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[Augemitbutter]

Inquired about it earlier but now I can confirm for those interested; "The Laborer" trophy/achievement no longer requires all 50 notice board quests to be done in a single playthrough.

thanks, that's good to know. the others are unchanged?

 

[Abylim]

Platinum GET!

This is easily a top 10 game of all time for me. Playing it as a Magick Archer was different enough from Assassin, at least the way I played it.

Finally doing all the BBI stuff this time around really helped add to the overall experience.

Sansa is 200, still a fighter with scather/utilitarian and all BBI lvl 3 gear if you guys want her.

Thanks for all the advice you gave me, folks.

Really hope DD2 is happening st some point. DDO looks cool but I want a focused sequel. Also, it’s only in Japanese >_<

 

[Laughing Banana]

Inquired about it earlier but now I can confirm for those interested; "The Laborer" trophy/achievement no longer requires all 50 notice board quests to be done in a single playthrough.

Repeat missions do not count towards the total, I assume?

Also, notice board quests, that means everything that you can get from notice boards, such as escort quests and kill x monster, correct? How about From A Different Sky quests? I assume those are not eligible?

 

[disappeared]

Just completed the main game again for the first time in years. It's super obvious Capcom was setting up a sequel. The way certain key story characters leave only to tell you they'll meet again. It's telling they wanted to expand the story further. God I wish we got DD2. I can only imagine a game set several years in there future where Mercedes sends back her squad, Quina revisits as an adepts priestess, and Aelinore.... well she comes back for more action.

They wrote some potentially strong female character arcs but they all get abandoned. :/

 

[Abylim]

Repeat missions do not count towards the total, I assume?

Also, notice board quests, that means everything that you can get from notice boards, such as escort quests and kill x monster, correct? How about From A Different Sky quests? I assume those are not eligible?

Repeat missions count. My trophy popped on ng+ when I completed the kill 45 skeletons or something one. And I definitely did that in my first playthrough

 

[Ferr986]

Diamons drops are terrible. Rarely anything, mostly novelty. Just do quick runs for the weapon lvl 3 from the chest. There's two other chests I know of that drop lvl 3 weapons but the drop rates are horrendous. Might as well just blast arrow nuke Daimon lol.

I've almost given up on getting an assassins band. I don't know how many lvl 3 gears I've gone through now. Rings RNG is the worst. Anything from the red category is quite bad because it covers a few classes.

lol I never cared much about rings, it's such a lottery with the bigger item pool. I just focus on weapons and armor for my pawn.

I ended up getting the bow, inmediately gold forged it. Gonna take revenge on the friggin whole BBI lol.

Just completed the main game again for the first time in years. It's super obvious Capcom was setting up a sequel. The way certain key story characters leave only to tell you they'll meet again. It's telling they wanted to expand the story further. God I wish we got DD2. I can only imagine a game set several years in there future where Mercedes sends back her squad, Quina revisits as an adepts priestess, and Aelinore.... well she comes back for more action.

They wrote some potentially strong female character arcs but they all get abandoned. :/

heh I dunno. Mercedes ended up being a joke for everyone, even for some of her own soldiers. Quina's only purpose is helping you no matter that, she doesn't feel to have much agency. And Aelinore... lol

Also, I think the characters leaving is done for the latter quest with the dragon. All of the "more probable" love interests have those quests.

 

[Audioboxer]

lol I never cared much about rings, it's such a lottery with the bigger item pool. I just focus on weapons and armor for my pawn.

I ended up getting the bow, inmediately gold forged.



heh I dunno. Mercedes ended up being a joke for everyone, even for some of her own soldiers. Quina's only purpose is helping you no matter that, she doesn't feel to have much agency. And Aelinore... lol

My pawn actually has two rings. Sorcerer/mage stuff isn't as hard to get. Other than the grind for the top tier end game armour as it drops less than the tier 1 armour. I still don't have the cloak or tier 2 head piece.

