Bassmastergeneral
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Thank you so much! This art is awesome and the game is absolutely incredible.
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Dragon's Crown |OT| Knock down the crown
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Thank you so much! This art is awesome and the game is absolutely incredible.
Open The Sesame!
Conciliator
Banned
I've actually got a pretty good grasp of the runes I feel like before finishing the game on Normal...once you know that they're letters and you look out for that it only takes a little repetition to get them in your head. I usually find myself triggering them in groups.
eXistor
Member
Hot DAMN this game is pure gold! I'm just at the talisman collecting part and man, this just doesn't get old so far. I think I'm gonna attempt a serious consecutive dungeon-run tomorrow, I did a 3 dungeon-run just now, but I didn't have extra bags yet, so my equipment went to shit pretty soon. I have 4 bags now, loaded with equipment and ready to go!
dark_prinny
Banned
My copy just arrived!!!
Can't wait to play this baby
Can't wait to play this baby
Dreamgazer
Member
My problem is this:
Wizard has a CON of rank C, and a MGR of rank A (balanced.)
Elf has a CON of C, and a MGR of C. (Fragile Speeder)
Sorc has a CON of rank D, and a MGR of S. (Glass Cannon in terms of taking physical damages.)
By the above definition, elf is less capable of taking damage than the wizard, but is only considered to be less "flimsy" due to the ease of pulling her knockback kick + high speed.
The wizard class only fits the archetype of glass cannon because of high damage offensive spells (exception: casting meteor.) The sorc class on average will take more damage than wizard, but for some reason I don't see her being referred to as flimsy as much.
Having played both classes, I actually find myself watching the elf's health bar more.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Well you need to solo all 9.
NavyPharaoh
Member
Goddddddd do I hate it! Turned it to Japanese
Treasure Hunters Fortune, give u a high level loot chest! Although the H looks like an L....
I realize that. It is just most are DPS races and I dunno how I will get close to beating the Dragon and Archdemon in time.
Dreamgazer
Member
Well, the red dragon solo requires that you
beat him in the treasure room only
Gintoki313
Banned
I'm usually that person doing the runes for the other players
Everytime me and a party see a rune online a player would go to it and sit there. I don't see them clicking away at runes or anything. So I'm usually the person having to do it after minutes of staring at each other. I just hate when someone tries to rush me. It's not like I remember it or anything.
I remember one guy was trying to help me do the rune, forget that. The only good ones are the secret room and hidden treasure ones anyway.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
I had the biggest problem with the rabbit as Elf because the hitbox sucks for them to do proper damage.
gundamkyoukai
Member
Well for my final version i mostly max out amazon skills and did no bother with the commons ones other than deep pockets and evasion .
Max out war paint did not bother with the other 2 supplemental skills .
Then rest of points when into everything expect parry and berserk i am a kill them before there kill you person .
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
VanillaWare found a way to actually make me want to do sidequests.
Thanks for that high res art link. Now I just need to unlock them all myself.
Also Elf + Impact Arrow + Clone Strikes = dead Ancient Dragon.
So much faster than doing a charge shot followed by rapid fire.
Thanks for that high res art link. Now I just need to unlock them all myself.
Also Elf + Impact Arrow + Clone Strikes = dead Ancient Dragon.
So much faster than doing a charge shot followed by rapid fire.
Dreamgazer
Member
At high level dungeons:
I wish more people would remember to use SOD as oppose to the SOL runes on high-mob situations.
I wish more people would remember to use SOD as oppose to the SOL runes on high-mob situations.
Yeah, I consider the Elf to be a flimsy character, too. I guess the Wizard has more middle ground defense than I originally thought.
That's a relief. Archdemon shouldn't be a problem as long as my poison arrows take effect Dragon is a bitch to defeat in the hallway solo.
Anyway, off to solo the Kraken. Fire Arrows are goooo! Time to get some calamari.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Just stand under the arch demon and do crouch charged power shots, he dies in no time. That's what you do anyway at bosses.
Ultimadrago
Member
Many thanks!
I don't think it's a PS3 issue* but rather a Dragon's Crown issue. Characters aren't across different accounts, they're all on the same account, the same save file even.
* For example: LittleBig Planet 2 allows multiple account login (actually, requires it-- my girlfriend had to make an account on my PS3 and has to log in every time we co-op in that game).
The lack of progress for players 2-4 (and the fact that each player must individually enter the guild to accept quests, turn in quests, repair stuff, buy stuff, etc) is a design decision. A poor decision, in the cast of no-progress and quest-acceptance, but still a decision made not due to hardware constraints. I really hope that patch 1.02 remedies that. I wouldn't mind even if they changed it to account login.
Sanctuary
Member
I absolutely hate soloing that as a Wizard. It was one of the lamest fights ever. It wasn't hard, it was just monotonous spending 90% of the fight dodging everything until I was finally able to cast something.
The fight also seems like it's somewhat bugged.
When you have that extra magic "lock" under your character's ring is when your abilities are supposed to be locked out. Half of the time when there wasn't any visible lock I still wasn't able to cast anything.
