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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen |OT| deep down darkness
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I noticed it during the end game.
I picked up the jester and kept throwing him at everyone in my way.
Onion_Relish
Member
Dat as-calon
Gold forged that bad boy now I'm hitting like a mac truck. But I have a bigger issue which is this.
I've been very fortunate with drops. I used my first gemstone to open the special room and I picked up the trtrophy jacket which is great stats wise but now my pawn is wearing a patterned gambeson and it looks awful I'm temped to let her tits hang out but does any one have good recommendations that go well with the trophy jacket?
Gold forged that bad boy now I'm hitting like a mac truck. But I have a bigger issue which is this.
I've been very fortunate with drops. I used my first gemstone to open the special room and I picked up the trtrophy jacket which is great stats wise but now my pawn is wearing a patterned gambeson and it looks awful I'm temped to let her tits hang out but does any one have good recommendations that go well with the trophy jacket?
You could have just as easily killed the female bandits and continued on, but it's okay.
hahaha...much love for that move, sir!
StunandStab
Member
My Arisen had a trophy jacket for a while, too, and you're right it looks TERRIBLE with Patterned Gamebeson.
If there is anything that goes well with trophy jacket, I know not of it.
Abyssinal Outfit probably looks okay with it. Maybe Dragonleather Vest, too?
If not... just let her tits hang out it will probably net you lots of RC
I thought Dragon leather was OK, but White Hawk Tunic goes best I think. I'll post pictures later if I remember to show how it looks.
And I HAVE been getting fewer summons as of late... Maybe
I should get my pawn's fate over with.
Melhisedek
Member
Guys I kinda got stuck. Got to the first city with the head of the monster and so far so good. Now I found this quest about the book and bandits and also I should look for a girl from my village. What happens is I get slaughterd wherever I go. Bandits own me and I dont know where else to go. I'm strider with a mage, warrior and strider pawns.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
You could just run for the witchwood and skip the bandits, early on the warrior/fighter bandits have really high defense and they take a while to kill, you can still just kill them one by one but it's not worth it.
Augemitbutter
Member
let them hang. or use silver chestpiece clothing. that's the one i use.
how much time did you spend on that face?
i used your pawn btw. hopefully you got some RC.
Quite long, I was modelling her after the lady in my avatar.
Thanks to phierce for the donation, didn't get Magebreaker, but got a Cursed Light at least. Time to fool around with MK stuff.
Just had a "This game is awesome" moment.
I'm still early in the game, was at the dungeon at the pawn guild in the first city. Going down the spiral steps... come across a ogre or whatever they are. Start fighting it... decide to jump onto it's head and slam the pommel of my sword into it's skull. It walks toward the edge of the, dangling me over shaking me wildly. I think "Oh shit if he bucks me off here I'm fucked". So I jump off, soon as I do... he falls over the edge... goes splat and dies. Stood there kinda shocked for a moment...coool.
I'm still early in the game, was at the dungeon at the pawn guild in the first city. Going down the spiral steps... come across a ogre or whatever they are. Start fighting it... decide to jump onto it's head and slam the pommel of my sword into it's skull. It walks toward the edge of the, dangling me over shaking me wildly. I think "Oh shit if he bucks me off here I'm fucked". So I jump off, soon as I do... he falls over the edge... goes splat and dies. Stood there kinda shocked for a moment...coool.
This game has a habit of putting the player in this kind of awesome situations. Most of the boss/huge monsters fights I had in DD were far more epic and stunning than all the jump-fifty-meters-in-the-air-and-land-on-the-hydra-head QTE-type moments God of War ever threw at me.
I liked the QTEs in GoW, but damn, in Dragon's Dogma, I actually get to PLAY all this. Awesome indeed.
Hey guys, can you give me a piece of advice? I'll admit I didn't read the whole thread in fear of spoilers. I am confused, I just got Dark Arisen and would like to know what's the best thing to do. I already beat Dragon's Dogma "basic" twice and got all the trophies, my last save is exactly the one at the end of the second run, just before starting NG++.
So, now I would like to experience the new content but I don't get it, do I have to play the game all over again to get to the new content? That seems... boring :/ I LOVED the game but I think I've had enough. Also, I wouldn't want to play a piece of cake playthough importing all of my stuff and level from the previous runs, wouldn't the new content be too easy this way?
Also, was wondering about hard mode. Would that be a viable option? I want some kind of challenge but not something too frustrating, especially since this would probably be the third time I play the game and I don't want to spent too much time with it on sections I already beat twice.