I temporarily changed my character to a sorcerer to try and dragonforge some pawn armour/weapon pieces. Jeeez, it sucks. Such a step back from daggers/swords and bows lol. Nowhere near as fun to play.

Small tip for all the new players, make a forgergy of this ring for the quest involving it http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Wyrmking's_Ring It offers a cast speed increase for you or your pawns (whoever's inventory it is in). The forgery doesn't increase cast speed, so hand it in for the quest. It locks you out of a piece of loot handing in the forgery, but you can just steal the loot later.

The Wyrmking's Ring shortens spell casting time by 10% for any character with it in their inventory. The effect stacks with the augment Articulacy to reduce spellcasting time by around twice as much., though the effect of multiple rings (from multiple playthroughs) does not stack the effect. Despite being a ring this item cannot be worn, but will be effective merely by having it in ones inventory.

Unfortunately, that ring doesn't work when people hire your pawn (pawns inventory doesn't go with it, and it's not an equippable ring, but a quest item), but its worth it for your playthroughs.

 

[people]

Small tip for all the new players, make a forgergy of this ring for the quest involving it http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Wyrmking's_Ring It offers a cast speed increase for you or your pawns (whoever's inventory it is in). The forgery doesn't increase cast speed, so hand it in for the quest. It locks you out of a piece of loot handing in the forgery, but you can just steal the loot later.

You can get a 2nd real and working Wyrmking's Ring during the same playthrough. Gift the real ring to a friend, you can then buy a replacement from The Black Cat for 66,660G. If the friend sends you the original back you end up with 2. So arrange this beforehand or use an alt account.

In fact, you can create any number of real and working Wyrmking's Rings by repeating this process, as long as you don't have more than 1 at a time (The Black Cat won't offer a replacement if you still have one).

 

[Audioboxer]

You can get a 2nd real and working Wyrmking's Ring during the same playthrough. Gift the real ring to a friend, you can then buy a replacement from The Black Cat for 66,660G. If the friend sends you the original back you end up with 2. So arrange this beforehand or use an alt account.

In fact, you can create any number of real and working Wyrmking's Rings by repeating this process, as long as you don't have more than 1 at a time (The Black Cat won't offer a replacement if you still have one).

I guess that's useful if both you and your pawn are magic based. For the quest it doesn't matter as you can just go back at night and steal the chest contents. Which aren't all that great anyway with BBI existing and all the loot there destroying main game stuff.

 

[endlessflood]

I just received 299,000 rift crystals from jetoaster. Holy shit, that nearly doubled my entire RC balance with a single hire! Now I'm expecting a Godfather-style request where I'm asked to help dispose of a body IRL, or sing at somebody's wedding lol.

How is this even possible? Is that using the same pawn for the entire game? I hope Anwyn pulled her weight anyway, and thank you!

P.S. I have a shovel and am OK at karaoke

 

[Audioboxer]

I just received 299,000 rift crystals from jetoaster. Holy shit, that nearly doubled my entire RC balance with a single hire! Now I'm expecting a Godfather-style request where I'm asked to help dispose of a body IRL, or sing at somebody's wedding lol.

How is this even possible? Is that using the same pawn for the entire game? I hope Anwyn pulled her weight anyway, and thank you!

P.S. I have a shovel and am OK at karaoke

BBI content runs with a pawn will throw RC's at you if you're killing Daimon/farming big enemies.

Some of the purifying endgame takes 25,000 or 50,000 RC a pop, so you do need hundreds of thousands! Especially thanks to RNG.

 

[endlessflood]

BBI content runs with a pawn will throw RC's at you if you're killing Daimon/farming big enemies.

Some of the purifying endgame takes 25,000 or 50,000 RC a pop, so you do need hundreds of thousands! Especially thanks to RNG.