I did learn one thing about that fight though for the future;
once you are able to cast again, just teleport behind the Gazer, cast a bit, then teleport behind again right as it's turning around. Maybe it was just luck, but I did that five times and it wasn't able to spell lock me again before dying. The game even states that his "main eye" is what does it, but it doesn't really specificy whether or not it has to be facing you.
Hell, I don't even know what I should be putting spoiler tags on anymore in this thread. So much has already been spoiled.
Holy shit, really? I was telling people that when I first started playing this game that it was evoking a similar feeling to what I had when playing that game in the arcade for the first time. I thought this game was simply "borrowing" things, but now it all makes sense.
Weltall Zero
Member
That one bit in the patch notes seemed strange to me, as L1 already has a function (cursor click). Perhaps they meant L2? Would be awesome to use items while moving, anyway.
Never mind hours, how did it take him to be level 26 to unlock online? I'm level 15 and I already beat
Gazer
A nice theory, except the Vita doesn't have ad-hoc play.
In any case, I haven't seen so much negativity in quite some time. To each their own I guess. Weird thing is that you said zero good things about the game, and you still finished it three times.
In case anyone was wondering, all EXP carries over into the following difficulty, even if you reach the EXP cap. The game says as much, but I just wanted to confirm it because you don't initially get that pot of EXP upon entering Hard mode. It's only after the first dungeon clear. I jumped from level 35 to level 48 the first time around, heh.
Sanctuary
Member
They don't scale so much that it actually makes the game harder. It's still easier to bring party members depending on your class. Talking about hirelings. Online seems to scale much more for some reason in comparison. Or maybe the average same level hireling just has better gear than an average random? Who knows.
Dreamgazer
Member
Also to note, you can then jump back down to normal to do all the quest and it'll resume giving you exp as usual. (Obviously the exp per run will be less than hard, but quest exp reward stays the same.)
How did you come to that conclusion?
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
There is art that even discripes that the Amazon are a tribe of only women. I mean that's pretty common knowledge, no?
Ok, I know if you're a higher level and jump down to normal you'll be capped at level 35.
But do you keep all your skills? Say you get to 99 and spend all your skill points and then jump to normal. Your health and such will be capped as if you were level 35, but you keep the skills, right? And can you still wear weapons/accessories that require higher levels?
But do you keep all your skills? Say you get to 99 and spend all your skill points and then jump to normal. Your health and such will be capped as if you were level 35, but you keep the skills, right? And can you still wear weapons/accessories that require higher levels?
robotzombie
Member
okay, so I did the mission where I found the village girls in the catacombs but
, am I gonna miss out on something because of this?
they all got bitten and turned into vampires
TatteredHat
Member
I've never managed to get any other outcome in that scenario, even if they only get hit once by the vampires the vampire message still pops up at the end of the fight and there are too many of vampires at once to keep in check.
Sanctuary
Member
You keep your skills and gear. The game just does whatever it does so that your weapons and damage act as though they are level 35. Your health seems to go down too, but if you're a caster who invested into more mana, that isn't affected for some reason.
That blurb at the end seems like a red herring.
It makes you think that it's possible to save them, when it isn't. They were most likely already bitten before you "rescued" them from their rooms. There's a quest where you have to "save" the girls that you can complete and still get that failure speech at the end.
Honestly, I didn't notice a difference. I don't think my health went down and my weapons/skills were still completely OP.
robotzombie
Member
gotcha thanks!
Also, just as a general question, are chest scores random, or is there a way to get better chest results on a stage?
Deified Data
Banned
Can someone explain to me what all the runes I'm seeing on the wall are for?
NullPointer
Member
Same experience here, but
I figured they were bitten already. The last prisoner room has a Vampire laughing maniacally before poofing away, which seemed to suggest they were already too far gone.
Playing through the story will explain those soon enough. You must still be in the very early going. It won't take long.
The game eventually introduces them to you. But basically you tap them to make a combination of whatever is on the wall and whatever runes you have to trigger bonuses like treasure chests, weapon boxes, coin geysers, extra lives, etc.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Huh?
Ooccoo
Member
They are used to cast temporary boosts, reveal hidden treasures and paths. Not all of them are useful though, and it's kind of a pain to use them.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I thought that, too. But I've also considered the idea that it's just bad wording and
it's actually referring to the vampires you've just slain. Explaining what you discovered: that girls had been taken and turned and themselves became the predators. The fact it says you pray that you have slain the final vampire doesn't make much sense otherwise. Unless it's implying that you proceeded to hunt down the girls you saved as well which is certainly possible.
Edit: Oh, forgot to mention
it still happens even if you don't rescue any girls from their rooms. That's why I started considering the alternate idea. It's odd to mention the girls that you never even encountered.
Don't think so; he doesn't even have a health bar during that part.
I don't think so. I've done lots and lots of dirty things to him and he always leaves short of dying.
Weltall Zero
Member
Oh, my mistake then, I thought I had read it didn't, prior to release. Seems I was mistaken. That's actually pretty cool, in fact!
It might just be referring to
the vampires you do kill; it seems to be implied some or all of these were actually the villagers you were looking for
what turned them into vampires in the first place. A curse in the castle? (it mentions that some are attracted to it sometimes, IIRC). Another heretofore unseen enemy? Simply one of the female vampires that you slay?
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