So what's your advice gaf? I think my options are three:
1) new game altogether, so an acceptable level of challenge but the hassle to play the game all over again for the third time;
2) load game, so that would put me at the very start of NG++. My fear is that the game would be too easy, just like NG+ was.
3) hard mode, new challenge but maybe too frustrating and time consuming since I got Dark Arisen exclusively for the new content.
So, now I would like to experience the new content but I don't get it, do I have to play the game all over again to get to the new content? That seems... boring :/ I LOVED the game but I think I've had enough. Also, I wouldn't want to play a piece of cake playthough importing all of my stuff and level from the previous runs, wouldn't the new content be too easy this way?
Also, was wondering about hard mode. Would that be a viable option? I want some kind of challenge but not something too frustrating, especially since this would probably be the third time I play the game and I don't want to spent too much time with it on sections I already beat twice.
So what's your advice gaf? I think my options are three:
1) new game altogether, so an acceptable level of challenge but the hassle to play the game all over again for the third time;
2) load game, so that would put me at the very start of NG++. My fear is that the game would be too easy, just like NG+ was.
3) hard mode, new challenge but maybe too frustrating and time consuming since I got Dark Arisen exclusively for the new content.
Lapidus' Beard
Member
I experienced the same situation, except I was still on the orge when he took the plunge. I was all 'Oh, fuuuuuuu....!!!!!' And then he actually broke my fall. The moment the game went from fun to awesome for me!
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
The new content is on an island you enter through Cassardis beach at night. Purple marker on your minimap.
AlphaQuack
Neo Member
Damnit Capcom, what is it with you and zombies?
Depends on what your lvl is. And how much time you intend to spend on the game.
If you only want to play the expansion content you can do so immediately upon starting your NG++
Hard mode is now available anytime with complete retention of items and level. So you can consider that, but like I said, it depends on your level. If you're sitting at lvl 200 I suggest going directly into hard with your old save.
For me he just sort of ran past me and fell off. Was grateful for the xp ^^
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Man.. there might be something to that pawn vocation thing lol. Since I set her to war she's barely been used. On that note..if there's any level 40ish gafers on ps3 that haven't added me..please do!
Ok. So i just finished the the watergod's altar quest. Next up is
. It warns me once i start it though, that current quests and unfinished business can't be returned to. Are there any quests and other miscellaneous events i should definitely have finished, before starting this?
Come to Court, where I've to meet the duke
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Basically all of the stage specific quests. Notice board quests or quests don't expire before that stage (like Reynard) can be kept, but things like the grimoire quest or the quests from the bandit camps will be lost as they're time sensitive.
Thanks, I started on hard, let's hope it won't be too difficult and time consuming
The new location already seems great!Thanks.
Freakinchair
Member
So I'm going to start playing this today. Should I play on hard more for the first time or will I regret it? (I'm reasonably competent)
Also are warriors fun to play as?
Also are warriors fun to play as?
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Yes! Play hard, it's worth it. Just stick out the beginning. Wars are great, but compared to other classes they might be the least flashy.
Augemitbutter
Member
yes, it's on the Dark Arisen OST.
i'm surprised it works so well in game.
AgentP
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I finally made it to Everfall for some grinding and exploration.
At first I felt like a bad ass. I killed the
After a long fight using a wakestone, reviving my pawns many times and using tons of healing item, I managed to limp out alive. This game makes it really hard to target one guy in a group, one large enemy is much easier. I made it to the ur-Dragon room,but left, not sure how hard that is. Is there a way to control or pick which Everfall level you go to or so you just jump and try to find new ones with luck?
Now I'm a rank 8 Sorcerer and my magic is ~900. I'm more or less broke too from buy my sun flower staff and upgrading to 3 stars. Next up, that wyvern that is flying around.
I read on the wiki some great advice. Cast holy boon on your staff by clicking L3 and use the core attacks, they are pretty powerful, quick firing and augment your spells great.
At first I felt like a bad ass. I killed the
Evil Eye, white hydra, various other mini-bosses. Then I made it to a room with one normal Chimera, one Gorechimera and one floating wizard dude (Lich?) who kept spawning hell hounds.
Now I'm a rank 8 Sorcerer and my magic is ~900. I'm more or less broke too from buy my sun flower staff and upgrading to 3 stars. Next up, that wyvern that is flying around.
I read on the wiki some great advice. Cast holy boon on your staff by clicking L3 and use the core attacks, they are pretty powerful, quick firing and augment your spells great.
Augemitbutter
Member
yes, you can (your own pawn). the other rented pawns are different. equipping them means gifting.