She's very low level for a BBI run, although she can't normally be killed (she has the Legion's Might staff, which auto-revives her every time she falls), so maybe the convenience of that was a factor

 

[Audioboxer]

She's very low level for a BBI run, although she can't normally be killed (she has the Legion's Might staff, which auto-revives her every time she falls), so maybe the convenience of that was a factor

Ah okay, probably just playing a huge chunk of the main quest with your pawn then

 

[Alucrid]

do the blast arrow and godsbane tricks still work for daimon farming?

 

[d9b]

When is the best time to visit Bitterblack isle? Towards the end of the game or..?

 

[dragonzdogma]

Do Assassins "night time" augments work all the time in BBi?

When is the best time to visit Bitterblack isle? Towards the end of the game or..?

Whenever your feeling brave my friend,

I've been there since level 3-5

it's a challenge allright, but a fun one.

But of course some people will say once your at least level 50+ or once you are post game,ect.

 

[Audioboxer]

Do Assassins "night time" augments work all the time in BBi?

No, it's a misconception BBI is always night. It still goes through a day/night cycle. You have to sleep to night and then go into BBI. I just ignore all those augments tbh.

The fighter/warrior strength perks for consistent damage bonus are better.

 

[Audioboxer]

lol, just signed in and got 1.54m rift crystals. Yes, million.

One person got me 531k.

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

lol, just signed in and got 1.54m rift crystals. Yes, million.

One person got me 531k.

Dat BBI grind

 

[Audioboxer]

Dat BBI grind

I'll probably blow all of that and still not get the ring I want.

 

[jiggle]

I just received 299,000 rift crystals from jetoaster. Holy shit, that nearly doubled my entire RC balance with a single hire! Now I'm expecting a Godfather-style request where I'm asked to help dispose of a body IRL, or sing at somebody's wedding lol.

How is this even possible? Is that using the same pawn for the entire game? I hope Anwyn pulled her weight anyway, and thank you!

P.S. I have a shovel and am OK at karaoke

It was from farming ur-dragon offline

 

[g11]

I'll probably blow all of that and still not get the ring I want.

Can't you just save and godsbane after purifying if you don't get the item you want?

 

[WiiredShawn]

Can't you just save and godsbane after purifying if you don't get the item you want?

Yep. Granted, it's not a purely random process. If you want a different weapon or armor, for instance, you can change your and your Pawn's vocation and then purify. But you're always going to get the same armor/weapon for that vocation (so a Coat of Shadow is never going to become a Coat of Oblivion, etc.).

My girlfriend is just about done with the game, so she wanted me to update her Pawn information here for people who want to take him out:

PSN ID: Agacerie
Pawn Name: Sofiane
Pawn Level: 195 (will be 200 very soon, I expect)
Pawn Vocation: Sorcerer (offensively oriented)
Pawn Inclination: Challenger/Utilitarian (for spell syncing)

She wants to emphasize that he's a pretty boy, so don't take him out if you're going to be weird about his appearance. He's there to counteract the great mass of under-dressed female Pawns.

 

[Ferr986]

Today was a profitable day. Gold forged my Darkening Storm, now I have both physical bows gold forged. With this I can farm Daimon solo because 100 blast arrows are enough.

Also got lucky and purified the 2 staffs in a row for my pawn, so now she can do both vocations. For now I'll make her mage because I seem to get more demand for mages. Also got a couple of lvl 3 gear and a pointy hat!

Next I gotta try to dragonforge my pawn gear...

Oh, and rings still hates me though. I'm drowning in rings of perseverance...

 

[leehom]

Any tips on beating up

Spoiler

second form

daimon? Level 119 with mostly end game gear. Main is magitek archer and pawn is a fighter.

 

[leehom]

Today was a profitable day. Gold forged my Darkening Storm, now I have both physical bows gold forged.

Congrats! For the newbies like me, how to gold forge?

 

[dragonzdogma]

Congrats! For the newbies like me, how to gold forge?

meet the dude at BBi with the required items?
I think.

