male party members). The walkthrough mentioned a man who you rescue who advances the quest and I definitely remember him screaming for help but oops it was nightime and I failed to help him. I am just fucking up left and right but the quest hasn't failed yet so whatevs.
There are a set of procedurally generated stock pawns for offline. You can tell because each vocation will have the same 3 sets of abilities, augments and inclinations for a range of I *think* 5 levels.
That's because you can sequence break the whole quest and...
In fact, you can sequence break a lot of stuff in this game, especially in New Game+. Every non-equipable item in the base game can be counterfeited by Montblanc, and a somewhat disturbing number of them turn out as perfect duplicates that can let you completely skip steps and even entire quests the second time around.
and theres a Rhaegar as a pre made name
i see you devs
i see you real well
what class should i do. i usually do a rogue. might do a rogue pawn this time.
After several rush clears, then I can make a perfect file and start gifting nuts loot and quest items as I grind BBI.
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Dragon's Dogma: 192 Warrior Linty | 80 Strider Alicia | 32 Mage Terra
Mystic Knight for Magick Cannon shenanigans.
Beginners use Full Moon Slash to launch 36 orbs per use.
Experts use Perilous Sigil to fire off a similar amount plus the damage from the Sigil.
Pros master perfect blocking and use Blessed Riposte to launch a minigun's worth of orbs that annihilates everything, including their framerate.
played one back on 360 but never engaged with the perfect block systems that much
did a lot of magick archer already
warrior is the other one that might appeal but mah ranged attack
Yeah I'd play offline but searching online about this and read trying to send away hired online pawns with the servers down might corrupt your data somehow?
I don't see how...? Only thing I could think of is something wonky about trying to send away stuff and the server never being able to sync it.
There actually might be a way to test this though: Rest at an inn for a checkpoint save... and then throw the online pawns into the ocean. Brine-devoured Pawns are immediately released, with no gift or comment and a 3 star rating on everything. They also don't cause a checkpoint save when they leave your party in this fashion, unlike jumping into the rift, so if it does mess with the next normal save, the game should(?) default back to that checkpoint save and you know to keep hands-off till the server issue is fixed.
PSN: theIceBurner, IceBurnerEU, IceBurner-JP | X-Link Kai: TheIceBurner
Dragon's Dogma: 192 Warrior Linty | 80 Strider Alicia | 32 Mage Terra
I have much more enjoyment overall playing alongside a walkthrough. Don't kinkshame.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/bi75oo/switch_crashing_while_playing_dragons_dogma/
Scary error code. My Switch has crashed before but just the regular "an error has occurred" and you can hit home to get back to the menu. But this seems much more serious and seems like it often has to do with hardware, possibly overheating, possibly RAM. But the fact it's happening to others in Dragon's Dogma is a little reassuring that my Switch isn't dying.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
In my half-hearted defense, this isn't really the right subgenre of RPG for the "sleep at every inn" trope. At least I got some pretty nice armor out of the deal.
Also I'm pretty sure Maribelle fleeced that poor shopkeep when I wasn't looking, because I walked out with more money than I had BEFORE buying our new weapons.