Yeah me too. Maybe with some effort it is possible to churn out some more celebrities.... Maybe I'll try it out in a bit.
I'll send more after my next run later today.Thanks to phierce for the donation, didn't get Magebreaker, but got a Cursed Light at least. Time to fool around with MK stuff.
SneakyStephan
Banned
I'd recommend normal, you can always tweak the difficulty on normal by not fully enchanting armor (so you take more dmg) or wearing less armor.
Worldrevolution hasn't reached BBI yet and I think he's going to be eating his words when he gets there, he'll be dying not dozens of times but hundreds of times.
BBI normal minibosses will still be taking 60-90 percent of your hp in one hit before you are heavily geared (which won't be till 2-3rds in)
BBI isn't like the vanilla game where enemies have slowly telegraphed attacks and come at you one by one, you'll be fighting large groups of them , they'll have a huge range, attack fast, have tons of knockdowns and disables and debuffs.
Near the end of BBI you'll be fighting 4-7 minibosses at once and caster enemies will still oneshot you if you let them get a big spell off.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
I'll probably have zero issues with it lol. Not sure how far I'll go in BBI though considering I don't need any of it to complete the original trophy list. Probably do one run through and be done.
Yes, all the time. You'll get a warning prompt when your progress in the story will kill some of your active quests.
Onion_Relish
Member
The chainmail bracers leave the chest completely exposed. I have some that are Dragon forged so I think I'm going to try to gold Forge them. I don't want to insult my waifu, but seriously, she looks amazing with the bracers on. When I'm done I'll let everyone know lol. I'm gonna hunt a bit as well see if I can find another good one. Noble woman's corset looks good as well but I do want to have good stats...
You don't always get a prompt though. If you want to go for the platinum you need a missable trophies guide. Or you could always follow the guide on your second playthrough since you'll have to do that to unlock every trophy anyway (this way you'll also be able to avoid spoilers).
InternHertz
Member
I'm almost done with the game, with almost level 180 achieved.
I only need to get Grave Veil, Grave Claws and Glave Greaves to finish the quest for all 13 armaments. It's incidentally my final quest too.
The way the loot is predetermined is a real pain at that stage, I have to burn through almost 100k to hope to get a piece. It's really a faulty system, it would have been better to have full randomization (at least it would be exploitable).
That said, if anyone of you has one of those pieces in unidentified form, I'll be glad to accept it as gift ^^
(Or please rent my pawn so I can get more RC)
I only need to get Grave Veil, Grave Claws and Glave Greaves to finish the quest for all 13 armaments. It's incidentally my final quest too.
The way the loot is predetermined is a real pain at that stage, I have to burn through almost 100k to hope to get a piece. It's really a faulty system, it would have been better to have full randomization (at least it would be exploitable).
That said, if anyone of you has one of those pieces in unidentified form, I'll be glad to accept it as gift ^^
(Or please rent my pawn so I can get more RC)
Eh don't give a shit about trophies, so if I miss a single quest no biggie. Just wanted to know that I should try and tackle them asap.
So once you get the highest rank in a class, is there any reason to stay in the class other stat building or just liking the class?
Fine then, just make sure not to get too obsessed with those boards giving quests, they're almost random generated and very boring, accept them only if you care about the reward or think they could be fun. Escort quests especially are a pain.
Another thing is, since many NPC's quests are missable, the first time around I skipped almost half of those quests and some of them were really cool, so try to explore towns as much as possible and always talk to NPCs with a green baloon above their head.
That's all the advice I can give, enjoy the game
Fine then, just make sure not to get too obsessed with those boards giving quests, they're almost random generated and very boring, accept them only if you care about the reward or think they could be fun. Escort quests especially are a pain.
Another thing is, since many NPC's quests are missable, the first time around I skipped almost half of those quests and some of them were really cool, so try to explore towns as much as possible and always talk to NPCs with a green baloon above their head.
That's all the advice I can give, enjoy the game
Oh board quests are random? Good to know.. I was valuing them way too highly... wasn't looking forward to another venture to the shadow fort.
I don't remember if they're really random but they tend to repeat later in the game even if you do them at some point, so I guess they are. They're very generic anyway, the most sensible thing would be to get only those that go like "kill x enemies of y type" so you can do them along your other, more important quests. Those give good money too.
Escort quests are somewhat useful only if you want to increase your affinity with that character but there are other ways (gifts), much less boring and risky.
What does affinity with characters actually do?
It'll usually unlock escort quests with decent rewards. If they're a vendor, they'll sell better items.
Deified Data
Banned
It also makes them your waifu.