 

[leehom]

meet the dude at BBi with the required items?
I think.

Hmm, never noticed a quest line for gold forged. Guess I'll go back in later and poke around.

 

[Laughing Banana]

No, it's a misconception BBI is always night. It still goes through a day/night cycle. You have to sleep to night and then go into BBI. I just ignore all those augments tbh.

The fighter/warrior strength perks for consistent damage bonus are better.

It's very useful at least for fighting Ur Dragon, since you can always choose the time you're fighting it.

 

[Alucrid]

here's my pawn info if anyone wants to help me get some RCs

psn: alucrid
name: jaina
class: sorcerer
level: 81

has high comestion, gicel, fulmination, voidspell, miasma and holy affinity

also suasion is on if you're selling stuff

 

[Augemitbutter]

still hate how the music stops when you pause to open a menu.

 

[cryptosporidium]

Bought it, roleplaying Guts because I love berserk and berserk needs more love.

gunna find the biggest fucking sword and the blackest fucking armor.

I have recently arisen so im still early but this seems good.

Im instinctevly trying to do Ki Pulses tho lol

 

[Audioboxer]

It's very useful at least for fighting Ur Dragon, since you can always choose the time you're fighting it.

Ur Dragon is a waste of time other than the trophy. The dragons in BBI are all higher chances for dragon forging. Vs the offline Ur Dragon anyway. Online is guaranteed like the main game end boss is.

 

[Shengar]

Do Assassins "night time" augments work all the time in BBi?

Bloodlust activation at BBI have its own time and properties that feels kinda random. Check the wikia page for more info about it. Personally I think it is too infrequent to be worthwhile.

 

[leddmonkey]

Much thanks to AStiffBreeze's Anwyn for helping me through multiple quests, she never skipped a beat, and I had her when she was only a level 23.

Here is the latest on my pawn:

PSN: leadmonkey123
Name: Cassandra
Vocation: Warrior (previously Fighter)
Level: 30
Inclination: Scather/Mitigator (These were her original stats, but she might be different now)

Currently equipped with a Warhammer along with Indomitable Lash, Indomitable Lunge, and Corona Slash. Its hilarious to see her come up on enemies and slam on them like the high striker at the fair.

 

[Jake2by4]

Farming Daimon can't get this Revenant Wail to drop.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

[pics]

And I thought you were one of the good ones.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Ur Dragon is a waste of time other than the trophy. The dragons in BBI are all higher chances for dragon forging. Vs the offline Ur Dragon anyway. Online is guaranteed like the main game end boss is.

Well, it can also be useful for Daimon farming, since it's pretty easy to ensure that you fight him at night-time, if you are familiar with the BBI layout and can run fast to him.

Anyway,

Thanks for anyone hiring my Pawn, especially GAFfers in here!

And I thought you were one of the good ones.

Whaaa? I don't consider that "sexual" looking, hahaha. It looks good and charming, I think? Is it too sexual? I don't think it is. I mean, it is sexy I suppose, but not to the point where it's overbearing or anything. It's not that I equip her with underwear armor and leave it at that, lol. I think it looks nice, it looks beautiful and graceful on her, with just the right amount of sexiness.

What do you folks think? Is this kind of setup too "sexual"?

 

[Jake2by4]

Well, it can also be useful for Daimon farming, since it's pretty easy to ensure that you fight him at night-time, if you are familiar with the BBI layout and can run fast to him.

Anyway,

Thanks for anyone hiring my Pawn, especially GAFfers in here!

Lol your pawn helped me through the whole game. Much appreciated.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Lol your pawn helped me through the whole game. Much appreciated.

Thanks for using my Pawn!

 

[cryptosporidium]

is there a way to play this in japanese with eng subs?

 

[HenryEen]

Well, it can also be useful for Daimon farming, since it's pretty easy to ensure that you fight him at night-time, if you are familiar with the BBI layout and can run fast to him.

Anyway,

Thanks for anyone hiring my Pawn, especially GAFfers in here!

Whaaa? I don't consider that "sexual" looking, hahaha. It looks good and charming, I think? Is it too sexual? I don't think it is. I mean, it is sexy I think, but not to the point where it's overbearing or anything. It's not that I equip her with underwear armor and leave it at that, lol. I think it looks nice, it looks beautiful and graceful on her, with just the right amount of sexiness, hahaha.

What do you folks think? Is that kind of setup too "sexual"?

I think she looks good, kinda like a Greek goddess lol.

She looks normal and beautiful compared to underwear only lolipawn or BSDM pawn I see yesterday...

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

Holy fuck. I got the Framae Blades, Revenant Wail, and Dominion Claw in one go. Here I thought I'd have to farm.

Whaaa? I don't consider that "sexual" looking, hahaha. It looks good and charming, I think? Is it too sexual? I don't think it is. I mean, it is sexy I suppose, but not to the point where it's overbearing or anything. It's not that I equip her with underwear armor and leave it at that, lol. I think it looks nice, it looks beautiful and graceful on her, with just the right amount of sexiness.

What do you folks think? Is this kind of setup too "sexual"?

Well I mean realistically, would you go into battle without any armor covering vital spots? But that's on Capcom for giving shitty choices for good high quality armor.

Anyway, I'm gonna rent her again soon as well. Still got to repay that 1 million you got me on PS3.

 

[Stallion Dan]

Some of the best armours are revealing, especially if Gold forged.

 

[cryptosporidium]

I made a Cascade pawn. The combat is really varied so far. Hydra was interesting.

 

[Laughing Banana]

Well I mean realistically, would you go into battle without any armor covering vital spots? But that's on Capcom for giving shitty choices for good high quality armor.

Anyway, I'm gonna rent her again soon as well. Still got to repay that 1 million you got me on PS3.

Hahaha, I just like how it looked, she looked beautiful, graceful, and also sexy in equal measure in that getup. I personally don't think that it made her look like a slut or something!

Anyways, did I really give you 1 million RC back then? Woah.

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

Hahaha, I just like how it looked, she looked beautiful, graceful, and also sexy in equal measure in that getup. I personally don't think that it made her look like a slut or something!

Anyways, did I really give you 1 million RC back then? Woah.

Well she doesn't, imo, but I understand where Morrigan is coming from.

And yeah, I was blown away haha but I had stop playing.

 

[endlessflood]

It was from farming ur-dragon offline

Thanks again

Much thanks to AStiffBreeze's Anwyn for helping me through multiple quests, she never skipped a beat, and I had her when she was only a level 23.

Glad to hear it! And thank you for using her.

She wants to emphasize that he's a pretty boy, so don't take him out if you're going to be weird about his appearance. He's there to counteract the great mass of under-dressed female Pawns.

I support this

Whaaa? I don't consider that "sexual" looking, hahaha. It looks good and charming, I think?

It looks fine - in fact it looks good.

I get the sense that some people might not be happy until your pawn was in a full burqa

Well I mean realistically, would you go into battle without any armor covering vital spots?

Seemed to work for Conan the Barbarian

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

Alright, so an update on my pawn:

PSN ID: humbleboy13
Pawn name: Arys
Pawn level: 102
Pawn vocation: Ranger
Additional details: Challenger/ Mitigator;Full Shadow set Gold-Normal rarified; Framae Blades Silver rarified, Revenant Wail Gold rarified. I'm going to keep her at this level for a bit, so rent her if you're around this level. I really would like beastiary knowledge for BBI

If you're going to add me, please tell me your GAF name.

 

[dragonzdogma]

still hate how the music stops when you pause to open a menu.

Have you tried hot keying some items?
This will prevent having to open the menu.

R1&R2 up is my health, down, for stamina, left is Lantern, right is usually pancea (heal any sickness)